From hoadriank at gmail.com Mon Oct 6 17:19:46 2014 From: hoadriank at gmail.com (Adrian Ho) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:19:46 -0400 Subject: [Sigah-l] =?utf-8?b?VGhlIOKAnEFyYWIgU3ByaW5n4oCdIGFuZCBTb2NpYWwg?= =?utf-8?q?Media?= Message-ID: Sending an invitation on behalf of Toni Greider. Apologies for cross-posting. Greetings, We are pleased to announce that on October 14th, the University of Kentucky Libraries along with the College of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring *The ?Arab Spring? and Social Media: Possibilities and Perils in a Networked Age*, a presentation by Dr. Todd Presner. Dr. Presner is the Chair of UCLA?s Digital Humanities Program and also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is the co-author of Digital Humanities published by MIK Press in 2012 and most recently HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Dr. Presner will discuss a series of projects that analyze the role of social media in the Middle East, starting with the 2009 Tehran election protests and going up to the 2011 ?Arab Spring.? He will include Twitter projects such as the ?Voices of January 25th? (Egypt), ?Voices of February 17th? (Libya), and HyperCities as examples. The program will be on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. EDT and we are working on streaming this event. We expect the event to run about 1 hour. If you are interested in attending ?virtually? please fill out the contact form at: http://bit.ly/1msWexo so we can send you the information to attend. Toni Greider Toni.Greider at uky.edu Director of International Programs University of Kentucky Libraries PS: The poster of the event is attached. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Presner poster REV.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 995446 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Mon Oct 6 17:41:49 2014 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:41:49 -0600 Subject: [Sigah-l] SJSU ASIS&T October Events Message-ID: The SJSU ASIS&T Student Chapter is hosting two guest speaker events this month, and we'd love to see you there! Thanks, Jeremy L. McLaughlin Chair, SJSU ASIS&T 2014-16 ASIS&T New Leader ******************************* *Much Ado About Ebooks and DDA* *WHEN**: Wednesday October 8, 2014 at 6:00 PM (PT)* We're proud to present our first in a new series of invited speaker presentations on technology trends in the library world. This inaugural event will feature Michael Levine-Clark from the University of Denver discussing ebooks and demand driven acquisitions in academic libraries including their impact on print and digital collection development practices. This event is being co-sponsored by the University of Denver ASIS&T Student Chapter. http://bit.ly/ZpYRpQ *Open Access Academia* *WHEN: Thursday October 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM (PT)* The ASIS&T Student Chapter is excited to welcome Mark Hahnel, PhD, the Founder and CEO of figshare , to discuss open access, open science, data sharing, and their impact on academia and on research in general. Mark will speculate on the pros and cons of each of these ideas and their disruptive business models, as well as highlighting examples where the norm has already changed and what that means for the future of scholarly work and academia. http://bit.ly/YJYdTe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryann.harlan at gmail.com Wed Oct 22 10:12:43 2014 From: maryann.harlan at gmail.com (Mary Ann Harlan) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:12:43 -0700 Subject: [Sigah-l] ASIST events Message-ID: Hello, For those of you who will be at ASIST in Seattle I'd like to invite you to our business meeting Monday morning at 9:05, in the Juniper room. Also SIG AH has assisted in the Digital Liaisons panel which begins slightly before our business meeting at 8:30 am - I encourage you to visit for a few minutes. I hope to see you there. -- Mary Ann Harlan,PhD maryann.harlan at gmail.com Teacher Librarian Program Coordinator San Jose State School of Information -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: