[sigCR] fun fact for the day about SIG CR

[Kathryn La Barre]

Thanks Kate!

The seven original SIGs were:

SIG BC - Biological and Chemical Information Systems
SIG CL - Computational Linguistics
SIG CR - Classification Research
SIG ED - Education for Information Science
SIG IAC - Information Analysis Centers
SIG LAN - Library Automation Networks
SIG RT - Reprographic Technology

As Kate points out - some SIGs changed names, some merged and some were
disbanded. The SIG story is an interesting one, and I'm still putting
together all of the pieces from the archive, no disrespect was intended
towards SIG/BC (now STI)! Apologies for the omission.


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Katherine McCain <mccainkw at drexel.edu>wrote:

> Another fun fact -- SIC STI is the former SIG BC and is still alive and
> kicking.
>
> Kate McCain
> Professor
> The iSchool at Drexel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Kathryn La Barre
> President ISKO C/US
> Assistant Professor
> Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois
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