2011 LISAA Spring Awards Dinner

On May 19, the Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (LISAA) held its 2011 Spring Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live. This year's dinner honored alumnus and rare book dealer Ken Karmiole MLS '71, who received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award for his leadership in the rare book industry. University of Southern California Professor of History, award-winning author, and State Librarian Emeritus Kevin Starr was the keynote speaker and spoke about the historical significance and enduring value of libraries, from Ephesus' ancient Celsus Library to the digital age and beyond.

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr, delivering keynote address

(From left to right) Dean Aimee Dorr, 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Ken Karmiole '71, LISAA Board President Sanjeet Mann MLIS '08, and Department of Information Studies Chair Greg Leazer.

IS Department Chair Greg Leazer, LISAA Board member Claude Zachary MLS '98, and LISAA Board President Sanjeet Mann '08



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Friday Forum - 6/4/10

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums, in partnership with the California Library Association's Spring Fling Program Series and the UCLA Library & Information Studies Alumni Association, presents

Taking Charge of Your Career: Résumé writing, interview skills, and finding a job that's right for you

June 4, 2010 - 9:30am-1:00pm
$25 (UCLA members and UCLA alumni - $20, students - $15)

During this half-day workshop, our presenters will help you improve your job-seeking expertise and develop the skills you need to find and get the job for you. Please join us for information on how to carry out an effective job search, build a professional résumé, and develop and enhance your interview skills.

Presenter information:

Keri Botello is the Coordinator for the Information Studies Department's Internship Program and the Director of the Department's Multimedia & Information Technology Lab. She is the instructor of the IS 498 Internship course, develops the Career Forum Series sponsored by the Department for the CLA annual conference, has presented workshops on job searching and careers at CLA and for the Department's annual Career Fest. She is a member of the CLA Leadership Development Committee.

Keith Gurtzweiler is the Vice President of Recruiting at Library Associates Companies (LAC), a consulting and staffing firm specializing in the often overlapping fields of library, information, knowledge, intelligence, and asset management. He has interviewed and placed professional librarians and information workers in hundreds of positions from the very traditional to cutting edge, and he works regularly with diverse hiring organizations in the corporate, government, public, and academic sectors.

Hillary Theyer is the Principal Librarian of Public Services for the Torrance Public Library, and is on the Board of Directors for the California Library Association. She has participated on interview panels and resume review for multiple public library agencies for jobs from Children's Librarian to Reference Librarian and Library Managers. She has hired and supervised Library Pages, Library Clerks, Children's Librarians, and Library Managers. She has her Masters in Library Science from UCLA and a Masters of Public Administration from California State University Long Beach.

For additional information click here.

For information on the California Library Association's Spring Fling Program Series go here.

IS Colloquium - 5/20/10

Please join us this Thursday, May 20, from 3pm to 5pm in the GSE&IS Building, Room 111.

The Public Interest in Private Digital Records and Why We Should Care if Corporations have the Right to be Forgotten

by David Kirsch, Associate Professor and Director, Digital Archive of the Birth of the Dot Com Era, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Over the span of 120+ years of American legal history, corporations have enjoyed the benefits of personhood. This talk explores whether corporations should enjoy the "right to be forgotten," articulated recently by Blanchette (2006) and Werro (2009). We will consider the risks and benefits of the corporate right to be forgotten in the context of our ongoing efforts to preserve the digital records of the failed law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and discuss possible mechanisms that recognize the requirements of both deorganized firms and the interested public.

Dr. David Kirsch is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. He received his PhD in history from Stanford University in 1996. His research interests include industry emergence, technological choice, technological failure and the role of entrepreneurship in the emergence of new industries. Kirsch is interested in methodological problems associated with historical scholarship in the digital age. With the support of grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Library of Congress, he is currently building a digital archive of the Dot Com Era that will preserve at-risk, born-digital content about business and culture during the late 1990s. Selected materials are available to the public at www.dotcomarchive.org.

You can view his latest publication in Library Trends here.

LISAA 2010 Spring Dinner - May 20

Don't forget that this year's Library and Information Studies Alumni Association Spring Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 20 at Roy's Restaurant in Pasadena.

6 pm Cocktails
7 pm Dinner

Distinguished Service Award:
Susan Abler, Information Studies Student Services Representative
Keri S. Botello, Director, Multimedia & Information Technology Lab and Internship Coordinator

Guest Speakers:
Mary Niles-Maack, Professor, UCLA Information Studies
Marcia Bates, Professor Emerita, UCLA Information Studies

$45 per person
Class of 2010 masters and doctoral graduates attend for free.

RSVP at alumni@gseis.ucla.edu or 310-206-0375.