MSLIS News

Your Life Work: The Librarian

The ALA student chapter office wants YOU!

Are you interested in becoming more involved with the LIS program
while building your resume? Then join the ALA/SLA Student Chapter
Event Planning Committee. You will network, plan and organize events
and trips, meet guest speakers, and much more! Come to an
informational meeting to find out how you can get involved Tuesday,
June 19th starting at 4pm in Hinds Hall Room 120.
For distance students: The numbers to call into are (on campus)
442-9755 and (toll free)1-866-683-3261.

If you have any questions please contact Katherine Thurston at
kmthurst@syr.edu.

We look forward to your participation on June 19th!

Student Papers issue of Documents to the People (DttP)

The student papers issue of DttP is designed to showcase the talents and interests of current library school students. Papers should focus on substantive issues in government information at all levels of government (local, state, federal, international) librarianship, including: contemporary or historical problems related to government information access, dissemination, or preservation challenges to providing reference and instructional services in public, academic, school, or government librariesbibliographic control of government informationgovernment efforts to promote and/or restrict access to informationdevelopment of specific government programs that promote access to information (e.g. DOE Information Bridge)government/private sector partnerships providing access to information
More information:
http://www.ala.org/ala/godort/dttp/studentpapers.htm

One of the newer Internet fads is “lolcats”, where they take pictures of cats and add captions, usually representing what the cats might be thinking. You can see many examples of this over at I Can Has Cheezburger?.

So, it wasn’t too much longer until…

(That’s Ranganathan, who developed the concept of Faceted Classification.)

Wacky fun, over at
http://community.livejournal.com/lolbrarians