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Hi Jason: Greetings! Good to hear from you. Our student officers of the various organization chapters are on the lookout for planning brown-bags, speaker talks, local get-togethers, etc. Your presentation could be planned for a local student event in Virginia and/or presented electronically via Centra, the software that we use to deliver our online classes in real-time though voice-over-IP. I am forwarding your message on the electronic list for SIS student organization officers to draw attention to this worthy opportunity. Also, I am copying our new student communication liaisons who will bring the matter up for discussion during the first monthly SIS student organizations meeting that will be held on Friday, August 27.
 

SIS On campus Communication Liaison: Jennifer Randles ([log in to unmask]), second year student

SIS DE Communication Liaison: Rebekah Ellis ([log in to unmask]), second year student

SIS DE Communication Liaison: Kerry Lohmeier ([log in to unmask]), first  year student

Thanks for your efforts and I am sure the students will contact you to plan a subsequent event. My best regards, Bharat Mehra
 
 
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    Bharat Mehra, PhD
    Associate Professor
    School of Information Sciences
    University of Tennessee
    # 454 Communications Building, 
    1345 Circle Park Drive
    Knoxville, TN 37996-0341
    Telephone: (865) 974 5917 (O) 
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From: Arnold, Tanya
Sent: Fri 8/20/2010 3:25 PM
To: Sokoloff, Jason - sokolojk
Cc: Tenopir, Carol; Jopeck, Valerie T; Wilson, Jessica Marie; Mehra, Bharat
Subject: RE: Reaching out to Virginia cohort students

Hi Jason,

 

Thank you for contacting our program. I’m copying several people on this email who might be interested.

 

Jessica Wilson is the president of the student chapter of SLA for our program.

Valerie Jopeck heads our cohort of students in the Northern Virginia/DC area.

Dr. Carol Tenopir is the faculty advisor for the SLA student chapter.

Dr. Bharat Mehra is the chair of student affairs committee.

 

If interested, they could set up something with you for our Virginia students who might be interested in joining SLA.

 

Best,

Tanya

 

Tanya Arnold

Student Services Coordinator

School of Information Sciences

College of Communication and Information

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tel: 865-974-2858

Fax: 865-974-4967

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From: Sokoloff, Jason - sokolojk [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:32 AM
To: Arnold, Tanya
Subject: Reaching out to Virginia cohort students

 

Hello Tanya

 

My name is Jason Sokoloff. I am the Business Librarian at James Madison University in Virginia, and I am seeking opportunities to address Virginia library-school students about special libraries and the Special Libraries Association. With no library Master’s program to call our own, the Virginia chapter of the SLA is rather light in its student membership. So our goal is to build membership through outreach to the handful of distance-education programs for aspiring Virginia librarians.

 

I have given this brief 10-minute presentation once before to a cohort of Virginia students enrolled in the University of North Texas MLS program (based here at James Madison University), and it was well received. It was a rather soft sell, where I talked about the unique nature of the organization and its benefits.

 

Is this sort of address something that your program would welcome? Are there any times of the year where UTK SIS students are physically together in Virginia that may provide a good opportunity to solicit SLA student members?

 

Thanks very much for your consideration.

 

Jason Sokoloff

Business Librarian

Carrier Library, MSC 1704

James Madison University

Harrisonburg, VA 22807

540-568-5569