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The new February 2013 issue of the open-source e-journal *SLIS Connecting*is now available at http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/ <http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/> In February of 2012, the first issue of *SLIS Connecting* was published online in Southern Miss’ digital repository Aquila: http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/. The purpose of the journal is to share news, information and research with future students, current students, alumni, faculty, and the general population through selected faculty publications, invited student publications, refereed publications, and through regular columns. In the first year, we published two issues with a total of 19 records. In just *one year*, these 19 records have been downloaded a total of* 4547 times. *In the first six months, there were over 5000 page views including 82% from within the U.S and 18% from international locations. Of the 1,098 international page views, they were from 107 international cities in 68 countries. -- Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., Associate Professor School of Library & Information Science University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 Co-Managing Editor, SLIS Connecting http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/ *Information Literacy in the Digital Age: An Evidence-Based Approach *by T.S. Welsh and M.S. Wright (Chandos, 2010) http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=9781843345152 http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1987&ChandosTitle=1 British Summer Studies LIS Course, Summer 2013 http://www.usm.edu/library-information-science/british-studies Phone: 601.296.0528 Fax: 601.266.5774 http://www.usm.edu/library-information-science/faculty/dr-teresa-s-welsh http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w146169/