Jackson Library’s Reference Department is looking for new Reference Interns!

Jackson Library’s Reference Department is looking for new Reference Interns!

Interns work 10-15 hours a week during the Fall and Spring semesters. Applicants should be LIS graduate students enrolled at UNCG for the 2010-2011 academic year. You can learn more at our website for interns (http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/studentemploy.asp) or contact Lynda Kellam at lmkellam@uncg.edu . If you applied for the 2009-2010 academic year and are still interested, please send us an updated resume and contact information to indicate interest.

Why apply for an internship?

· Gain professional reference experience in a supportive setting.
· Receive training from UNCG librarians before and during your internship experience.
· Possibly get experience with digital reference, collection development, and library instruction (depending on your interests and work schedule.)
· Improve your resume and list of references.
· Get paid!

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Lynda Kellam
Data Services & Government Information Librarian
102 Jackson Library, UNCG
Greensboro, NC 27412
Phone: 336-334-5251
http://uncgdataland.blogspot.com/
http://lyndamk.com/

LISSA Facebook Fan Page

LISSA now has a Facebook Fan page. Become a fan of LISSA at: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/pages/Greensboro-NC/LISSA-Library-and-Information-Studies-Student-Association-at-UNCG/153239901827?ref=ts. This page will be kept up-to-date with LISSA news and photos.

Best,

Jennifer Whicker

SNCA Spring Program

The program for the SNCA Annual Meeting, which is March 3-5, 2010, at the Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, NC, has been posted under Documents in the LISSA Blackboard portal for anyone who is interested. You can also reach it by this link: http://www.rtpnet.org/snca/meetings/2010springprogram.pdf

Best,
Jennifer Whicker


Minutes and Agenda Posted

The agenda and meeting minutes for today’s meeting have been posted on Blackboard.

There is a social event planned for Friday, February 5. We will be meeting at AMF All Star Lanes at 910 South Holden Road in Greensboro, NC at 6:00 p.m. for a night of bowling. Please let me know if you will be attending.

The first LISSA Happy Hour will be Tuesday, February 16 at Tate Street Coffee on Tate St. at 4:00 p.m.

The next LISSA Meeting will be Thursday, February 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the LIS Lab, Curry 349H.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Best,

Jennifer Whicker

First LISSA Meeting of the Semester Scheduled

The first LISSA meeting of the semester will be on Monday, January 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the LIS Lab in Curry 349H. We will be discussing events for the semester at this meeting. There is also a LISSA Bowling night planned for Friday, January 29. The details of this event will be decided on Monday as well. I look forward to seeing everyone there.

All the best this semester
Jennifer Whicker

Jackson Library, Reference Dept. Open House Monday, Nov. 30 at 2 p.m.

You are cordially invited to the Jackson Library Reference and
Instructional Services Open House on Monday 11/30, 2-3 pm.

We will meet in the CITI/JIL lab. Each available member of the Jackson
Library Reference and Instructional Services Department will say a few
words about his/her job function and have the chance to announce an event,
project, or web resource of general interest.

Then we will have a brief walking tour of Reference areas, with Nancy
Ryckman describing plans for renovations and related collection and people
moves in reference.

To RSVP, please use this address:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/BIHFZLQIUBYFTUKFBOWY/openhouse

Thanks,
Lea

Lea Leininger
Health Sciences Librarian
Jackson Library
University of North Carolina Greensboro
laleinin@uncg.edu
phone: 336-256-0125

Resume/Cover Letter Workshop on Monday, Nov. 16

LISSA will be hosting a Resume and Cover Letter Workshop on Monday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the library room 574. This room is on the 5th floor of the tower. The workshop will be conducted by Mary Krautter and Nancy Ryckman. Mary is the head of reference at Jackson Library and Nancy is the assistant head of reference at Jackson Library. If you have any questions please let me know. Light refreshments will be served.

My best,
Jennifer Whicker

Unshelved Event at UNCC Friday, November 6

On Friday, Nov. 6, LISSA will be hosting an evening with the creators of the library comic strip Unshelved on the campus of UNCC in the Fretwell Building Room 100. This event will take place at 7:00 p.m. A discussion board thread is up for anyone who wants to make arrangements to car pool together. This event is free to all LISSA members, all others will be charged $5 at the door. I hope to see everyone there. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at jrresor@uncg.edu.

 

Gerald Holmes, UNCG’s Jackson Library

Hello, this is Gerald Holmes, Reference Librarian and Diversity Coordinator for UNCG University Libraries. As possibly one of the last people who can say they truly enjoyed belonging to Dudley High School’s Library Club back in the day, I have devoted my whole career to academic libraries, and loved every minute.

As Reference Librarian, I use the Reference desk, online chat, and phone, to provide general reference service that covers the humanities, sciences, social sciences, government information, and more. In this role I also serve as the Library’s liaison to Kinesiology and African American Studies, working closely with these departments to promote information literacy and provide library and information services to their students and faculty. As Diversity Coordinator I am on the Libraries’ administrative team to advise our administration on university priorities, grants and fund raising, marketing, and campus policies regarding diversity issues and resources. I coordinate the Libraries’ Post MLS Diversity Residency Program and chair the Diversity Committee; and have active memberships with ALA, ALA’s Black Caucus, ACRL, and NCLA.

I earned my library degree from U.N.C. at Chapel Hill, where I considered a career in Law Librarianship until I discovered how much I enjoyed the varied research interests of students and faculty in the academic library setting. From then on, I was hooked on academic libraries! My research interests include diversity issues, reference services, and the promotion of librarianship as a career. In the course of my own career, I have coordinated graduate student work assignments and Reference Desk staff training at three different academic libraries.

But that is enough about me. If you have any questions, thoughts, or fun ideas about academic librarianship, diversity issues, or reference service and training, I am eager to find an answer or an application. Minute by minute, I am always ready and willing to learn something new!

Gerald Holmes
Reference Librarian and Diversity Coordinator
University Libraries, U.N.C. at Greensboro
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC  27402
Voice: 336-256-0273
Fax: 336-334-5097
Email: gerald_holmes@uncg.edu

Charles Gobble, Jesse C. Carson High School

I’m Charles Gobble.  Most people call me Chip.  I am the Media Coordinator at Jesse C. Carson High School in China Grove, NC.  Carson High School has around 1200 students.  It is the newest high school in Rowan County.  We are in our fourth year of operation.  Carson was the first new high school in our county in 40 years.  Its opening was a big deal to the people of Rowan County.  Boundary lines and rivalries that had existed pretty much undisturbed for 40 years suddenly got shaken up.

I taught high school History and Social Studies for 14 years prior to moving to the school library.  My courses included World History, Civics, and AP European History.  I still enjoyed teaching, but 12 years of teaching AP Euro to sophomores took its toll.  There comes a time in your career when you just know it is time to do something different.  I did not want to leave education, but needed something different.  A friend, who was a School Media Coordinator, encouraged me to investigate getting my MLIS.  The more I looked into it, the more I was convinced that was what I wanted to do.  I enrolled in the MLIS program at UNCG (Charlotte cohort) in January 2002.  I transferred from my teaching position into a school media position in 2004.  I graduated with my MLIS in 2005.  I was given the opportunity move to the new high school in 2006.  Setting up a new school library was a real challenge, but it was very rewarding.

Through the course of a week as a high school Media Coordinator, I get the opportunity to wear many hats.  I, along with my highly valued assistant, see to the daily operation of the Media Center.  This includes scheduling and assisting with classes, collection maintenance, distribution and maintenance of A/V equipment, instruction and supervision of student Media Assistants, etc.  I team up with another teacher to supervise a team of seven students to produce a weekly 20-minute school news broadcast.  I see that a scrolling PowerPoint of the daily announcements is broadcast over the closed-circuit TV system.  As we do not have a full-time technology facilitator, I am the on-site person to diagnose and triage any technology issues that arise.  I assure you, it is never the same day twice.

If you have any questions regarding School Library Media, I will do my best to answer them.