Welcome to new and returning students. I'm part of the ALA@Wayne student organization and we could be considered the cheerleaders of the American Library Association (ALA). We're interested in the happenings and events of our parent association and we promote the professional development of our students. We can help you with what matters most…getting involved in librarianship and learning about the trends and issues that impact our profession.

There's the Future Librarians for Inclusivity and Diversity (FLID) student organization, which delves into ways to manage an inclusive and diverse environment in the library profession. Here's one way to polish your diversity skills.

Everything's going digital and libraries are pioneering the effort to digitize, preserve, and manage their collections digitally. You can learn how to prepare for a digitization project and how to organize digitally borne resources by spending time with your fellow LIS classmates at the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NSDA) student chapter meetings. I am also involved with this group, too. They're pretty innovative as the first student chapter of the Library of Congress.

Student Organizations of Library and Information Science (SOLIS) can be quite helpful to new students getting oriented to the WSU SLIS program. They hold monthly online meetings where you can meet newly admitted students to the program and ask questions in a relaxed atmosphere.

If you are passionate about history and the possibility of handling original documents from histories past gets you excited, then the WSU Student chapter of the Society of American Archivist (SAA) could be your muse.

We'd all love to have you join us, but we know you can only pick one or maybe two. Watch out for the September meeting announcements in your WSU email. Connect with one of our SLIS student organizations and spend some time with like-minded students and find your passion in the LIS profession.

Hop on over to the SLIS Student Associations site and check out our organizations.