[Sig-l] ASIST 2005 Leadership Development Program

[pcalarco at nd.edu]

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To SIG and Chapter leaders and all ASIST members:

As Leadership Development Chair I invite you to attend the Leadership
Development
Program at the ASIST annual meeting in Charlotte. The session is free. Just
check
it when you register for the annual meeting. I am looking forward to a great
program,
and to seeing you in Charlotte!

Penny O'Connor
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Leadership Development Program
Sunday, October 30, 2005, 5:30-6:30pm (free)

"Keeping on the same page: simply working together and making your group
effective
and productive"

You will learn about new and tried and true collaboration tools to help with
your
ASIST activities as well as other professional projects.

The speakers are Anita S. Coleman and Yin Zhang. Dr. Coleman is Assistant
Professor,
School of Information Resources & Library Science, University of Arizona, Tucson
AZ. Dr. Zhang is Associate Professor, Kent State University School of Library
and
Information Science, Kent OH.

Anita Sundaram Coleman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information
Resources
& Library Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson, which she joined in
2001. Anita loves blogs and wikis and has been playing with them since the 90s.
During her leadership as Chair in 2002, the AZ chapter of ASIST experimented
with
three types of software for virtual community building one of which was the
usemod
wiki <http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>. Anita is the author of ASC Online
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0109575/>, a weblog of Information Science &
Technology education and mentoring for LIS graduates. She also uses Movable
Type,
another blogging software, to maintain the SIRLS Learning Showcase
<http://rani.sir.arizona.edu/~sirls/mt/>
where student projects from her courses are published on the web.

Yin Zhang is served as the Communications Officer for SIG III - International
Information
Issues - 2001-2004 and Chair 2004-2005. SIG III was SIG of the year for 2001 and
2002. As SIG III's Communications Officer and Chair, Yin Zhang has edited and
published
three issues of SIG III Newsletter every year since 2001, with a total of 12
issues
so far. During her tenure as the group's Chair, SIG III has successfully carried
out several major projects. As the webmaster of the group's website
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/),
Yin Zhang redesigned the group's website and has been maintaining it since 2001.
The website won the SIG Publication-of-the-Year Award for 2003. In addition, she
has maintained the group's listserv for four years since 2001.

Yin has also been active in her local ASIST Chapter, NORASIST (Northern Ohio
Chapter
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology), since 1999. She
won the Chapter Member-of-the-Year Award for 2003.