What are YOUR plans for tomorrow?

 cause I’ll be at the :

Be there or be square!

SLA PRESENTS: 5 years Out

Come hear Four Pratt Alums who are five or fewer years out of SILS share their Success Stories and how Pratt prepared them for the world of work.*

When: Friday, December 11th @ 6PM
Where: Pratt Manhattan, Room 213

Featured Alums:

Clara Cabrera
Research Services Assistant
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale)

Heather Edwards
Taxonomist
Associated Press

Eden Marie Picazo
Archivist
Spike Lee’s 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks Inc.

Sandra Sajonas
Young Adult Literacy Librarian
Brooklyn Public Library
ALA Emerging Leaders

*Non-Pratt Students/Alums/SLA-NY Members are more than welcome to attend. Simply indicate as much on the Wall for this event so that your name can be given to security as an approved visitor.

Calvin and Hobbes on research

via Libraryland: LINK

what with finals coming and all . . .

via Diana Turner

Bad Boys! Bad Boys! whatcha gonna do

via Diana Turner

SILS HOLIDAY PARTY!!!

Meeting Minutes – November 23, 2009 Meeting

Thanks to everyone who made it to our pre-Thanksgiving meeting. We’ve got a busy month ahead of us and some great new stuff on the horizon.

Highlights:

• The SILS Holiday Party will be either the 17th or 18th of December — We’ll announce the final date soon!
• The essay contest for ALA annual is coming up
• Rant and Rave was a success!
• New peer mentoring program will be launched in the spring

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend Roundup

All the Crazy things I found online between bites of pie:

img courtesy of the Library of Congress on flickr

11/25/09
3000 photographs show how a book is made: LINK

11/26/09
The Chumby one comes out soon. open source tech: LINK

11/29/09
Librarians fired from Business Week suggest a replacement: LINK

New and interesting WordPress Plug ins: LINK

Study out of UPenn says people are hitting search engines to Learn, not to Search: LINK

“Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl”: LINK

Scholarships, Assistantships, Fellowships OH MY!

SO, it is a difficult thing to keep all of this stuff organized and in similar places all at the same time

so here is the link to the fellowship applications:

http://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/grant_scholarship_internship/sils_fellows/

for the Graduate Assistantships application, please go to the SILS office and request one.

Cheap Eats/Coffee

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