Courtney Greene (MLS'00) is the current SLIS Alumni Board President, and a Librarian at DePaul University in Chicago. Below is her article from the Fall 2009 issue of the SLIS Alumni Magazine (SLIS Network, Vol. 47, No.2).

Has there ever been a better time to be an information professional?" [ conference website ]

The upcoming Networks and Complex Systems Talk will be held on November 23, 2009 from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the Grand Hall at Neal Marshall Center, Indiana University, Bloomington. SLIS faculty member Katy B śrner is the organizer of the talk

SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin has written books for both scholarly and general readership. In 2006, 2007, and 2008 he wrote a series of three books about Bloomington (town and gown). Just released is a new book titled:

The center feature of the Fall 2009 issue of the SLIS alumni magazine celebrated the 45th anniversary of the SLIS Doctoral Program. The introduction was by SLIS faculty member Elin Jacob , Director of the SLIS Doctoral Program:

The SLIS American Library Association — Student Chapter (ALA-SC) held a Digital Libraries Panel on November 4, 2009. The panel took place from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Wells Library. IU Metadata Librarian, Jenn Riley , and Associate Director for Projects

and the Inefficient Dissemination of Information" was the most recent talk in the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) Speaker Series . The talk was given on November 13, 2009 by Andrew Odlyzko (abstract and biography below.) SLIS faculty

SLIS alumna Teresa Heidenreich (MLS'08) works as the Director of the Washington Carnegie Public Library in Washington, Indiana. The WCPL main branch is in Washington (Daviess County), with a small branch in Plainville. Overall, WCPL directly serves about 19,000 citizens

Professional associations in library and information science provide opportunities to network, and to learn about the latest research trends in the field. Associations have websites, listservs, and conferences. They provide connections that are needed for success in the field. [Note:

The warning came a scant five-and-a-half hours ahead of the water June 11. Predicted to top out at 24 feet, the Cedar River crested at 31. Despite heroic efforts by the staff to move everything out of danger to 26'-high

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) hosted a workshop on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at George Washington, University, Washington, D.C. Katy B śrner , the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at SLIS was an invited speaker. Her talk

SLIS Professor Susan Herring recently gave a research talk at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies on November 2, 2009. The talk announcement describing her presentation is included here.

SLIS alumni have recently been mailed the Fall 2009 issue of the alumni magazine (SLIS Network, Vol.47, No.2). The theme of this issue was "SLIS Ph.D. Program Celebrates 45 Years." If you did not receive a copy, you can update

This year's 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency-Crystal City in Arlington, VA from October 28 to November 1, 2009. SLIS faculty member Noriko Hara gave a presentation on her research (see

SLIS alumna, Jennifer Daugherty (MLS'07), is employed at Laurel County Public Library in London, KY, which serves a user population of about 57,000. Jennifer is the Director of Reference and Information Services. In an email interview Jennifer highlighted her job

The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) â€" Student Chapter recently held its first Fall †Tech Talk.†The talk took place on October 21, 2009 in the Wells Library, Room E-174. The speaker was Cairril Mills of

The 14th National Conference and Exhibition of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) will be held November 5-8, 2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

bull; "Metrics are la mode . Once it was plain old bibliometrics, now we have scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics, cybermetrics, digimetrics, tagometrics. Neologisms abound. The widespread availability of Web log files affords unprecedented opportunity for assessing the visibility, productivity, and performance

SLIS faculty members and were featured in a press release from the for their participation in a National Institutes of Health research collaboration. The subtitle of the article is "IU information scientists receive $1.8 million in ARRA funding." The release

SLIS graduate Emily Heinlen (MLS'07) is working as a Research Associate for the Indiana University Foundation here in Bloomington. Her position is an example of non-traditional career paths that SLIS graduates can pursue.