Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents:

On the conference website (http://www.ecpat.net/WorldCongressIII/index.php)

Caribbean HIV Conference

Dear All:
The Caribbean Cytology and Analytical Society (CCAS), based at the Chronic Disease Research Centre, UWI, Barbados, is collaborating with the CHART Network to stage a Caribbean HIV Conference under the theme, “Multidisciplinary team approaches to monitoring and treating persons living with HIV: Challenges for Caribbean small island states”.The dates of the conference are August 23-28, 2009 and the venue is the Marriott Hotel in St Kitts. Registration is now open and must be done via the CCAS website at http://www.caribcas.org/. Please find attached a draft of the near final programme. Additional information can be obtained either from Dr Clive Landis, President of CCAS (clive.landis@cavehill.uwi.edu) or from Natalie Irving-Mattocks at the CHART Regional Coordinating Unit office (nataliemattocks@chartcaribbean.org)

With best regards,
Brendan

Children, Youth and Environments

Children, Youth and Environments has just published a special issue on "Children and Technological Environments."

The issue is available online at
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/19_1/index.htm

Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR)

Spring issue of CONNECTIONS. Please click on the link provided below to open a copy of the newsletter in portable document format (pdf).
http://ccghr.ca/docs/newsletters/Connections_May09_e.pdf

CCDC's Forum

check out the forum at http://uwi.edu/ccdc/forum/_default.aspx?g=forum

14th Off-Campus Library Service

The 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference has begun accepting proposals for the upcoming conference in 2010. The Off-Campus Library Services Conference is extending a formal invitation to librarians, administrators, and educators to present their research and share their knowledge with their peers. Individuals who provide library resources and services to students and faculty participating in instruction either away from a main campus or in the online environment are invited to submit a proposal. Through formal proceedings and the publication of Conference papers in the Journal of Library Administration, this information is made available to all who have an interest in this field. Deadline for submitting a proposal is September 15, 2009! For more information, please visit the conference website

Cleveland, Ohio

April 28-30, 2010

Conference URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/

What is a librarian?

from: weedcute <weedcute@yahoo.com>
to: LIAJA-Members@yahoogroups.com
Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM

I found this blog entry published at Library Journal on June 17, 2009 and thought it rather interesting.
This is the Link http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/580000658/post/1120045712.html
In summary, the author questions the criteria required for someone to call themselves a librarian. Is it the MLIS? Would someone with an MLS, but who didn't work in a library or as a librarian, still be considered a librarian? The author concluded that just having an MLS doesn't make someone a librarian. One has to actually work as a librarian or in a library to be a "librarian."

Quotes
"And what about that tiny minority of people with a bachelor's degree in library science who don't have MLS degrees. Can they ever be librarians?"
"Is a librarian anyone with an MLS? No. I have a degree in art and I can assure you I am not an artist."
"If you know the difference between LC, MARC, cataloging, and classifying,
....you might be a librarian."