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The Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) was formed in 1975 and is a section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is a division of the American Library Association. The purpose of LPSS is to serve as an educational forum and information exchange for librarians with an interest or subject expertise in law or political science. Our activities include producing literature guides and resource reviews as well as sponsoring conference programs, discussion groups, a newsletter, and listserv. We welcome interested librarians to join our efforts. Archived LPSS Newsletters An effort to locate and digitize missing issues of LPSS News has been completed! The credit goes to Sue Searing, the Library and Information Science librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, for starting the process. Sue found older copies of the LPSS newsletter and checked our online archive. She contacted us with a missing issue. That led to the LPSS Publication Committee's effort to a search for other missing issues. Thanks to the ILL departments at Illinois State University, University of Chicago and the University of Oklahoma, five other missing issues were located. Thanks also to ISU's Digitization Center, and staff member, Jan Johnson, who digitized and prepared the newsletters for online viewing. The following issues--volume 1, issue 1 (November 1985); volume 1, issue 2 (May 1986); volume 2, issue 2 (May 1987); volume 5, issue 2 (May 1990); volume 10, issue 2 (Spring 1995); volume 12, issue 2 (Spring 1997)--are available on the Publications page. We also confirmed that volume 8, issue 2 of the newsletter was not published.
LPSS-GODORT Preconference/Short Course, "Library 2.0: Knowledge, Power, and Pedagogy in Net Space -- Evolving Collaborations and Roles" Funded by the Association of College & Research Libraries and a grant from ProQuest, co-sponsored by the APSA Political Science Education section, and hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Information and Libraries. Welcome - Bruce Pencek, ACRL LPSS, and Jenny Mendelsohn, University of Toronto Workshop I: "'Stories': How to Help Undergrads Discover, Define, and Keep their Research on Track" - Virginia Tech
Plenary II: "Distributed collaboration through Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities"
Bruce Pencek named 2010 Marta Lange/CQ Press Award Winner "Bruce Pencek is an innovator and a leader in establishing connections and collaborating with political science faculty," said Barbara L. Morgan, chair of the award committee and law reference librarian at the University of Massachusetts. "He was instrumental in developing LPSS preconferences at the last two annual meetings of the American Political Science Association. In addition, he recently completed an outstanding term as editor of the LPSS News from 2006-10." LPSS Executive Committee Approved New Governing Procedures In response to ACRL's move away from rigid bylaws and to flexible section governing procedures, the LPSS Executive Committee adopted new Governance Procedures at its Midwinter 2010 meeting. This document replaces the LPSS Bylaws in their entirety. 2010 ALA Elections Fast Approaching Be sure to keep your ALA contact information up to date. This will ensure you get ALA's election emails and allow you to vote online. Go to MY ALA to update your information. LPSS News The Fall 2009 edition is available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/lpss/publications/newsletter/LPSS2501.pdf 2009 ALA Annual Conference Minutes from the Executive Committee meeting and the General Membership meeting are available. Political Engagement: Facilitating Greater Participation in Civil Society Democracy requires a well-informed citizenry willing to participate in political activities such as voting, campaign work, contacting officials and community work. Recognizing dropping rates of participation in civic life, higher education organizations have begun programs to encourage greater political engagement by today’s students. Find out more about these efforts and discover how libraries can facilitate development of lifelong critical thinking and research skills needed for citizenship. Speakers:
A podcast of the presentation is now available as an MP3 file! You can listen to all three speakers and the question and answer period thanks to the efforts of Amalia Monroe, LPSS member, and David Free, a Marketing and Communication Specialist for the Association of College & Research Libraries. The program presentations by Nancy Kranich and Des Plaines Public Library's Joanne Griffin and Holly Sorensen are now available for viewing, as is the updated pathfinder/bibliography with speaker biographies and recommended sources on civic engagement. Political Science Databases and Publishers Roundup: EBSCO, ProQuest and Sage For a number of years, political science subject specialists primarily utilized three major databases: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts and PAIS. Then, a couple of years ago, Political Science: SAGE Full-Text Collection appeared on the scene. In the last six months Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index and most recently ProQuest Political Science have been released. How do these new databases relate to, supplement and/or expand upon the older ones? Which one/s should you choose for your students and faculty? What are the publishers’ plans for the new, as well as the older databases? Join us and representatives from EBSCO, ProQuest and SAGE for a brief demo and in-depth discussion of these issues along with your questions, comments and critiques. Participants and Products Craig Brandt, Director, Humanities and Social Sciences, EBSCO Publishing Jill Blaemers, Senior Product Manager, Social Sciences, ProQuest David Horwitz, Vice President of Sales, Sage PublicationsPolitical Science Research Competency Guidelines The ACRL Board approved the Political Science Research Competency Guidelines on Sunday, June 29, 2008! Kathi Fountain noted that "this document has been five years in the making, and this is a huge accomplishment for our section. We have created a tailored, discipline-specific set of standards and interpreted them in a very practical manner. Many thanks go to the Education Task Force members: Barbara Norelli, Lorena O'English, Bruce Pencek, John Hernandez, Rebecca Ohm, Chris Palazzolo, and Connie Stoner. Thanks is also due to non-task force members who contributed to examples, attended focus groups (in the form of ALA Discussion Groups), and met with faculty on their campuses and at APSA conferences. The approval of this document is a testament to your collaboration. Thank you very, very much. In the next couple of weeks, I will be blending the approved text with our "repository of examples" into one document within the LPSS wiki. This will allow our members to add examples independently and ensure that the guidelines remain relevant and current. It will truly keep it a 'living document.'" | |
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| Last updated: March 9, 2010 |
| This page is maintained by Kathi Carlisle Fountain, Washington State University, Vancouver, and Chad Kahl, Illinois State University, Milner Library. |
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