ALISE Update
Dear ALISE Members:
Here is your ALISE Update for January 2012: *OCLC, Best Conference Paper and LMC Paper Award Winners Announced *New for ALISE 2012 - Adjunct Resume Portal Available *Adjunct/Part-Time Faulty Luncheon at ALISE 2012 ******************************************************
*OCLC, Best Conference Paper, and LMC Award Winners Announced: The ALISE Board of Directors is pleased to announce additional 2012 ALISE Award Winners. OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Competition “A New Unsupervised Approach to Automatic Topical Indexing of Scientific Documents According to Library Controlled Vocabularies” Abdulhussain Mahdi, and Arash Joorabchi, University of Limerick, Ireland
Laura Saunders, and Mary Wilkins Jordan, Simmons College
Carolyn Hank, McGill University, and Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University – Bloomington
ALISE/LMC Paper Award Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited/Linworth, imprint of ABC-CLIO
"The Group6: Toward the Development of an Information Problem Solving" Eric M. Meyers, University of British Columbia
ALISE 2011 Best Conference Paper Award
"Are We There Yet? Results of a Gap Analysis to Measure LIS Students’ Prior Knowledge and Actual Learning of Cultural Competence Concepts"
*New for ALISE 2012 - Adjunct Resume Portal Available ALISE has put together an online Adjunct Resume Portal for ALISE 2012. The portal contains resumes from those wishing to be identified for part time, adjunct, or sessional employment by library and information science programs. Resumes are available via alise.org (you will need an ALISE Institutional Member login information to access) and at the ALISE Placement Services Center at the annual conference.
*Adjunct/Part-Time Faulty Luncheon at ALISE 2012
All part-time and adjunct faculty who plan to attend the ALISE conference in Dallas are invited to gather for a lunchtime discussion on Thursday, January 19. Enjoy lunch with your colleagues and discuss issues relevant to part-time instructors.
Hosted by the SJSU School of Library and Information Science, participants will have the opportunity to explore the following topics:
Space is limited, and advanced reservations are required. If you would like to attend this free event, please RSVP no later than Monday, January 9. To RSVP for the lunch, please complete the online form at this web page: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/faculty/conferences/alise/adjunctrsvp.htm
The event will take place from 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm in Ballroom A of the Renaissance Dallas Hotel.
For any questions regarding the event, please email [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you all in Dallas! If you have any questions about ALISE, the Conference or opportunities at the conference, please contact headquarters at [email protected]
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