This Week In Library School

The nomination period for the LISSA candidates is now officially open!
Check out the Elections page (at http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/lissa/LISSA_Elections) and nominate yourself (or someone else) to one of the open positions.

Here’s a descriptions of each of the LISSA officers duties:

The VEEP (lissavp@simmons.edu) – puts in about 3 hours a week (on average) and is in charge of 2 biiiig things: the End of Semester party and the Evaluations – which eat up more time at the end of the semester – when the blank evaluations need to be distributed and the completed ones need to be filed.

El Presidente (lissapres@simmons.edu)- usually puts in about 3-4 hours per week on LISSA stuff – I usually do more, but just because I like going to faculty meetings, even if I don’t have to; yes, I’m weird that way . There’s an weekly email to be sent, a monthly meeting with the Alumni Board and another with all teh student groups, one Advising Day per semester, and various other activities – which can easily be dealt with via email. A period of some increased activity is the end of the semester, when all the evaluations are collected/filed.

The MoneyMaker (lissatreasurer@simmons.edu) – or, better said, the MoneyGuardian - deals almost exclusively via email, but the commitment is very much geared towards keeping the professional development on track, and the budgets of the other student groups (and LISSA) in check. I’m estimating about 4 hours a week, on average.

The Keepers -works on average about 2 hours a week. We have 2 of them (the keeper of the records, and the keeper of the Lounge) – the tasks are not strictly delimited, so usually there is a certain amount of job sharing: ordering supplies for the Lounge and keeping it neat, evicting the orphaned mugs/dishes and looking after LISSA’s records and meeting minutes. We have one position of LISSA Secretary open.

The Megaphones - the 2 Faculty-Students Reps – they voice the students opinion to the faculty, and viceversa. The commitment varies, but on average is about 2 hours a week.

On top of these, there are the LISSA officers’ meetings – we’ve had it in the past twice per semester.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact any of the LISSA officers.

Adrian

As promised, I will begin this week the exciting list of descriptions for the LISSA positions that will be available at the end of this semester. Today, we hear from Hannah Sears, one of the current LISSA secretaries:

“I understand being a LISSA secretary as worthwhile, because I can find out about school news, student group news, and facility updates. Being able to maintain the LISSA GSLIS Lounge has worked for me, because I have a daily and weekly supply job that involves maintaining, on a daily and weekly basis, a space dedicated to us students. The routine has been helpful during 2007-2009 as the economic and political shifts have been great, and as the online, all the time, digital world takes us up into the “clouds”. Feeling grounded for a short while, while standing in the lounge, sitting in a couch or chair, reading or chatting, drinking water, hot tea or cafe, is sometimes a necessary action while in library school this year.

If you are interested in knowing more about the Secretary position for summer 2009, please email me at sears@simmons.edu.”

For a list of responsibilities as a LISSA secretary, check out this page: http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/lissa/Description_and_Duties_of_all_LISSA_Officers

Cheers,
Adrian

Helen Boos, Shanti Freundlich, Molly Caple (Student-Faculty representatives) and Abi Sweeney (Secretary) are the new LISSA officers. Please join me (in thought or in action in welcoming them to the Library and Information Science Student Association. I hope that you will use them, as well as the other members of LISSA, as “sounding boards” for your suggestions, concerns, and issues – big and small – during your time at GSLIS.

Welcome aboard !

We are recruiting for a secretary and 2 faculty-student representatives.

Take a look at the descriptions for positions (available here: http://gslis.simmons.edu/mw/lissa/LISSA_Elections). If you’d like to be a part of LISSA, or if you know someone interested, fill out the information on this nomination page.

If you need some more arguments…

Both of these positions offer great visibility in GSLIS, not to mention that you get to talk to the Simmons faculty members outside of the classroom and take a closer look at the inner workings of the School. These positions are excellent stepping stones for bigger and brighter things in LISSA (wink-wink).

For the secretary position, the amount of work required is fairly small and distributed all throughout the semester. Hannah Sears is our current secretary and she can give you some more information.

For the student-faculty representatives positions, the work involves attending the Faculty meetings (always on Wednesdays) and occasional meetings with the Curriculum Advisory Committee. If you want more information on this position, you can contact me (Adrian).

Volunteer early !