The student chapter of the CLA will be selling tickets outside the GRC all week from 12:00-1:00pm for the Networking Event.
The Networking Event is a fantastic opportunity to meet with professionals in various fields, including archives, academic, public, and special libraries.
How does it work? Think speed dating without the dating. At the event, students will have the opportunity to speak with various professionals for timed intervals.
The details of the event are as follows:
DATE: Tuesday October, 5, 2010
TIME: 6:00-8:00 pm
LOCATION: Sifton Room of the Masonville Branch of the London Public Library
CLA Bake Sale & 50/50 Draw
Bake Sale
Date: Tuesday October 5th
Time: 12-1:30pm
Featuring cookies, cupcakes, and brownies, as well as fresh fruit and veggies.
Watch for the CLA Bakemobile making its rounds of the halls!
We are also selling $1 tickets for the 50/50 draw.
Half the proceeds from ticket sales go to the CLA, and half to the holder of the winning ticket.
The draw will be held on November 4th.
Date: Tuesday October 5th
Time: 12-1:30pm
Featuring cookies, cupcakes, and brownies, as well as fresh fruit and veggies.
Watch for the CLA Bakemobile making its rounds of the halls!
We are also selling $1 tickets for the 50/50 draw.
Half the proceeds from ticket sales go to the CLA, and half to the holder of the winning ticket.
The draw will be held on November 4th.
Welcome New and Returning MLIS Students
What CLA has for you this term?
First up: Thinking of applying for co-op? Or ready to graduate? This series might be for you!
In conjunction with the Ontario Library Association, the CLA-UWO Student Chapter would like to announce a special, two part Academic Library Career Workshop. The first session is "Getting Ready", it will cover how to read academic job postings, how to research positions, write a resume/curriculum vitae (C.V.), compose a cover letter and prepare for interviews. To guide you through this process, we welcome Jim Brett from the University of Guelph. Jim is the Information Resources Librarian at the U of G and the Career Development Co-ordinator for OLA.When & Where: "Getting Ready" is on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 from 12-1:15pm in Rm 295 North Campus Building.
Part 2: "Mock Interviews"
Meeting Minutes: September 14, 2010
Minutes: September 14, 2010
Welcome everyone! CLA Open Meeting
· Who we are? What we do?
o Liaison between MLIS students and the national organization.
o The
UWO CLA Student Chapter strives to create opportunities for
professional development by hosting guest speakers, networking events,
and library tours, organizing peer and professional mentorship programs,
encouraging leadership and adding some fun with social events.
o Fundraising to put on our events.
o List of open positions circulated and volunteers welcomed.
On the go so far:
- President's visit
- Calgary Public Library Guest
- Networking
- CV writing/Mock Interviews
- Open the floor to ideas?
· GRC rooms reserved for October 13, 2010 from 9-4 for Mock Interviews
· Gives students opportunity to interview with no pressure
· What would you like to see covered by Jim in CV writing
· CV workshop should be approx. 2 weeks prior
· Lunch hour enough?
· Ticket sales volunteers signed up (attached at bottom of minutes)
Allocation of Roles, and Discussions of Future Meetings
· Discussion of what the roles would include.
· Advocacy Team…….
Library Tours
· Possible libraries?
o Map Library
Mentorship
· Getting started – forms gone out to FIMS
Networking
· October 5, 2010 at London Public Library Masonville Branch
· Guest line up: one declined so far
· Guest Speakers/Events
o Karen Mark: Head of Recruitment for the Calgary Public Library
Fundraising - Discussion of new ideas for fundraising.
· Buttons
· Bake sale – two were done last term, both relatively successful.
· Coffee Mugs, (will be price dependent whether travel or regular.) T-shirts
· Suggested idea: Used book sale
· Suggested Idea: Campus photographs printed up as postcards or actual cards could be sold for revenue
Meeting Minutes: September 14, 2010
Minutes: September 14, 2010
Welcome everyone! CLA Open Meeting
· Who we are? What we do?
o Liaison between MLIS students and the national organization.
o The
UWO CLA Student Chapter strives to create opportunities for
professional development by hosting guest speakers, networking events,
and library tours, organizing peer and professional mentorship programs,
encouraging leadership and adding some fun with social events.
o Fundraising to put on our events.
o List of open positions circulated and volunteers welcomed.
On the go so far:
- President's visit
- Calgary Public Library Guest
- Networking
- CV writing/Mock Interviews
- Open the floor to ideas?
· GRC rooms reserved for October 13, 2010 from 9-4 for Mock Interviews
· Gives students opportunity to interview with no pressure
· What would you like to see covered by Jim in CV writing
· CV workshop should be approx. 2 weeks prior
· Lunch hour enough?
· Ticket sales volunteers signed up (attached at bottom of minutes)
Allocation of Roles, and Discussions of Future Meetings
· Discussion of what the roles would include.
· Advocacy Team…….
Library Tours
· Possible libraries?
o Map Library
Mentorship
· Getting started – forms gone out to FIMS
Networking
· October 5, 2010 at London Public Library Masonville Branch
· Guest line up: one declined so far
· Guest Speakers/Events
o Karen Mark: Head of Recruitment for the Calgary Public Library
Fundraising - Discussion of new ideas for fundraising.
· Buttons
· Bake sale – two were done last term, both relatively successful.
· Coffee Mugs, (will be price dependent whether travel or regular.) T-shirts
· Suggested idea: Used book sale
· Suggested Idea: Campus photographs printed up as postcards or actual cards could be sold for revenue
Meeting Minutes: September 7, 2010
Minutes: September 7, 2010
President’s (Keith Walker ) visit is booked - food and drinks need to be arranged - Possible cracker and cheese plate, classier- Grad club is the venue. Food is usually 8-10 dollars per person. Invite wider range of visiting librarians. --- Issues: Budget, and level of formality. Let speaker know level of formality, so he knows what to expect.
Networking
- food brought us over budget. Two terms in a row. Need to cut down.
Meeting room in Masonville. Tuesday October, 5. Oct 19. might be better.
Call LPL and see when is available.
Mock interviews - Oct 13, GRC. Two weeks before - CV/interview seminar (Sept. 29).
Mentorship - invitation email will be sent out end of this week.
Calgary Public Library
- email from Sharon - rep. (Karen Mark) coming to speak to FIMS. How
to proceed? Will know better next week. No date or time as of yet.
Library Tours
- Choose new libraries. Potentially off campus? Children’s Hospital,
quite far away. Might need to arrange car pool. We’d also need to see
if it’s possible on their side. Sarah inquired about information on
arranging library tours.
Welcome to the Canadian Library Association-UWO Student Chapter website
CLA-UWO Student Chapter Summer 2010The CLA Student Chapter has been hard at work all term organizing professional events for MLIS students. We started the term with our Career Development Workshop lead by Ulla de Stricker. The all day event was a great success. Students came away with valuable information on resume writing, cover letters and advice on your their particular career type. Ulla's slides will be made available to all students who were unable to attend or just need a refresher on what was covered.
Our Professional Networking Event was held at the Masonville Branch of the London Public Library. Guests this term included Claire Callaghan from Kings University College, Julie Brandl from London Public Library, Jim Purser from the City of London, Shauna-Lee Konrad from London Health Sciences Center, Liz Mayville from the Oxford County Archives and Paul Klages from the Stiller Center. The event is rather akin to speed dating. Students are seated at a table with one professional, each session runs around 15 minutes giving students the opportunity to ask questions and get a feel for the prospective profession. When the allotted time is up, students move on to the next professional. Each term we include professionals from all areas of librarianship including archives, public, academic, special and government libraries. It is an excellent opportunity to meet professionals in a relaxed, no pressure atmosphere and it gets your name out there! Don't worry, if you missed this terms event, there is always next term! Keep your eyes open for CLA posters around FIMS or check back with our website for upcoming events. Thanks to Jennifer Mason and Janet Hatcher for all their hard work to arrange this event.
This term we were pleased to welcome guest speakers Delilah Deane Cummings and her volunteer co-ordinator Ellen Hobin from the London Public Library. The lunch hour talk focused on community outreach and how to get involved in summer literacy programs at LPL. Thank you to Maria for arranging this event.
As always, the CLA puts on library tours around the UWO campus. This term CLA has organized tours of the Bitove Family Law Library, The Map Library and the Education Library (Thursday, July 29).
The Map Library (downstairs in SSC) was a huge hit!
We had 21 students participate in the tour,
our largest turn out to date!
Here's our Vice Chair Courtney checking out a map.
As mentioned, the Education library tour will be Thursday, July 29, 2010 from 12:15 to 1pm. We hope to see you all there!! Thanks to Colin and Laura for putting the tours together.
Two new events this term were the CV writing workshop with Jim Brett from the Ontario Library Association and Mock Interviews. The CV writing workshop was particularly helpful for those wishing to pursue a career in academic librarianship. The CV writing workshop coupled well with mock interviews. For those unfamiliar with the mock interview session, students wishing to participate were sent a fictional job posting complete with timed deadlines and requirements. Resumes were sent to Jim Brett and are being distributed among the professionals who volunteered to interview at UWO. The mock interviews are 1 hour sessions in which students are interviewed by a team of professionals. After the "interview" portion is over, students are given feedback on the resume and interview skills. This is an excellent opportunity for students to hone their interview skills in a no risk situation. Thanks to Jim Brett and the OLA members for volunteering to help us out and to Elizabeth Yates for all her hard work getting these events together!
That about sums up the term so far........keep your eyes open for the final CLA event in August. It will be a good one!
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