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End of Semester Celebration
PSA CONTAINING IMPORTANT STUDY BREAK INFO:
The End of Semester Celebration will be held on December 11th, 8:00PM-midnight at the University Club! Food will not be provided (due to the lack of snacks ticket prices have been decreased), but drinks are available for purchase.
Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for faculty. They will be on sale Monday, Nov. 23rd and may be purchased from:
- Jacob Ericson
- Andrew Moore
- Hannah Steeves
Hope to see everyone there to mix, mingle, and marvel at our accomplishments over the past view months!
SIMSA as a Service (SaaS)
Hello fellow MLISers,
Today in our meeting we have decided to discontinue office hours. They were useful near the beginning of the term when many of you were just starting and had questions about the program. But now you’ve all come so far, grown so much, *sniff* that we have decided to set you free…
Instead of office hours we encourage you to email any of the executive when you have questions. We are happy to help digitally, but you are also welcome to arrange a meeting with any of us. Don’t hesitate! We are very friendly and want to help you succeed.
This method may prove to be more flexible and more useful to those students with difficult schedules.
We have updated our Officers page to include each executive member’s email.
Together we can do it!!
IM Public Lecture Series: “Mindtools: What Does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of Google?” by Dan Russell
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Google Inc.
Abstract: What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search billions of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? Although you might think that “literacy” is one of the great constants that transcends the ages, the skills of a literate person have changed substantially over time as texts and technology allow for new kinds of reading and understanding. Knowing how to read is just the beginning of it — knowing how to frame a question, pose a query, how to interpret the texts you find, how to organize and use the information you discover, how to understand your metacognition — these are all critical parts of being literate as well. In this talk Russell will review what literacy is today, in the age of Google, and show how some very surprising and unexpected skills will turn out to be critical in the years ahead. We have created powerful new tools for the mind. Thing is, those tools are constantly evolving and changing even as the things they operate on change as well. This puts us in the position of having to learn how to find tools, and understanding the substrate on which they work. Literacy in these days is not just reading and writing, but also understanding what knowledge tools are available, and how they can be used in interesting new ways. And the role of the designer turns out to be critical in this new understanding of literacy
Biography: Daniel Russell is the Űber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness in Mountain View. He earned his PhD in computer science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence until he realized that amplifying human intelligence was his real passion. His day job is researching how people search and the ways they come to learn about the world through Google. His 20% job is teaching the world to search more effectively. Dan enjoys teaching, learning, running and music, preferably all in one day. Dan blogs at SearchReSearch (http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com), teaches search skills classes online at PowerSearchingWithGoogle.com, and teaches live search/research classes live throughout the civilized world.
Lecture Details
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Room 3089, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Avenue
Returning and Outgoing Student Practicum Reference
First off, thanks everyone for replying so promptly to my email for this list! I hope that this list will assist you first years in choosing a practicum that better matches your librarian leanings. At the very least it should give you a better idea of what is out there if you’re having troubles deciding.
- Mariah Blackmore – Public Archives of Nova Scotia – http://novascotia.ca/archives/
- Leah Boulos – Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit – http://www.spor-maritime-srap.
ca/ - Michelle Boychuk – Public Archives of Nova Scotia – http://novascotia.ca/archives/
- Katie Bowers – Bedford Branch of Halifax Public Library – http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca
- Zoe Dickinson – Halifax North Memorial – Halifax Public Library
- Claire Dionne – Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia – http://www.legalinfo.org/
- Kat Felix – Nova Scotia Legislative Library (Technical and Reference Services) – http://nslegislature.ca/index.
php/library/ and https://twitter.com/NSLeg - Robyn Gray – University of Calgary, in the Metadata and Cataloguing Department
- Tess Grynoch – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries – http://libraries.mit.edu/
- Anne Karete Hvidsten – Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) (like CBC) in their Metadata Section – About NRK in English: http://www.nrk.no/about/ and General website: http://www.nrk.no
- Jenna Knorr – children’s department at Fredericton Public Library under supervision of the children’s librarian – Website: http://www1.gnb.ca/
0003/pages/en/biblio-e.asp? code=YF and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ FredLibrary and Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ fredlibrary -
Breseis Lee – Kellogg Library
- Amanda Lloyd – UNB Archives and Special Collections – https://www.lib.unb.ca/
archives/ - Alanna McLellan – Burnaby Public Library in Burnaby, BC – http://www.bpl.bc.ca/ and
https://www.facebook.com/ burnabypubliclibrary?fref=ts - Samm Mercer – Maritime Museum of the Atlantic – https://maritimemuseum.
novascotia.ca/ - Andrew Moore – Archives & Special Collections Unit at the University of Saskatchewan – http://library.usask.ca/
archives/ - Lauren Murphy – Environment Canada in Dartmouth through through FSWEP (Federal Student Work Experience Program) – http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/
fswep-pfete/index-eng.php - Elizabeth O’Brien – Alderney Gate Public Library – Halifax Public Library
- Chantal Ridsdale – Nova Scotia Department of Education, in the Information Management section – https://www.ednet.ns.ca/
- Danielle Scanlan – Collection Development department at Woodlawn Public Library, Halifax Public Libraries – http://www.
halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/ branches/locations/woodlawn. html and https://twitter.com/hfxpublib and https://www.facebook.com/ hfxpublib - Hannah Steeves – Legal Library – McInnes Cooper, Halifax Office in the Library & Information Services Department – http://www.mcinnescooper.com/
about/ - Amy Sutherland – L.P. Fisher Public Library in Woodstock, New Brunswick, through the New Brunswick Public Library Service: http://www2.gnb.ca/
content/gnb/en/departments/ nbpl.html. - Emilie Williamson Streich – Keshen Goodman Public Library, HPL – http://www.
halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/ branches/locations/keshen- goodman.html
Students that have moved on (graduated, so it may be harder to contact them if you want to)
- Kaitlin Anne – Capital Health – http://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/health-sciences-library
- Stephanie Anne – NS Advisory Council on the Status of Women – https://women.gov.ns.ca
- Emily Beth – Nova Scotia Legislative Library – http://nslegislature.ca/index.
- Alieda Blandford – Children’s services at HPL
- Laurie Chase – Nova Scotia Archives
- Elliott Gish – Captain William Spry Public Library
- Andrea Kampen – “info literacy” practicum with Lindsay McNiff.
- Jaq-Lin Larder – Mount Saint Vincent University Library – http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/library/default.aspx
- Karine Lelievre – Dieppe public library, New Brunswick public library system
- Alison Manley – Bedford Public Library
- Tam Proulx – IWK
- James Ross – Nova Scotia Department of Labour and Advanced Education, Planning, Research, and Accountability Division.
Revised Office Hours
The SIMSA executive has reconfigured the office hours to be in larger blocks of time to allow students more freedom for when they choose to come in. The new hours are as follows:
Mondays 11:30 – 2:30,
Tuesdays 11:30 – 4:00,
Thursdays 11:30 – 1:00
