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Congratulations to University of Southern Mississippi SLIS students on their recent publications, presentations, grants, national internships, awards: *National Internships* Kate Brunelle is currently completing an internship at the Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. http://www.usm.edu/news/article/brunelle-awarded-archive-internship-holocaust-museum-washington-dc<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.usm.edu%2fnews%2farticle%2fbrunelle-awarded-archive-internship-holocaust-museum-washington-dc> Liliana Debarbieri was awarded a 2013 summer archival internship with the National Park Service Western Archeological and Conservation Center in Tucson, AZ. Callie Wiygul was awarded a 2013 summer archival internship at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. *Publications* Hillary Richardson, "Revelations From the Literature: How Web-Scale Discovery Has Already Changed Us." Paper completed in LIS651: Introduction to Information Science, Fall 2012. Published *in Computers in Libraries*33(4): 12-18, May 2013. Available at: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may13/Richardson--How-Web-Scale-Discovery-Has-Already-Changed-Us.shtml<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.infotoday.com%2fcilmag%2fmay13%2fRichardson--How-Web-Scale-Discovery-Has-Already-Changed-Us.shtml> James Stephen Parks, "Bringing Mississippi's Government into the Homes of its Citizens: The Mississippi College Law Library's Legislative History Project." Published in *Mississippi Libraries* 76(1): Spring 2013. Available at: http://epubs.library.msstate.edu/index.php/MSLib/issue/view/1<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fepubs.library.msstate.edu%2findex.php%2fMSLib%2fissue%2fview%2f1> Callie Wiygul co-authored a paper with Dr. Catharine Bomhold, “Academic Libraries Are Moving to the Mobile Web – Or Are They?” Published in *Texas Library Journal* 89(1): 16-20, Spring 2013. Available at: http://www.txla.org/tlj<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.txla.org%2ftlj> *Presentations* Joy Garretson presented a poster, "How Friendly Is Your Homepage? An Analysis of 14 Mississippi Library System Web Sites." Based on a paper completed in LIS651: Introduction to Information Science, Fall 2012. Presented at the USM Student Research Colloquium, Trent Lott Center, April 25, 2013. Cole Smith co-presented with USM Archivist Jennifer Brannock, "Shooting the Messenger: Creating Videos to Enhance Online, Distance Education" at the Society of Mississippi Archivists Conference, Delta State University, April 17, 2013. PowerPoint is available at: http://www.msarchivists.org/conference2013.html<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.msarchivists.org%2fconference2013.html> *Grants* Hillary Richardson received a grant to attend the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference in Buffalo, NY, June 6-9. Lynndy Hurdle was awarded a $1,000 grant from YALSA/Dollar General Literacy Foundation for a summer reading program at Strayhorn High School Library, Sarah, Miss. SLIS students Phillip Carter, Preston Salisbury, Cole Smith, and Callie Wiygul were awarded a grant from Southern Miss Student Archivists for registration and travel to the Preservation of Books and Archival Materials workshop in Jackson, MS, January 31. * Awards* Brianna Barnard, who graduated in December with MLIS and is working toward a Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections is one of 5 finalists in Society of American Archivists, “I Found It in the Archives” contest. Read her incredible entry at: http://www2.archivists.org/node/17281<https://golden.usm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=zIcvcfxyhkiYp4OFj_tSAdloORj3JNAItlMfIKIeaa5V7AMv5dDX8bXaRsDSaFE4Ie7xe85fYRw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww2.archivists.org%2fnode%2f17281> At USM College of Education & Psychology Awards Day, March 27, Lori Clendenning (LIS BA 2012) received the Anna M. Roberts Award for Scholarship, Service and Professionalism; Christine Hiller (MLIS 2012) was awarded the Warren Tracy Award for Professionalism, Scholarship, and Service For more student publications, see* SLIS Connecting *open-access e-journal: http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/ -- Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., MLIS 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/ 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://www.usm.edu/library-information-science/faculty/dr-teresa-s-welsh> http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w146169/ <http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/%7Ew146169/>