Nominations are now being accepted through August 9, 2013 for the 2014 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library and Information Science Education. See http://www.alise.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=432 for details.
LISdocstudents
April 16, 2013
LISdocstudents is an unmoderated email discussion list for doctoral students in Library and Information Studies, working at any institution.
The purpose is to communicate with other doctoral students about shared issues, be they intellectual questions in the field, problems facing emerging academics on the path through graduate school and into academic careers, issues having to do with trends in higher ed and LIS as a discipline, or other topics that seem appropriate. Announcements are good too. Doctoral students in LIS are the main constituency of the list, but masters students, graduate students in other fields, and professors are invited to participate.
To subscribe, go to http://libr.org/mailman/listinfo/lisdocstudents_libr.org
JCDL Doctoral Consortium
April 16, 2013
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is sponsoring a Doctoral Consortium on July 22, 2013 for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. Ideally, students should have written or be close to completing a thesis proposal, and be far enough away from finishing the thesis that they can make good use of feedback received during the consortium. See the complete CFP athttp://jcdl2013.org/doctoral-consortium.
Congratulations to Deborah W. Sandford of Georgia State University, 1st place winner of the 2013 Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition. Deborah’s poster was entitled, “Construction of Professional Identity Among Novice Library Media Specialists.”
2nd place winner: Clayton A. Copeland of University of South Carolina. Clayton’s poster was entitled, “Equity of Access to Information: A Comparative Exploration of Library Accessibility and Information Access from Differently-able Patrons’ Perspectives.”
3rd place winner: Amy Phillips of Dominican University. Amy’s poster was entitled, “Framing the Public Library: The Public Perception of the Public Library in the Media.”
Honorable mention: Elizabeth A. Jones of University of Washington. Elizabeth’s poster was entitled, “Constructing the Universal Library.”
Honorable mention: Jessica Lingel of Rutgers University. Jessica’s poster was entitled, “Information Tactics and Urban Spaces: Portraits of Transnational Migrants.”
Congratulations all!
Two Events – Doctoral Poster Session Reception and Business Meeting
January 21, 2013
Don’t forget to join us at the Doctoral Student Research Poster Session and Reception
Wednesday, January 23 Location: Ballroom A-E
and
Friday, January 25, 2013
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
SIG Business Meeting Session
Doctoral Students
Location: Ballroom D-E
Safe travels!
Tammy Mays and Lenese Colson, Doc SIG Co-Conveners
Surviving the Pre-Tenure Years
January 21, 2013
ALISE 2013, Seattle, Washington
Please mark your schedule and support this exciting Doctoral Student SIG presentation at ALISE:
Surviving the Pre-Tenure Years
Wednesday, January 23, 8:30am – 10am
Location: Menzies Suite – Grand Hyatt Hotel
Conveners: Lenese Colson, Florida State University; and Tammy L. Mays, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This SIG panel will provide strategies for surviving the pre-tenure years including suggestions on how to navigate faculty politics and how to thrive in this ever-changing LIS/iSchool culture.
Panelists:
Deborah Charbonneau, Wayne State University;
Youngok Choi, Catholic University; and
Shari Lee, St. John’s University
Where Do We Go From Here?: Exploring Perceptions of Community-Based Research as ‘Serious Research’ in LIS Education
January 4, 2013
ALISE 2013, Seattle, Washington
The Multicultural, Ethnic and Humanistic Concerns (MEHC) Special Interest Group cordially invites you to attend:
“Where Do We Go From Here?: Exploring Perceptions of Community-Based Research as ‘Serious Research’ in LIS Education” is scheduled for Thursday, January 24, 2013 from 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
Room TBA
Syracuse University is driven by its vision Scholarship in Action- a commitment to forging sustained, reciprocal, and sustained engagements with many community constituents. In recent years, Syracuse University School Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s vision- Scholarship in Action- has been scrutinized both by some faculty and students. Opponents of Scholarship in Action argue that research rooted in community engagement isn’t ‘serious research’ and ultimately decreases the competitive edge of the university.
On the other hand, proponents of Scholarship in Action describe it as a strategic framework for promoting public scholarship that embeds diversity and all of its benefits in both a community and university creating an environment of mutual learning and empowerment. Additionally, proponents argue that Cantor’s initiative disrupts the traditional approach to academic research and creates a more inclusive academic environment.
Our esteemed panel of LIS scholars will focus on how both Library and Information Science faculty research AND community engagement benefit the university, the library school, and the community. The panel will also focus on how traditional research models challenge perceptions of research and create an exclusive academic environment.
Panelists include: Dr. Tonyia Tidline, Dominican University; Beth Patin, PhD Candidate at the University of Washington, and Delicia T. Greene, PhD Candidate at Syracuse University. The session will be moderated by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
**The MEHC SIG will also be conducting its annual business meeting that same morning at 7:30am. Please join us and learn how to become involved with this dynamic committee!**
