This issue covers the period from July to December 2013 and can be found on the SIM website. We look forward to receiving your updates and hearing your feedback. Happy reading!
A National Digital Infrastructure: ideas wanted!
The Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to get fresh ideas for how to build a world-leading advanced digital infrastructure ecosystem for Canada.
Your input is important and will inform the development of a policy framework and roadmap for achieving an advanced DI. Visit the Council’s new website at digitalleadership.ca and participate early in the campaign.
Broad participation from the entire DI (digital infrastructure) community will help ensure a more integrated, inclusive, comprehensive, accessible and sustainable advanced DI ecosystem that will accelerate research, education and innovation in all sectors, and at all levels.
The campaign is open to all researchers, academic administrators, project managers in government and academe, students, policy makers and anyone else who stands to use and benefit from an advanced DI ecosystem in Canada.
Please share this notice widely through your networks.
Call for Applications: 2014 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship
Call for Applications: 2014 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship – Deadline: February 1, 2014
Designed to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1,500 honorarium. This scholarship is given yearly by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society.
The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree with a major in Chemistry or related disciplines (related disciplines are, for example, Biochemistry or Chemical Informatics). The applicant must have been accepted (or currently enrolled) into a graduate Library, Information, or Computer Science program in an accredited institution. Work experience in Library, Information or Computer Science preferred.
The deadline to apply for the 2014 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship is February 1, 2014. Details on the application procedures can be found at http://www.acscinf.org/content/lucille-m-wert-student-scholarship.
Applications (email preferred) can be sent to: margaret.matthews@thomsonreuters.com
Congratulations to SIM students on a successful end to the MBW course
I would like to extend my congratulations to the MLIS students involved in this year’s Management Without Borders course, which culminated last night in a public presentation of posters of the various client-based projects undertaken by the interdisciplinary MBW groups. These groups consisted of students from the Rowe School of Business, SIM, the School of Public Administration, the School of Resource and Environmental Studies, and the Marine Affairs Program. The quality of the posters and their associated projects was of an exceptional quality and stands as a testament to the strength and benefit of interdisciplinary approaches to address real-world projects. While several faculty and staff were involved with MBW, I would like to thank in particular Professor Sandra Toze, who was the SIM faculty liaison. I would like to thank also the students from the Master of Information Management, who attended the event while they were in town for their two-day intensive session. We at SIM are very proud of your work.
Louise Spiteri
Student Employment Opportunity: Faculty of Management Curriculum Map Editor Needed
Rate of pay: $15/hour
Hours of work: Approx. 7-10 hours per week. This is
a flexible work assignment. Editors can usually set their own hours and work from any location. This project should be completed in 10-12 weeks.
One position is available.
Duties:
— Identifying student learning outcomes (SLOs) from graduate Faculty of Management course syllabi and assignments.
— Developing standardized vocabulary to describe SLOs consistently.
— Confirming the accuracy of SLO identification.
— Inputting the SLO data into Daedalus software.
— Editing the curriculum map to show connections between SLOs.
Training on Daedalus will be provided.
Preference will be given to incoming students with a particular interest in the organization of information (cataloguing, indexing, abstracting, metadata standards) and to those with undergraduate backgrounds in Education.
To apply: Submit an application letter and resume to Vivian Howard (howardv@dal.ca) by December 16, 2013 @ 4 pm.
10th Annual Sustainability and Environmental Research Symposium
Call for poster submissions
Students and faculty are invited to present their research in topics of environment and sustainability to a large and diverse audience.
To Apply:
A poster proposal form and abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted via email to emaychair@dal.ca. Individuals may submit multiple proposals and are encouraged to re-use existing research posters.
Deadlines:
Submissions are due by February 14, 2014. Authors will be notified of their acceptance by February 21. 2014. For further information please visit:
LITA/Ex Libris seeking LIS student authors:
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited graduate program. Sponsored by LITA and Ex Libris, the award consists of $1,000, publication in LITA’s refereed journal, Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), and a certificate. The deadline for submission of the manuscript is Feb. 28, 2014.
The purpose of the award is to recognize superior student writing and to enhance the professional development of students. The manuscript can be written on any aspect of libraries and information technology. Examples include digital libraries, metadata, authorization and authentication, electronic journals and electronic publishing, telecommunications, distributed systems and networks, computer security, intellectual property rights, technical standards, desktop applications, online catalogs and bibliographic systems, universal access to technology, library consortia and others.
At the time the unpublished manuscript is submitted, the applicant must be enrolled in an ALA-accredited program in library and information studies at the masters or PhD level.
To be eligible, applicants must follow the detailed guidelines and fill out the application form athttp://www.ala.org/lita/sites/ala.org.lita/files/content/involve/committees/exlibris/ExLibrisAwardApplication.pdf. Send the signed, completed forms by Feb. 28, 2014 to the Award Committee Chair, Regina Koury, Idaho State University, Eli M. Oboler Library, 950 South 9th, Pocatello, ID 83209-8089. Submit the manuscript to Regina electronically atkourregi@isu.edu by Feb. 28, 2014.
The award will be presented at the LITA President’s Program during the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas.
About Ex Libris:
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 80 countries on six continents. For more information about Ex Libris Group visit www.exlibrisgroup.com.
About LITA:
Established in 1966, LITA is the leading organization reaching out across types of libraries to provide education and services for a broad membership including systems librarians, library administrators, library schools, vendors and many others interested in leading edge technology and applications for librarians and information providers. For more information, visit www.lita.org, or contact the LITA office by phone, 800-545-2433, ext. 4268; or e-mail: lita@ala.org
Professional Mentorship Program November Bulletin
We are almost at the end of this year’s first semester! Dalhousie CLA would like to wish everyone luck with their final papers and projects.
We know that November and early December is a hectic time of year for students. This December break is a great opportunity to take some time for coffee with your mentor or to tour your mentor’s workplace! We encourage you to reach out this coming month to your PMP partner.
Upcoming Events:
Mentors and mentees, this December 5th, the Halifax Library Association (HLA) is hosting the second event of this year’s Library & a Pub Tour series. The event will begin at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia for a guided tour, followed by a gathering at the Foggy Goggle.
HLA asks that you RSVP by December 2nd to halifaxlibraryassociation@gmail.com.
The event is free for HLA members, and non-members who wish to attend will be given an HLA registration form ($10, but only $5 for students) for a one-year HLA membership. There will be prize draws!
This is a great opportunity for you and your PMP partner to connect and participate in an interesting and fun event!
To learn more about the event and HLA membership, we encourage you to visit HLA’s website.
Students, we also recommend that you attend this year’s Management Without Borders Poster Conference, taking place on December 3rd from 5:30-8:00 in the McInnes Room, which is on the 2nd floor of the Dalhousie Student Union Building. This is an excellent chance to see the impressive work your fellow students have been doing with public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.
To keep tabs on other upcoming events throughout the year, please visit the SIM Events Calendar.
We would like to encourage all PMP participants to get in touch with the Dalhousie CLA Student Chapter (contact information below) with any questions. Dal CLA would love to hear your suggestions for the program or if you have any topics or events that you would like us to include in our next bulletin.
Thanks and best wishes!
Dalhousie CLA Student Chapter
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DJIM Call For Papers – deadline Nov 30
The Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM) is issuing a call for papers for Volume 10, to be published in 2014.
Current graduate students in the Dalhousie Faculty of Management and recent graduates are invited to submit a paper to DJIM before November 30 for consideration.
DJIM is a student-run journal devoted to showcasing the finest graduate student work in the field of management. Papers from all schools in the Faculty of Management are welcome; however, papers should have a clear management focus.
For more information or to submit a paper, email djim@dal.ca.
Professional Mentorship Program October Bulletin
First of all, thank you to everyone who came out to the Professional Mentorship Program Launch on October 17th! The event was a success and it was great to see so many of you there.
This is the first of our monthly bulletins for the PMP. In our bulletins, we’ll be posting some activity ideas for mentor/mentee meetings, notifications of upcoming events that PMP partners can attend together, reminders of upcoming professional development opportunities for students, and other topics.
Meeting with your PMP partner:
We hope that you have all had a chance to meet and converse with your mentor or mentee! If you haven’t set a first meeting yet, consider having a conversation over Skype or coffee. Take the opportunity to get to know each other – what your partner does for work or what they are studying, where they are from, how they came to their current career choice, and so forth. We know that everyone who signed up for the program has something interesting to share, so we encourage you to take the time to get to know more about your partner.
Upcoming events:
Mentors and mentees, keep an eye on the SIM events calendar for upcoming events of interest! For example, SIM occasionally hosts public lectures that are great to attend together. None are currently scheduled for the near future, but we’ll list these events in subsequent bulletins whenever possible.
For students, there are two upcoming Personal/Professional Development sessions that we strongly encourage you to attend:
- Resumes – October 29th, 2:30-4:00 in Rowe 3089
- LinkedIn – November 5th, 2:30-4:00 in Rowe 3089
These sessions are put on by Management Career Services and are a valuable opportunity to build on your professional skills.
Once again, we’d like to encourage all participants to get in touch with the Dalhousie CLA Student Chapter (contact information below) with any questions. We would love to hear your suggestions for the program or if you have any topics or events that you would like us to include in our next bulletin.
Thanks and have a great week!
Dalhousie CLA Student Chapter
Email us at dalhousiecla@gmail.com
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Join our new LinkedIn group
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