NEW BOOKS at SLIS Library!

Have you checked out the New Books shelf lately?  You should!  We get new titles every couple weeks (at least!), including some fantastic Young Adult reads like these Prinz winners:

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. . . .In this powerful novel, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future. 


Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Can Cameron find what he's looking for? All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school - and life in general - with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure - if he's willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.

Don't Forget! JLG Processing Party AND Booksale this week!

The Jail Library Group is hosting a  

Processing Party from 3-5 pm TOMORROW 

Sunday September 18th.  Stop by the SLIS Library to help out!  Once all the books and magazines are ready to go, everyone's invited to re-convene at the Terrace for happy hour. Helping out and then hanging out-- pretty good way to spend a Sunday, right?

AND THEN, just when you thought it couldn't get any awesomer....

JLG BOOK SALE!

 

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Sept. 19-21, 8am-8:30pm in the SLIS Library

All books $3 on Monday

$2 on Tuesday

$1on Wednesday

All proceeds will benefit the Jail Library Group and help further their mission of putting books behind bars.  Come find something cool to take home, and help out a good cause!

Is there a librarian who inspired you?

 

More than likely, you're in library school if you read this blog.  Do you remember the first time you thought about becoming a librarian? 

I remember clearly being about 5, and going to Northland Public Library, which was just up the street from my house.  It was the library where I would get my first job as a page when I was fifteen, but when I was five, I knew I wanted to be just like the Children's Librarian at the time, who smelled like cinnamon and didn't mind if you checked out so many books the shelves looked bare. I've graduated a bit to the teen and adult services track, but I would still kill for a job in my hometown library-- after all, I've wanted to work there since I was five!

Chances are, you know a rockstar librarian-- from your hometown library, to where you work now, and that person deserves to be recognized for their awesomeness.

Nominate a librarian you love for ALA's I Love My Librarian Award-- check out the ALA News Press Release here for more info: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/nominations-open-through-september-12-2011-i-love-my-librarian-award

$5,000 sounds like pretty good recognition to me!

What does it take to be a professional librarian?

Blogger Mr. Library Dude shares his insight into what makes a professional librarian in this post:
 
"I graduated from a top library school." Yeah, so what?

His basic premise? 

"Library school is what you make of it. The MLS is just the basic requirement for the job. If all you do is take the required courses, but get no work experience, then you are setting yourself up for failure."

 So what can you do to make sure you succeed, according to Mr. Library Dude?  Get experience!  As much as you can during your degree-- put those skills you learn in class to work right away so that you have working librarians as references and real experience to prove you're right for  the job.

Most SLIS students see the wealth of campus library jobs as the program's main strength-- take advantage of it! 

Announcing the Winners of the 2011 SLIS Student Awards!

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2011 SLIS Student Awards!

Check out the SLIS Awards page HERE for in-depth descriptions of all awards, criteria, and application information.

C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award

This year’s award is given to Fritz Hoehn.   In supporting her nomination of Fritz, Debora Shapiro said, “On his resume, there is ample evidence of situations where he perceived an opportunity, and seized it. For example, while in the military and stationed Haiti, he and several others in his unit started a free school for kids in the area, whose families couldn't afford private school, that also provided teaching experience for adults. I believe that Fritz will continue to apply his entrepreneurial spirit to his career in librarianship.” 

Dianne McAfee Hopkins Diversity Award

This year’s award is given to Melissa J. Nicholas in recognition of her contributions to the student chapter of REFORMA, including the Grant Writing Workshop she organized, and for her work in the MERIT Library in developing the LGBTQ young adult book collection and LGBTQ book displays. 

Valmai Fenster Award for Outstanding Promise for Exceptional Scholarly Contribution to the Profession

This year’s award is given to David Woken for his paper,

“Progress and setbacks in the formation of a print counterculture: La Protesta goes daily, 1903-1905”  

Honorable mentions are given to Gregory Bond for his paper,

“Unnecessary and Unpractical: The Baltimore Civil Rights Movement and the Color Line Behind the Desk and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1925-1945”

and to Eric Wiley for his paper,

“Appraisal in Community Archives Collections: A case Study of University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Appraisal Methods and Decisions for LGBT Collections.” 

Lawrence C. Zweizig Student Leadership Award 

This year’s award is given to Eric Wiley for his leadership within the Society of American Archivists-Student Chapter. 

A special runner-up Zweizig Student Leadership Award, sponsored by SLIS Class of 2010, is given to Erinn Batykefer in recognition of her work in the development of the “e-book petting zoo” for the Reading Interests of Adults course and for her participation in the statewide public library e-book summit sponsored by the Department of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning.

 James Krikelas Award for Innovative Use of Information Technology

This year’s award is given to Jiekun Yang for her work in Database Design for Libraries and Information Agencies. In this course, she created a database called the Web Content Coding and Analyzing database which can be used by researchers to “code selected web content and link them with proper target group, type, author, and subject,” to be used on the Public Library Financial Literacy Project with Professors Eschenfelder and Smith. 

Larry Jacobsen Innovations in Library Science Award

This year’s award is given to Kate Hill on the basis of her exceptional strengths not only in an understanding of collection development and all its subprocesses, but also of scholarly communication and the challenges of upholding intellectual freedom in an academic library setting.  

The Penelope and Stephen Klein Scholarship Award

This year’s award is given to Erinn Batykefer by the Klein family on the basis of her impressive resume and insightful and thoughtful application essay.  Erinn is finishing her first year in the program, and hopes eventually to work in a public library focusing on electronic access. 

Calling all Emerging Leaders!

SLIS graduates are known as innovative leaders in the library world-- not surprising considering the excellence of UW's program-- but did you know you can kick-start your career right now by applying for the ALA Emerging Leaders program? You can!

ALA Emerging Leaders Interest Group

Are you under 35 or a new library professional with under 5 years experience?  Are you interested in serving ALA by participating in problem-solving taskforces?  Would you like to attend ALA conferences, make fantastic professional connections, and boost your librarian cred?

Applications for the 2012 class of Emerging Leaders are now being accepted. Deadline for submission of the application and all references is August 1, 2011.  

Check out the ALA Emerging Leaders Interest Group page above to check out the Selection Criteria. The application can be accessed at: http://www.ala.org/cfapps/emergingleaders/index.cfm.