From rhill at asis.org Mon Sep 23 10:24:22 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:24:22 -0400 Subject: [Neasis-l] ASIST Annual Meeitng - Early reg.date extended to Sept 30 Message-ID: <380-220139123142422621@LEN-dick-2011> Early registration deadline extended to Sept. 30, 2013 Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-6, Montreal, Canada http://asis.org/asist2013/ 83 papers contributed papers 78 posters 28 panels. The program is extremely rich in content and will draw attendance from scholars and practitioners from information related fields all over the world. The conference program focuses on research and technological development on the latest issues affecting information environments, information phenomena, and information users. The program sets to provide a wide range of research topics and related practical issues such as cloud-based metadata, biomedical research, social informatics to collective information seeking, adoption of social media, digital humanities and human information interaction, among others. We hope that the discussions generated by the papers, panels and posters will contribute to expand our understanding of information problems and to help us in better addressing them in our research and professional endeavors. Keynote speaker: Jorge Garcia, a Montreal-based expert in the area of business intelligence and data management. His work involves the assessment and implementation of information technologies. This year, the Annual Meeting follows the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), another great venue for learning about developments in information and knowledge management. The presence of ICKM attendees at ASIS&T Annual Meeting should provide additional opportunities for great discussions. http://asis.org/asist2013/ . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From ljunghahn at law.harvard.edu Mon Sep 16 08:38:03 2013 From: ljunghahn at law.harvard.edu (Lisa Junghahn) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:38:03 -0000 Subject: [Neasis-l] SLA Fall Conference Full Agenda! REGISTER TODAY! Message-ID: <47F8C74057C5B148A88C188FB21B80070118E42686@HLSANDMBX01.hlsmail.priv> SLA New England & SLA at Simmons Proudly Present: Change as Opportunity! Friday September 27th, 2012, 9am-4:30pm Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 Click Here for Conference Registration! SLA Members - $40 | Retiree/Between Jobs - $20 | Non-Members - $60 | Students - Free! AGENDA 9:00-9:45am - Registration and light breakfast 10:00-10:15am - Welcome & Opening remarks from SLA & Simmons GSLIS 10:15-11:15am - SLA New England is delighted to welcome Jim Matarazzo & Toby Pearlstein, give an Authors keynote presentation on their new book: SPECIAL LIBRARIES: A Survival Guide Since the financial meltdown in 2008, the survival of all types of libraries is at stake-especially corporate and special libraries. To survive, library managers need to prove their organizations' value and retool to protect their positions and move forward confidently. This book explains why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times-and describes how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship. - Buy the Book! 11:15am-11:30pm- short break 11:30-12:15pm - Ethel Salonen and Julie Williams will present their respective popular sessions from the SLA Annual Conference in San Diego on Change Management and Social Media and finding opportunities when the world is changing around you 12:30-1:30pm - Lunch and Sciences Poster Session 2:00-3:00pm - Choose between a Competitive Intelligence session with Fred Wergeles & Chris Hote or a Taxonomy session with Jacob Ratliff 3:00-3:15pm - short break 3:15-4:15pm - Barbara Ingrassia will present an interactive session allowing dialogue and idea sharing about how we all "get the copyright message out there" to our constituents! 4:15-4:30pm - Closing Remarks Click Here for Conference Registration! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sshoemak at brandeis.edu Mon Sep 9 14:18:09 2013 From: sshoemak at brandeis.edu (Sarah Shoemaker) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:18:09 -0000 Subject: [Neasis-l] NEA Workshop: Now What? Networking and Goal Setting for Archivists, Boston, October 5 Message-ID: Now What? Networking and Goal Setting for Archivists Date: Saturday, October 5, 2013 Time: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Location: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston. For directions and parking information, visit http://www.americanancestors.org/directions/ Instructors: Darla White and Jessica Sedgwick, Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School Whether you?ve landed your dream job in archives or you?re just getting your career started, we can all benefit from thoughtful and intentional goal setting, finding ways to grow personally and professionally, and developing a network of people who can inspire, support, and guide us. In this personalized, career-development-oriented workshop we will focus on identifying and setting professional goals, making an actionable plan, building your networking skills,and developing a mentoring circle to help you reach the next level in your career. This will be an interactive, personal, and career-focused workshop. We hope participants will feel comfortable sharing career aspirations and participating in group brainstorming/networking sessions. Participants will leave with a new network of professional peers, an individualized plan that includes actionable career goals for the short term, and a map of their developmental network. Darla and Jessica have facilitated similar sessions for New England Archivists at past meetings and have experience with developing mentoring programs for the Harvard Library and the Joint Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard Medical School. Cost: $25.00 for NEA members; $40.00 for non-NEA members Registration: Online at http://bit.ly/18aMniq; if people wish to pay by check, they can make checks payable to New England Archivists, and mail them to the attention of Stephanie Call, American Jewish Historical Society, New England Archives, 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sshoemak at brandeis.edu Wed Sep 11 16:05:58 2013 From: sshoemak at brandeis.edu (Sarah Shoemaker) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:05:58 -0000 Subject: [Neasis-l] New England Archivists Communications Committee: open call Message-ID: *OPEN CALL: Communications Committee* We are looking for reliable and motivated people willing to learn and to challenge themselves with projects and activities marketing NEA?s news, meetings, workshops, and other activities to our members and to other archivists and information professionals in New England and the broader region. *OPEN POSITIONS* 1. Listserv announcements We are looking for someone to be in charge of sending out listserv announcements from this committee. This includes writing or editing the text and sending it to multiple listservs (if appropriate) and maintaining the accuracy of the email contacts list. 2. Social media (new!) We are looking for someone to help NEA establish a more dynamic presence on our social media websites. The job includes actively posting on a regular schedule and/or setting up online events (TBD). In addition we will want this person to set up a Pinterest page and possibly another social media page like Instagram. 3. Press releases and media contact We are looking for someone to oversee press releases for meetings, workshops, or other NEA events: writing, editing, and emailing them to the press. This person will also be the Communication Committee's media contact. This person will also maintain the accuracy of the press contacts list. IN ADDITION: All members are asked to look over text written for meetings, press releases, and other publicity announcements for grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. Members are also asked to fact-check and edit content for consistency. Members are also always welcome to suggest ideas specific to their skill sets and talents. Members serve for two years. * * *For questions or to apply:* Send an email to Jessica Tanny, Chair of the NEA Communications Committee, at jtanny @ gmail [dot] com with the activities you are most interested in. We will accept new applications until all activities are covered. Members will be added on a first-come, first-served basis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gslisce2 at simmons.edu Mon Sep 30 12:06:07 2013 From: gslisce2 at simmons.edu (GSLIS Cont Ed) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:06:07 -0000 Subject: [Neasis-l] This Saturday -- "Building a Website with WordPress" with Theresa Maturevich Message-ID: **Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education -- Exceptional CE Since 1975** * * *Building a Website with WordPress* October 5, 2013 9:00am - 12:30pm Simmons College campus -- Boston $160 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $125) PDPs: 3.5 WordPress is not just for blogs. It can be used to create a dynamic website for your public library with little to no programming knowledge. In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a free account with WordPress in order to practice using the software. Topics will include a review of how WordPress works, creating posts and pages, inserting images and other media, and customizing a blog with widgets and plugins that can add content such as calendars, RSS feeds, images, and instant messaging (IM). Instructor: Theresa Maturevich is a Simmons GSLIS alum and Head of Reference Librarian and Adult Services at the Bedford Free Public Library in Bedford, Massachusetts. **************************** For our full Fall/Winter schedule, additional information, or to register see http://gslis.simmons.edu/ce or contact gslisce at simmons.edu Kris Liberman LS ?87 Continuing Education/Communications/Community Graduate School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2803 | fax 617.521.3192 email g slisce at simmons.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: