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MLIS students: Use myCareer to:

  • Register up for events (your first PPD session is on October 1! Management Career Services tab)
  • Apply for jobs (Career Services Centre tab)
  • Book an appointment for one-on-one coaching (Management Career Services tab)
  • Receive an email notification when jobs matching your criteria are posted
  • Access resources (Webinars on resumes, cover letters, interviewing, and more)
In order to view the myCareer portlet you will need to login into myDal (http://my.dal.ca). The myCareer portlet can be found under the Services tab.
Detailed instructions can be found at www.dal.ca/mcs or email J.MacKenzie@dal.ca for assistance.

Dance Heritage Coalition Fellowships

The Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC)’s fellowship program gives Masters’s students in library and information studies programs intensive training and practice in the skills needed to work in dance-related archives and libraries. Funding is supported by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

Eligible candidates must be American citizens or permanent residents who are enroled in an accredited LIS program through Spring 2013.  For further details about the fellowships and for application procedures, please visit the following website.

 

Volunteer Fair: Sept 13

2012 Volunteer Fair

If you’re looking to get experience, come to the Dalhousie Career Services Centre’s Volunteer Fair, this Thursday, Sepetember 13th 10am – 3pm! There will be volunteer opportunities available for both on-campus and off-campus. For a list of exhibitors, check out our Volunteer Fair Facebook Events page and register online using myCareer!

Students volunteer for their own skill-development, to meet others, to contribute positively to their community, to make contacts for possible employment, and to have fun.

Come by to speak with a variety of organizations (in and outside of your community) to learn about the experience you will gain by volunteering with one of their rewarding opportunities.

McInnes Room, Student Union Building (SUB), 2nd Floor,
6136 University Avenue, Halifax
Thursday, September 13, 2012
10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Bring your student ID card.

Association of Canadian Archivists 2013 Annual Conference

Association of Canadian Archivists 2013 Annual Conference:

Community as Archives, Archives as Community

Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

13 – 15 June 2013

 

Communities are the framework of our identities, our history and our lives. Online and offline, connected by geography, ethnicity, language, sexuality, interests, professions, friendship and kin, our lives are a lattice of communities.

Join us in Winnipeg, city of communities and meeting places, for an exploration of how archival consciousness arises in communities and how community consciousness has arisen among archivists. We invite proposals related to all areas of archival theory or practice and pertaining to any and all media. These contributions can come from anyone involved with archives: from archival staff and volunteers, from those who share an interest in archives, whether as a community organizer, researcher, creator, a professional or an academic, and from anyone who considers themselves to be a knowledge worker.

Topics might include:

  • Archives as Community: What issues are important to the Canadian archival community right now? How can we act together to achieve our goals?
  • Community Archives: What is a community archive? What is participatory archiving? How do we build collections and staff that are broadly representative of Canadian society?
  • Archives and Indigenous Communities: How can archival practice engage with Indigenous knowledge traditions? How can archives build healthy relationships with Canadian Indigenous communities?
  • Alternative Archives: Do certain communities treat archives in a particular way? How is the concept of “archives” reinterpreted (as a space, or as an idea)?
  • Virtual Communities, Virtual Archives: What are the challenges and opportunities of social media as collaborative tools? How do we create archives for digital natives? How can archives participate in open source and standards communities?

 

SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:

The 2013 Conference Program Committee invites contributions in a variety of traditional and nontraditional formats including:

  1.  Traditional session: formal presentation of papers; approximately 20 minutes per speaker, with questions to follow as time allows.
  2.  Panel discussion: abbreviated presentation of papers; approximately 10-15 minutes per speaker, with discussion to follow.
  3.  Roundtable: brief 5-7 minute presentations with open discussion
  4.  Focused Debate on a specific topic: brief presentations with open discussion & debate to follow. Can adhere to formal debating rules or not.
  5.  Pecha Kucha Session: 8-12 presenters have 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas.

Use the “Call for Submission” button on the ACA website.  Submitting your session proposal in electronic form using this link is strongly encouraged.

The deadline for these proposals is: Saturday, September 29th, 2012

Note: Please be advised there will be a Call for Student Papers as well as a Call for Posters later this year, with submission deadlines early in 2013.

 

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:

For 2013, ACA will use the “Call for Submission” button for any workshop proposals that will be associated with the Annual Conference; these submissions will go to the Professional Learning Committee, which will make its decisions in mid October 2012.

Workshop is defined as a full 1-day or 2-day event, generally combining presentations, group discussions and hands-on activities for a group of about 25 – 30 participants.  Workshops can cover any topic/subject, and may not be related directly to the conference theme.

Questions:

Please feel free to direct questions to:
Johanna Smith

johanna.smith@bac-lac.gc.ca

Chair, ACA 2013 Conference Program

c/o Library and Archives Canada
550 blvd de la Cité
Gatineau, QC K1A 0N4
Telephone:  613-897-4742
Fax: 819-934-6800

Gerd Muehsam Award

The ongoing goals of ARLIS/NA include increasing awareness of ARLIS/NA among library school students and encouraging library school students to consider art librarianship as a career. To these ends, the Society is offering the Gerd Muehsam Award. This is an annual award of $500 (plus up to $300 additional travel reimbursement to attend our annual conference) for a student paper or web project focused on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual curatorship.

As Chair of the Gerd Muehsam Award Committee, I encourage you to pass on information of this award to your students. Students enrolled during the preceding eighteen months are eligible to apply. Details of the award are attached and an announcement is also available on the ARLIS/NA web site. Past recepients of the award are listed here.

 

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