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

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

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

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

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

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

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/