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Society for Scholarly Publishing: 2015 Travel Grants to Annual Meeting

If you are a student in a publishing or library/information science program, or have been working in this field for three years or less, please consider applying for a grant to attend the SSP Annual Meeting (see details below).  If you¹re not a potential candidate, but know someone who is, please share this announcement with your fellow-student, colleague, or protégé. 
 
SSP’s 2015 travel grant program has grants for up to 13 successful applicants. The awards will support travel to and attendance at SSP¹s 37th Annual Meeting, to be held May 27-29, 2015 in Arlington VA, as well as SSP membership for 2015.   The travel grant program is designed to introduce students of publishing and information science and early career publishing professionals to the many educational and networking opportunities available at the popular and informative SSP annual meeting. 
 
Successful applicants will be granted free registration at the Annual Meeting and will be eligible for reimbursement of up to $1,300 for travel and lodging expenses incurred to attend the meeting.  Higher rates of reimbursement are available for applicants located overseas, and the Society offers special encouragement to applicants from outside North America.
 
Applications must be completed online; see the link to the online form at  http://www.sspnet.org/careers/travel-grants-recipients, where a list of previous grant winners is also available.
 
The application deadline is Wednesday, April 1st, 2015.  Grant awardees will be selected and notified as early as possible in April.
 
The SSP Board has developed several supporting programs that will help grant awardees optimize their experience. Awardees will be paired with mentors who hold senior management positions within SSP member organizations. Mentors will help grantees plug into the educational and networking opportunities available at the Annual Meeting.  Additionally, the meeting program will offer several opportunities designed to engage those who are relatively new to the industry.
 
SSP Annual Meeting 2015:  “The New Big Picture: Connecting Diverse Perspectives”
To be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington VA, May 27-29, 2015.
Plenary speakers:
 
•Charles Watkinson, AUL for Publishing, University of Michigan Libraries
•Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker columnist
•Jennifer Lawton, CEO Makerbot Industries
 
For details of full program, tracks, sessions, abstracts, speakers, and accommodation, see http://www.sspnet.org/events/annual-meeting/event-home/
 
SSP is a dynamic membership organization, working to advance the development of members through education and networking.
 

Database trial: Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)

Dalhousie currently subscribes to some of the key databases for library and information science, including Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. From now until April 3, we are trialing one of its competitors: Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and we invite you to experiment with it while it’s available and send us your feedback.

Try LISA now!

A little bit about LISA: A ProQuest product, LISA indexes and abstracts roughly 440 periodicals from around the world. Subjects range from Librarianship to Artificial Intelligence to Technical Services and much more; international coverage is also strong in this database. You can find more information about LISA here.

Feedback about this database is welcome and can be sent to Lindsay McNiff (lindsay.mcniff@dal.ca)

Congratulations on the 2015 Information Without Borders Conference

I would like to extend my congratulations to the Information Without Borders team for organizing such a successful 2015 conference.  The conference theme and presentations were highly relevant and timely.  The student poster competition and presentations were of a high calibre.  The event was very well organized; a sentiment expressed repeatedly by the conference speakers and participants. We are proud of all of you.

Louise Spiteri

The Information Without Borders (IWB) Conference is coming soon!

iwbOn February 11th, 2015, the annual student-run Information Without Borders Conference (IWB) will be held in the McInnes Room at the Dalhousie Student Union Building. The topic for the 2015 conference is: Information Management for Climate Change Adaptation. Featuring Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto) and Carl Duivenvoorden (Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project) as keynote speakers, discussion at the conference will focus on the following aspects of climate research:

  • How data & information are used in climate research
  • Systems which allow us to analyze data from climate research
  • How climate research findings are communicated and disseminated
  • The role of Information Managers in assisting the work of climate researchers

Other speakers include:

  • Jason Hollett, Executive Director of Climate Change Nova Scotia,
  • federal MP Megan Leslie,
  • Dr. Tony Charles of Saint Mary’s University,
  • Dr. Patricia Manuel of Dalhousie University,
  • Dr. Adam Fenech of the University of Prince Edward Island,
  • Dr. Cristian Suteanu of Saint Mary’s University,
  • and Fred Whoriskey, Executive Director of Ocean’s Tracking Network.

Registration is now open with a $20 + a nominal Eventbrite fee for students, and a $90 + a nominal Eventbrite fee for professionals & community members. Registration includes access to all events, breakfast, lunch and a gift bag. To register, please visit our website atwww.iwbconference.ca. Registration closes Monday, February 2.

 For more information, please email iwb@dal.ca or visit our website at www.iwbconference.ca.

Diana M. Priestly Memorial Scholarship

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association Canadienne des bibliotheques de droit is pleased to announce it is presently accepting applications for the Diana M. Priestly Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship will be awarded to an individual needing to enhance her/his academic qualifications for law librarianship. The closing date for applications is February 1, 2015.

Established in honour of the late Diana M. Priestly, a distinguished Canadian law librarian, and in recognition of her distinctive contribution to Law Librarianship, the Scholarship is intended to support professional development in the field and is awarded to a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant who:

  • has previous law library experience and will be enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year; or
  • has a degree from or is currently enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School and will be enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School during the next academic term/year; or
  • has a degree from or is currently enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School and will be enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year; or
  • will be concurrently enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School and an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year.

The current value of this award is $2,500. An announcement regarding the award’s recipient will be made at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Moncton, New Brunswick, in May 2015.

Information about the scholarship and the application form may be found on the CALL/ACBD website at http://www.callacbd.ca/en/content/diana-m­ priestly-memorial-scholarship

 

Should you require more information regarding the award, please contact the Chair:

Anne Marie Melvie, amelvie@sasklawcourts.ca, 306-787-7399

 

Student research opportunity: Sharing of child health information over social media

Social media facilitates information exchange and is increasingly being used by scientists, health care professionals, and the public for communication, collaboration, information, and social support. Despite its increasing use, little is known about child health social media interaction.

Dr. Christine Chambers of the IWK Pediatric Pain Centre is inviting an MLIS student to work with her research team to assist in the exploration of social media interaction about pediatric pain and pediatric sleep.   Specific tasks would include identifying and categorizing the main themes in social media (YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook) related to pediatric pain and sleep, and describing user interactions with these themes across social media platforms.  Netlytic, a social listening program, will be used to identify the main themes, keywords, topics, and trends over time.

 This project will be conducted in the spring/summer of 2015 and could be undertaken either as a SIM directed reading class for academic credit or as a paid IWK summer student assistantship  (the deadline for submission of applications for IWK student assistantships is Feb. 12th: 

http://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/research/summer-studentship-program)  Note that a minimum GPA of 3.3 is needed if students wish to pursue the directed reading class option.

 

This project will be co-supervised by Christine Chambers and Vivian Howard.  If you are interested in this research opportunity, please send an expression of interest to Vivian Howard (vivian.howard@dal.ca) by January 12, 2015.

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