With the CLA conference coming up (already on? What day is it again???), the New Librarians Interest Group is doing a survey of students and recent grads to explore why (or why not) they attend the annual conference.
I think this one is well-worth filling out as this is a pretty important topic and depending on the results, could lead to a resolution being introduced at the CLA conference to make the conference more accessible for students.
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Thursday, May 24
CLA New Librarians Interest Group Survey
by
Jason
on Thu 24 May 2007 02:52 AM CST
Tuesday, May 1
Eye-Opening!
by
Jason
on Tue 01 May 2007 07:58 PM CST
(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is
pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library
Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for "Resources You can Count
on @ Your Library".
Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for Melissa's entry was based on a paper she wrote in 2006 while studying for her additional qualification in school librarianship at the Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario. Melissa has a BA in both Arts and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and a B. Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto. She has specialist qualifications to teach Economics and Mathematics at the Intermediate/Senior divisions in Ontario schools. Melissa has an interest in numeracy education, and her submission discusses how library resources can be used for numeracy education. The Advisory Committee thought that her entry was original, engaging, well-written, imaginative, readable and had broad appeal in addition to being a timely topic. One committee member wrote that ". . . it should inspire all librarians to rethink the potential of their collections." Melissa will be awarded a cash prize as well as free registration, accommodation and transportation to the CLA/APLA/NLLA 2007 National Conference and Tradeshow in St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 23-26, 2007. The first runner-up is Jason Hammond for "You Must Have a Lot of Young Readers in Your Family: The Experiences of Lone Male Patrons in Children's Libraries". Jason graduated in December 2006 from the MLIS program at University of Western Ontario. The Committee members liked that this entry was personal and experienced-based as well as being interesting, timely and original. A number of the committee members mentioned that the topic was eye-opening. Jason will receive a cash prize courtesy of the Wosk Family and a choice of CLA publications. The second runner-up is Kendra Bender for "Library Services for Newcomers to Canada: Embracing Cultural Diversity". Kendra is a student in the MLIS program at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. Comments on this entry were that it incorporates both personal experience and a professional research approach, it was well-written, timely and focuses on Canada. Kendra will also receive a cash prize courtesy of the Wosk Family and a choice of CLA publications. “This year, there were many excellent and unique entries for the Student Article Contest which made the judging enjoyable, but also very difficult”, shared Mary-Lu Brennan, Convenor of the Member Communications Advisory Committee. As one committee member responded - "Wow! This was a tough exercise - all were well-written, the topics were interesting and in some cases quite thought-provoking." The prizes are awarded courtesy of CLA, Micromedia ProQuest, Coutts Information Services and the Wosk Family Bursary. Entries are judges by CLA’s Member Communication Advisory Committee which is comprised of librarians and information professionals. (via Cabot Y.'s Facebook page) An early draft of the paper I submitted is on my blog. It was revised a bit for submission to the contest - mostly tightening it up and re-wording some parts. But the gist of the thing is still in the original I uploaded if you're interested. Also, a very public thanks to John M, Bruce F and Michael T as well as a few anonymous male classmates who gave me the great feedback which helped make my paper into something much better than I could've written without their help. It's funny too that I start the blog post where I uploaded my essay by talking about Cantilever which was an idea David, Sabina, Linda and I had to start an open-source student writing journal/repository. The idea never came to fruition which is too bad - I often felt like I learned as much reading my classmates' work as reading the source articles from the pros! Other publishing-type news - just got official word last night that after a lengthy revision process, my essay on Alberta user fees (now bearing the much more academic title: "Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Libraries") has been accepted for publication by Partnership: The Online Journal That Has A Really Long Name I Can Never Remember. After I got my first suggested revisions back from them, I did a blog post suggesting that everybody should go through a peer-review process like this at least once. I'd stand by that suggestion. Professors are often short for time and although many give good feedback and suggestions, few have the time to deeply analyse your paper the way the journal's anonymous reviewers do. It's super-easy to submit - pick one of your best/favourite essay and follow the submissions instructions online. Make sure you do have some time to do revisions though because you likely will be asked to do so (I went through three major revisions of my paper before it was accepted.) But it's now a completely different and much much better paper than the original version that's also posted on my web site (I'm runing out of "favourite" paper to do stuff with - I might have to start writing some more on my own!  )I'll post a link to the paper when it's published on the Partnership web site so you can compare the original X-titled version with the new PG-titled version.  |
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