About this blog

So what’s this blog about exactly?
Good question. This is the official blog of the Oklahoma Library and Information Studies Student Association (OLISSA). It is intended to serve as an open forum for students enrolled in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Oklahoma to communicate with OLISSA officers and with each other. This blog will be routinely updated with information about SLIS, OLISSA, and other items of relevance.

Commenting on posts is strongly encouraged. To do you, you must either sign in with your existing WordPress account or sign up for a new one. If you sign up for a new account, you will be emailed a link to activate your account. Once activated, you may comment to your heart’s content.

A note of caution: the content of this blog will be visible to all comers (e.g. fellow students, SLIS faculty, OU administration, potential employers) so please comment accordingly. The blog moderator reserves the right to remove content deemed inappropriate.

So what’s all the stuff at the side?
The categories running vertically down the right side of the blog are features intended to make the blog more useful and accessible.

Search
Perform a simple search of all blog postings. Sorry, search masters, but this search feature does not support Boolean, proximity, or truncated searching.

Subscribe to this Blog
This section contains numerous ways that one can subscribe to this blog via RSS using the one of the RSS readers listed or a reader of your choice.

Blogroll
The Blogroll is a list of library and KM blogs that may be of use to SLIS students in keeping up with current trends in the respective fields. If you subscribe to a blog that is not listed and you think it would be useful for SLIS students, leave a comment to this entry with the blog’s address and a description of why you like it.

Links
The Links section contains websites of various library and KM professional organizations, miscellaneous KM and LIS-related sites, online classified ads for library and KM jobs, the SLIS and libraries sites at OU, and a site that some SLIS students have used for Turabian citations for electronic resources. Again, if you have a site you think would be a useful addition, send it along in a comment to this post.

Flickr Photos
This section is a link to OLISSA’s photos that are hosted at Flickr.

Calendar
The Calendar contains links to the days on which an entry to this blog was made.

Categories
The Categories contain tags that are attached to blog entries based on their content. Clicking on one of these categories will display all of the blog entries that have been tagged with this category.