From knyhan at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 17:28:06 2014 From: knyhan at gmail.com (Kate Nyhan) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:28:06 -0500 Subject: [Neasis-l] Join NEASIST at our December meetup: ten info trends in 2014 Message-ID: Just how closely have you been keeping up with today's big picture? Don't worry! We've picked out ten trends in information that you should know about. Come talk over what we consider the information highlights of 2014 -- and if you think we've missed something important, catch us up on it before 2015 begins! This event is open to all--you don't need to be a member of ASIS&T to join us. In fact, we think this is a great chance to introduce a colleague or a friend! Everyone welcome, from expert to novice and from any professional background. Here's the logistics: Tuesday, December 16 6 PM - 8 PM John Harvard's in Harvard Square (33 Dunster Street) RSVPs welcome (but not required) at our Meetup site . Questions welcome at nyhan at post.harvard.edu. See you there! 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But how can we make sense of all that data and, more importantly, how can we use it to share information effectively? Discover how well-crafted data visualizations can make a powerful impact in your professional work and learn the skills necessary to share your insights through compelling visualizations. The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invites you to join us at our 2015 Winter Event, Data Visualization: How to Do It and Do It Well. A morning panel of speakers will share their insights, experiences, and best practices for working with data visualizations. Afternoon workshops will give you hands-on practice with a data visualization software or program. These workshops are intended to help you get up and running with data visualization. Visit our event site to see the topics to be discussed and the tools to be practiced, and check out the roster of speakers below! *Speakers* Andrew Ashton, Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies -- Brown University Library Mike Barry, Software Engineer -- Twitter Brian Card, Software Engineer -- Viasat Lynn Cherny, Information Visualization Consultant Amy Deschenes, Systems & Web Applications Librarian -- Simmons College Library Rob Erdmann, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology -- MIT Carolin Ferwerda, Instructional Technologist for GIS & Statistics -- Wellesley College Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator -- Brown University Library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 15 11:31:43 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:31:43 -0500 Subject: [Neasis-l] 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <380-2201412115163142972@LEN-dick-2011> 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency - St. Louis, MO USA Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community http://www.asis.org/asist2015/am15cfp.html This year?s conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ? including academics and practitioner researchers ? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. Submissions are encouraged that present theoretical or applied research with results that demonstrate one or more of the following themes: Impact on Individuals Impact on Society Impact on Organizations Impact on Systems & Technology Impact on Information Contexts Important Dates Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials Submissions: April 30, 2015 Notifications: June 11, 2015 Final copies: July 15, 2015 Posters, Demos & Videos: Submissions: July 1, 2015 Notifications: July 30, 2015 Final copies: August 20, 2015 Conference Chair: Lisa Given Paper Co-Chairs: Brian Detlor, Hazel Hall Panel Co-Chairs: Heather O'Brien, Alison Brettle Poster Co-Chairs: Lynn Westbrook, Michael Khoo 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 neasist at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 16:50:30 2014 From: neasist at gmail.com (NE ASIST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:50:30 -0500 Subject: [Neasis-l] Data Visualization Event 1/15/15: Get to know your presenters! Message-ID: Librarians, knowledge managers, informationists and others have already started registering for Data Visualization: How to Do It and Do It Well. Should you? Yes, because our presenters are amazing! Look below for details about one great presenter, or check our website for the rest. *WHEN*: January 15, 2015 ||| Thursday ||| 9 AM - 2:30 PM *WHERE*: Simmons College in Boston *HOW MUCH*: Registration $45 ||| NEASIST/SLA members $35 ||| students $15 *SO*: Register today ! *Get to know your presenters: Lynn Cherny* Lynn Cherny has a Ph.D. from Stanford and worked as a user experience designer for 18 years at companies including Adobe, Autodesk, and TiVo. In the past 6 years, she has worked as a consultant in information visualization, doing data analysis and web development for interactive data projects. Lynn is co-chair of the OpenVis Conference in Boston, April 2015, a conference focused on open source web tools and design practices for data visualization. *Lynn's talk: Best Practices for Designing Data Visualization* This talk will be a tour through some guidelines for designing data visualizations, both static and interactive. We'll look at some principles for visual encodings, strategies for handling different types of data, and smart methods to design for interactivity from the ground up. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From olimpia at mit.edu Mon Dec 15 18:21:48 2014 From: olimpia at mit.edu (Olimpia Estela Caceres-Brown) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:21:48 +0000 Subject: [Neasis-l] Vacancy Announcement - MIT Librarian for EECS and Engineering Systems Message-ID: Please help us recruit - share this posting with appropriate lists, encourage colleagues to apply, and/or identify candidates whom we might want to invite to apply. Librarian for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering Systems Liaison, Instruction and Reference Services The MIT Libraries seek a forward-looking and enterprising professional familiar with the use and communication of all formats of research information in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) and Engineering Systems to shape and deliver programs of instruction, reference, outreach, and resource selection and to serve as liaison to an active community of users involved in research and teaching at the leading edge of their fields. The EECS undergraduate program has the largest enrollment at MIT, typically including over 20% of all MIT undergraduates. Its graduate program is consistently ranked among the top electrical engineering and computer science programs in the world. The Engineering Systems Division (ESD), a graduate program within the School of Engineering, strives to solve previously intractable engineering systems problems by integrating approaches based on engineering, management, and social sciences, using new framing and modeling methodologies. The EECS/ESD Librarian serves as the Libraries expert on the research, learning culture, and information practices of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the Engineering Systems Division within the School of Engineering. S/he actively works to maintain and build connections within the assigned communities and provides information-related instruction, with an emphasis on engaging these communities in the areas of data management, content management, open access and entrepreneurship. S/he will collaborate with colleagues supporting the management and social science communities to provide instruction and reference to support the programs in ESD. S/he selects and advocates for the acquisition and discovery of research materials for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. S/he also provides reference support, for the Engineering community and in support of the MIT community as a whole. S/he is an active member of the Research Data Services group in the department of Data and Specialized Services, participating in the design and delivery of services related to research data. The EECS/ESD Librarian collaborates with colleagues in other library departments to understand research processes and data needs in engineering and science, utilizing expertise about the user community to inform decision making, and supporting the community?s use of information resources. S/he promotes the Libraries? repository-based services and provides support for scholarly publishing initiatives, such as recruitment of faculty-created research materials for inclusion in MIT?s Open Access collections. S/he collaborates with liaison colleagues to support the interdisciplinary activities of the EECS and ESD departments. The EECS/ESD Librarian reports to a manager in the Liaison, Instruction & Reference Services (LIRS) department and is a participating member of the Science and Engineering Community of Practice with fellow liaison librarians. S/he participates actively in system-wide initiatives and serves on committees and task forces and is expected to communicate actively with fellow professionals through research, writing or presentations, and/or professional service activities. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for the position include: ? MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution, or an engineering or science degree with a willingness to pursue an MLS/MLIS. ? Experience in or capacity for developing creative and entrepreneurial approaches to promoting and delivering reference, instruction and/or outreach services to a research community. ? Demonstrated interest in and capacity to develop programs for current research trends such as engineering information, research data management, open access, content management, intellectual property issues, funder requirements, entrepreneurship, etc. ? Background or professional experience in or understanding of the research processes in engineering and science. ? Demonstrated interest and enthusiasm for developing and maintaining relationships with user communities. ? A foundation of knowledge and understanding of the roles of libraries and librarians in providing research data management services for communities of researchers. ? Enthusiasm for developing knowledge of EECS literature and information sources for use in developing research level collections. ? A collaborative approach to problem solving and working across organizational boundaries in service of user needs. ? Independence and initiative in accomplishing liaison work, including ability to be flexible and managing competing priorities. ? Facility, mastery, and independent exploration of appropriate technologies in service of user needs. ? Highly developed communication skills, both oral and written ? Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to effectively collaborate with colleagues Preferred: ? A degree in an engineering or science field. ? A deep understanding of the literature and information sources used within engineering, sufficient to provide high quality support to advanced students and researchers. ? Experience advising researchers managing primary research data in areas such as development of data management plans, contributing metadata descriptions or schemes, data preservation, or contributing to repositories. ? Knowledge of scholarly communication practices in engineering, particularly trends and challenges related to open access publications. SALARY AND BENEFITS: $54,500 is minimum entry-level salary. Actual salary and appointment classification (Librarian I or II, or other) will depend on qualifications and experience. MIT offers excellent benefits including a choice of health and retirement plans, a dental plan, tuition assistance and a relocation allowance. The MIT Libraries afford a flexible and collegial working environment and foster professional growth of staff with management training and travel funding for professional meetings. Apply online at: http://hrweb.mit.edu/staffing/. Applications must include cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references. Priority will be given to applications received by January 7, 2015; position open until filled. MIT is strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community and particularly encourages applications from qualified women and minority candidates. The MIT Libraries support the Institute's programs of research and study with holdings of more than 2.9 million print volumes and 3.1 million special format items, and terabytes of MIT-owned digital content. In addition, rare special collections, Institute records, historical documents, and papers of noted faculty are held in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Library resources and services are accessible to students and researchers through the Libraries? website (http://libraries.mit.edu/), and library spaces are widely available for both collaborative work and quiet study. Library resources are supplemented by innovative services for bioinformatics, GIS, metadata, social science and other research data. Through a culture that encourages innovation and collaboration, the MIT Libraries are redefining the role of the 21st century library - making collections more accessible than ever before, and shaping the future of scholarly research. Library staff, at all levels, contribute to this spirit of innovation and to the mission of promoting learning, discovery and the advancement of knowledge at MIT and beyond. The Libraries maintain memberships and affiliations in ArchivesSpace, arXiv, Association of Research Libraries, the BorrowDirect, Boston Library Consortium, DDI Alliance, DuraSpace, HathiTrust, CLIR/Digital Library Federation, Coalition of Networked Information, Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, EDUCAUSE, National Digital Stewardship Alliance, NISO, North East Research Libraries, OCLC Research Library Partnership, ORCID, and TRAIL. The Libraries utilize Ex Libris? Aleph for its integrated library system and have recently deployed EBSCO?s Discovery Service. DSpace at MIT, a digital repository developed over the past ten years by the MIT Libraries, serves to capture, preserve and communicate the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and research community. Other MIT repositories include: Dome, a second DSpace instance, providing access to a sizable image collection and other digital collections owned by the MIT Libraries; the MIT Geodata Repository for adiverse collection of GIS Data; and MIT?s DataVerse for licensed social science datasets. ================================ Robin M. Deadrick Human Resources Administrator MIT Libraries 77 Massachusetts Ave. Room 14S-324 Cambridge MA 02139-4307 617.253.9322 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Olimpia Estela Caceres-Brown MIT, Libraries Information Technology and Discovery Services, 14S-134 Tel. 617.253.5680 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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He is also very interested in education and data visualization. *Rob's workshop: **Circos ? a round form of data visualization* Circos is a data visualization program that allows you to display heat maps, histograms, scatter plots, and much more ? all in a round package! It was originally developed as a way to display whole genome datasets in Biology, but has started spreading into a wide range of fields . Circos is ideal for displaying connections or movement between data categories, and is a good mechanism for displaying tabular data in a more visually accessible format . In this workshop, we?ll walk step by step through the basics of creating a Circos plot using simple sample data sets, and will finish by exploring some of the more advanced possibilities that the program makes possible. This is an intermediate-to-advanced workshop; it's extremely helpful to be familiar with the command line. 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Look below for details about two great presenters, or check our website for the rest. *WHEN*: January 15, 2015 ||| Thursday ||| 9 AM - 2:30 PM *WHERE*: Simmons College in Boston *HOW MUCH*: Registration $45 ||| NEASIST/SLA members $35 ||| students $15 *SO*: Register today ! *G et to know your presenters: Andrew Ashton & Patrick Rashliegh* Andrew Ashton, Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies -- Brown University Library Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator -- Brown University Library *Andrew & Patrick's talk: *Visualizing Scholarship in Library Spaces Brown University Library opened the Digital Scholarship Lab in Fall 2012. The Lab features an ultra-high resolution display wall, touch-enabled devices, and the capability to combine content from many devices simultaneously [check it out in this video !]. While the initial conception for the Lab focused heavily on data visualization techniques that leverage the wall's size and resolution, other uses of the facilities have proven surprising and enlightening, and have helped to broaden our conception of how data, digital content, digital scholarship, pedagogy, and physical spaces intersect. This talk will provide an overview and critical reflection on our experiences thus far. Andy Ashton is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies at Brown University Library. He leads a group of librarians, developers, and technologists devoted to supporting and exploring the intersection of digital library technologies with teaching and research at the university. In addition to general oversight of library technology, he oversees the development of tools, services, and facilities to support emerging modes of scholarship. He has previously worked at Radio Free Asia and Skidmore College, and has degrees in Music, American History, and Information Science. Patrick Rashleigh is the Data Visualization Coordinator at the Brown University Library, where he creates, teaches, supports, and advocates for visual scholarship. He also oversees the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, a space for experimenting with large-format imagery and collaborative processes. Patrick has an extended interest in engaging with faculty and the educational community around the use of technology in the curriculum. He was selected to participate in the NEH "One Week | One Tool" institute that yielded Anthologize (2010), which enables scholars to format and publish their academic blogs as e-books. He is a founding member and coordinated the user experience design of the TAPAS Project, a platform for publishing, archiving, and visualizing scholarly texts encoded in the TEI standard. 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