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November’s Social Hour (Diwaloween)

The fall semester’s Social Hours have centered around the many cultures that make up our iSchool. September’s theme was a celebration of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. October’s theme was Oktoberfest. For this month’s Social Hour we partnered with ANKUR-Indian Graduate Student Association to focus on Diwali, the Indian Festival of lights.

In honor of Diwali we decided to challenge students to create Rangoli (Traditional Indian decoration usually created with flowers) with nontraditional materials.

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Nontraditional materials = sprinkles and lentils

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Meetings, Meetings, and more Meetings

This past month has been filled with meetings for numerous organizations, both student organizations and local. Two that I had the chance to attend were the Special Libraries Association (SLA) – Pittsburgh Chapter meeting and the School of Information Sciences Graduate Organization (SISGO) meeting.

The SLA meeting occurred on Monday, September 30 and covered “ePortfolios and Beyond.” Nancy Flury Carlson, a member of SLA, gave a broad overview of where to create these, the benefits, and her experience in the creation of her own ePortfolio. It was a great opportunity to meet the local SLA chapter, eat delicious food from Salim’s, and get insight into how ePortfolios have helped these professionals in their careers.

This morning I attended the SISGO meeting. As an officer of DSO and SAASC, I am a voting member of SISGO. This was an informational meeting discussing the nuts and bolts of what to expect this upcoming year. Our staff liaisons were very encouraging of the students to do as we will. We have a wide range of freedom to utilize our student activity fee in a constructive manner; planning and executing professional, academic, and social events for our iSchool student body.

As Commonwealth Scholars, Jourdan and I plan monthly Social Hour, and recruitment events for prospective iSchool students. However, we are just as excited to be a part of more events through our officer roles, events benefiting our student body in other capacities as well!

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us!

The Results Are In!

The election results were announced for the iSchool student organizations. Congratulations to everyone!

SIS-Council Reps
BSIS: Steven Schiliniski, Alternate: Christopher Marx
Masters: Emily Gorman, Alternate: Anuj Desai
PhD: Claudia Lopez, Alternate: Michael Widdersheim
SLAPSG
BUSINESS MANAGER: Spencer Goodwin
VICE PRESIDENT: Aisling Quigley
PRESIDENT: Anna-Sophia Zingarelli
SISGO
BUSINESS MANAGER: Xavier Dillahunt
VICE PRESIDENT: Rounan Zhang
PRESIDENT: Michael Widdersheim
SCALA
BUSINESS MANAGER: Meghan Philp
VICE PRESIDENT: Emily Mross & Lydia Kibler
PRESIDENT: Sarita Wescott
SAASC
BUSINESS MANAGER: Angela Bradshaw
VICE PRESIDENT: Aisling Quigley
PRESIDENT: Anna-Sophia Zingarelli & Emily Reed
NDSA
BUSINESS MANAGER: Spencer Goodwin
VICE PRESIDENT: Spencer Goodwin
PRESIDENT: Angel Ramos
ISO
BUSINESS MANAGER: Praveen Narayana Kumanan & Jun Yin
VICE PRESIDENT: Di Lu
PRESIDENT: Xidao Wen
DSO
BUSINESS MANAGER: Angel Ramos
VICE PRESIDENT: Angela Bradshaw
PRESIDENT: Jourdan Walls
Doc Guild
BUSINESS MANAGER: Michael Widdersheim
VICE PRESIDENT: William Garrard
PRESIDENT: Cristina Robles
ASIST
BUSINESS MANAGER: Xavier Dillahunt
VICE PRESIDENT: Jourdan Walls
PRESIDENT: Praveen Narayana Kumanan

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