Join us for drinks and informal networking on Tuesday, November 17th, 7-9PM
at Northampton Brewery in Northampton.
Rumor has it, another library-themed drink…
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By LISSA West Co-President David Lambert
– November 15, 2009
Sat., December 5, 12:20pm: Lunchtime Discussion of the UMass DuBois Digitization Project
Members of the Du Bois Digitization Project at Umass Amherst will present on the project and creating metadata records with MODS. With a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation, SCUA embarked on a project to digitize the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois in the Spring of 2009. The project is truly a massive undertaking, digitizing 368 boxes, or nearly 165 linear feet of correspondence, essays, lectures, and notes. When complete, however, Du Bois Online will be one of the largest, freely available online repositories of primary materials for the study of African American history and culture.
Join us at 12:20 in the GSLIS Office for a brief presentation and walk-through of MODS record creation in the Oxygen XML editing program with GSLIS alums Jeremy Smith and Aaron Rubinstein, and GSLIS students Abby Baines, Pam Harnois and Danielle Federa.
Bring your bag lunch and questions, we’ll provide the screen shots and cookies!
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Tagged with EventsYouWillLike, UMass.
By LISSA West Co-Vice President Abby Baines
– November 13, 2009
For those of you unable to join us last Saturday the 7th at Johnny’s, here’s the recipe for The MARC Record, which was heartily imbibed:
1-1/2 oz. Soda
splash Cranberry Juice
Fill rocks glass with ice.
Add Maker’s Mark and soda.
Top off with a splash of cranberry juice.
Points to anyone who can accurately annotate this using the appropriate 1XX and 2XX and 5XX fields.
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Tagged with Libations.
By LISSA West Co-President Lexi Walters Wright
– November 8, 2009
Join Promising Pals and be a pen pal to a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student!
The Promising Pals program highlights literacy and mentoring by giving students at the Timilty School in Roxbury an opportunity to correspond with students and professionals from Simmons and the surrounding community. Last year, more than 200 participants from Simmons joined over 500 professionals from greater Boston to be a part of this program. Participation is easy!
All you have to do is:
- Be a pen pal with a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student.
- Exchange at least 4 letters between December 2009 and May 2010.
- Read the assigned book and discuss it in the letters with your pal.
- Meet your pal at the Pal Breakfast hosted by the Timilty School on June 4, 2010 from 7:30am – 10:30am.
Attendance at this event is required, as the students are very disappointed not to have their pal attend the breakfast.
This opportunity is open to Simmons Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students. Please visit the link below to register as a Promising Pal.
Registration deadline is November 13, 2009.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BSIOU7geiwnb64faMh1erQ_3d_3d
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Tagged with PublicService, VolunteerOpportunities.
By LISSA West Co-Vice President Abby Baines
– November 6, 2009
Your fellow colleague and mine, Graham Christian, will be directing Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance with the Valley Light Opera this weekend: You could/ should go! More info here: http://vlo.org
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By LISSA West Co-President Lexi Walters Wright
– November 2, 2009
This blog: Copyright Questions & Answers has jobs for librarians the copyright and legal fields.
For example [quoted from the blog itself]:
1. Legal Officer, WIPO, Traditional Knowledge Division (Geneva)
Looking for a lawyer/policy person
See http://www.wipo.int/hr/en/vacancies/2009/article_0049.html?part=qualif
Closing date: 23 November 2009
2. Copyright Policy Officer position, IFLA (The Hague)
Great opportunity for a librarian or lawyer with experience in library-copyright issues.
See http://www.ifla.org/en/job-description/91001
Closing date: 13 November 2009
3. Electronic Resources Library, Ontario Colleges Library Service (Toronto, Canada)
Interesting opportunity for a librarian with licensing experience.
See http://joomla.ischool.utoronto.ca/component/option,com_jobline/Itemid,/task,view/id,3095/
Closing date: 31 October 2009
4. Law Clerk, Access Copyright (Toronto, Canada)
See http://www.accesscopyright.ca/docs/LawClerk.pdf
Closing date: Not provided
5. A source I recently came across with positions for students, lawyers and others in copyright is at: http://www.iposgoode.ca/career-opportunities/.
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By LISSA West Co-Vice President Abby Baines
– October 29, 2009
Here are several LISSA events we cordially invite you to attend.
- Sat., November 7, 4:30pm: Happy hour at Johnny’s Bar & Grill in the Village Common (South Hadley). Librarianship is about networking: Grab a libation with your classmates and future colleagues.
- Sat., November 14, 12:15pm: Lunch with Dean Cloonan in the Cassani Room of Shattuck Hall. We’ll provide sandwiches, salads, chips, and dessert on the first floor of Shattuck; come meet the Dean and hear the latest program updates.
- Sat., November 14, 4:30pm: GSLIS Job Search Resources & Professional Networking Workshop with Cheryl Kohen, Career Resource Librarian. (Meet in the GSLIS West office.) Cheryl will reveal where you should be hunting for LIS specific job banks, paraprofessional postings, internship resources, networking opportunities, and job market trend information. This workshop will provide you with the skills and resources needed to conduct successful job searches and career-advancing networking opportunities.
- Tues., November 17, 7-9pm: Happy hour at the Northampton Brewery. (We heard you when you asked for an away-from-campus gathering; meet us in Noho if you can!)
- Sat., November 21, 4:30pm: Terry Plum’s slideshow and presentation about his library assessment experience in Belarus. Potluck snacks + beverages.
ALSO: As you’ve likely heard, registration is open now for the American Library Association 2010 Midwinter meeting, which will held be in Boston, January 15-19, 2010. You can sign up here.
And a final reminder: Oct. 30th is the deadline for professional development reimbursements. The form can be found here. Use this to be reimbursed for Midwinter ALA early registration, or any other professional organization you’ve signed up for this semester.
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Tagged with EventsYouWillLike, Libations, ProfessionalDevelopment, Socializing, StudentGroups.
By LISSA West Co-President Lexi Walters Wright
– October 27, 2009
Institution: W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMass Amherst
Location: Amherst, MA
Spring 2010
The Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts, would like to announce an independent study opportunity for Spring 2010, working on the W.E.B Du Bois Digitization Project and studying metadata creation and best practices development.
The project to digitize the W. E. B. Du Bois papers is one of the few in the country to develop online access to a *complete* manuscript collection of this stature and it presents new challenges in metadata creation. This is a great opportunity to extend and apply skills learned in LIS 415 (Information Organization) and to master an XML-encoded metadata standard.
With any project that is breaking new ground, it is essential to develop best practices to guide the project and to benefit other institutions engaging in similar projects in the future. As part of this study, the student will help us develop best practices for the creation of metadata using the MODS standard, and do research on best practices and content standards for item level description in archives.
Though this could be a great way for archives concentrators to get some hands on experience with metadata and manuscripts, any student who’s taken 415 and has an interest in metadata will learn a lot from this project.
We are limiting the independent study to 2 students so please let us know soon if you’re interested.
For more information, contact:
Aaron Rubinstein – arubinst@library.umass.edu
or
Danielle Kovacs – dkovacs@library.umass.edu
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By LISSA West Co-Vice President Abby Baines
– October 27, 2009
Join us for drinks after class on Saturday, November 7th
at Johnny’s Bar and Grill in the Village Commons.
Meet fellow students, kvetch about classes, try our library-themed drink special!
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Tagged with Libations, Socializing.
By LISSA West Co-President David Lambert
– October 27, 2009
