SLIS NEWS!! WE DID IT!!!!!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

With congratulations and gratitude to all involved in our accreditation process, the ALA Committee on Accreditation voted to continue our accreditation through 2016!

Thank you for all of your good work,
sam

GENERAL NEWS: A New Year, Fall Orientation 2010, Accreditation Update and 5 Things

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We just finished another wonderful orientation for our new students and again, we have a diverse and super intelligent incoming group. It is so good to know that so many are committed ensuring that people get the information they need and leave the world a better place!

Everything is good here at Davis and USC. We are searching for two new faculty members so will be in Boston at ALISE interviewing and hoping to find candidates to bring in for onsite visits. I will also be meeting with the ALA Committee on Accreditation Sunday, January 17 at 9:30 a.m. Think good thoughts for us.

The weather here has been freezing for a week but luckily NO SNOW! I just keep thinking about all the people that can’t stay warm and the crops that are getting frozen. . . Makes me so very grateful for my furnace!

So, Happy New Year! Hope you are safe and warm. I will let you know how we fare in Boston. In the meantime, here are 5 things to read and think about:

1. Ten Stories That Shaped 2009 [LISNews]
http://www.lisnews.org/ten_stories_shaped_2009

2. A Library At The End Of The World [Book Patrol]
http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/archives/190109.asp

3. New and Creative Leniency for Overdue Library Books [The New York Times]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/us/29library.html

4. E-Reader Boom Kindles a Variety of New Options [ABC News]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9504985

5. As books go beyond printed page to multisensory experience, what about reading? [The Washington Post]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701973.html

Let me know if there is anything we can do for you and don’t forget to hug a librarian!

sam

GENERAL UPDATE: Winter at Davis College and welcoming in a New Year!

Dear Friends and Colleagues, (From December 18th, 2009)

Our weather is frightful! Sleet, cold, wet -- and when I was talking with one of Virginia students this morning, she said it was snowing! Must be time to head South ;-} I’m looking forward to a break with foggy mornings and my toes in the sand. I hope you have some holiday plans that make you smile.

Everything is good here at Davis College. We had a wonderful graduation ceremony with many happy graduates and proud families. It is so rewarding to see our students finished and ready to change the world!

We are ready to bring in a new year with new challenges and opportunities. We remain grateful for our friends and each of you that support our projects and desires to eliminate illiteracy. We also appreciate all of the help to increase our scholarship funds. If you made a donation for one of the prints of Davis College – THANK YOU! If you want one of these beautiful prints, please go to http://www.libsci.sc.edu/print.html.

So happy holidays to you and yours! If you want to have some fun, check out the Reading Rooster on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/scstatelibrary#p/a/u/1/7AgqupoSBzk. Also, check out the following five things to read and think about:

1. Children who use technology are 'better writers' [BBC News]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8392653.stm

2. Book 99 Years Overdue Returned To Mass. Library [NPR]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121491276

3. Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections [D-Lib Magazine] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november09/lavoie/11lavoie.html

4. Saving Africa's precious written heritage [BBC News]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8386866.stm

5. Entrepreneur made pop-up books popular again [The Washington Post]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112202143.html

Let me know if there is anything we can do for you.

With much appreciation,

Dr. Sam