Big savings for students on 2010 Center for Intellectual Property Symposium!

Steve Peterson with the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP)  invites YOU!

“Want to learn more about digital copyright, broadband, Google Book Search, and current legislation (to name a few)?  The CIP is now offering students entry to the 2010 symposium for only $30 (regularly $430 for non-members). This significant savings is available for a limited time on a first-come basis.”

For those of you already making your way up to Washington, D.C. for the ALA Annual Conference from June 24-30, why not go a couple of days early from June 22-24 to take advantage of this opportunity?

Some reasons YOU SHOULD ATTEND:

• Look at what you could learn .

• You pay only $30 for a symposium worth $430.

• The CIP Symposium is  being held in the same exact location as the ALA Conference.

• You will represent USF School of Library and Information Science.

• You will have a unique experience that you can add to your resume.

• You will have knowledge that will set you apart from other job candidates.

• You can share what you have learned with your peers.

Please let the SLIS Student Organizations know if you decide to take advantage of this bargain! We would love to hear about your experience!

Filed under: Conferences, Education

Charlie Parker from TBLC to speak at Brown Bag!

Hello everyone,

Those of you who went to FLA last week may have run into this week’s speaker, Charlie Parker.  Mr. Parker is the director of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium and is very active in FLA as well.  Please come join us Wednesday April 14th in CIS 2020 from 1-2 pm!

Brown Bags are wonderful, informal opportunities for networking and education.  If you are interested in public librarianship or have questions on library consortia, don’t miss this week’s Brown Bag!

Missed our other amazing speakers?  Go to http://aiuliano.myweb.usf.edu/brownbag.html to download mp3s of previous Brown Bag sessions!

And don’t miss next week’s speaker, Jamie Hansen from USF Tampa Library’s Special Collections.  She will be showing us unique, historic items from the collections.  If you are interested in Special Libraries, archives or cataloging, you can’t afford to miss it!

As always, feel free to email me with any questions or speaker requests.

Thank you!

Ava Iuliano

Filed under: Education, Jobs

Brown Bag Podcasts can now be downloaded!

Hello everyone,

I have posted all Brown Bag podcasts on my website as downloadable files, which has allowed me to have the space I need to host all of the files.  Thank you so much for your patience and understanding!  Please visit my website to hear all of the recorded podcasts.  If you missed the Stetson Law librarians, Patti Reynolds, Nancy Cunningham or any of our other speakers, you can now download the files and listen to them at your leisure!

Thank you!

Ava Iuliano

Filed under: Education

Would you recognize a miracle?

Would you recognize a miracle if you saw one?

On Monday, April 12, 2010, you can celebrate National Library Week, consider this question and help generate donations to benefit travel for library grad students to conferences and meetings.

Underneath the Lintel is a one‐man show about a fictional librarian from Hoofdorp (the Netherlands) who finds a book returned in the overnight slot 136 years overdue. The book was borrowed November 12, 1873 and not returned. What begins as a zealous attempt to recover a huge fine evolves into a quest to prove the identity of the egregious violator of library policy. Our host employs tools of librarianship to support his “Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences.”

A lintel forms the top of a door frame

ABOUT THE PLAY: This story is a funny, warm, sometimes moving, twisty journey into a mystery shared by audience and performer. Underneath the Lintel made its Off Broadway premiere in a 6 month run at SoHo Rep in New York City in 2002. Since then, it’s been successfully published and has received many professional productions. The first performance of any kind was by the author at the Yale Cabaret in New Haven, CT.

ABOUT THE PERFORMER: Arlen Bensen is a graduate student and graduate assistant in the USF School of Library and Information Science. He previously spent more than 30 years pursuing a career as a performing arts professional. Primarily a director (and a current member of SSDC, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers), Arlen also acted with many accomplished professionals including Denzel Washington (in Othello in 1977) and T. Ryder Smith who played the Librarian in the 2002 Off Broadway premiere of Underneath the Lintel. Arlen was fortunate to direct and teach many extremely talented people including stars like Melba Moore (Anything Goes, SummerFest, Montclair, NJ, 1994) and Michael Learned (Lettice and Lovage, also at SummerFest in 1993). Other notable directing efforts by Arlen include the Florida premiere of Three Tall Women by Edward Albee (Sarasota, 1996), the Southwest premiere of Oleanna by David Mamet (New Mexico Rep, 1994) and the world premiere of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2004.

Times and Places: 2 performances are planned for April 12:
Noon, Grace Allen Room, USF Tampa Library
7:00 PM, Manatee Room (3705) Marshall Center
Again, admission is free, but donations will be accepted to benefit travel for library grad students. Help spread the word!

Note: the script contains one instance of language which may be objectionable to some people. [AB]

Filed under: Conferences, Education, Uncategorized, USF Libraries

Presenting for FLA? Need Practice?

Hello everyone,

Next week’s Brown Bag (March 31st) will feature Bill Harris, who will be sharing his FLA presentation with us.

I wanted to encourage those of you who are presenting at FLA or any other conferences to consider presenting before Brown Bag as practice.  It is a great way to get good feedback in a friendly environment!  Please email me directly if you are interested!

Thanks!

Ava Iuliano
aiuliano@mail.usf.edu

Filed under: Conferences, Education, Jobs

Meet the president

Ryan Davis, current GAU president

Ryan Davis is the current president of the USF GAU (Graduate Assistants Union). But you’d be well-advised to get to know him this year. He’ll be graduating out of the union in May.

At a GAU membership meeting on Monday, September 21, 2009, matters discussed included Florida residency, student fees, parking and health coverage (they increased in cost 14% this year).

Some things to consider (did you know?):

Rutgers, the State University of NJ covers 100% of both fees and tuition for graduate assistants (USF covers 0% of fees and only 80% of tuition). Also, Rutgers pays 100% of health coverage for grad assistants AND pays them an additional $4,000 per year in salary.

25% of the classes at USF are taught by graduate students but they must hunt and peck for parking with undergraduate students and are not permitted to park in faculty parking areas.

For communication and information, USF GAU maintains a Facebook page which is available for both scrutiny and membership by any Facebook user.

You might consider union membership something you’d do for all your fellow union members (to watch each other’s backs). If you want people to watch your back, then you join in watching the backs of others.

And this might be an opportune moment to remind everybody of Professor de la Pena McCook’s Union Librarian blog.

AB

Filed under: Education, Jobs, Professional Organizations

Local Media Center Wins Award

Sand Pine Elementary in Wesley Chapel, Florida (Pasco County) was recognized by the Florida Association for Media in Education as one of 26 to meet its highest standards. She gives some good points on technology use and working with the school’s teachers. The article gives some background information about the role of a media specialist.

Read more about the article here.

Filed under: Education, Jobs, Bill Harris, Media Center, Media Specialist, Sand Pine Elementary

Power to the User

Below is a submission to Gale‘s “2009 Librareo Video Contest – ‘Power to the user’ Ad Madness.”

This video uses the Macdonald-Kelce library at the University of Tampa.

I stumbled across this at the Finding Utopia blog (Utopia is the name of the Macdonald-Kelce online catalog).

Here are more contributions to the Librareo contest.

Filed under: Education

NASA Needs your help, Librarians!

NASA is seeking information and recommendations on how to catalog the typed and written notes of Wernher von Braun, the famous physicist.  They recently released a “Request for Information” that details their project:

WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.

Von Braun was the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the development of the Saturn V rocket and NASA’s Apollo program. NASA has a full collection of “Weekly Notes” von Braun wrote during the 1960s and 1970s. These notes were used to track programmatic and institutional issues at Marshall, and are considered by many historians to be a valuable source of data.

NASA has issued a request for information and is looking for concepts that will provide an innovative resource for agency engineers and scientists, as well as researchers in academia and industry.

How about we librarians come up with a recommendation??  Anyone up for it?  Cape Canaveral is only a few hours away, so this project is in our backyard.

The announcement can be viewed here: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_M09-115_Von_Braun.html

More information and the RFI form can be viewed here: http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home/von_Braun_RFI.html

Filed under: Education, Jobs, cataloging, Posted by: Leslie Trinkle, science libraries

Public History Resource Center

I stumbled across this great resource while doing some searching on the Internet.

The Public History Resource Center keeps this compilation of scores of syllabi covering Archival Studies, Historic Preservation, Museum Studies, Oral History, Public History, and other. Some of the links are dead, nonetheless this is a great resource for compiling a bibliography.

“The Public History Resource Center seeks to curate the field of public history, particularly as it is exercised on the Web, by providing a structure of information which contextualizes and supports the field. www.publichistory.org provides descriptive and analytical annotations of resources in the field, as well as original essays.”

Filed under: Education