- Go to http://www.amazon.com/.
- Sign in if you have a membership, or become a new member.
(both links are at the top of the page near the logo in the left-hand corner) - After signing in, click on the link to "Your Account."
(located in the upper, right-hand corner above the search bar) - Scroll down to "Settings" and look for the heading "Account Settings" and sub-heading "Amazon Student Membership." Click on "Amazon Student Membership" and follow the directions.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Free Student Amazon Prime Membership - 2-Day Free Shipping!
If you haven't already, sign up for a free student membership on Amazon.com.
Free Skating at the State Fair
Enjoy a free skating session on Indy's premier ice surface at the historic Pepsi Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, home of the United States Hockey League's Indiana Ice. A great outing before the busy-ness of the holidays, the free sessions are noon-2 p.m. and 2:30-4:30 p.m. with skate rental available in the Pro Skate Shop.
http://visitindy.com/indianapolis-12-free-days-of-indy-christmas
http://visitindy.com/
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
E-Gov: Make It Work @ your library
Monday, November 15, 2010
Past Faculty Brown Bags - Barbara Albee and Dr. Irwin
For those who missed these, I wrote brief summaries for two recent speakers who led the Faculty Brown Bag Lunch meetings. Lots of interesting information and tips for those on the hunt for jobs!
Barbara Albee spoke at a Faculty Brown Bag Lunch on Friday, October 29, on the topic “Alternative Careers for the MLS Degree Holder.”
Recipients of the MLS are not limited to library careers; there is a wealth of alternative careers open to anyone interested and willing to strike out in a new direction. Barbara Albee traced the path that her career took after library school, which included six years of work as manager of electronic resources at a corporation called divine, Inc. She also presented an overview of other kinds of careers available, such as jobs with vendors and publishing companies, and demonstrated how librarians’ roles are being reinvented to reflect changes in technology and library services. Her experiences make the case that our inevitable job search may benefit from looking for new and different kinds of opportunities to use the skills gained from a library degree.
Dr. Irwin spoke at a Faculty Brown Bag Lunch on Friday, November 12, on the topic “When Doors Open, or Landing a Job.”
Sometimes, things don’t always go the way you plan, and that often applies to the post-graduate job search as well. MLS degree holders may be surprised to find themselves in jobs or career paths they had not even considered while working toward their degree. Dr. Irwin told the story of her career, starting from middle school, when she vowed to become a school librarian and worked toward that goal throughout her education. However, opportunities offered led her down a slightly different path, and she chose to take them. Her experiences demonstrate that although you may have a clear-cut path in mind for the future, doors to different yet incredible opportunities may open at any time throughout your career.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Teacher lacks First Amendment right on curriculum
(this was originally posted in the ALA newsletter)
See the original article here: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=23524
An Ohio high school English teacher has no First Amendment right to make assignments about book-banning or to select particular books for her students, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.
The legal dispute between Shirley Evans-Marshall and the Tipp City Board of Education began in 2001 when Evans-Marshall gave her students at Tippecanoe High School a copy of the American Library Association’s “100 Most Frequently Challenged Books” and asked them to pick a book on the list and explain why it was challenged.
What sounds like an instructive assignment blew up into controversy when parents learned of some of the books on the list, including Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Parents objected to the gay-lesbian material in Heather Has Two Mommies and the explicit language and sexual themes in Siddhartha.
Complaining about such curricular choices, parents presented a 500-signature petition calling for “decency and excellence” in the classroom. The petition led to a dispute between Evans-Marshall and her principal, Charles Wray, who warned her she was in the “hot seat.”
In March 2002 the school board voted not to renew Evans-Marshall’s contract. A year later she filed a lawsuit, alleging a violation of her First Amendment rights. She claimed that the school board, Wray and school Superintendent John Zigler retaliated against her for her “curricular and pedagogical choices.”
The school defendants filed a motion to dismiss, contending that Evans-Marshall failed to state a valid claim in her complaint. Both the federal district court in Ohio and the 6th Circuit rejected that argument.
After the process of discovery — in which each side in a lawsuit requests information from the other, takes depositions and engages in other fact-finding — the school defendants filed a motion for summary judgment. In July 2008, U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice ruled in favor of the school defendants. Rice reasoned that Evans-Marshall failed to show a connection between her teaching methods and the nonrenewal of her contract.
On appeal, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court ruling in favor of the school defendants — but for an entirely different reason. The 6th Circuit said Evans-Marshall must lose her case because a teacher’s choice of classroom assignments and curricular choices is official, job-duty speech not entitled to First Amendment protection under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos.
In Garcetti, the Supreme Court ruled that public employees have no First Amendment rights with respect to speech “made pursuant to their official job duties.”
Before Garcetti, public employees alleging a First Amendment claim had to show that their speech touched on matters of public importance and outweighed the employer’s interest in an orderly and efficient workplace. Since Garcetti, they also have had to show that they did not engage in official-job duty speech but in protected citizen speech.
The 6th Circuit panel acknowledged that Evans-Marshall’s curricular choices were important and presented issues of public concern. The panel also found that her free-speech rights otherwise would trump the school board’s interests. But “Evans-Marshall … cannot overcome Garcetti,” the panel ruled Oct. 21 in Evans-Marshall v. Board of Education of the Tipp City Exempted Village School District.
To the panel, it did not matter that school administrators “treated her shabbily.” It mattered only that Garcetti controlled the legal analysis. “Teachers are not everyday citizens,” the panel wrote, adding that the school board had the right to control teachers’ curricular choices and in-class speech.
Evans-Marshall had argued that the principle of academic freedom should provide her additional protection outside the reach of Garcetti. The 6th Circuit responded that “the concept of ‘academic freedom’ … does not readily apply to in-class curricular speech at the high school level.”
Paul Secunda, a Marquette law professor and expert on public-employee rights, criticized the 6th Circuit’s decision in his Oct. 22 blog, “Garcetti vs. Public School Teachers: Garcetti Wins and We All Lose.”
“We want our school teachers to engage in robust debate with their students and expand the spectrum of knowledge,” Secunda wrote. “We are all made poorer by the Sixth Circuit's knee-jerk extension of the Garcetti holding to the public school context; it does nothing less than cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom and makes an obscene joke of academic freedom in the primary and secondary classroom environment.”
See the original article here: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=23524
Center for Service and Learning at IUPUI
I'm sure that everyone is in the midst of final preparations for classes. If you have a moment, please consider sharing your time at one of these volunteer opportunities from the Office of Community Service.
**Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week**
One week prior to Thanksgiving, schools, communities and cities throughout the nation endeavor to bring a greater awareness to the issues of hunger and homelessness.
This year the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention and IUPUI are partnering together to bring awareness events to our community throughout the week! Be on the look-out for flyers with more information!
Events for the week are as follows:
Brown Bag Lunch and Homeless Panel -
Monday, November 15 – 12:00-1:30 – CE 305
Community Resource Fair Resource Fair –
Thursday, November 18 – 11:00-1:00 – Campus Center Atrium
Jam the Jaguars Pantry –
November 14-23 – Drop off cans at several locations around campus to help fill the Jaguars Pantry
**Jags in the Streets - Helping Homeless Veterans and Families**
**November 12th 10am-12pm - HVAF of Indiana, Inc.**
“No American, especially a veteran, should ever be homeless”
Join IUPUI on November 12th in a partnership with HVAF of Indiana Inc, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating homelessness for veterans and their families through prevention, education, supportive services and advocacy.
HVAF provides supportive, structured housing to Indiana veterans and their families who are recovering from homelessness. Additionally, it provides veterans and their families with the assistance necessary to ensure successful independent living in the community.
As a volunteer, you will have the opportunity to help HVAF with raking leaves, picking up limbs & debris, removal of brush from trees and indoor painting.
Please register at https://spreadsheets.google.com /viewform?formkey=dFlfY0c5bUhHLWprbHh4dnY4T1l6Q0E6MA
Once you register, you will receive more information about this event.
Please contact Suzanne Graham with questions about this event: sezeller@umail.iu.edu
**Jags in the Streets - Samaritan’s Feet**
**Saturday November 20th 9am-1pm**
300 million people wake up each morning without a pair of shoes to protect their feet from injury and disease. Samaritan’s Feet is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing lives through Shoes of Hope distributions around the world. Come join IUPUI in the effort with Samaritan’s Feet to provide shoes to children who do not have them. IUPUI volunteers will be helping sort shoes in their warehouse for kids who may have never owned their own pair of shoes in their lifetime.
Register by November 18th at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGpKbUs3b2FLZm9yNWJTTF9WdnV2emc6MA
Once you register, you will receive more specific instructions about this event.
Please contact Suzanne Graham with questions about this event: sezeller@umail.iu.edu
**Postbrook East Apartments is looking for volunteers to be positive role models!**
This opportunity would allow for children to meet one-on-one with a positive role model, once a week in the Postbrook East community room, and receive assistance with homework and/or engage in an entertaining, but, enlightening activity. This position is one that would be very rewarding as these children do not get those experiences often. Snacks and refreshments would be provided for the kids and volunteers.
Special Requirements/Skills for Volunteers: Basic math, science, social studies, and/or language arts skills.
Volunteers Needed every Tuesday from November 9, 2010 to May 17, 2011
Contact Amber N. Smith for more information: asmith@GreystonePMC.com
**School on Wheels Takes Tutors to Homeless Children**
Help make a difference in the life of a homeless child by serving as a tutor in area shelters. School on Wheels is looking for dedicated volunteers to help children with their homework and study skills one hour per week. For more information, contact Carrie at indysow@yahoo.com or call 317-704-4308.
For people who are interested: We are preparing for another busy school year and we are looking forward to training a new group of volunteers to help these children. It is an experience that truly makes a difference in the lives of children and should positively impact your life as well. We hope you can join us for tutor orientation to learn more about this wonderful program. Please contact Carrie at Carrie@indysow.org for training dates. All orientations take place at our offices, located at 2815 E. 62nd St., Ste. 200. Please let us know if you are available to attend one of these orientations.
Volunteers are expected to tutor one hour per week. We have tutoring opportunities Monday -Thursday from 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM. At the training session, we will be discussing homelessness in Indianapolis as well as what it means to be a School on Wheels tutor. You will receive a Tutor Handbook, needed supplies, and sign up for your tutoring assignment. A criminal history check will also be completed. Whatever your timeframe and/or time commitment is, we will work with you to ensure that your tutoring dates and times fit with your busy schedule. Kindly reply to Carrie at Carrie@indysow.org or 317-202-9100. We look forward to seeing you soon!
**St. Vincent Hospital**
**November 27, 2010**
We need volunteers to help with our 2nd Barnes and Noble book fair event! It will be held at the E.82nd Street Barnes and Noble location from 11am-4pm on Saturday, November 27. We have two volunteer shifts: 10:30am-1:30pm and 1:30pm-4:30pm. There will be a variety of activities, including storytelling, face painting and a general info booth.
The money raised from our book fair will help support the St. Vincent Hospital Patient Book Cart, which serves the main hospital, Women’s and Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital. Our book cart visits patients and provides them with a book to read during their stay, free of charge.
If you are interested in volunteering or have any questions, please contact Sara Miller at 317-338-3267 or at sdmille2@stvincent.org
Monday, November 1, 2010
The 12th Annual Ann Katz Festival of Books
The JCC of Indianapolis is presenting a Festival of Books. For more information, visit the web page: http://www.jccindy.org/page.aspx?id=172632.
November 2-17, 2010
Something for Everyone-Literally!
Mark your calendar for two weeks of amazing authors, exciting art and fabulous films! Online registration is now available; all events are $5 / $3 members unless otherwise specified.
November 2-17, 2010
Something for Everyone-Literally!
Mark your calendar for two weeks of amazing authors, exciting art and fabulous films! Online registration is now available; all events are $5 / $3 members unless otherwise specified.
Internship Placements
Those on the list-serv have probably seen the e-mail Dr. Schilling sent out today about the paid internship opportunity through the 21st Cenury Leadership Skills Program. If you already have an internship site in mind, you do not need to switch.
Well, for those who are looking for internships be sure to also check out the internship data on the SLIS internship webpage.
Well, for those who are looking for internships be sure to also check out the internship data on the SLIS internship webpage.
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