From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Thu Oct 2 00:11:05 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:11:05 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_SIG-DL_2014-15_Officer_Nomination?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=8Bs=3A_Submit_by_Friday=2C_October_10th!?= Message-ID: SIG-DL is seeking nominations for the below 2014-2015 positions by Friday, October 10th. - Chair - Chair-elect - Secretary /Treasurer - Communications Officer - Membership Officer - Webmaster Additional details about the roles and responsibilities of each position can be viewed at: http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/index.php/SIG-DL_Officer_Positions Current SIG-DL members in good standing are eligible to nominate, vote for, or serve office. Current officers are eligible to run for re-election in their current positions or in any other open positions. Send nominations / self-nominations to Kevin Comerford (kevco at unm.edu) by Friday, October 10th. Nominations must include the following information: 1. Full contact information of Candidate (Name, Professional Title, Organization, email) 2. Photograph 3. Short biographical statement 4. Brief description of the candidate?s qualifications for the position. The election will occur online from Monday, October 13th to Friday, October 24th, 2014. Elected officers should attend the SIGDL Business Meeting which occurs during the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Elected officers will be expected to actively participate in phone calls and virtual meetings throughout the upcoming 2014-2015 year. SIG-DL conducts elections before the annual meeting to comply with our bylaws and to ensure a productive planning meeting in Seattle, Washington. Details on the electronic voting procedure will be distributed along with the election materials once the nomination period expires. We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your willingness to be an active member in SIGDL. Sincerely, SIG-DL Chair Kevin J. Comerford Assistant Professor / Digital Initiatives Librarian University of New Mexico Libraries Email: kevco at unm.edu Office: (505) 277-6341 Cell: (425) 205-3904 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Fri Oct 3 18:38:31 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 16:38:31 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] ASIST SIGDL 2014 Deborah Barreau Memorial Award Winner Announced Message-ID: *October 1, 2014 --The Digital Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG-DL) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to honor Ngozi Okoro as the 2014 recipient of the Dr. Deborah Barreau Memorial Award. As coordinator of the SIG-DL Webinar program for 2014, Ngozi produced an outstanding series of professional development webinars that were attended by SIG-DL and ASIS&T members, as well as Digital Libraries practitioners and students from all over the world. Webinar subjects included web archiving using the Internet Archive?s Archive it application, Digital Asset Management best practices, and data archiving and management using DataVerse.?This year Ngozi scheduled a variety of timely and topical webinar presentations that were well attended and well regarded by the ASIS&T membership. She worked very independently in this venture, making contacts with speakers, scheduling the webinars and managing the webinar events with little or no outside assistance. The SIG-DL webinar program was very successful this year due to Ngozi?s efforts,? remarked Kevin Comerford, 2014 Chair of SIG-DL.The Dr. Deborah Barreau Memorial Award honors ASIS&T SIG-DL members who have made significant contributions to the Digital Libraries Special Interest Group through service, projects, research or professional development initiatives that enrich the SIG-DL community. The award is intended to encourage active engagement of SIG-DL members, recognizing outstanding service to the SIG. The Dr. Deborah Barreau Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to SIG-DL was established in memory of Dr. Deborah Barreau, a leader in ASIS&T for many years and served as an advocate for SIG-DL and emerging leaders within the ASIS&T Community. Ngozi Okoro will be honored during a ceremony that will be held during the SIG-DL business meeting at the ASIS&T Annual Conference on November 4, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Sun Oct 5 12:42:25 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 10:42:25 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] SIG DL events at ASIS&T 2014 in Seattle Message-ID: Please note the following SIG DL events at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle. All ASIS&T attendees are invited! ? SIG DL?s 4th annual *Digital Liaisons* student and new professionals session begins at 8:30am on Monday, November 3rd. Abstract: http://www.asis.org/asist2014/abstracts/panels/56.html ? SIG DL?s Business Meeting will be in ?Room 2? of the conference hotel on Tuesday, November 4th from 9:05?10:05am. ? SIG DL presented the SIG of the Year Award at the Annual Awards Luncheon from 12?1:30pm. ? SIG DL's traditional Dutch-treat dinner is 6:30pm on Tuesday, November 4th. Join SIG DL members for food and conversation one block south of the hotel at the Elephant Castle (1415 5th Ave.). Meet in the hotel lobby at 6:15pm. Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: 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: [Sigdl-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... 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Send nominations / self-nominations to Kevin Comerford (kevco at unm.edu) by Friday, October 10th. Nominations must include the following information: 1. Full contact information of Candidate (Name, Professional Title, Organization, email) 2. Photograph 3. Short biographical statement 4. Brief description of the candidate?s qualifications for the position. The election will occur online from Monday, October 13th to Friday, October 24th, 2014. Elected officers should attend the SIGDL Business Meeting which occurs during the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Elected officers will be expected to actively participate in phone calls and virtual meetings throughout the upcoming 2014-2015 year. SIG-DL conducts elections before the annual meeting to comply with our bylaws and to ensure a productive planning meeting in Seattle, Washington. Details on the electronic voting procedure will be distributed along with the election materials once the nomination period expires. We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your willingness to be an active member in SIGDL. Sincerely, SIG-DL Chair Kevin J. Comerford Assistant Professor / Digital Initiatives Librarian University of New Mexico Libraries Email: kevco at unm.edu Office: (505) 277-6341 Cell: (425) 205-3904 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Mon Oct 20 11:04:25 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:04:25 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] October Newsletter & Conference Events Message-ID: - October 2014 SIG DL newsletter: http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=29601e2ac13057420cbdbc0ab&id=002df6fd6f&e=[UNIQID ] - Subscribe to the *Quarterly Newsletter* here: http://eepurl.com/QGBV9 - Send any announcements for inclusion in the next newsletter to: sigdlnews at gmail.com *______________________________* *SIG DL events at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle. All ASIS&T attendees are invited!* ? SIG DL?s 4th annual *Digital Liaisons* student and new professionals session begins at 8:30am on Monday, November 3rd. Abstract: http://www.asis.org/asist2014/abstracts/panels/56.html ? SIG DL?s Business Meeting will be in ?Room 2? of the conference hotel on Tuesday, November 4th at 9:05-10:05am. ? SIG DL presented the SIG of the Year Award at the Annual Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, November 4th from 12?1:30pm. ? SIG DL's traditional Dutch-treat dinner is 6:30pm on Tuesday, November 4th. Join SIG DL members for food and conversation one block south of the hotel at the Elephant Castle (1415 5th Ave.). Meet in the hotel lobby at 6:15pm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asist.sigdl at gmail.com Tue Oct 28 20:54:50 2014 From: asist.sigdl at gmail.com (ASIS&T SIG DL) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:54:50 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Newly Elected SIG-DL Officers! Message-ID: Elected slate of officers for SIG DL 2014-2015: *Chair:* Kevin Comerford, kevco at unm.edu *Chair-elect:* vacant *Treasurer/Secretary:* Lizzy Rolando, lizzy.rolando at library.gatech.edu *Membership Officer:* Lyne da Sylva, Lyne.Da.Sylva at umontreal.ca *Communications Officer:* Virginia (Ginnie) Dressler, vdressle at kent.edu *Webmaster:* vacant SIG DL is looking to fill two vacancies: Chair-elect and Webmaster. If you are interested in either of these positions, please email me or attend the SIG DL business meeting with a brief bio on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 9:05am in "Room 2" of the conference hotel at the Annual Meeting in Seattle. Congratulations, everyone! *Kevin J. Comerford* Assistant Professor / Digital Initiatives Librarian University of New Mexico Libraries kevco at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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