MLIS students complete a wide variety of independent study courses. Come and hear the results of five such cases. Date: Friday, March 20th, 2009 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Place: Executive Training Suite, Room 3089, Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Avenue Title: MLIS Independent Study Courses: From Contract Work to Original Research Presenters: Creighton Barrett : Open Access Publishing. Advisor: Haidar Moukdad Braden Cannon: Processes for Community Archiving. Advisor: Kathryn Harvey Sean Swanick: Cataloguing and Classification of Arabic Materials. Advisor: Haidar Moukdad Tasya Tymczyszyn: Trends in Technology and Design: Teen Spaces in Small Public Libraries. Advisors: Fiona Black and Eric Stackhouse. Sarah Ziolkowska: Connecting with Comics. Advisor: Vivian Howard -- School of Information Management Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 902-494-3656