Fellowships Now Available for Doctoral Study: Information in Society 

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science. 

Apply by January 1, 2008 to begin study in Fall 2008 

Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:(217) 333-7742 |Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu 

Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/

Posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 1:11 pm in the news, jobs category.

CHICAGO - The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) is encouraging library employees to participate in its Library Workplace Wellness online survey. The survey provides an important opportunity for library employees to share information about the availability of, and their participation in, work/life options in libraries around the nation. The online survey will be available through Dec. 14. “Like many other professions, we know that library workers experience stressors of doing more with less, increasing expectations from users and information overload,” said ALA-APA Director Jenifer Grady. “We publish articles in Library Worklife about how employees can help themselves achieve work-life balance, but we want to know what library administrations and employees themselves are doing to help staff improve their health and reduce stress.”

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Posted on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 11:06 am in the news category.

October 16, 2007

CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) is encouraging public libraries to participate in the 2007-2008 Public Library Funding and Technology Access online survey. The survey provides an important opportunity for libraries to share information on computer and Internet resources and infrastructure, as well as funding, technology training and other uses of public libraries, such as providing public access technology centers in their communities. The current year’s online survey, available at http://survey.pnmi.com, will be available through Nov. 25,  2007.

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Posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 9:23 am in the news category.

The deadline for the Scholastic Library Publishing National
Library Week grant has been extended to Monday, October 15, 2007.

U.S. libraries of all types are invited to apply for a $5,000 grant that will be awarded to the best public awareness campaign that promotes the theme “Join the circle of knowledge @ your library” during National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008). Application forms and guidelines are available on The Campaign for America’s Libraries Web site http://www.ala.org/@yourlibrary/nlwgrant

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Posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 5:28 pm in the news category.

Welcome to the Vermont Library Association’s 2.0 web page. We are working a lot of things out so please bear with us and tell us what you think!

Posted on Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am in the news category.