How would you like to spend a month in beautiful London, England, while earning graduate course credits?

If yes, then come along with us next July on British Studies 2015, a month-long study abroad program hosted by The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), for on-site lectures and guided tours of some of the UK’s most important and historic libraries, archives, and special collections. The program is offered June 25 to July 29th 2015 and carries six hours of credit from The University of Southern Mississippi, a fully-accredited institution of higher learning. Students participating in the LIS course will learn about historic and modern British repositories and collections from distinguished British librarians, archivists, and curators on-site in London, Edinburgh, and Oxford.

Registration is now open, but space is limited. The deposit deadline is February. (Students from Canadian LIS schools are more than welcome to participate; there are no out-of-state fees.) Information about course requirements, including the tentative 2015 schedule and syllabus, is available at: http://www.usm.edu/library-information-science/british-studies

For more program details and to apply online, visit: http://www.usm.edu/british-studies.

Accommodation
The British Studies Program is headquartered in central London at King’s College in one of their dormitories. The rooms are small, but everyone gets a private room with mini-fridge and private bath. Everyone has access to a shared kitchen and the dorm has a large courtyard which serves as a social center of the program. Participants quickly make friends with the students in their class as well as students from across the country.

The dorm is on Stamford Street, a hundred yards or so from Waterloo Station. The central location puts you just a few minutes’ walk from Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, and the theater district. A historic recreation of the Globe Theatre, where you may purchase tickets to a Shakespeare production, is within walking distance, as is the historic Old Vic Theatre, and the modern National Theatre.

Costs
The cost for the program ($7,200 USD) includes tuition, air travel, housing, and academic travel, including a 3-day trip outside London to Edinburgh and day trips to Greenwich and Oxford. There are no out-of-state fees. The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science is fully accredited by the American Library Association and students from LIS and IS programs from across the US have participated.

Students will complete a reflective online journal about their experiences and sites visited. Additional requirements include relevant readings, book reviews, and a research paper on an approved topic related to British libraries, archives, special collections or services. View the 2014 class blog and photo album at: http://usmbritishstudies14.blogspot.com/

For More Information:
For information about the course content, assignments, or schedule, feel free to contact us:

Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., MLIS
teresa.welsh@usm.edu or drtwelsh@yahoo.com or call me at 601.296.0528

Matthew Griffis, Ph.D., MLIS
matthew.griffis@usm.edu or call me at 601.266.5502

Hope to see you in London!

The Wayne State University National Digital Stewardship Alliance Student Chapter will be holding its 3rd colloquium, “Putting the Pieces Together: Digital Curation, Preservation, and Metadata”, on Friday, April 24, 2015 in Detroit, MI. We are looking for students, alumni, and professionals to speak or present a poster about any topic related to the skills, tools and processes involved in digital curation, digital preservation, and metadata generation, use, and management. We accept digital poster submissions for those that want to submit but cannot attend in person.

Please see the attached document for submission and colloquium details. The deadline for submissions is February 8th.

To see posters, go to:

2015 CALL FOR SPEAKERS & POSTERS

We are pleased to announce that application requirements to become a resident for the upcoming Washington, D.C. class of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program are now available on our website, located at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/applicationinfo.html?loclr=ndsr. The site contains information about how to apply to the program as well as specific requirements. The D.C. residency will start in June 2015 and end in June 2016.

Over the next few weeks we will select the 5 hosting organizations for the NDSR program in the Washington, D.C. area. Those host organizations and their corresponding projects will be published to the site on December 15, 2014. The application period to become a resident will open on December 17, 2014 and will close on January 30, 2015. Resident candidates are asked to identify their top 3 project choices in their application materials.

The NDSR is a year-long field experience for recent graduates focused on developing the next generation of stewards to collect, manage, preserve and make digital assets accessible. The program was developed through a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Residencies are currently being hosted in the Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. areas.

For more information, please visit our site or email ndsr@loc.gov.

A reminder that the ImagineBC submission deadline is December 19. Watch the video at ImagineBC.ca for inspiration, to learn more about the initiative, and how to submit your idea.
You may recall that ImagineBC was launched in September, a partnership of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Libraries, Simon Fraser University Libraries, and the BC Libraries Cooperative.

ImagineBC is a chance for any citizen, group, or organization in British Columbia to describe an innovative idea that improves their community and receive incubation funding to make it happen. We are looking for ideas that address a community need or interest such as: volunteerism, small business development, digital literacy, community engagement, language & cultural needs, or local history.