Letter From the Editor...Hail, Information People!
Hello summer, and adios grads! This is it, the last Silverfish of the ’06-’07 school year. Where to start? Browse or read in a highly controlled (vocabulary) manner, it’s all bueno. A few ideas: the featured interview with iSchool grad Jessamyn West who writes the blog Librarian.net, which gets about 7,000 visitors a day; stories about gambling online (apparently it’s illegal—who knew?), Cambodian libraries, public libraries in India, a couple of essays from alums, book and music reviews, summer book reads, web site suggestions (see the next graph for starters) and all sorts of other writey stuff. Also in this edition, meet Jack, Nancy, Jamie & Michelle, the new ‘fish staff for the 2007-2008 school year with tell-all bios and pics (Many, many thanks to Nancy for the generous volunteerism in pulling this edition together. It wouldn't have happened without her). Over at the information blog When Cars Run on Information, creators, contributors and soon-to-be-iSchool MLIS grads Tim King and Kathleen Walsh post on “innovation, community and libraries.” Add it to your blog roll. Thanks to the past year’s contributors and the crack 'fish
staff, marketing maven Sheri Boggs and webmaster
Amy Vecchione. It was a productive year for the ‘fish.
We created a new tradition last December at the iSchool, sponsoring
the DAWN
(Domestic Abuse Women's Network) Adopt-a-Family program, which provides
holiday gifts for women and children living in emergency shelter due
to domestic violence. Among other things, in 2006 DAWN answered more
than 12,000 crisis calls, provided more than 20,000 meals and sheltered
more than 370 women and children…We also launched
While this is the end of the line for this year’s staff, the new kids are already collecting and posting stories on the ‘fish blog, including such details as the swank factor at IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) and trotting librarians for justice at the Law Librarianship Panel, and we’ve added those to this web site edition. (Email them with ideas/stories for the ‘fish--web site or blog: thesilverfish@gmail.com)
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922-1977 ~ With that, I bid you adieu, cheers and many thanks, Joyce Hansen |
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June 8, 2007 Vol. XI Issue 3 |
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Features MLISer Serves in Cambodia / Rebuilding Libraries After Khmer Rouge Devastation The 'Fish Interview | Jessamyn West Lusting for Literature | Spring Break Reads Courtesy of Book Lust 101 SLA Summer Adventure Baltimore 2006 A Taste of Special Libraries Putting the Public Back in “Public” Libraries in Southern India | Making Libraries Accessible To All Tales from the Stacks UIGEA: An Acronym Against Online Gambling | ||
Entertainment Zombies in Aisle 9 / Cell Chatting & Shopping Adventures Road trip coming up? | Websites Offer Best Bet Ideas For A Zany, Low-Brow School's-Out Holiday | ||
News Paperbacks at the Museum of Modern Art For Crying Out Loud: A Reading by Lemony Snicket Volunteering @ Books To Prisoners | It's a Literary Thang Reflections on WLA, 2007 Law Librarianship Panel IFLA - ALA's Swanky Cousin Introducing the 2007/2008 Silverfish Staff! | ||
Reviews Book , Music & Movie Junkie | Whatsis iSuggestions Your Action-Packed, Double-Feature Review of "Grindhouse"! | ||
Opinion Is Information Management, 'Intelligence Management'? Letters To The Editor! | ||
Events iSchool Events and News |
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