Practicum in Kazakhstan?

Are you interested in librarianship abroad?

Looking for a unique practicum experience?

Would you like to represent SLIS on an international level?

Good! Because Allison Kaplan needs YOUR help!

Here’s the situation:

On Friday, May 10th at about 10:00am, there will be two librarians from Nazarbayev University Library in Kazakhstan. They are visiting the UW as part of a partnership with UW, and they are looking for 1-2 students to participate in a practicum over the summer of 2014.

Allison would like to have interested students come join our guests for a discussion in part to show interest in international experiences, and in part to let them know about the expertise our students bring with them to practicum placements.  This will be an informal meet-and-greet, providing potentially interested SLIS students the opportunity to explore this exciting opportunity!

Anyone interested in simply meeting the Kazakhstani librarians are welcome to attend, including those of you who are graduating this May.  Your attendance would be greatly appreciated in welcoming these guests to SLIS!

Please email Allison (agkaplan@wisc.edu) by the Friday 5/3 if you would like to attend.

ALSO @ WAAL – Join us!

A reminder that we will be at the upcoming WAAL conference at The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, WI.

Join us for dinner there this Wednesday evening after the New Members Round Table Happy Hour (which will be held in the Elk Room of the Osthoff Resort, from 5-7 PM).  We will meet at the Elk Room after the happy hour and then make our way to dinner.

For more information on WAAL 2013 (April 23-26, Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake, WI), go to: http://wla.wisconsinlibraries.org/waal/conferences-events/waal-annual-conference

Any questions or comments, feel free to contact either of the ALSO co-chairs:

Lori Steckervetz (lsteckervetz@wisc.edu) and Susie Seefelt Lesieutre (seefeltlesie@wisc.edu)

ALSO in the Library: UW-Madison Libraries Tour Series

Join ALSO for a series of informal library tours led by your fellow SLISers!

ALSO is sponsoring UW library tours/informational sessions with SLIS students working at 3 unique libraries on campus. Join us in this great opportunity to learn more about the variety of academic libraries on campus AND to get an idea about future student employment opportunities in these libraries.

Sessions will include a short tour, information about the library/SLIS student job duties, and time for questions.

Tours will meet at the appointed library 5-10 min. before the scheduled start time.                                    

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Friday, April 19th, 1:00PM

Journalism Reading Room

Tour with Cate Booth, 2nd year SLIS student

Vilas Hall, Room 2130, 821 University Ave.

Friday, April 26th 1:00PM

Wisconsin’s Water Library

Tour with Peter Rudrud, 2nd year SLIS student

Goodnight Hall, Room 247, 1975 Willow Dr.

Tuesdsay, April 30th, 1:00PM

Limnology Library

Tour with Lori Steckervetz, 2nd year SLIS student

Hasler Lab, Room 211, 680 N. Park St.

Going to WAAL? We hope to see you there!

We will be at WAAL later this month and hope to see fellow SLISers there!

Please join us for a relaxing dinner Wednesday, April 24th; this event is open to the entire SLIS community. We plan to meet  around 7:00 PM, just at the close of the New Members Round Table Happy Hour (which will be held in the Elk Room of the Osthoff Resort, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM). Dinner location TBA.

If you are thinking of leading a student group next year and you are interested in academic librarianship, this would be a great opportunity to meet current and past ALSO officers/members and to consider how you might like to direct the group in 2013-2014!

More information coming soon on the SLIS and ALSO blogs. And here’s more information on WAAL 2013 (April 23-26, Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake, WI), with links to registration, accommodations, and programming:

http://wla.wisconsinlibraries.org/waal/conferences-events/waal-annual-conference

Lori Steckervetz and Susie Seefelt Lesieutre, ALSO co-chairs 2012-2013
lsteckervetz@wisc.edu, seefeltlesie@wisc.edu

Spring Semester Planning

Greetings SLISers!

We hope you had a restful break and are settling into the semester well.  In looking towards both this semester and beyond, we would like to invite all interested SLIS students to join us on Thursday, Feb. 14th at noon for a brainstorming/welcome back gathering at Open Book Cafe on the 1st Floor of College Library.  Join us for coffee, tea, and/or a bite to eat, as well as brainstorming on ideas of what ALSO can do for you and the SLIS community as a whole.

All are welcomed to join us! In addition to brainstorming programming ideas, we are also looking for future leaders for the group.  We would love to have at least 2 more students join the current leadership this semester!

Check out the Facebook event invitation here (and while you are at it, like our page too! )If you are interested in participating in an ALSO planning/events or a leadership role but are unable to attend the meeting please email us at also.uw@gmail.com and let us know about your ideas and interests.

Social Media Workshop with LIS 722/Tuesday, November 13

You are invited to attend a Social Media workshop conducted by the UW Department of Information Technology (DoIT) on Tuesday 11/13 from 9 – 10:30 in the SLIS Computer Lab as part of the LIS 722 College & University Libraries course. The outline for the class is listed below:

• Social Media General Outline
• Intro to Top 10 Social Media Websites
• Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+,
• How to maximize your use of social media sites? (i.e. Facebook and Twitter)
• Facebook: Profiles vs. Pages
• Twitter: Tweetdeck Apps
• Integration of Multiple Social Media Sites (i.e. Posting Tweets on Facebook)
• What is Instagram?
• Use of Instagram for advertisement
• Blogging and Vlogging
• Sharing of Information to Social Media Sites Building Your Network

 

Reminder: Edward Van Gemert, Interim Director of GLS, Guest Speaker, October 30th, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Hello ALSO members!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 30th, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, join Ethelene Whitmire’s 722 course and ALSO members for a presentation by Edward Van Gemert, Interim Director of the General Library System (GLS) here at the UW. The talk will be held in 4191F HCW.

Ethelene won’t be able to attend and sends her apologies–she is stranded on the east coast due to the hurricane. She is hoping to see a good attendance for the talk–please consider joining her students and ALSO to welcome Edward Van Gemert to SLIS!

Interim Director, General Library System–Edward Van Gemert–to Speak to LIS 722

Next Tuesday, October 30th, from 9:00 to 10:00 AM, Professor Ethelene Whitmire will welcome guest speaker Interim Director of the General Library System here at the UW, Edward Van Gemert, to her LIS 722 class. All ALSO members are welcome to attend! Please join us in room 4191F, HCW.

ALSO Open Access Week Events

Open Access (OA) Academic Panel Presentation Reminder!

Monday, October 22, 2012/SLIS Commons/Noon-1:30

Edgewood College Library Tour (with LIS 722)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012/9:30 AM

http://library.edgewood.edu/

Contact Professor Ethelene Whitmire for more information: ewhitmire.wisc.edu

 

What is Open Access Anyway?

  Open Access, or OA, refers to the practice of making freely available digital, online, scholarly, peer-reviewed literature.  This literature is most often articles from online scholarly journals; however, there are increasing numbers of monographs, book chapters and theses that are being made accessible as part of an open access policy of a publisher and/or institution (Suber, 2004).

Currently OA materials can be accessed in one of two ways (Suber, 2004):

1. Green OA Self Archiving where authors make their articles freely available for public use in some sort of  OA website or repository, such as the health sciences/medical repository, PubMed Central.
2. Gold OA Publishing where the actual publication is published as an OA publication where it is immediately available.

Below are a list of resources on Open Access:

Introduction to Open Access Resources

Wikipedia’s Open Access entry

Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview

SPARC Open Access Guide

Open Access: An Introduction by Keith G Jeffery

Open Access Directory

Open Access Publications/Repositories

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

PubMed Central

BioMed Central

Open Access Organizations

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)

EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS)