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FIMS Graduate Bulletin
  
No. 212 March 3, 2008
LIS alumni are invited to a 40th Anniversary Reception
Dr. Thomas Carmichael, Dean of FIMS, and Alumni Western cordially invite all LIS alumni to a reception to mark the 40th anniversary of Library and Information Science education at Western. Please join us to share in refreshments and conversation as we celebrate the past, present, and future of LIS at Western.
Event details are as follows:
Thursday, April 3, 2008
5:00-7:00 pm
Windermere Manor
200 Collip Circle, London, Ontario
Please RSVP by Thursday, March 27, 2008 online at http://www.westernconnect.ca/site/Calendar/1020419558?view=Detail&id=101741 or by calling 1-866-447-1044. You may also use the link to view a list of confirmed attendees. We hope to see you there!
MLIS student featured in OLA's Access Magazine
An article by MLIS student Vernice Nadine Cherrie-Ann Phillip, "Confessions of a Caribbean Book Packer," appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Access, the magazine of the Ontario Library Association.
Vernice's article appears in the column The Next Generation (pp. 46-47), a regular feature in Access in which students share their perspectives on the library and information community.
Coming Events
FIMS Interdisciplinary Panel: "The Rise of the 'Prosumer': Cultural Revolution or Digitalized Narcissism?"
FIMS faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend this term’s FIMS Interdisciplinary Panel on the topic "The Rise of the 'Prosumer': Cultural Revolution or Digitalized Narcissism?"
Wednesday, March 5
12 noon-1:30 pm
Visual Arts Centre, Room 100 (just across the parking area, north of NCB)
Panelists: Professors Jacqueline Burkell, James Compton, and Philippe Ross
Moderator and Organizer: Professor Edward Comor
Free lunch, beverages and snacks will be available outside the Panel’s classroom at 12:00 noon; the Panel will begin at 12:15 pm.
This event will be recorded for later viewing on the FIMS Web site. Please do not attend if you do not wish to appear and/or be recorded on this video.
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Brown Bag Talk: "Virtual Education and FIMS"
Wednesday, March 12
12:00-1:00 pm
North Campus Building, Room 293
This Brown Bag Talk, part of the Future of FIMS series, will feature a roundtable discussion of the topic "Virtual Education and FIMS." Panelists will include Professors James Compton, Tim Craven, and Kate Johnson, and Manager of Computing Services, John Fracasso. The 20-30 minute presentation will be followed by an informal discussion. Bring your lunch!
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Public Lecture: "Foucault and the Semantic Web"
Wednesday, March 26
12:00-1:30 pm
Staging Building, Room 250
Professor Grant Campbell will present a public lecture on the topic "Foucault and the Semantic Web." The lecture has been organized by the LIS Research Cluster on Theoretical Problems in Information Studies: Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology. Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be available.
Research News
Professor Lynne McKechnie presented the 2008 Gryphon Lecture at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science on Saturday, March 1. The Gryphon Lecture is hosted annually by the cross-disciplinary Youth Literature Interest Group (YLIG) at the Center for Children's Books, and features a leading scholar in the field of youth literature.
Professor McKechnie's talk, "'Because really they only have a few books I like': Why Reading Teens Don't Use Libraries," described her research on the reported drop in public library use among teens. Her conclusions were based on her interviews with teen readers and inventories of their personal collections of books and other informational media.
For further information on the Gryphon Lectures, see http://ccb.lis.uiuc.edu/gryphonlectures.html.
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Media Studies doctoral student Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz gave a presentation titled "'Seguramente no sirven': Blogs políticos femeninos y limitaciones estructurales en el ciberespacio" at the Second "Blogfesores" Congress in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on February 8. The presentation provided an overview of the obstacles female political bloggers face for visibility in the top rankings and examined the case of "Blogalaxia," one of the largest blog directories in the Hispanic blogosphere. In addition, Raúl will present a talk titled "'Léanlo que está chévere': Una lectura crítica de los forwards humorísticos puertorriqueños" at the 22nd World Congress on Reading to be held in San José, Costa Rica, July 28-31. The presentation will focus on using alternative reading materials (such as e-mail "forwards") in classrooms. For more information, see: http://publish.uwo.ca/~rfelicia/news.html.
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An article by LIS doctoral student Wil Peekhaus titled "Research in the biotech age: Can informational privacy compete?" appears in The Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 28: 48-59.
Graduate Resource Centre
New Acquisitions
The GRC has acquired several new items since our last post in November. New material arrives weekly and we aim to create a report with new items every other month. For the January 2008 list, please see: http://intra.fims.uwo.ca/grc/new_acquisitions.htm.
Job Posting: FIMS JobWeb Assistant
May - August 2008
This position is open to interested MLIS students.
The JobWeb Assistant posts job advertisements that are received for MLIS and MA Journalism graduates. Responsibilities include preparing job ads for posting, loading the job ads onto the appropriate Web site, and posting job ads on the clipboards located in the Information Commons. Outdated job postings must be removed from the Web sites and clipboards. The JobWeb Assistant may also be asked to work on special projects for the Manager of Graduate Student Services. The position requires some knowledge of HTML Transit. Flexible hours: 5-10 hours a week @ $12.00 per hour.
Forward a resume and cover letter (hard copy) by noon on Monday, March 31, 2008 to Rosanne Greene, Manager of Graduate Student Services, Room 240L North Campus Building or fax to 519-661-3506.
Important Dates
March 3-20: MLIS Summer 2008 Co-op Interviews
March 5: FIMS Interdisciplinary Panel: The Rise of the "Prosumer": Cultural Revolution or Digitalized Narcissism? (12 noon-1:30 pm in Visual Arts Centre, Room 100)
March 12: FIMS Brown Bag Talk: "Virtual Education and FIMS" (12 noon-1:00 pm in NCB 293)
March 21: Good Friday (no classes)
March 25: MLIS Summer 2008 Co-op Ranking Forms due at noon
March 26: Public Lecture by Professor Grant Campbell: "Foucault and the Semantic Web" (12 noon-1:30 pm in Staging Building, Room 250)
April 11: Last day of classes for FIMS graduate programs
Next Issue
The next issue of the FIMS Graduate Bulletin will be published Monday, March 17. Faculty, grad students, and other members of the FIMS community who would like to submit a notice for publication should e-mail their text by noon on Friday, March 14, to Kristen Romme at kromme2@uwo.ca. 
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