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GREETINGS from the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America! To stay up-to-date with CUA SLIS, * please VISIT us at http://slis.cua.edu/ * "LIKE" us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catholic-University-School-of-Library-and-Information-Science/) * FOLLOW us on Twitter (@CUASLIS, http://twitter.com/#!/CUASLIS). SLIS HAS MOVED! ---------------------------------------- As you may have heard, SLIS has temporarily moved from Marist Hall to Aquinas Hall while repairs are completed on the building. You can find us in Aquinas 103, 106, and 107. Our phone numbers have remained the same, so feel free to call or email us! MARK YOUR CALENDARS ---------------------------------------- VISIONS OF ITALY Q&A - Interested in learning the workings of Italy's cultural institutions this summer? Attend the Q & A for "Visions of Italy: Culture in Twenty-First Century Rome and Florence" with Dr. Maria Mazzenga, the course's faculty advisor on October 4, 2011, Aquinas Hall 101, at 5 pm. For more information, please visit http://cuabroad.cua.edu/programs/summer/italyslis.cfm SLIS INFORMATION SESSIONS - Interested in enrolling in SLIS? Feel free to attend one of our upcoming information sessions this fall. The next one is Wednesday, October 12th, from 6:30-7:30pm in the Prybyla Center, Room 321. RSVP to [log in to unmask] For more details, visit the SLIS website (http://slis.cua.edu/) CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY LUMINARIES PANEL - In celebration of a hundred years of library education at CUA and the thirtieth anniversary of SLIS, mark your calendars for the Luminaries Panel on October 20, 2011 from 7:00-9:00pm in the Edward J. Pryzbyla Center Great Rooms. Anne Caputo the 2010 President of Special Libraries Association, Maureen Sullivan the 2012-2013 President of American Library Association, and Susan Hildreth the Director of Institute for Museum and Libraries Services will be our panelists. For more details, visit the Anniversary website (http://slis.cua.edu/centennial/) SLIS COLLOQUIUM SERIES WITH MR. DAVID FERRIERO - Mr. David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States, will be speaking to the SLIS community about the "Learning from the Past: The Role of the National Archives" on Thursday, November 3rd from 6:00-7:00pm in McMahon Hall room 200. For more details, visit the SLIS website (http://slis.cua.edu/) 2012 BRIDGING THE SPECTRUM SYMPOSIUM - Mark your calendar for the 4th Annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium on Friday, January 27, 2012 in the Pryzbyla Student Center. For more details, visit the Bridging the Spectrum webpage (http://slis.cua.edu/symposium/2012/index.cfm) SLIS ANNOUNCEMENTS ---------------------------------------- CUA AWARDED DOL GRANT FOR HIT PROGRAMS - On October 4, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced the Catholic University and its partners had been awarded $4,175,500 to support the education and training of health care workers in the health information technology programs offered by SLIS and the Metropolitan School of Professional Studies. Our partners include Providence Hospital, Children's National Medical Center, Holy Cross Hospital, and Sibley Memorial Hospital. For more information, please visit http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/releases/2011/labor-press-conference.cfm VISIONS OF ITALY - SLIS will be offering a study abroad program in summer 2012 to Rome and Florence, Italy from May 26 - June 9, 2012. Students in the course will learn, professionals in Italian museums, libraries, and archives have fantastic cultural materials to work with. This program is open to both CUA and non-CUA participants. For more information, please visit http://cuabroad.cua.edu/programs/summer/italyslis.cfm ONLINE WEEKEND LEARNING (OWL) - SLIS launched this new program in Fall 2011 and is recruiting students for the Spring 2012 semester. OWL blends four face-to-face Saturday class meetings with online learning. For more details, visit http://slis.cua.edu/owl/ SCHOOL OWL - SLIS will also begin offering the OWL program for students interested in the School Library Media track, called School OWL. For more details, visit http://slis.cua.edu/owl/ HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HIT) - SLIS is recruiting new students for the Master of Science in Information Technology, with a concentration in Health Information Technology program. Students may begin their study in spring 2012. Scholarships will be provided to qualified students. For more information, visit http://hit.cua.edu/ SLIS JOINED NDSA - SLIS has joined the National Digital Stewardship Alliance and our faculty and students will contribute to the preservation of digital contents for future generation. STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS ----------------------------------------------------------- SLIS STUDENT FEATURED IN CUA SUCCESS STORIES - SLS Graduate Nora Daly featured on CUA Success Stories for her work as a digital curator at the British Library. Read more about Ms. Daly at the CUA Success Stories website, http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/success-stories/nora-daly.cfm FACULTY NEWS ---------------------------------------- DR. INGRID HSIEH-YEE has been appointed to the Catholic Research Resources Alliance Five-Year Strategic Plan Task Force to develop a five-year strategic plan for the Alliance. DR. SUNG UN KIM and Jessica Zeiler (SLIS '11) presented "Social Media Interactions for Reading Promotion" in the 5th International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults in South Korea on June 9-10, 2011. The full paper is available in both English and Korean. * Kim, S. U., & Zeiler, J. (2011). Social media interactions for reading promotion. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults, 131-182. DR. JANE ZHANG participated in a panel presentation at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Chicago on August 26th. The topic of the panel was "Re-Arranging Arrangement and Description: Original Order and Provenance in Modern Multi-Format Collections". Dr. Zhang also attended the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach Working Group conference call on September 12 to discuss possibilities to engage SLIS students with "Digital Preservation in a Box" activities. 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