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Celebrating Diverse Voices
Keynote speaker: Matt De La Pena
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For more information and to register please click here.
Celebrating Diverse Voices
Keynote speaker: Matt De La Pena
Posted on by avincibo
Many LIS students have shared their passions and desires to make a difference as a librarian, archivist, or any type of information professional.
Current LIS IUPUI student Kaitlin McLaughlin (who has given us permission to mention her!) has already found herself in the thick of a struggle that many of you are aware of –patron pressure to control what we have in our library collection. Here is an overview of the issue that you may already have read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/michigan-library-defunded-gender-queer/ (Links to an external site.)
Kaitlin says to simply Google “defund Michigan library” in order to find out news from all angles. And there are angles, be aware.
No matter what side you are on, it may be interesting to read such news as an indication of how essential our profession is and how LIS professionals will be asked to (or forced to) defend our field and what we do.
You have a good reason to be proud of your current or future profession.
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Just because you are not on campus does not mean that your university librarians are not here for you.
You may also wish to check out the live online webinar “Basics of Zotero“ Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 1:30 pm EST. Registration.
Check out all the university library events for more opportunities to enhance your work with library trainings and resources.
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Promotion at work, or did you land your first library job? Are you leading a collection assessment, or did you create a new youth program? Finish processing an archival collection? Did you present a poster at a local conference? Successful grant application?
We want to hear about it! Share your news with the DLIS community.
You can use the submission button on this page: https://blogs.iu.edu/dlis/category/news-announcements/
Posted on by William Helling
LIS has created a study-abroad program with graduate students in mind (although undergraduates participate, too)! It takes place during a two-week period in Helsinki, Finland: May 16-30, 2023.
The program actually starts in spring semester because you take a course (S531 Information Structures for the Web) where you collaborate with students from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences who work with you in the Canvas course. There is no pre-requisite other than S500 and S507, by the way. The course is still online and asynchronous, but you also have the opportunity to do real-time audio or video meetings with your peers in Finland.
You can even take S531 with no intention of going abroad, just to have the international collaboration experience. If you wish to travel to Finland in May, however, you also sign up for S604 Global Digital Services in the spring semester. This is the course that awards you the additional three credits for the study abroad, most of which is completed during the stay in Finland.
In brief, the main class work is done via S531 where we do collaborative work with our Haaga-Helia partners, creating web pages. In late May, we travel to meet them in Finland (they are still in session), supplemented by field trips and site visits relevant to the class as well as to Finnish culture in general (visits to historic sites, museums, industries, and cultural events).
Are you interested? Contact William Helling (whelling@indiana.edu) for more details!
The application site is open on iAbroad at: https://iabroad.iu.edu/istart/controllers/inquiry/Flyer.cfm?programID=1052