Welcome New Students!
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Other InformationIt is my pleasure to welcome you to the School of Library and Information Science. The professional fields represented by our discipline are vibrant and have a bright future. The faculty and staff of the School exist here because of you and it is our mission to serve you and the profession. If you are in Hattiesburg or nearby, please stop in to introduce yourself to the faculty, staff, and to me. For those at a distance, please keep in close contact in and out of class. We have several means of communicating within our community and want to make SLIS a cohesive educational home for students and alumni. Best wishes in your studies! We all look forward to meeting you in person or virtually!
M. J. Norton, Ph.D., Director
In advance of registering for the semester, please contact the SLIS office to be assigned to a faculty advisor. Advisors are assigned based on several factors: the potential professional match between the faculty's research/teaching expertise and the interests of the student, the student's request for a particular advisor, and the existing advising load of the faculty. Advisors may be changed at any time by request. Consult advisors about your course of study at the beginning of your program and each semester before registering for the following semester. Advisors work with you as your program concludes so that all requirements will have been completed by the intended date of graduation. Advisors will have access to your "Smart Sheet" (undergraduates) or your "Plan of Study" (graduate students), a copy of which you should also maintain (the latter are available from the web site of the Graduate School).
Registration takes place several times during the year. The University of Southern Mississippi has adopted the use of an online system for registering: Southern's Online Academic Registration, (SOAR). For information about searching SOAR for classes, for the periods (windows) of time for registering, and for instructions for registering, see the university's SOAR instruction page.
SLIS uses several means of communicating among students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the profession, including an electronic mailing list, a web site, e-mail, phone and fax. See Contact Us for more details.
Other information, including that about courses, the university, professional associations, and other topics may be found here on the SLIS web site by means of the navigation bars.
