Spoiler alert! The rhetoric of the bibliographic record for works of fiction by Elisabeth Davies
Date: 03 February 2010
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Location: Room 3089 (Rowe Building)
For more information, please visit the SIM website.
IT Curriculum review workshop
On Friday, January 22, 2010, the Curriculum and Continuing Education Committee held a very successful day-long workshop to review our Information Technology courses. The workshop was attended by full and part-time SIM faculty, staff, members of the academic, public, and special libraries communities, representatives of non-profit agencies, as well as current students. Many exciting and innovative ideas were generated for how best to incorporate IT across the curriculum to meet the needs of the Information Management professions.
2010 Student Research Symposium
All MLIS students are encouraged to attend the 2010 Student Research Symposium, to be held on February 5, 2010. The Symposium will start with an opening speaker and a light lunch at 12:00 in Room 1020 of the Rowe Building. Paper presentations (three concurrent sessions) will begin at 1:00 p.m. Presentations continue until 4:15, followed by a wine and cheese reception in 2nd Floor Lounge.
Two of the papers being presented were written by SIM students. Second year MLIS student Angela Manyangara’s paper is titled, “Multitasking Information Behavior in Today’s Knowledge Economy”; this is the second year Angela’s work has been presented at the symposium. First year MLIS student Folushade Oduntan has contributed a paper titled, “Beyond Technology: Information Management and Efficiency in Banking”. Please see the SIM news release for details.
For more information please visit the SIM website.
Brown Bag Lunch: Amanda Stevens
Date: 28 January 2010
Time: 11:45-12:45
Location: SIM Common Room (4034)
Amanda Stevens is a self-employed SIM graduate who does research and technology projects for non-profit, library, and archives organizations. At the Brown Bag Lunch she will explain how she created a customised catalogue and circulation system for an alternative special library using the open source content management system Drupal. Amanda will discuss open source software for libraries, designing user-centred systems, and working with non-profit organizations.
Bring your questions, bring your lunch, and we’ll see you there!
Alumni Gathering: Join Fiona Black, Norman Horrocks and Louise Spiteri in Boston on January 14th!
Fiona Black, Norman Horrocks and Louise Spiteri will be attending the ALISE conference in Boston in January and are looking forward to seeing you! Please join them and your fellow Dal SIM alumni for an alumni gathering on Thursday evening of the conference.
Date: January 14, 2010
Time: 8:00pm onwards
Location: P.F. Chang’s, 8 Park Plaza Space D-6, Boston (www.pfchangs.com)
RSVP: Please reply to Jenn Cox (jenn.cox@dal.ca) if you are planning to attend so that reservations can be made.
Norman will be staying in Boston for the ALA Midwinter meeting and will be pleased to meet with you for lunch on Sunday, January 17 at 1 p.m. He’ll meet you at the Scarecrow Press exhibit in the Convention Center at about 12.50 p.m. (The Scarecrow Press booth number will be in the Conference program but may be under Rowman and Littlefield, which is Scarecrow’s parent company.) If you are not registering for the Midwinter meeting but want a Complimentary Pass for the exhibits please let Norman know (norman.horrocks@dal.ca). He will be staying at the Seaport Hotel (1-800-440-3318) from Friday afternoon.