The first joint LISSO/ALA meeting of the 2016-2017 Academic year will be Saturday, August 27 from 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern time.
The in-person meeting will be at William T. Young Library in the Keeneland Room.
UPDATE: We will have a live stream of the meeting for distance students to participate in, using the Zoom platform. To connect to the meeting, follow this link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/4594610891 . If you are asked for a meeting ID, it is 459-461-0891.
The main purpose of this meeting will be to brainstorm activities for the coming year and to get to know one another better. We will also have updates on Book Club and Pride Library Clean-up volunteering.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
LISSO @ UK
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
Meet the Officers- President Lauren Farmer
I’m Lauren
Farmer and I am your LISSO President! I am embarking on my second year as a
Reference Graduate Assistant at William T. Young Library. In this position I
work at the reference desk on the second floor of Young. I will also be
assisting the academic liaison to the history department with collection
development and outreach. This Fall I will be completing a practicum in
Information Literacy in which I will gain continued experience in instruction
and assessment.
I attended
UK for my undergraduate degree in Education. My senior year I was an intern in
the Learning Lab at the Special Collections Research Center. This internship
sparked my interest in pursuing librarianship as a career, as up to that point
I had planned on becoming a high school Social Studies teacher. My
current career goal is to work in an academic library in Reference and/or
Information Literacy. You will often find me walking around campus looking at
trees and saying hello to birds.
As LISSO
President I want to do everything in my power to make your library school
experience as fruitful as possible. I encourage you to participate in our events
whenever you can, and never hesitate to approach me with any questions or
concerns that you have. Please check out the libguide that I created (http://libguides.uky.edu/lisso) and fill
out the program suvey so that LISSO can offer you ideal events.
Meet the Officers- Vice President and Social Media Coordinator Megan Lucy
My name is Megan Lucy and I am the
Vice President and Social Media Coordinator of LISSO for the 2016-2017 Academic
year. This is my second year in the Master of Science in Library Science
program, and I am working on the Information Systems academic track. So far my
favorite class has been LIS 602: Information Representation and Access, because
I really enjoyed building a thesaurus of fan fiction terms.
In Spring 2016, I participated in
the Alternative Spring Break program in Washington, D.C. I worked in the
Scholarly Communications and Information Technology department of the
Smithsonian Libraries. This experience helped me to choose Information Systems
as my academic track because I received firsthand experience working with
information systems in a large academic library and saw how important they are
to ensuring public access to information.
I am also a full time employee of
the University of Kentucky. I work as an administrative assistant in the Dean’s
Office in the College of Agriculture Food and Environment, managing faculty
personnel files and the faculty personnel information database for the college.
My plans after graduation are to pair this experience in university
administration with my knowledge of library and information science to help
universities find innovative ways to use information systems.
When I have free time (not often
between school and work!) Megan likes to do arts and crafts. She particularly
enjoys digital painting, embroidery and needle felting.
As LISSO Vice President, I am
responsible for coordinating Book Club and volunteer work at the PCSO Pride
Library in Lexington. As social media coordinator, I update this blog and the
LISSO Facebook page.
You can contact me at megan.lucy@uky.edu.
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