Congratulations to UNCG LIS student Emily Graves, who will be serving as a Junior Fellow for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. this summer. She will be working on the World Digital Library Project, gaining experience with digitization and writing copy for new items as they expand their collection.
We took the chance to ask her a couple questions about her upcoming fellowship:
Q&A with Emily Graves
1. Why were you interested in being a Junior Fellow?
I’m always looking on USAjobs.gov, and when I saw the posting it looked really interesting. I …

My NC Library Advocacy Project
By Brandon Lewter
In the fall of 2009, I took my first class in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies. At the time I was starting my third year as a high school English teacher and, to say the least, this was an overwhelming point in my life. I am now a full-time graduate student, scheduled to graduate this summer, and I no longer teach high school, except for the occasional substitute teaching job.
Advocacy Project
Currently I’m working on an exciting independent …

Lauren Wallis, LISSA President 2011-12, has been accepted to the American Library Association Student-to-Staff program. Program participants must be a student chapter member and are nominated for the prestigious positions. Students selected for the program are asked to work during the conference doing hospitality, writing for Cognotes, or providing information. In return, each student receives free registration, free housing, and a living allowance.
We asked Lauren a couple of questions about her acceptance to the program, and her career path:
1. How did you originally find out about the ALA Student-to-Staff …

Student profile: Michael-Wallace Davis Jr.
In August 2010, not long after graduating college at Winston-Salem State University, Michael-Wallace Davis Jr. took a chance on a job that he wasn’t sure about. He had gotten a degree in mass media studies, but he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do next, and he thought he might move back to Washington, D.C., where he had lived when he was young.
But then: “A job came open at Winston-Salem State to work in the library,” Davis says. “Right now I’m really liking it.” …

Britni Cherrington shares her intern experience
Sometimes, the best opportunities really do come straight to your inbox. Britni Cherrington, a second-year LIS student in the Charlotte cohort, completed a two-month internship at Biltmore House this summer after receiving a notice about internships through the UNCG LIS listserv last spring. After an extensive application and two interviews, Cherrington was one of three interns selected for the summer term. Biltmore House has a special interest in working with library students because of the specialized skills they can learn and apply …

Student Profile
For Katie Whetzel, the turning point for wanting to become a librarian happened a few years after she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a BA in English.
While she always loved reading, especially local and Southern authors, and her mother was a librarian at her elementary school, Whetzel truly realized the importance of information while working in Charlotte as a vision therapist. Similar to occupational therapy, in vision therapy Whetzel worked with people who had trouble with reading comprehension due to a range of cosmetic …

Craig Arthur and Dr. A. Kwame Harrison Co-Author Article
Reading Billboard 1979–89: Exploring Rap Music’s Emergence through the Music Industry’s Most Influential Trade Publication
Abstract:
This article presents the qualitative content of Billboard magazine as an important resource for expanding popular music scholars’ understandings of the activities, motives, and structures that shape commercial music. We argue that through careful consideration of columns appearing in Billboard researchers can resurrect, re-imagine, and update forgotten and overlooked aspects of music industry history. A thick reading of the trade journal between 1979 and 1989 reveals how …

Tracy Pizzi will present at the 8th Annual Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy (Sept. 23rd and 24th 2011 in Savannah, GA).
Tracy Pizzi’s Presentation:

Keeping Students Engaged: Incorporating Today’s Technologies Into Your Library and Information Literacy Instruction
Abstract: Incorporating today’s web technologies into IL modules and the library should be at the top of all librarians’ lists. This poster presentation will show how libraries can encompass technologies such as smartphone applications, social networking sites and Web 2.0 into their literacy modules and library websites to …

Two LIS students will be presenting at the MLA Conference in Charlotte, NC.
Jo Henry’s Presentation:
The presentation summarizes the results of studying four area academic library liaison programs. These case studies have illustrated the growth of liaison duties beyond simply collection development and illustrate the impact these professionals are having on information literacy. Liaisons now must connect, communicate, assist, and evaluate their processes in order to connect with faculty as well as students. The programs will be compared and contrasted to reveal how these libraries are promoting …