University of Toronto Library Student Projects
I sit on the board of the Toronto chapter of CASLIS (Canadian Association of Special Library and Information Services) which has developed a relationship with the students at the Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) at the University of Toronto.
At this time of the year, FIS usually organizes a number of events to showcase the talents of its students.
This year is no exception.
Friday, April 1 is FIS Research day. The event will feature student papers, posters, demos, and panels on Biometrics and Digital Identity, Copyright, Community Informatics, Metadata and Cultural Resources, Web Portals and 3D Visualization of Library Collections.
The week after that, on April 6, the Faculty holds its Connecting @ FIS Student Project Exhibition, a day for professionals, faculty and staff to meet students from the course on the Management of Special and Corporate Information Centres. The students will be demonstrating products of 32 practicum projects from across Toronto. Canadian Library Association president Stephen Abram told a recent gathering of volunteers for the upcoming SLA Annual Conference in Toronto that he attended last year's Connecting @ FIS event and came away extremely impressed.
Finally, I just wanted to draw attention to the text by Stanislav Orlov in Inforumed, the FIS blog. It is a report on what Wendy Newman told the students earlier this week about professionalism. She is the former president of the Canadian Library Association and currently the Librarian in Residence at FIS. I particularly liked these two points:
At this time of the year, FIS usually organizes a number of events to showcase the talents of its students.
This year is no exception.
Friday, April 1 is FIS Research day. The event will feature student papers, posters, demos, and panels on Biometrics and Digital Identity, Copyright, Community Informatics, Metadata and Cultural Resources, Web Portals and 3D Visualization of Library Collections.
The week after that, on April 6, the Faculty holds its Connecting @ FIS Student Project Exhibition, a day for professionals, faculty and staff to meet students from the course on the Management of Special and Corporate Information Centres. The students will be demonstrating products of 32 practicum projects from across Toronto. Canadian Library Association president Stephen Abram told a recent gathering of volunteers for the upcoming SLA Annual Conference in Toronto that he attended last year's Connecting @ FIS event and came away extremely impressed.
Finally, I just wanted to draw attention to the text by Stanislav Orlov in Inforumed, the FIS blog. It is a report on what Wendy Newman told the students earlier this week about professionalism. She is the former president of the Canadian Library Association and currently the Librarian in Residence at FIS. I particularly liked these two points:
- Join professional associations
- As your position grows, so does the ambiguity. Acknowledge and embrace it.
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