The UP School Of Library and Information Studies is having a lecture series on August 14, 2008 at SLIS Rooms 3 and 4, 9:00am. Topics will be:

Visualizing Leprosy: Archives, Leprosy and Collective Memory

by Ricardo PunzalanPh.D. Student, University of Michigan School of Information
Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines.

What Does It Meme? Spam, Online Quizzes and the Last Song Syndrome: Cognitive Poetics and Useless Information
by: Paolo Manalo
Ph.D. Student, University of St. Andrews School of English
Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines

What Was the First Book Printed in the Philippines?
by Vernon Totanes
Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies

The UP LISSA welcomes the new Bachelor of Library and Information Science students this first semester AY 2008-2009. As the SLIS’ population balloons, the UP LISSA barkada also gets bigger as it welcomes the new members! The bonding activities we had the past weekends would have never been that fun without the effort of the facilitators and the participation of members and applicants. Here are some of the pictures!

Also, the UP LISSA is looking forward to its 46th birthday!! Lots of fun and  informative activities awaits the students as well as the alumni this coming August. Some of these are:

• UP LISSA @46 exhibit launch (August 5 at SLIS)

• Alternative Classroom Learning Experience (DecodingFairy Tales: the Untold Stories on August 14 at SLIS)
• PaLIgSSAhan (August 16)

• Photography Workshop (August 23 at SLIS)
•  Bloodletting (August 20/22 at UP Mainlib)
• UP LISSA big night!! (August 30)

Come and join the fun! xoxo