From melissa.adler at uky.edu Fri Oct 14 13:29:52 2016 From: melissa.adler at uky.edu (Adler, Melissa A) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:29:52 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] Business meeting Message-ID: Dear SIG/CR members, If you are going to be in Copenhagen for the annual meeting, I invite you to join us for the SIG/CR business meeting. It will be held in Thames 1 on Monday at 8:00 am. Barbara Kwasnik is the incoming chair and will lead the meeting. We will announce the chair-elect, secretary/treasurer, and communications officers, and we'll discuss possibilities for the upcoming year. All best, Melissa Melissa Adler, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Science University of Kentucky 341 Little Library Building Lexington, KY 40506-0224 (859) 218-2294 melissa.adler at uky.edu From kathryn.labarre at gmail.com Thu Oct 27 12:51:38 2016 From: kathryn.labarre at gmail.com (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:51:38 -0500 Subject: [sigCR] Fwd: [isko-l] Annual Tony Kent Strix Lecture, alive or live streamed, Monday 31st October In-Reply-To: <2b891235-c0c6-d105-99d1-c065f9b707b1@lukehouse.org> References: <6e08feb4-3929-1da4-432e-46c2f6c6ec7e@lukehouse.org> <2b891235-c0c6-d105-99d1-c065f9b707b1@lukehouse.org> Message-ID: Don't miss this! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stella Dextre Clarke Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:43 AM Subject: [isko-l] Annual Tony Kent Strix Lecture, alive or live streamed, Monday 31st October To: ISKO-UK , isko-l at lists.gseis.ucla.edu, NKOS-L at oclc.org Dear Colleagues, Please do not miss this year's very special event in honour of the information retrieval pioneer Tony Kent Strix. It's a double bill, with two exceptional speakers! For those who live too far away and can't make it, the event will be live streamed. Just follow the link at http://geolsoc.adobeconnect.com/ukeig1610/ The programme starts at 14.00 GMT; see details at http://www.iskouk.org/content/second-annual-tony-kent-strix-lecture Even better if you can attend in person - in the very comfortable lecture theatre of the Geological Society, at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG. Admission is free, and there's still time to book a place, via Either way, you'll get the chance to hear: - *Stephen Robertson*, on "Search: then and now - with particular reference to the web", followed by - *Peter Ingwersen*, giving The Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture: " Context in Interactive information retrieval" Both speakers are past winners of the Award, which is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval in its widest sense. Stephen Robertson was the first winner, back in 1998. The 2015 winner was Peter Ingwersen, now Professor Emeritus at The Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The 2016 winner, Professor Maristella Agosti, will be present too, to receive her well deserved award. I hope you can make it. Stella Dextre Clarke -- ***************************************************** Stella Dextre Clarke Vice-Chair, ISKO UK and Vice-President, ISKO Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RR, UK Tel: 01235-833-298stella at lukehouse.org ***************************************************** -- Kathryn La Barre From kathryn.labarre at gmail.com Sat Oct 29 08:28:05 2016 From: kathryn.labarre at gmail.com (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:28:05 -0500 Subject: [sigCR] NASKO 2017 - Hold the dates! June 15 and 16 Message-ID: The North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization NASKO will be held June 15-16, 2017 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The iSchool at Illinois will host, and I can provide logistical and ground support as a member of the planning committee, but am not able to serve as Program Chair. To make this a success, we need volunteers for the following positions: Program chair Planning committee members Program committee (reviewing) Please contact the current President of ISKO C-US Hur-li Lee hurli at uwm.edu with any questions or with your willingness to help shape this event as part of the Program Committee. -- Kathryn La Barre