Student News – Full Listing

Posted Jan. 30, 2008

First-year MLS student Angela Slaughter, who works full-time in the serials cataloging unit at Wells Library in addition to her studies, was recently awarded one of six ALCTS/SAGE Publications Support Staff Travel Grants for the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference.

Posted Jan. 28, 2008

The SLIS American Library Association - Student Chapter (ALA-SC) wants to help new students feel welcome. ALA-SC Vice President Lisa Hooper (MLS student) is providing copies of an article on SLIS Student Chapters of Professional Associations for the new Spring 2008 students. The article was compiled by Janet Anderson (MLS student) for the ALA-SC newsletter in 2007 (excerpts are below). Student organizations help introduce networking options in the profession that will be useful when searching for jobs. In addition to the SLIS student groups, there are many national, and even international, professional associations to participate in.

Posted Dec. 20, 2007

Mark your calendars! The SLIS Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAA-SC) is hosting a Graduate Student Conference on February 9, 2008. The Conference will be held in the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington campus.

Posted Dec. 11, 2007

Congratulations to SLIS students graduating in December 2007. The official university ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 15, 2007. There is plenty of room for family and friends to attend. The SLIS banner is yellow (the color for the discipline of library and information science).

Posted Nov. 21, 2007

Members of the IU American Libraries Association Student Chapter (ALA-SC) traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 8, 2007, to tour three libraries with diverse histories and meet some of the people — including SLIS alumni — who are working to ensure that they meet the needs of today's patrons.

Posted Oct. 29, 2007

Behavior and Social Science Librarian will publish a pathfinder for Brazilian culture studies created by MLS student Grace Wadholm in an upcoming issue.

"I was incredibly thrilled, of course," Wadholm says of her reaction to the upcoming publication. "Lokman Meho, my professor for Information Sources and Services [now called Reference], was so encouraging and incredibly helpful in the editing and submission process, but I don't think I ever believed as strongly as he did that it would be accepted. I am so grateful for all his help and encouragement. I know for sure that if he hadn't pushed me and pointed me in the right directions, this wouldn't have happened."

Posted Oct. 24, 2007

Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 1:30 pm-4:00pm
Where: School of Library & Information Science

At the Fall Career Forum, current SLIS students can hear both new and experienced librarians and information specialists talk about their work and give hiring and job hunting advice. Opportunities will also be available to meet professionals and ask questions during our break.

Posted Oct. 10, 2007

Information science is a meta-discipline with dynamic boundaries. As such, information scientists develop and strengthen theories from within the discipline and draw upon theoretical frameworks from related disciplines such as computer science, business, sociology, linguistics, and cognitive science. The Doctoral Research Forum provides a way for doctoral students to present their own research and to increase their awareness of the research being carried out by other doctoral students in SLIS.

Posted Sept. 26, 2007

Stacy Kowalczyk, associate director for projects and services at the IU Digital Library Program, will present "e-Science: A Data Survey" on September 24, 2007, as part of the IV Lab/CI4NetSci Center research talks. SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner, Director of the Information Visualization Lab and the Cyberinfracstructure for Network Science Center, organized the talks.

Posted Sept. 24, 2007

The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) recently awarded first-year MLS student Angela Slaughter the 2007 Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Award, including a $3,000 scholarship, a grant award for NASIG's 2007 conference, and a year's free membership in the organization.

Posted Sept. 24, 2007

Eric T. Meyer, successfully defended his SLIS Ph.D. dissertation on August 15, 2007. The full text of his dissertation is now available from his website.

Posted Aug. 30, 2007

William Watson (MIS'00) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the Indiana University School of Education's IST (Instructional Systems Technology) Department. SLIS faculty member, Howard Rosenbaum, was Watson's advisor for his Master of Information Science degree and now for his doctoral minor.

Posted Aug. 22, 2007

SLIS students eager for real-world experience completed internships in a wide range of places during the spring and summer semesters of 2007.

Approximately 90 students interned near and far at public and private institutions. Academic libraries at community colleges or large research institutions offered experiences from cataloging to bibliographic instruction. Subject libraries, such as IU Bloomington's Business/SPEA Library and the Fine Arts Library, provided placements for many interns desiring experience in specific fields. Other interns immersed themselves in public libraries or community schools to work with programming, reference assistance, and collection development. Other students focused on web development for business and educational institutions.

Posted July 27, 2007

SLIS doctoral student Carol Tilley successfully defended her dissertation on July 20, 2007.

Her work, titled "Of Nightingales and Supermen: How Youth Services Librarians Responded to Comics Between the Years 1938 and 1955," presents a cultural and social history of the intersection of libraries and librarians, children and their reading, children's literature and comic books.

Posted July 26, 2007

SLIS doctoral student Elijah Wright recently published a review article entitled "Our computers, our selves" in New Media & Society, a multi-disciplinary journal. The piece reviews the 20th anniversary edition of Sherry Turkle's The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit and contrasts it to Ted Friedman's book, Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture.

Posted July 18, 2007

SLIS graduates hold positions in various environments from university libraries to corporate entities. Below is a list of alumni who have contacted SLIS regarding their recent job successes. Some names were submitted by faculty, others from postings to the SLIS website. Congratulations to each graduate on their new careers!

Posted July 6, 2007

SLIS student and Society of American Archivists (SAA) Student Chapter member Bergis Jules has won the Harold T. Pinkett Award. This award was established by the national "SAA - Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable, in honor of archival pioneer Harold T. Pinkett, the first African American to be appointed an archivist at the National Archives, where he served for more than 35 years as a specialist in agricultural archives, senior records appraiser, and chief archivist of the Natural Resources Records Branch. An SAA Fellow, he served as editor of The American Archivist from 1968 to 1971."

Posted July 6, 2007

The SLIS Society of American Archivists Student Chapter recently reached out to Monroe County high schools and senior centers.

Meredith Saba and other chapter members gave a presentation to students at Bloomington High School North this past spring. The presentation focused on the differences between primary and secondary sources, libraries and archives, and how to find and use archival resources. The group also distributed flyers geared toward students. A list of print and online resources at the local, state, and national level as well as a brief glossary of archival terminology were included.

Posted June 27, 2007

Last week, Dan Albertson (SLIS Ph.D. Information Science student) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "A Domain-Centric Approach to Designing User Interfaces of Video Retrieval Systems". He is scheduled to graduate this summer, and has accepted a teaching position. His will be an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the School of Library and Information Studies which is a school in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL).

Posted June 27, 2007

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Posted June 20, 2007

"Wylie House Museum is a historic house museum administered by the IU Libraries. The house was built in 1835 by Andrew Wylie, first president of Indiana University. The house is furnished as it might have looked in the 1840s when Dr. Wylie and his family lived there." [IU Libraries]

Jo Burgess (MLS'90) is the Director of the Museum. In an email interview she wrote that SLIS students have interned or worked there nearly every semester for the last six to seven years. "They've worked on various projects and we have always been extremely pleased with their contributions." Four recent SLIS students who have made wonderful contributions are Suzanne Ingalsbe, Aimee Rose Formo, Jennifer Fowle, and Nicole Wolfersberger (see highlights below).

Posted June 6, 2007

In 2005, the IU student chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG-SC) was formed to create a forum to discuss and explore progressivism in librarianship. SLIS alumnus and adjunct faculty member Phil Eskew is the faculty advisor. MLS student Emily Ford, recent PLG-SC past president, is one of the founding members.

Posted May 30, 2007

The Indiana University School of Library and Information Science and the African Studies Program have a long history of collaboration. Building on this history, the faculty of both units have recently approved a dual degree option.

Posted May 24, 2007

Welcome New SLIS Students!

To help you prepae to start classes Summer Session II, we are hosting SLIS Orientation Sessions. New SLIS students are required to either attend the Summer (June 14) or the Fall (August 23) Orientation.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Posted May 21, 2007

Congratulations to SLIS students Laurie Lake and Mariel Johnson on their achievements in the area of Music Librarianship!

MLS student Laurie Lake was recently elected to the executive board of the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA), an international organization for orchestral librarians.

MLS student Mariel Johnson received the IU Libraries' Student Employee Award for Library Service.

Posted May 4, 2007

MLS (Master of Library Science) student Jeremy Kenyon will be working this summer at the West African Research Center (WARC) library in Dakar, Senegal. WARC "is a center for academic exchange between American and West African scholars that encourages research on the region of West Africa." [WARC website] In a recent e-mail, Kenyon describes his plans.

Posted May 3, 2007

Current SLIS student Donald Force (MIS/MLS) is one of the winner's of the Road Trip Contest, held by the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) and Society of Ohio Archivists. The contest provides free conference registration to the MAC annual meeting to be held in Columbus, Ohio, from May 3-5, 2007. Force was selected from 88 archives student entries.

Posted April 23, 2007

MLS student Jennifer Daugherty recently was awarded a $4,000 stipend and travel expenses for an internship at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Archives Center. In a recent email to SLIS News, Daugherty reported that the internship will focus on processing "approximately thirty cubic feet of archival records and some forty objects documenting the history of Nordic Ware, kitchenware products manufacturer, 1946-2006." She noted that "these records will enhance the ability of the museum to 'tell the story of post-World War II American entrepreneurship, technological innovation, consumer culture, and changing foodways.'" She will be responsible for processing the collection in its entirety with the supervision of professional archival staff members at the Museum.

Daugherty will graduate in August 2007 with a Master of Library Science and a specialization in Archives and Records Management.

Posted April 23, 2007

The SLIS Curriculum Steering Committee (CSC) wants to hear about what you think of SLIS class offerings, improvement suggestions for courses, and any other curriculum topic. Please join us at the annual Student Open Forum on Curriculum to make your opinion and suggestions regarding SLIS classes known. The open forum is an opportunity for SLIS students to provide feedback to the SLIS CSC regarding SLIS classes and curriculum in a protected and confidential manner. It is a forum for students hosted by students. Pizza refreshments and beverages will be provided.

Posted April 12, 2007

SLIS students currently enrolled in L633 Issues and Trends in Children's and Young Adult Literature will present a poster session on "Middle Class Dismissed! Reaching Underserved Youth through Literature and Library Programs." The session will share ideas about different ways to engage underserved youth in libraries using children's and young adult literature.

Posted April 12, 2007

On April 11, 2007, SLIS faculty member Javed Mostafa and SLIS doctoral student Weimao Ke presented "Collaborative Classifier Agents: Studying the Impact of Learning in Distributed Document Classification."

Posted April 12, 2007

SLIS faculty member Thomas Nisonger announced the winner of the 2007 Beta Phi Mu Chi Chapter Student Scholarship Award. Nominated by SLIS faculty member Alice Robbin, recent SLIS Master of Library Science graduate Ellen Rubenstein won for her paper, "The Monroe County Public Library: Its Place in the Community." The paper was part of her work for Robbin's L563 (S541) Information Policies, Economics and the Law course.

Posted April 5, 2007

IU's Society of American Archivist's Student Chapter (SAA-SC) invites you to attend their annual symposium discussion. The announcement was submitted by MIS/MLS student Donald Force, SAA-SC President and Moderator for the event.

Posted April 4, 2007

The Master of Information Science (MIS) degree program was established in 1995. The curriculum was updated in 2001, and the faculty has just approved revisions for version 3.0. The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) works to keep the curriculum current to meet changes in the profession.

"The SLIS MIS program helps to educate a distinctive information professional, one whose expertise includes understanding the human side of information and information technologies and applying this understanding to practical problems. The curriculum has been designed to provide a sound conceptual foundation for developing leadership-oriented careers and enable students to develop expertise in one or more specific areas."

The MIS Program Director, Howard Rosenbaum has scheduled an open meeting for anyone interested in finding out about the new program:

Where: SLIS, Room 030
When: Friday, March 30
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

Posted March 23, 2007

On Thursday, March 22, The American Library Association Student Chapter (ALA-SC) will be hosting a forum on the expectations, hopes, realities, and benefits of pursuing a doctoral degree. Come learn about SLIS's Ph.D. in Information Science program. The guest speakers are:

Posted March 20, 2007

SLIS GRADUATION LUNCHEON

Friday, April 27, 2007
Outside of SLIS - Wells Library Room 001 and the SLIS Patio

COMMENCEMENT

The Indiana University Spring Commencement 2007 Ceremony will be held:
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Assembly Hall, 1001 E. 17th Street, Bloomington, IN.

Posted March 20, 2007

Last week, the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science formally approved the Digital Libraries Specialization stating:

"This Specialization builds on SLIS's experience with the Digital Libraries Education Program (DLEP) that was funded for two years by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS). There is strong, ongoing interest in digital libraries as a career track for students in both master's degree programs. SLIS graduates with the mix of analytic and technical skills identified by the label "digital libraries" have been in high demand. Therefore, the school created this Digital Libraries Specialization for students in the Master of Information Science and Master of Library Science programs."

Posted March 8, 2007

In SLIS faculty member Howard Rosenbaum's class L577: Design of Information Systems, students work in teams to redesign the website of a local business or organization. For the third year in a row, all of the teams' final projects were accepted into the "Making IT Happen" Student Showcase. The students whose work was honored in this year's competitive event were:

Posted March 1, 2007

The Indiana University ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Student Chapter is hosting an event on Thursday, 3/1/07. SLIS faculty member, Noriko Hara, is the ACM sponsor.

Posted March 1, 2007

Posted Feb. 22, 2007

In the past two years, seven SLIS students in SLIS faculty member Lokman I. Meho's classes have successfully published one of their course projects in notable library and information science journals. The projects range from research guides about Kazaks and Haitian Americans to pathfinders about euthanasia and fair use laws.

Posted Feb. 22, 2007

Recent SLIS MLS graduate Paul Betty's research guide – "Haitian Americans: A Research Guide" – has been accepted for publication in Reference Services Review (RSR). Paul received very positive response from the RSR editor. According to the acceptance letter, RSR "felt [the research guide] was very well done and warranted publication in our journal" despite publishing fewer articles of this nature.

Posted Feb. 15, 2007

On Tuesday, February 20, at 5:30 p.m., the Indiana University Society of American Archivists - Student Chapter (SAA-SC) will be hosting "On the Hunt: Tips for Archival Job Searching." The event will be held in the Wells Library, Room E174.

Posted Feb. 15, 2007

Information architecture (IA) addresses the design of effective and efficient information systems and structures that provide access to collections of information resources. IA involves the processes of planning, overseeing implementation, and managing the growth of organizational structures that provide meaningful context in support of user understanding and mediate interaction between system content and user. These organizational structures include digital libraries, web sites, databases, information retrieval systems, educational software and even games.

Posted Feb. 15, 2007

The Special Libraries Association-Student Group (SLA-SC) announces a "behind the scenes" tour of IU's Lilly Library on Wednesday, February 14 at 3:00 p.m. The tour will include "see the library behind the exhibits, and maybe even get a peek at a few old valentines if we're lucky," notes SLA-SC president Virginia Luehrsen. Please RSVP to Luehrsen (vkluehrs@indiana.edu) by Monday, February 12.

Posted Feb. 8, 2007

Recently, ALA Student Chapter (ALA-SC) co-faculty advisors Thomas Nisonger and Mary Popp announced that current MLS student Lisa Gardinier will serve as this year's American Library Association (ALA) Student Committee representative to the ALA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in June 2007.

Posted Feb. 7, 2007

The SLIS Reading Group offers an opportunity to explore new fiction and nonfiction genres and to learn more about readers advisory service. For those interested in working in a public library (especially those interested in reference work in the public library), readers advisory skills are necessary and in demand. The SLIS Reading Group offers you a chance to develop, hone, and practice discussing and analyzing fiction from a librarian's perspective rather than a literary critic's perspective.

Posted Feb. 7, 2007

Recently, B.J. Irvine, Director, IU Fine Arts Library and advisor for SLIS Art Librarianship Specialization, announced the posting of the Phase I Survey results of the North American Lantern Slide Survey (NALSS).

Posted Feb. 7, 2007

SLIS students are encouraged to attend this workshop series. The series was designed collectively by SLIS, the Chi Chapter of Beta Phi Mu (the library and information science honorary society), and the IU student chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

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Posted Jan. 24, 2007

Current SLIS student Emily Heinlen's article, "Genealogy and the Economic Drain on Ireland: Unintended Consequences," was recently published on First Monday.

Posted Jan. 18, 2007

Two current SLIS students - Nikki Roberg and Melanie Schlosser - have accepted positions with the IU Digital Library Program (DLP). Roberg has assumed the Usability and Interface Specialist position. Schlosser will work full time position as the Digital Library Resident, which is made possible by the Digital Libraries Education Program (DLEP) grant.

Posted Jan. 18, 2007

In his L524 Information Sources and Services syllabus, SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho defines a pathfinder as:

"A bibliographic guide that introduces users to the literature of a specific subject area or topic. Its arrangement and content reflect the most common questions in a literature search and the beginning stages of a research project. A pathfinder is not an exhaustive annotated bibliography. Instead, it provides a carefully selected list of various types of important resources, both reference and non-reference. Pathfinders are typically short in length, depending on the intended audience, their goals and objectives, and the resources available."

Posted Jan. 11, 2007

SLIS professor Susan Herring and three SLIS Ph.D. in Information Science students (Lois Scheidt, Inna Kouper, and Elijah Wright) are authors of a recently published book chapter on blog analysis:

Posted Jan. 3, 2007

The December Commencement Ceremony was held on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at the Indiana University Assembly Hall. The Line-Up was at 8:30 a.m., the Procession began at 9:15 a.m., and the Ceremony began at 10:00 a.m. The photos here are from the Line-Up period in the Field House. Adam Herbert, the 17th President of Indiana University, was the Commencement Speaker.

Posted Dec. 18, 2006

The Indiana University Office of Media Relations issued the following press release on December 12, 2006:

IU is No. 1 among publicly supported universities in PC Magazine ranking of Top 20 Wired Campuses

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Another national computing magazine has recognized Indiana University as a leader in providing students and faculty with an advanced technological environment for learning and research.

Posted Dec. 15, 2006

New SLIS students beginning in January 2007 are invited to a brief SLIS orientation session. This is designed to help you meet the other new students, and to be sure that your SLIS computer access is established before classes start. Please review the "SLIS Orientation Booklet".

Posted Dec. 14, 2006

SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho recently announced that a L524 Information Sources and Services pathfinder project by current MLS student Lana Gottschalk has been accepted for publication in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian. Lana graduates this semester.

Posted Dec. 7, 2006

"A new class, The Individual in the Information Age, is being offered for the spring semester from the School of Library and Information Science for all undergraduates.

SLIS Ph.D. student Wayne Buente will teach L416, which he said will focus on the controversies of social networking Web sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Google and Flickr..."

- The Indiana Daily Student (IDS)

Posted Dec. 4, 2006

Jillian Hinchliffe, Master of Library Science (MLS) student at the IU School of Library and Information Science was featured in a recent article. The article also highlights the IU Lilly Library and the Slocum Puzzle Collection. Virginia Luehrsen, writer and photographer for this story, is also a current MLS student. The article below is reposted with permission by the IU Office of Women's Affairs.

Posted Nov. 16, 2006

SLIS student Bergis Jules has been selected as a 2006-08 Diversity Scholar by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce. Jules is pursuing a dual degree in MLS and MA in African American & African Diaspora Studies.

Posted Nov. 1, 2006

SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho recently announced the publication of MLS student Melissa Schlosser's pathfinder – "Fair Use in the Digital Environment: A Research Guide" – in the Fall 2006 issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly. On October 18, the article was selected as "Library Link of the Day" (see "older links" – 2006: October). The article is also available for download on EBSCO Academic Search Premier.

Posted Oct. 25, 2006

SLIS has six student chapters of professional associations. These student groups provide opportunities to learn about the field, to network, and to get to know colleagues. Recently the student groups hosted a combined event. Gwen Buchanan, the Activities Chair for the American Library Association Student Chapter (ALA-SC), sent this summary:

Posted Oct. 18, 2006

The SLIS Society of American Archivist Student Chapter (SAA-SC) will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, October 24, 2006, at 5:00 p.m., at the Wells Library in Room LI036. At this meeting, the following topics will be discussed:

Posted Oct. 17, 2006

The SLIS Special Libraries Association – Student Group (SLA-SG) is organizing a trip to Chicago to visit the Newberry Library on Saturday, October 21. The tour will begin at 2:00 p.m.

"As one of the world's leading independent research libraries, the Newberry Library's collection embraces the history and literature of the civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas from the Middle Ages through World War I. For many fields, notably Chicago history, genealogy and local history, cartography, and printing, there are also rich sources for the 20th century. The collection numbers some 1.5 million books, five million manuscript pages, and 300,000 historic maps." [Newberry Library website]

Transportation will leave at 8:00 a.m. and return for IU after the tour around 3:00 p.m. For more information or to sign up for the trip, please contact Meredith Saba at mksaba@indiana.edu.

Posted Oct. 17, 2006

Do Internet filters belong in a public library? SLIS MLS student Lana Gottschalk examined this important and controversial issue in her recently published paper — "Internet Filters in Public Libraries: Do They Belong?" Published in the Library Student Journal (September 2006 issue), Gottschalk wrote the paper for L608 Seminar in Intellectual Freedom, taught by SLIS faculty member Howard Rosenbaum.

Library Student Journal (LSJ) is an open-access online journal, which publishes student papers from Library and Information Science.

ABSTRACT [source: LSJ]

With the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000, hundreds of public and school libraries in the United States have implemented internet filters. While filtering can keep children from viewing inappropriate Internet materials, the use of filters in public libraries infringes on the intellectual freedom of library users. Over-blocking and under-blocking are negatively affecting open research and use of online resources, bringing about profession-wide discussions about emerging technological changes in libraries. This essay examines these discussions and advocates for an approach incorporating privacy screens or recessed monitors, the establishment of clear Internet use policies, and better user education to help maintain the role of libraries as valued centers for free self-education and learning.

Posted Oct. 4, 2006

Stacy Kowalczyk, SLIS doctoral student and associate director for IU Digital Library Program (DLP) Projects and Services, was recently featured in an Indiana Daily Student article about digital preservation of Indiana history. The Digital Library Program received two grants from Indiana State Library: "one to digitize a 100-year run of a popular history journal, and the other to digitize historic correspondence from the utopian community of New Harmony." [IUL Libraries]

Posted Oct. 2, 2006

"This summer, several Society of American Archivist Student Chapter (SAA-SC) members designed the website for Bloomington, Indiana's inaugural Archives & Special Collections Month: October 2006. The website, developed by SLIS master degree students (Donald Force, Emily Raasch and Sarah Horowitz), contains information and resources about the numerous events being held at Indiana University and Bloomington locations throughout the month.

Posted Sept. 29, 2006

The 2006 SLIS Doctoral Student Research Forum was held on September 16, 2006 in the Persimmon Room at the Indiana Memorial Union. Javed Mostafa, SLIS Ph.D. Program Director, gave opening remarks, followed by presentations from SLIS doctoral students on their current research.

Posted Sept. 20, 2006

The Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship program is a highly competitive grants program supported by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the GAANN program is to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course study in a field designated as an area of national need. Grants are awarded to departments and programs to sustain and enhance the capacity for teaching and research in areas of national need. Recipients must be American citizens or permanent residents.

Posted Sept. 20, 2006

Congratulations to SLIS Ph.D. in Information Science student Ketan Mane for nearing the completion of his doctoral degree. His Dissertation Defense is scheduled for October 2, 2006. His Committee Members are: Katy Börner (Chair), Javed Mostafa, Luis Rocha, and Sun Kim.

Ketan has accepted a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) in New Mexico.

Posted Sept. 15, 2006

"You can imagine what it would've been like for the first western pioneers to view Yellowstone's geysers, waterfalls and crazy rock formations," stated MLS student Meredith Saba about her internship this past summer at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) Archives.

Posted Sept. 15, 2006

"Scholars from all over the world, ranging from biologists researching wolf recovery to historians looking at 19th-century tourism, come to use the unique materials in the collection," noted MLS student Jody Perkins about her summer internship position at the Yellowstone Research Library (YRL). In an email interview, Perkins discusses her work at Yellowstone National Park.

Posted Sept. 15, 2006

Congratulations SLIS Graduates!

SLIS students graduating in December are invited to participate in the Winter Commencement Ceremony:

Posted Sept. 14, 2006

The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) recently launched its new website: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu. SLIS alumni and students contributed to the process.

In an email interview, Michelle Dalmau highlighted some of the contributions from SLIS students Nicole Roberg and Melanie Schlosser.

Posted Aug. 31, 2006

In June, SLIS student Emily Ford (MIS/MLS) presented her research paper "Where are the Women in Podcasting?" at the Thinking Through New Media: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference held at Duke University from June 7-8, 2006.

The paper presents research completed for the L567 Gender in Computerization course taught by SLIS faculty member Susan Herring during the Spring 2006 semester. The research examines women's presence and involvement with podcasting and offers explanations and suggestions to remedy women's minority representation in the podcasting community.

Posted Aug. 31, 2006

Among the events planned this fall by the Progressive Librarians Guild Student Chapter (PLG-SC) is a Walking Tour of the Indiana University Libraries:

Monday, September 4
3:00 p.m.
SLIS Information Commons

"Explore the IU campus libraries on foot! We'll meet at the SLIS Information Commons and walk to all of the branch libraries on campus. Reserve two hours for this tour and be sure to wear your comfiest shoes. Bring questions for librarians we might meet along the way. Maps and the route will be provided by the tour guides. In case of rain, the tour will occur on the following Monday, September 11, at 3:00 p.m."

Posted Aug. 30, 2006

Friday, September 8
5:15 p.m.
SLIS Room 001

ALA-SC is a great way to learn more about the profession and meet with your other SLIS students. The chapter will hold professional programming as well as fun-filled social events. Come learn about upcoming events for the fall semester.

Posted Aug. 30, 2006

SLIS welcomed new students at orientation sessions on August 24 and 25. There are 130 new SLIS masters and specialist degree students beginning the Summer/Fall 2006, plus two new SLIS Ph.D. students.

New SLIS students are from all over the United States (IN, IL, OH, GA, AR, MA, UT, MI, NC, TX, IA, HI, DC, KY, NJ, MO, NY, CO, DE, WI, RI, ME, CA, LA, WV, VA,WA, AZ, OR, NM, VA), and from around the world including: Virgin Islands, Botswana, Kenya, Lebanon, Taiwan, Jordan, India, and China.

Posted Aug. 25, 2006

SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho recently announced that a L524 Information Sources and Services pathfinder project by current M.L.S. student Kelly Myer Polacek has been accepted for publication in the Alert Collector Column of Reference & Users Services Quarterly.

The introduction of Polacek's pathfinder "Euthanasia — A Guide to Sources" states:

"Derived from the Greek terms "eu" meaning good, and "thanos" meaning death, euthanasia is the act of bringing death to another person in a relatively painless way for reason of mercy.

Posted Aug. 22, 2006

SLIS doctoral student Ketan Mane will be presenting his work on information visualization tools at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Roadmap Interdisciplinary Methodology and Technology Summit (M&T Summit) to be held in Bethesda, Maryland, Aug 21-22, 2006. His presentation is part of the session on Methodology and Technology for Scientific Collaboration: Social Networks.

Posted Aug. 16, 2006

If you walk down the hallways at SLIS, you will notice new digital displays. Four monitors, housed in a secure case, highlight news and events at SLIS.

Posted Aug. 14, 2006

SLIS doctoral student Inna Kouper will present her paper "Blog as Anthropological Location: Methodological Issues in Ethnographic Research of Blogs" at the Trials and Tribulations: Negotiating Research Methods in Cyberspace symposium. Held at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from November 10-11, 2006.

Posted Aug. 1, 2006

Current SLIS student Donald Force (MIS/MLS) is the recipient of the 2006 Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Students in Archival Adminis¬tration. Force is a member of MAC and president of the IU Society of American Archivists Student Chapter. Recently, Donald has been processing collections as a graduate assistant in the IU Office of University Archives and Records Management and will be serving as the library's Encoded Archival Description (EAD) graduate assistant during the 2006-07 school year.

Posted July 12, 2006

Congratulations to Kazuhiro Seki, Kathryn La Barre, and Yueyu Fu, who will be defending their doctoral dissertations in June and July. Congratulations also on their career placements.

Posted June 23, 2006

The Indiana University American Library Association-Student Chapter (ALA-SC) once again received national recognition. Last year, the ALA-SC was named 2005 ALA Student Chapter of the Year. This year, they were selected as the runner-up for the 2006 ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award. As stated on ALA website, the award is presented in recognition of a chapter's outstanding contributions to ALA, its school, and the profession.

Posted June 21, 2006

The SLIS Digital Libraries Education Program (DLEP) commenced in the Fall 2005 semester with an inaugural group of Fellows, who are pursuing MLS or MIS with a concentration in digital libraries. Established with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), DLEP was created to "educate librarians for work in digital library programs in libraries and archives." [DLEP website] The DLEP had a successful first year, and the coordinators look forward to the second year. The five new Indiana University fellows selected for 2006-2007 were recently featured in another SLIS news story.

Posted June 8, 2006

Program Welcome Scedules

SLIS Topics Sessions

Room 033

Room 001

SLIS - Information Technology Sessions

Friday, August 25: 2:00 or 4:00 Room 002, SLIS Information Commons Lab

SLIS - Library Orientation Sessions

Friday, August 25: 10:30-12:00 or 1:30-3:00 sessions start in Room 001

Posted June 8, 2006

NetSci 2006 was a success! SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner (one of the conference organizers) wrote:

The almost two week long International Workshop and Conference on Network Science was attended by more than 200 researchers, practitioners and students from more than 25 fields of science -- such as sociology, IT, physics, CS, management, psychology, biology, economics, scientometrics, etc.

All tutorial slides and all conference presentations are linked from http://vw.indiana.edu/netsci06 for general consumption and usage.

Posted June 1, 2006

WELCOME, NEW SLIS STUDENTS!

Check signs near the SLIS Office (Room 011) when you arrive for possible schedule adjustments. Questions until then can be directed to Rhonda Spencer (spencerr@indiana.edu) or Jill Clancy. (slis@indiana.edu).

Posted May 31, 2006

On Tuesday May 30, 2006 (after the Memorial Day holiday) the SLIS Library will become the SLIS Information Commons. The architects are still working on plans for how the space can be used most effectively. SLIS students contributed ideas for the SLIS Information Commons in a Spring 2006 meeting along with administrative staff from SLIS and the IU Libraries.

Posted May 24, 2006

The Digital Libraries Education Program (DLEP) at Indiana University, Bloomington has recently selected their 2006-2007 fellows. The group of fellows will include five new School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Master students pursuing degrees in Information Science, Library Science, or Dual/Joint Degree Programs at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB). A bio of each of the new fellows follows.

Posted May 19, 2006

SLIS doctoral student Anis Pervez's article &#8212 "Cybernetic Self and Self-Observation in Email" &#8212 has been accepted to be published in Cybernetics and Human Knowing (forthcoming in Volume 13 Issue 3, 2006). In addition, Pervez's translation of the Norwegian novel Nåde into Bengali will be published in Bangladesh by Sandesh Publishers in June 2006.

Posted May 18, 2006

On May 16, SLIS faculty member < a href="http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/herring/">Susan Herring and doctoral student < a href="http://mypage.iu.edu/%7Eamartins/home.html">Anna Martinson gave a talk on "< a href="http://www.cis.drexel.edu/calendar/details.asp?event=139">Critical Discourse Analysis on the World Wide Web" at Drexel University in Philadelphia. As part of Drexel's Research & Teaching talk series, Herring and Martinson discussed "the state of the art in the use of methods from linguistic discourse analysis to analyze Web content, with a focus on critical approaches intended to identify ideology and sites of ideological negotiation (cf. Foucault) as expressed through text, images, and hyperlinks" (Herring & Martinson 2006).

Posted May 17, 2006

SLIS graduate Tom Sparrenberger (MIS 2006) was recently featured in a Hoosier Times news story by Steve Hinnefeld titled "Graduation Day a tradition stretching back three generations for one family" (May 7, 2006).

Posted May 17, 2006

At the Indiana University Graduation Ceremony on May 6, Hollywood producer and IU alumnus Michael Uslan inspired the 2006 graduates to believe in themselves and challenged them to persevere through any obstacle in order to achieve their dreams.

Posted May 11, 2006

SLIS alumnus Jamie Markus (MLS 2005), Continuing Education Coordinator — Wyoming State Library, contacted Howard Rosenbaum to request assistance from current SLIS students in designing new websites for seven Wyoming County Public Libraries.

Posted May 11, 2006

What kind of career do I want? How will I use my SLIS degree? How can I improve my resume, and my chances of finding a good job?

Posted May 3, 2006

The May 2006 Commencement Ceremony is for SLIS May, June, and August graduates - and for IU students graduating from January to August 2006. There will be two ceremonies on Saturday, May 6, 2006.

Posted April 28, 2006

SLIS faculty members John Paolillo and Susan Herring, along with SLIS doctoral students and colleagues, presented research papers about online communities at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXVI), April 25-30, 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Posted April 27, 2006

Visualizing Dynamic Topic Analysis, by SLIS faculty member Susan Herring and SLIS doctoral student Andrew Kurtz, was recently published as part of the proceedings for the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006).

Posted April 27, 2006

SLIS-L 416 Individual in the Information Age is being offered to IU juniors and seniors for the Fall 2006 semester. Wayne Buente, Ph.D. Information Science student, will be the course instructor. SLIS faculty member Alice Robbin, who helped develop the course, stated: "We're excited about offering this new course for undergraduates that focuses on information on the web. This course brings together information, information technology, and new media." A course overview is included below.

Posted April 24, 2006

SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho recently announced that the pathfinder projects by two of his L524 Information Sources and Services students have been accepted for publication in prominent library journals.

Posted April 24, 2006

Congratulations SLIS Graduates!

The SLIS Graduation and End-of-Semester Lunch will be held:
Friday, April 28
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Room 001 and the SLIS Patio

All SLIS faculty, staff and students are invited.

Posted April 20, 2006

Five SLIS doctoral students presented at "Hot Topics, Hot Tapas," the 2006 Spring Program of the Indiana Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (I-ASIS&T). Held on April 11, 2006 at the Indiana University Emerging Technologies Center in Indianapolis.

Posted April 19, 2006

SLIS doctoral student Eric Meyer has been awarded the 2006 Rob Kling Social Informatics Fellowship.

Posted April 19, 2006

The Indiana University SLIS American Library Association Student Chapter (ALA-SC) once again has received national recognition as the runner-up for ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award. As stated on ALA website, the award is presented in recognition of a chapter's outstanding contributions to ALA, its school, and the profession. Last year, SLIS ALA-SC was named the national 2005 ALA Student Chapter of the Year.

Posted April 18, 2006

At the upcoming Society of American Archivists (SAA) student chapter meeting, Dr. Verlon Stone, Project Coordinator of the Liberian Collections Project (LCP), will speak about the LCP and its role in the archival world.

Posted April 18, 2006

Every wonder what it would be like to be a librarian in another country? In Robert Goehlert's L528: Collection Development and Management, SLIS students had the opportunity to learn about librarianship in Croatia via a live video chat with students in the Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Zagreb.

Posted April 13, 2006

Rachel Radom (current MIS/MLS student) has won the 2006 Beta Phi Mu Chi Chapter Student Scholarship Award. Nominated by SLIS faculty member Noriko Hara, Radom's award-winning paper is titled "Librarianship in the Information Age: Do We Need Librarians."

Posted April 13, 2006

SLIS graduate student Yan He has been named the recipient of the 2006 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development. Bestowed annually by the Chemistry Division (DCHE) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the scholarship essay competition award is designed to recognize talented individuals and assist them with their career growth.

Posted April 6, 2006

An information session with Tom Nisonger, MLS Program Director and Howard Rosenbaum, MIS Program Director, will be held on:

Posted April 5, 2006

Please review this list, and let me know if you have any questions:

Posted April 4, 2006

The ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology ) - Student Chapter is pleased to present a lecture by Representative Matt Pierce, who will be speaking about telecommunication deregulation issues and state and local legislation involving telecommunication deregulation. Pierce is a State Representative from District 61 (which includes Bloomington). Refreshments will be provided.

Posted April 4, 2006

For the past several years, the student representatives of the SLIS Curriculum Steering Committee have hosted an Open Student Forum to get input on the curriculum. The School supports the event with pizza; and, the Curriculum Steering Committee reviews the suggestions from the event. If you are not able to come, you can still email the student members of the committee with ideas.

Posted March 31, 2006

In the SLIS L586 class, Administration of Manuscripts and Personal Papers Collections, students develop and install an exhibition based on their course work in the IU Lilly Library. For the exhibition, the subject and selection of items are chosen by the students.

Posted March 28, 2006

A SLIS Student Chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG-SC) was established this Spring 2006 semester. SLIS master degree students Emily Ford and Miriam Nelson were the initial organizers. SLIS adjunct faculty member, Phil Eskew, has agreed to be the sponsor of this new student chapter.

Posted March 28, 2006

B. J. Kish Irvine, Director, IU Fine Arts Library, and advisor for SLIS Art Librarianship Specialization, recently wrote to announce that three SLIS art librarianship students have received conference awards from Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).

Posted March 28, 2006

Early Registration Begins:

• March 22 - for Summer 2006 classes
• April 3 - for Fall 2006 classes

Posted March 17, 2006

SLIS faculty member Susan Herring and SLIS doctoral student Lois Ann Scheidt gave an invited plenary talk at the Cyberworld Unlimited? Digital Inequality and New Spaces of Informal Education for Young People Conference in Bielefeld, Germany on February 10, 2006.

Posted March 8, 2006

On March 3, 2006, SLIS doctoral student Shannon Oltmann presented a talk on "Digital access to government information: To what extent are agencies in compliance with E-FOIA?" As part of the SLIS Spring 2006 Brown Bag Series, she discussed her research project examining the success of The Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA), which was, as Oltmann described it, enacted to bring in "a new era of openness." During her talk, she reviewed comparisons of E-FOIA web sites from different federal departments and agencies for compliance to the law. She concluded that, overall, there has been an improvement since a 1999 study but many departments and agencies are still not in full compliance.

Posted March 8, 2006

The next meeting for the Society of American Archivists IU Student Chapter will be held on:

Tuesday, February 28
5:15 p.m.
LI E174 [Media Showing Room - between main doors at the South entrance]
Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington

Posted Feb. 27, 2006

Every semester, the IU Libraries Reference Department sponsors free library research workshops to faculty and graduate students. There are three class sessions remaining so it's not too late to take advantage of this great opportunity! Below is the class schedule. To register, visit the library research seminars' webpage.

Posted Feb. 23, 2006

It's time to jump-start the SLIS American Society for Information Science (ASIST) Student Chapter (SC).

Meeting: Friday, February 24
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Room 031

At this meeting we will discuss the mission and purpose of ASIST-SC, elect officers, and begin planning events to be sponsored by the SC.

This is another of the professional organizations relevant to both MIS and MLS students that you can join.

Posted Feb. 22, 2006

The next Special Libraries Association Student Group (SLA-SG) meeting will be held on:

Friday, February 24
5:15 p.m.
SLIS Room 031
Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Posted Feb. 9, 2006

Five teams from Howard Rosenbaum's Fall 2005 L577 Design of Information Systems class will be showcased in IUB Making It Happen! The event is an information technology fair held on each IU campus, brought to you by University Information Technology Services (UITS), your local campus IT staff, and event technology partners. Making It Happen! will be held on Tuesday, February 14, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at IMU Frangipani Room.

Posted Feb. 9, 2006

Considering an internship for the summer or fall?

• How do you get started?
• What should you say when talking with potential supervisors?
• Can you get paid for an internship?
• What kinds of work might you do?

Posted Jan. 25, 2006

Are you interested in Archives, Special Collections, Manuscripts or Personal Papers? Are you interested in meeting people who have the same interest? Are you interested in discussing your interests in a relaxed setting outside the classroom setting? Are you interested in helping build a student organization from the ground up? If so, then please help us relaunch IU's Society of American Archivists' Student Chapter by attending our inaugural meeting of 2006. On Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 5:00 pm in Room 043A, Wells Library, (the room by the escalators), we will lay the groundwork and establish a direction for the future development of this organization. If you have any ideas or suggestions, big or small, for events that would contribute to the growth of SAA, your presence is requested.

Posted Jan. 25, 2006

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) IU student chapter invites all interested SLIS students to an introductory meeting for the Spring semester this Friday, January 20th at 5:00 p.m. in SLIS Room 001, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Posted Jan. 19, 2006

The American Library Association-Student Chapter (ALA-SC) at Bloomington, which was named 2005 ALA student chapter of the year, is planning another semester of informative professional programming and dynamic, fun-filled social events. ALA-SC provides an excellent opportunity to network with your fellow students and learn more about the profession.

Posted Jan. 19, 2006

SLIS faculty member, John Paolillo co-authored "The Social Semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and Change from 2004 to 2005" with SLIS Ph.D. student Elijah Wright, and SLIS MIS/MLS student Sarah Mercure. The paper has been published online as part of the proceedings of the ISWC 2005 Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis. It is published as Volume 171 in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series (ISSN 1613-0073).

Posted Jan. 19, 2006

Simon Braune's final project paper for SLIS-L625 Information in the Social Science - "Islam as Practiced by the Kazaks: A Bibliography for Scholars" - was recently published in MELA Notes: The Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association (Number 78, 2005). Simon received his Master of Library Science degree in May 2005.

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