Last Chance! – 15th Annual UCLA IS Dodger Night

It’s almost here! Get your tickets this week!

The SLA Student Chapter at UCLA presents: 15th Annual UCLA Information Studies Night at Dodger Stadium!

Sunday, April 28, 2013 – 1:10pm at Dodger Stadium

Come see the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Milwaukee Brewers. Come one, come all! This event is not only open just to IS department folks: bring your family and friends!

Tickets (Top Deck Seats):

• $15.00 if paying by cash or check (please download the 2013 Dodger Ticket Order Form and fill it out and return to Jennifer Clark on the 2nd floor reception area of the IS building by 4:00 PM, April 19)
• Get tickets from us in person on Wednesday 4/24 or Thursday 4/25 from 12:30 to 1:30 in the IS Commons
• $16.00 if paying via Paypal (please e-mail sla@ucla.edu for the order link) – please note that if you need your tickets mailed, you should place a Paypal order no later than tomorrow Monday 4/22

15th Annual UCLA IS Night at Dodger Stadium

The SLA Student Chapter at UCLA presents:

The 15th Annual UCLA IS Night at Dodger Stadium!

Sunday, April 28, 2013 – 1:10pm at Dodger Stadium

Your Boys in Blue vs. Milwaukee Brewers (as if you cared about the opponent)

Tickets (Top Deck Seats):

• $15.00 if paying by cash or check (please download the 2013 Dodger Ticket Order Form and fill it out and return to Jennifer Clark on the 2nd floor reception area of the IS building by 4:00 PM, April 19)
• $16.00 if paying via Paypal (please e-mail sla@ucla.edu for the order link)

Come one, come all! This event is not only open just to IS department folks: bring your family and friends!

UCLA SLA Jim Henson Studios Tour

A great time was had by all at the UCLA SLA Jim Henson Studios Tour! The tour was led by Hillary Howell, an alumni of the Moving Image Archival Studies program in the UCLA Information Studies Department. You can read a full write-up of the tour by UCLA SLA member Ashley Soo in this month’s SLA Southern California newsletter! Also, thanks to Emily McNish for the photo! http://southerncalifornia.sla.org/januaryfebruary-2013-newsletter/

SLA @ UCLA and ARTiFACTS Joint Winter Quarter Meeting!

SLA @ UCLA and ARTiFACTS are teaming up to bring you the following meeting which is open to all UCLA MLIS and MIAS students. It will be chock full of fun, food, and information!

What: SLA/ARTiFACTS Winter Meeting to talk about upcoming events, tours, mixers, career panel, open officer positions for 2013-14, and much more!

When:  Wednesday February 27 from 12:30-1:25

Where: GSE&IS Room 111

And of course – PIZZA PROVIDED!

The meeting will take place after morning classes.

Clark Library Tour on Feb. 19 at 2:00pm

The SLA and SAA UCLA chapters are teaming up to host a tour of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The Clark Library is one of UCLA’s major libraries for rare books and manuscripts, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It’s a beautiful place worth visiting especially if you have interest in rare books, archives and special collections!

The tour will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the 19th of February. The library is located in the West Adams district and so carpooling will be ideal! 

Please RSVP (nbeyer@ucla.edu) and mention if you will be needing a ride, can provide a ride to others, or will just meet us there. Visit the link below for location and further information about the Clark!

http://clarklibrary.ucla.edu

  Photo created by the UCLA Library and used with permission. The Regents of the University of California continue to hold copyright for all UCLA Library Web site content.

CNN Library Tour 2/13 at 4pm

Have you ever wondered about the fast-paced world of librarianship for television journalism? Pondered how all that video is archived? Just really wanted to see a news studio in person? 

Well, you’re in luck! The SLA Student Chapter at UCLA will be sponsoring a tour of the CNN Library on Wednesday February 2/13 at 4pm. The tour will be conducted by librarian Jaime Solano.

For those interested in reserving a spot on this tour, please send an RSVP email privately to Tim Gallati (tim.gallati@gmail.com) with the following info:

1) I need a ride!
2) I can host a carpool with x passengers.
3) I have transport and I’ll see you there.

Space on this tour is limited, so act fast!

SLA Holiday Party

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

The SLA @ UCLA and SAA @ UCLA are hosting a HOLIDAY MIXER!!!

When: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
6 pm – 8 pm
Where: The Museum of Jurassic Technology
What: Holiday sweater wear, festive cocktails, a museum full of oddities
$15.00

Take two hours off during finals week and allow yourself a rationing of fun!

 

The museum is located at 9341 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
There is a parking garage on Cardiff Ave, two blocks away, between Venice Blvd. and Culver Blvd. (Free for first two hours)

If you haven’t visited the Museum of Jurassic Technology, it is truly a delight:
tea room, mini film theater, roof top patio equipped with doves,
micro-mosaics, pin-head portraits… need I go on?

Please RSVP with Nicoletta Beyer (nbeyer [@] ucla [dot] edu)
You can pay at the door, but prepayment is much appreciated:
You can drop a check made out to “UCLA SLA Student Chapter” in my folder in the commons!

The more the merrier!!!

Mission Accomplished: UCLA SLA Joins CSUN/UNT SLA for JPL Tour

In what we hope to be the first of many collaborative future events, the CSUN/UNT SLA student chapter invited a cohort from UCLA to join them in a tour of JPL.  Special thanks to Christal Young (CSUN/UNT SLA chapter president) for organizing the tour and having us along!  We hope to return the favor soon.

 

In the meantime, stay tuned for the next tour…mission control signing off.

Museum Library Reception with the SLA SC – POSTPONED

UPDATED: This event has been postponed until 2013. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear any updates, because it should be a lot of fun!

From the SLA Southern California Chapter:

On November 14^th, please join the librarians of the California African American Museumand the Natural History Museum for a two-library reception. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit two of Exposition Park’s finest museums, all in the company of your friends and neighbors in the library community.

From 4:30 to 6:00, CAAM’s new librarian Denise McIver, will throw open the doors and welcome you inside CAAM’s library with wine and light refreshments. A docent will be on hand to discuss “GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN,” one of the current exhibits.

At 6:00, we’ll head over to the NHM library. Richard Hulser has done a hero’s job here, and he’ll be on hand to tell you how to bring a library back to life.

The event is free, but parking is $10.00 (cash only). To park near CAAM, park in the lot between Exposition and Martin Luther King on the West Side of Figueroa. To park near NHM, park in Lot 3, on the east side of Bill Robertson Lane south of Exposition Blvd.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 13, to Drea.Douglas@hklaw.com so that we can have your names on the list for NHM. The museum will be closed and we will be escorted to the library.

KCRW Tour a Success!

Thanks to Eric J. Lawrence (KCRW Music Librarian) for hosting this fantastic tour of the music library and the station. Special thanks to Jason Bentley (host of Mornings Become Eclectic) for letting us visit during the broadcast!

For those who missed this tour, stay tuned for the next one!