[Metro-ny_asist] Report May 24th Meeting - upcoming programs

[Shelly Warwick]

Please excuse my long silence, but a number of things seemed to pile up
right after our re-organizational meeting on May 24th.

Looking for my notes we have 15 people in attendance, including some
students from Linda’s class. We went around and brain stormed some ideas
for possible meetings topics, and, if I read my note correctly (don't ask
about my handwriting) some of the ideas included:

A meeting on publishing 
One or more joint meetings with NJ ASIS&T
Knowledge organization
The New York City information infrastructure
Public Health Info – bio terrorist information
Department of Homeland Security – and policies of fear
A site visit to the 311 phone service and a view of its structure
Information Architecture – some show and tell and now to write heuristics,
and issues in IA
A series for/of IA specialist s on such areas of taxonomy, users, user
information
IA – how-tos
The relationship between IA and LIS
New IA Tools
Anthropomorphism of information (I’m note sure I’m reading this right)
Human Computer Interaction
J-Stor
Open Access and Scholarly publishing
E-journals and peer review - issues
Copyright
Disaster Recovery of lost information
New Search Engine – algorithms
OCLC
Google
Book publication on demand
History of Libraries
Clay Shakey – Futurist
Internet Archives – Way Back Machine
National Centre for Library Statistics – Tom Mulland??
Broadcast and media issues – 
Site visit to media libraries/studios
Archiveal footage
Sports information – broadcast / 
Digital libraries
Classification research
Educational for LIS
Arts & Humannites

After some discussion we decided to work on three programs.

1) Linda Cooper & myself are going to organize a networking/social event
for the chapter in early Fall.  Food and drink (soft  & wine) compliments
of the chapter. Perhaps some entertainment. Suggestions for interesting
venues appreciated. 

Jonathan (I  believe, again my handwriting) will be looking into organizing
a program dealing with IA

I’m seeking to organize a program on LIS education and am awaiting a
response from Michael Gorman as to whether he is available to speak on the
topic. If he can, we will pretty much have to go with whatever date he is
available, though I’ve asked for a Friday afternoon, since I figure this
would be a half day event.

If you have any ideas for programs that you would like to work on, or want
to help out with the social or LIS education event please let me know.

We will also need to elect officers. Volunteers are welcome, so let me know
if you would like to serve as president, secretary, treasurer,
communications officer, etc.

Again, my apologies for the delay in getting this out to you, and looking
forward to some great meetings this year!



Shelly Warwick
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Queens College
BRL-254
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11367
Voice: 718-997-3757
Fax: 718-997-3797
Shelly_Warwick at qc.edu