[sigCR] fun fact for the day about SIG CR

[Katherine McCain]

Another fun fact -- SIC STI is the former SIG BC and is still alive and kicking.

Kate McCain
Professor
The iSchool at Drexel

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From: sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigcr-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Kathryn La Barre
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:28 PM
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Subject: [sigCR] fun fact for the day about SIG CR

Greetings!

As a member of the 75th anniversary task force, I've been preparing for the upcoming ASIST annual meeting by visiting the ASIST records at the University of Michigan. I've also been collecting information about SIG/CR for a paper I'll be giving at the *Pre-Conference on the History of ASIST and Information Science and Technology Worldwide * http://www.asis.org/asist2012/historyofASIST.html

SIG/CR is one of seven original Special Interest Groups established at the American Documentation Institute on March 3, 1966. At that time, Phyllis Richmond was appointed Chair pro temps and Pauline Atherton was appointed Vice Chair pro temps. Of this original group only SIG/CR and SIG/ES (now
ED) are still alive! It would also be fair to say that part of another original SIG BC (Biological and Chemical Information Systems) still lives on in the virtual SIG BIO (Bioinformatics).

SIG/CR has a long history. Though our numbers are quite small in our 46th year, I'd like to see what we can do to breath new life into this SIG.
Perhaps we could devote the next SIG/CR workshop to looking back and looking forward to planning the next 50 years?




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Kathryn La Barre
President ISKO C/US
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________
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