MSLIS News

I made a short video about what’s been going on with the program and a little about some of the spring electives that you might be interested in.

Here are the electives I mention:

IST 500 Web Design
IST 553 Information Architecture for Internet Services
IST 659 Data Admin. Concepts and Database Mgmt.
IST 585 Knowledge Management
IST 626 Business Information Resources and Strategic Intelligence
IST 632 Management and Organization of Special Collections
IST 641 Behavior of Information Users

Distance
IST 676 Digital Libraries
IST 677 Creating and Managing Digital Assets
IST 759 Planning and Designing Digital Library Services
IST 619 Applied Econ. for Info. Mgrs.
IST 637 Digital Information Retrieval Services
IST 645 Managing Information Systems Projects
IST 659 Data Amin. Concepts and Database Mgmt.
IST 717 Advanced Library Management

There’s a video of Scott Nicholson’s talk from the Gaming, Learning, and Libraries symposium at
http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/scott-nicholson-gaming-symposium-07.

The data from the study can be found at http://gamelab.syr.edu.

There’s going to be a Maymester course on Gaming in Libraries taught by Scott as well.

This year, we are writing our accreditation report for the Committee on Accreditation of the ALA. This means that we will be sending out various surveys. If you get a survey, it will be helpful for us if you fill it out. We present that data to the accreditation team as evidence that we are meeting out mission. It also means that many of us are very busy writing up these documents in our time that might have normally been used for research projects or other writing. So, if someone is delayed in getting back to you on a research project, that might be the reason…

Some of you requested an evening LISIG, so here it is!
(Please distribute this message to other groups as appropriate.)

Announcing the next LISIG (Library and Information Science Interest
Group) meeting.

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies is working with
the Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC) to bring you the
next Library and Information Science Interest Group (LISIG).

The goal of LISIG is to bring together:

- librarians,
- Masters and PhD students interested in LIS,
- faculty members, and
- other interested parties

to talk about issues in library and information science. The goal is
to connect academia with practice by facilitating cooperative research
projects that connect faculty and students with the needs of CNY libraries.
Librarians of all types are invited to attend and present their
issues, which then seeds a discussion from many different aspects of the
field.

The meeting will be Monday, Nov. 5th from 5:30-7:00 at CLRC’s
headquarters at 6493 Ridings Road, in Syracuse, New York. Parking is free and
plentiful. More information about CLRC can be found at http://www.clrc.org

Questions about the CLRC location should go to Penelope Klein at
pjklein@clrc.org

Other questions can go to Scott Nicholson at srnichol@syr.edu.

If you are interested in joining a discussion list about the LISIG,
send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.syr.edu with the line “subscribe lisig”
(without the quotes) in the body of the message.

Megan Oakleaf asked me to pass this along:

Call for Proposals

Library Assessment Conference
Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment

August 4–6, 2008
Seattle, Washington
/All proposals due by February 1, 2008/

The conference is designed for library and information professionals and
researchers with responsibility for or an interest in the broad field of
library assessment with an emphasis on (but not limited to) North
American academic libraries.

Conference presentations are sought in all areas of library
assessment.

More information can be found at
http://www.libraryassessment.org/.