Wed 1 Apr 2009
Title: Wisconsin Library Conference
Location: Wisconsin
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2008-11-04
End Date: 2008-11-07
Wed 6 May 2009
| Apr ’09 |
| 18 |
| 6:00 pm |
18, Black Graduate Student Association, “The Audacity of Excellence Conference” at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Wed 15 Apr 2009
| Apr ’09 |
| 22 |
| 4:30 pm |
UW-Madison SLIS is honored to have Loriene Roy join us for a discussion about the issues indigenous libraries and librarians are facing today.
Loriene Roy is a professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas – Austin. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She is an adviser for the new PBS series “We Shall Remain.” Loriene served as the 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association (the largest organization for librarians in the USA). Loriene has also been the US delegate at the International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Loriene Roy’s American Indian Experience blog:
http://aie.greenwood.com/blog/index.php/author/loriene-roy/
More info about Loriene Roy:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/prez_elect/home.html
And more info yet:
http://www.utexas.edu/friends/popups/spotlight_73.html
Tue 28 Apr 2009
My year-long pre-professional graduate assistantship at the Government Documents Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign was essential to my professional development as a reference librarian. The assistantship allowed me to gain significant experience working directly with library patrons in real-time, both face-to-face and via online chat. It allowed me to experience first-hand the unpredictability of patron-librarian interactions, which involve agood deal of give and take, thinking on one’s feet, and making adjustments based on new information, a patron’s knowledge level, or a user’s preferences. I also gained insight into the daily work life of practicing librarians, which often involves navigating among competing demands.
