[Neasis-l] SAVE THE DATE: NEASIS&T Awards Banquet May 23 with Distinguished Speaker, Dr. Andrew Dillon, ASIS&T President-Elect
Beata Panagopoulos
bpanagopoulos at suffolk.edu
Fri Apr 13 11:33:47 EDT 2012
The New England Chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that it will be holding its 2012 Annual Awards Banquet on
Wed., May 23
6-10 p.m.
MIT Faculty Club
Cambridge, Mass.
It is with great honor that we welcome ASIS&T President-Elect, Dr. Andrew Dillon, as our distinguished speaker. The topic of his talk will be:
BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL: PREPARING FOR TRANSITIONS IN THE LIBRARY & INFORMATION PROFESSION
Andrew Dillon is the Dean and Louis T. Yule Professor of Information Science at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin where he also holds appointments in Psychology and Information Risk & Operations Management. Andrew has been an active researcher of the human response to information technology for the last 20 years. Defying professional categorization, he has held appointments in departments or schools of cognitive science, computer science, psychology, instructional systems technology, management information systems, library and information science, and informatics. Having published more than 100 articles and books on various aspects of human information behavior and design, Andrew serves or has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals such as the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Interacting with Computers, the Journal of Documentation, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He advocates a view of information science as a means of accelerating discovery and shaping a more democratic world.
Registration will be available shortly!
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Beata
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Beata Panagopoulos
Assistant Director, Technical Services
Sawyer Library
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Tel. 617 573 8541
Fax 617-305-3289
Email: bpanagopoulos at suffolk.edu
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