Welcome to our first regular posting from the Library Staff Association’s new UCLA Staff Newsweb location. This will serve as a window unto the many functions of the LSA as well an information board regarding upcoming events, trips, etc. Along with updates on our activities we will be taking time to highlight LSA member retirements, achievements, scholarships and other happenings that the LSA is involved in.

At this time I would like to introduce you to the LSA Board for 2007/2008.

2007/08 Executive Board

2007/08 Members-at-large

For those of you who have not joined or rejoined there is still time. Coming up this fall we will be sponsoring our semi-annual blood drive in collaboration with the Black Law Student Association, a return trip to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, our Annual Fall Book Sale and Winter Party. We will also be introducing some new things both online and in person. And, as always we will be sponsoring a scholarship for the Library & Information Studies program & the Campbell Student Book Collection award.

Please feel free to visit our website (staff.library.ucla.edu/lsa) for updates, announcements, pictures and more. It’s undergoing some renovations so make sure to check back often for changes and additions.

Georgia Conference on Information Literacy

The Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, hosted, in part, by Georgia Southern University, will be held October 5-6, 2007 at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah. The two-day conference will provide 75-minute sessions throughout the day covering a variety of topics including:

• Invasion of the Data Snatchers: An Integrated Assignment that Leads Students into Information Literacy
• What Should We Say?: Considerations in Scripting Online Multimedia Tutorials
• Faculty Learning Community (FLC): A New Approach to Information Literacy
• Questioning Wikiality: Partnering with Faculty to Move Students Beyond Wikipedia
• Working Together: A Literature Review of Librarians and Faculty Collaborating to Promote Information Literacy Skills (1996-2006)
• Scavenger Hunts: An Information Literacy Motivational Tool
• What Do Faculty Really Think of Information Literacy?
• Determining Fact Online in the Age of Factoids, Truthiness, and Blogasms

$100 - Early Registration Fee (on or before September 7, 2007)
$125 - Registration Fee (after September 7, 2007)

For more information, visit ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html.

Information Literacy on YouTube?

Information professionals at the Teaching and Learning Center at the Otis College of Art and Design have been experimenting with creating YouTube videos as information literacy tutorials. Their list of productions includes What is information literacy?(www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeopJX5jJV8), an 8-minute tutorial discussing the basics of information literacy, and Identify Your Sources(www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2hziLTSyU), a 10-minute tutorial teaching students how to determine whether the information found in periodicals is scholarly, popular, or professional. To learn more, visit library.otis.edu/informationliteracy.html.

Studying Students

Keep an eye out this September for a new ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) publication entitled, “Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester.” In this book, two librarians describe their experience collaborating with an anthropologist in the effort to decipher the process students undergo when writing research papers. Based on their findings, the authors devised innovative ways of engaging undergraduates around the writing process to improve their research skills and to help them better meet faculty expectations for research paper submission. The book will be available as a soft-cover print edition as well as an open access downloadable file. Pre-order information is available at www.acrl.org.

Call for Chapter Proposals: Casebook on Gaming in Academic Libraries

An upcoming ACRL Monograph entitled Casebook on Gaming in Academic Libraries, will discuss the variety of ways gaming has been incorporated into academic libraries. It will be divided into three sections:

• Section 1: "Gaming as Marketing": How is gaming used to bring students into the library and make students aware of other library services?
• Section 2: "Gaming and Collections": How have academic libraries started augmenting their collections with hardware and software?
• Section 3: "Gaming and Teaching": How is gaming used for teaching information literacy skills in academic libraries? How does gaming fit into the academic classroom?

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Information literacy games
• Game night hosting
• Student orientation games
• Games in information commons
• Game software and hardware collections
• Games to train staff

To contribute a chapter, email your proposal to editors Amy Harris (a_harri2@uncg.edu) and Scott Rice (serice2@uncg.edu) on or before August 31, 2007. Proposals should be 400-600 words. Include your name, your affiliation, a working title, and an abstract. Authors will be notified of acceptance by September 14, 2007. The deadline for chapter submission will be January 15, 2008. The book will be published in the summer of 2008.

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Previous issues

• Issues 846 and forward are available on the Staff Intranet.
• Printed copies of previous issues are available at the UCLA Library or by email request.
• Issues 837-854 are available in print under the title UCLA Library Newsweb at the UCLA Library or by email request.
• Issues 1-836 are available in print under the title Library Newsletter/UCLA at the UCLA Library.

• Library News for the Faculty (www2.library.ucla.edu/facultynews/3300.cfm)
• UCLA News (www.uclanews.ucla.edu)
• UCOP News (www.ucnewswire.org/ucnw.cfm)

The UCLA Library Staff Newsweb is published every other Monday by Library Human Resources. News items should be sent to Sheila Knapp, Library Newsweb, LHR. Please submit via email to Sheila at sknapp@library.ucla.edu. The deadline for the next issue (September 3) is Friday, August 24 at 3 p.m.

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