Harvard-Westlake School’s Upper campus is co-hosting a recruiting fair on Saturday, 2/23 from 9-12pm. This will hopefully give those new to the independent school community a look into opportunities at local schools. The event is open to all, and warmly welcomes job candidates from underrepresented and historically marginalized groups. There are often librarian, archivist, instructional/information…
Read MoreHistory from Different Angles: South Asian American Stories in California
Published: January 25, 2019Join us for a day of archival outreach! February 23, 2019, 10am to 4 pmCharles E. Young Research Library South Asian Americans have been a presence in the United States for more than 130 years, yet their stories are little known. Early immigrants from South Asia worked on farms and factories, helped build railroads, fought…
Read MoreProtected: Training & Development Newsletter
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Read MoreNominate a Librarian for Librarian of the Year
Published: January 23, 2019The 2019 LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year Award recognizes excellence in librarianship that furthers the teaching and research mission of UCLA and responds to the intellectual, informational, and cultural needs of the university community. Please consider nominating a librarian who you’ve worked with on a course, research project, or other project. The nomination deadline is…
Read MoreREADME Weekly Lab Hours
Published: January 22, 2019Join README during our weekly Lab Hours! For the 2019 winter quarter through March 12th, members of README will be posted up in the IS Lab (Zone A) on Tuesdays from 11am-12pm. Each week, we will circulate a topic and relevant short news article through our website, IS-Net, and our listserv to better frame the conversation. If you have a topic or article…
Read MoreDigital Collections for Humanities and Social Sciences Instruction at UCLA
Published: January 18, 2019January 31st, 2019, 2:30pmCharles E. Young Research LibraryMain Conference Room UCLA Library Special Collections will be hosting a workshop on available primary sources for teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Ben Lacey from Adam Matthew Digital will present on digital collections available through the library, and case studies of how tutors around the…
Read MoreConference Scholarship, Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
Published: January 18, 2019Since its founding in 1956, the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) has engaged in a wide variety of projects and programs designed to advance the scholarly study of Latin America, the Caribbean, Iberia and the Latino/a diasporas. We are offering a scholarship that enables master’s candidates in an ALA-accredited library…
Read MoreKleinrock Tour of Boelter Hall Site of First Internet Message
Published: January 18, 2019On Thursday, January 31st at 1pm, Leonard Kleinrock has kindly offered to give ASIS&T a tour of Boelter Hall 3420. The room was recently restored to look just like it did when the first internet message was sent using a large piece of equipment, called the Interface Message Processor. Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of computer…
Read MoreNASIG Opportunities
Published: January 18, 2019NASIG is a professional organization that focuses broadly on the information community with emphasis on e-resource and serials management, as well as scholarly communications work. The organization encourages student involvement through free student membership and low-cost conference and webinar attendance. Registration for the 2019 NASIG Annual Conference in Pittsburgh has just opened at http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=700&pk_association_webpage=15020. The…
Read MoreSJSU’s School of Information Student Research Journal
Published: January 18, 2019Call for Submissions San Jose State University’s School of Information Student Research Journal (SRJ) invites submissions from currently enrolled graduate students from all disciplines and institutions. Submit original research, literature reviews, book reviews, critical essays, or evidence summaries, covering topics in all fields of library and information science theory, policy, application, or practice. The journal…
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