Events and news from the UCLA Department of Information Studies: _Upcoming events _ *October 20 - IS Colloquium featuring Jake Nadal on Unusually Effective: Policy, Evidence, and Strategy in Collection Management* at UCLA Free to the public More information at: is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=490 *October 26 - Information Session for Prospective MLIS Students* at UCLA More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/admissions/infomtg.htm *October 26 - IS Doctoral Program Information Session* at UCLA More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/academics/degrees/phd/info_mtg.htm *October 27 - IS Colloquium featuring Tara McPherson, School of Cinema-TV, USC* at UCLA Free to the public More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=491 *October 29 - MIAS Program Information Session* at UCLA More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=521 *November 3 - Information Session for Prospective MLIS Students* at UCLA More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/admissions/infomtg.htm *November 4 - Friday Forum: Systems Thinking: Improving and Promoting Library Value* at UCLA Registration fee applies More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=529 *November 10 - IS Colloquium featuring Ted Nelson on Reaching Out of the Paperdigm* at UCLA Free to the public More information at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=492 Selected podcasts and recordings of past IS colloquia, lectures, and presentations are available at http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/podcasts _News_ *Adopt a Chair in the IS Lab* -- http://gseis.ucla.edu/for/support-gseis/where-to-give/adopt-a-chair *Ramesh Srinivasan's "5 Myths About Social Media" in the Washington Post* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=517 *John Richardson Publishes Adoption of Web 2.0 in US academic libraries* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=519 *Nidorf Collective now Books Beyond Bars* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=523 *Ellen Pearlstein's Conference Talk on the Complex World of Avian Plumage* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=534 *Ellen Pearlstein's Conference Presentation on California Featherwork* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=533 *Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Archival Education and Human Rights* -- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/showEvent.htm?eid=477 -- David Cappoli Digital Resources Librarian UCLA, Department of Information Studies (310) 794-5350 Fax: (310) 206-4460