From sarahab at utexas.edu Wed Aug 12 12:57:25 2015 From: sarahab at utexas.edu (Sarah A Buchanan) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:57:25 -0500 Subject: [Sigah-l] SIG AH Digital Newsletter: Fall 2014 - Summer 2015 Message-ID: Greetings, SIG AH members, We are pleased to share with you our Digital Newsletter: Fall 2014 - Summer 2015 issue, available online: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/2015/08/12/summer-2015-newsletter/ Direct link: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SIG-AH-Summer-2015-Newsletter.pdf We hope you enjoy reading about our Virtual Symposium and Newsletters Archive, and our upcoming events including a Webinar on September 9 and our plans for the 2015 AM in St. Louis in November. We also look forward to hearing from you! Best, Sarah Buchanan SIG AH Webmaster -- Sarah Buchanan Information Studies, Ph.D. Student http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~buchanan/ From rhill at asis.org Tue Aug 18 13:35:14 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:35:14 -0400 Subject: [Sigah-l] ASIST 2015 Annual Meeting - Reg and Program Online Message-ID: <383-220158218173514454@LEN-dick-2011> 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community November 6-10, 2015 ? Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch ? St. Louis, Missouri Program and Registration at: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/ This year?s ASIS&T 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. 8 Preconference Workshops 40 Contributed Papers 18 Panel Discussions Plenary sessions: Aaron Doering ?Building Community Online: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas through Innovative Design.? Doerring is associate professor in the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, currently holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology. His research involves the design, development and evaluation of online and mobile teaching environments; technology integration in K-12 settings; and the innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning. Sarah Morton ?Creating Impact: Issues, Challenges and Solutions? Morton works at the intersection of social research, policy and practice in a range of leadership roles. She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Also within the University of Edinburgh, Sarah is the knowledge exchange specialist for the Centre for Community and Public Health Sciences and an impact analyst. She is a director of What Works Scotland and she is also an associate of the research unit for research utilization at the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and was a member of the Scottish Funding Council?s working group on Knowledge Exchange and Public Policy. Sarah?s research has investigated the process assessing the impact of research on policy and practice. She has a specialty in contribution analysis and uses this approach in a variety of projects, often working with non-academic partners, and also to assess the impact of research. 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 jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu Tue Aug 25 17:27:37 2015 From: jeremy.mclaughlin at sjsu.edu (Jeremy McLaughlin) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:27:37 -0600 Subject: [Sigah-l] SIG AH webinar - Sept 9 (free for members and non-members) Message-ID: (Cross-posted to SIG AH and ASIST member lists) Please join SIG AH and our guest speaker, Gabriel Finkelstein from the University of Colorado, Denver, for a webinar on September 9 at 10am PST/1pm EDT. Cracking the Internet: A Science Historian?s Experience Conducting Research and Communicating Findings on the Webhttps://www.asist.org/events/webinars/cracking-the-internet/ Open and free to all. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: