Election Results

The ballots are now counted.... THE NEW STUDENT OFFICERS FOR LISSA ARE:

President - Amanda Montgomery
Vice President- Michelle Morris and Veronica Ewing
Secretary- Anna Perkins
Treasurer- Marian Silva
Parliamentarian- Paul Andersen and Matthew Pierce

Congratulations to a terrific group of students!

LISSA Elections for 2008-2009 Officers

Hello LISSA! These are your candidates...

PRESIDENT: Michelle Morris /Amanda Montgomery

Michelle Morris was born in Fort Worth on Dec. 23, 1980. She graduated from North Side High School in 1999 and attended Agnes Scott College for one year. She then transferred to University of North Texas (U.N.T.) in 2000 and graduated in 2004 with a B.A. in English Language and Composition. She worked for Haynes & Boone, LLP and Fort Worth Library. This is her first semester in the U.N.T. MLIS program. She aspires to become a medical librarian.

Amanda Gail Montgomery

Attended Texas State Technical College from 1999-2001 major in Commercial Art and Advertising .Attended University of North Texas from 2002-2007 major in Art History minor Social Sciences. Attending University of North Texas as a Masters student seeking my MS in Digital Imaging Management. I volunteer at the Digitals Projects Lab in Willis Library. I was a volunteer for the Rare Book and Texana department

VICE-PRESIDENT:

SECRETARY: Anna Perkins

I graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in Music Education from Texas Woman's
University, where I was a leader in choir and the vice-president of the
student chapter of MENC: The National Association for Music Education. This
May I will graduate with a M.M. in Musicology from UNT, and by the end of
summer I will have completed my first twelve hours in the SLIS program. I
am currently a student assistant in the Music Library. I am really looking
to getting more involved in SLIS!

TREASURER: Marian Silva

I am interested in applying for the position of
treasurer and I am currently an undergraduate student pursuing my
bachelor's degree in Library & Information Science. Thank you for your
consideration.

PARLIAMENTARIAN: Matthew Pierce/Paul Andersen


PLEASE SEND YOUR VOTE TO untlissa@gmail.com

Directions to the April 15 event

Universities Center at Dallas Campus, 1901 Main Street, Dallas, TX

Directions to Universities Center:

From Denton:
South on I- 35 to Dallas. Exit Commerce St. East (Reunion Arena). Go east on Commerce to Ervay (Neiman Marcus). Go left on Ervay one block and right turn on Main St.


From North Dallas:
South on I-75 to I- 30 west to 35E north to Commerce St. Exit (Reunion Arena). Exit left to Commerce St. Go east on Commerce to Ervay (Neiman Marcus). Go left on Ervay one block. Turn right on Main Street to 1901 Main Street (left side).


From North Dallas - Tollway:
South on the North Dallas Tollway to the end. Go through tollgate and stay on left (Hines Blvd.) to Harwood (last street on left). Go left (south) on Harwood to Main St. Turn right on Main Street. Map on Yahoo! Maps (Opens in new window) Top of page


From East Dallas:
West on I-30 to I- 35E north, exit left to Commerce Street (Reunion Arena). Go east on Commerce to Ervay (Neiman Marcus). Go left on Ervay one block and right turn on Main Street.


From South Dallas:
North on I-35E to Commerce exit (Reunion Arena). Go east on Commerce to Ervay (Neiman Marcus). Go left on Ervay one block and right turn on Main Street.


From West Dallas:
East on I- 30 to I- 35E north to Commerce St. exit (Reunion Arena). Go east on Commerce to Ervay (Neiman Marcus). Go left on Ervay one block and right turn on Main Street.

Learning Leadership

Whether you are planning on attending the TLA Annual Conference in Dallas this month, think about attending this great event:

Two Upcoming SLIS Events... on the same night!

Well, it has been a while. For those of you graduating this May, Capstone is behind you and the results should be out soon. Though I'm sure you have nothing to worry about, while you sweat out the final days before hearing that you will finally be given your well-deserved degree...come to some LIS events this Thursday.

This Thursday, March 27, the UNT Career Center is sponsoring a SLIS networking event from 5-7 pm in Chestnut Hall room 12o. Here students will be able to schmooze with professionals and alumni currently employed in the field of library and information sciences. Students will have a chance to find out how to prepare for and succeed in the jobs they desire!

Following this exciting event, LISSA will be holding its March meeting in ISB 218 at 7pm. We will provide refreshments and talk about what will be going on for the rest of the year.

We hope to see you Thursday!!

All School Day - Final Session

Albi Assmann, SLIS student, provides us with the following commentary on the presentation of Beth Avery, Head of Research and Instructional Services at UNT:

Beth Avery talked about why assessment is essential to providing good service and gave examples of simple but effective questions when determining whether patrons' needs are being met. She recommended limiting the number of questions being asked and asking patrons contrasting questions about their visits such as, "What did you like best about being in the library today?" and "What did you like least?" Of the many good ideas she offered, I will probably use this series of questions again and again: what did I tell you that I didn't need to tell you; what did I tell you that surprised you; and what do you want to know more about. Beth also talked about the new design and traffic patterns for Willis Library.

Third All School Day Speaker

The third speaker at All School Day was Daniel Alemneh, Metadata Specialist for the Digital Projects Unit of the UNT Libraries. His topic for the day was "Emerging Trends and Innovative Uses of Digital Technologies. He spoke about how the Web is bringing together "contributions of millions of people and making them matter" and how the trend is not text documents in libraries anymore, digital libraries are now about multimedia content. Users want a "visualization of the information space instead of a ranked list of search results." They want to search systems with their own language and not worry about controlled vocabulary. They also like folksonomy and the ability to index their own content. Librarians should take advantage of users becoming information taggers and study their tags in order to design systems that meet the needs of these users' information behaviors.

Despite the changes that are taking place in the library field, Alemneh explained that Ranganathan's laws and other aspects of libraries remain timeless.

In answer to the changing library field, Almeneh sees the following trends:
1. Most conferences now address Web 2.0
2. Libraries must appeal to users in other ways than simply providing information because people can find so much information on the Web.
3. A new generation of OPAC is developing.
4. More repositories of various sizes and scope are being created.
5. There is a greater push for user-centered design and metadata access.

To finish up his presentation, Almeneh showed us a digital library for which he does work, Portal to Texas History. This UNT digital library provides both search and browsing functionality, with browsing areas in county, subject, collection, and contributor. Users may comment on content and even contribute their own images through this function.