SIM student featured in Dal News
Please read SIM student Hilary Stamper’s analysis of the recent Data Privacy Day held at Dalhousie university.
Considering community: A radio documentary by SIM student Megan Clark
There has been a growing emphasis in the last few years on the role of public libraries as community spaces. To explore this idea, I spent the fall of 2012 speaking to public librarians from across the country to see what public libraries are doing in their communities, how they are changing, how they are staying the same, and the challenges they are facing. I found libraries that are overcoming barriers to access and libraries that take their role as public spaces very seriously. And in all my conversations I looked for community, to find out what it is and what public libraries have to do with it.
As part of Freedom to Read week, Considering Community will be broadcast on CKDU 88.1FM and online at ckdu.ca
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Wednesday February 27 @ 1:30pm
Friday March 1 @ 8am
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Saturday March 2 @ 8pm
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This project was completed as part of a Master of Library and Information Studies degree at Dalhousie University and supervised by Dr. Fiona Black of the School of Information Management.
For more information on the project or to share your thoughts and experiences on the topic please feel free to contact me: megan.clark@dal.ca
Congratulations to Dr. Hesham Allam
I am very pleased to announce that yesterday Hesham Allam, a part-time instructor SIM instructor (MIM program), successfully defended his PhD dissertation: Social, technical, and organizational determinants of employees’ participation in enterprise social tagging tools: A conceptual model and an empirical investigation. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Allam.
Anatoliy Gruzd promoted to Associate Professor
It is with pleasure that I inform you that Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, in the School of Information Management. At every level of the tenure and promotion process, it was noted that Dr. Gruzd has excelled in the areas of teaching, research, and contributions to the discipline and the profession. We at SIM consider ourselves privileged to work with Dr. Gruzd: He is a gracious, giving, collaborative, and generous colleague and is an integral part of the School of Information Management.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Gruzd.
Congratulations on a very successful Information Without Borders 2013 conference.
I would like to extend my sincerest congratulations to everyone involved in organizing , hosting, and managing the 2013 Information Without Borders confernce. All aspects of the conference were a success, from the keynote speakers, panels, poster presentations, silent auction, and refeshment breaks. I am writing this post during the final keynote speech, so I will keep it brief, but suffice it to say that you represent the very best of the Information Management profession, its diversity, depth, and versatility. My colleagues and I are honoured to work with all of you.
Louise Spiteri
SIM alumna Smitty Miller interviewed at the mid-winter American Library Association meeting
SIM alumna Smitty Miller, Fraser Valley (British Columbia) Regional Library’s Tour Manager, talks about LiLi, the library’s Nissan Cube, which it uses to deliver mobile library services throughout the community. Congratulations once again, Smitty for this very well deserved recognition.
MLIS program granted continued accreditation
It is with great pleasure that I announce that the MLIS program has been granted continued accreditation status by the Committee on Accreditation, American Library Association. We have been granted full accreditation for seven years. I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all my colleagues at SIM, our wonderful students and alumni, as well as all our SIM friends for the group effort that went into the preparation and presentation of our Program Presentation.
With thanks,
Louise Spiteri
Media Highlight: Paul McKenna speaks to the Globe and Mail about national policing summit
Congratulations to SIM lecturer Paul McKenna for his role in a national policing summit as reported in Today@Dal.
SIM student involved in Killam Library artist-in-residence project.
It is my pleasure to announce the successful candidate of the Killam Library artist-in-residence project: William Robinson. William’s work employs video, performance, sculpture, drawing and other media to investigate the culture of sound and social architecture. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, having shown in New York, Bergen and Berlin, as well as in Toronto at Nuit Blanche and in Halifax at Nocturne. William will be doing two public talks/presentations during his six-week residency, which begins on Monday. The dates for these public talks are not yet confirmed.
The idea for this residency came from SIM student, artist and Killam intern Nancy McPhee. The funding came through an HRM grant. The Killam is partnering with the Dalhousie Art Gallery on this initiative.
For more information about the residency, please see the LibVine
https://blogs.dal.ca/libraries/2013/01/16/killam-memorial-library-announces-artist-in-residence/
Marlo MacKay
Communications Coordinator
Dalhousie University Libraries