[Sighfis-l] Minutes from the November 2006 HFIS planning meeting

[Kathryn La Barre]

 As promised here are the minutes from the ASIST - AM HFIS planning meeting
November 2006.
I'd like to extend thanks to Julian Warner who served as the HFIS chair for
2006.

I will be submitting a list of action items to the advisory committee and
forwarding this to the list after the deadline for panel submissions to
ASIST -AM 2007 which is fast approaching on January 21.  This is a reminder
to any who are contemplating a submission that the HFIS advisory committee
stands ready to assist in any way with your submission. Please let us know
if you need assistance, or are contemplating a submission.
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MINUTES from the HFIS planning session 11/2006

Present.  Jonathan Furner, Michael Buckland, W. Boyd Rayward, Kathryn La
Barre, Julian Warner

1. Review of the year 2005-2006.

i)   Website.

The SIG HFIS website was agreed to be valuable and important to maintain.
 It was to continue to be hosted on the ASIS&T site and to be maintained and
updated by students.

ii)   Sessions at the Annual Meeting 2006.

The value of collaboration with other SIGS, of a number of panel
submissions, and of panel proposals developed as panels ab initio (in
addition to panel proposals compiled from individual submissions), was
agreed.

The SIG was pleased with the range and number of panels it had obtained.

* joint sponsorship w/ CR
*11/5 (3:30) Theoretical Topics in FRBR / Allen Renear (moderator), Yunseon
Choi, Jonathan Furner, Jerome McDonough

11/6 (10:00) Forgetting and (Not) Forgotten / Howard Rosenbaum (moderator),
Jean-Francois Blanchette, Michael Curry, Leah Lievrouw, Ronald Day

11/6   (11:30) Philosophy and Information Science / The Basics Don Fallis,
Jonathan Furner, Kay Mathiesen, Allen Renear

11/7 (8:30) Paul Otlet, Documentation and Classification /  Boyd Rayward,
Jonathan Furner, Kathryn La Barre

11/7 (3:30) Authenticity Revisited / The Cultural Implications of  a
 Digital Reality / Heather MacNeil, Bonnie Mak, Jennifer Douglas

11/8 (1:30) Historiography of Information Science/ Michael Buckland, Julian
Warner, Geoffrey Bowker

iii)   Advisory Group.

The high value of the advisory group was noted.

iv) Sighfis-l.

The email list had been lightly, rather than heavily, used during the
previous year, but such restraint could have value.  It would be
advantageous if all members of the SIG were at least ware of the possibility
of joining the list.

v)   Other activities (to include publications by SIG HFIS members).

Publicity for publications by SIG members was valuable and the web site
should be updated to reflect recent publications (publications need not be
in ASIS&T outlets for them to be listed).

3. Election of officers for 2006-2007.

Kathryn La Barre was confirmed as Chair for 2006-2007 and welcomed into
office.

Tom Haigh, whose specialist interest was in the history of science, had
agreed to become Chair Elect and his appointment was similarly welcomed.

4. Planning for the year 2006-2007.

i) The issue of representation at SIG Planning meetings was discussed and
decided (Kathryn La Barre to represent the SIG).

ii)   Website

The website was to be revised.

ii)   Sessions at the Annual Meeting 2007.

The Annual Meeting 2007 was to be held at Milwaukee.  Co-sponsorship was to
be sought with SIG CR for a panel proposal on the topic of FRBR.  The
strategic importance of the development and current state of bibliographic
control, sand the continuing significance of the role of the Library of
Congress, some 60 years after UNESCO's post-war initiatives, was noted.

iii)   Advisory Group.

The advisory group was to continue 2006-2007 and to be constituted by the
attendees at the current meeting, with the addition of Trudi Hahn and Bob
Williams.

iv) Sighfis-l.

There were no further issues to report.

v)   Other activities (to include publications by SIG HFIS members).

No royalties were currently held for the history fund, but some monies
absorbed by ASIST&T, and assignable to the history fund, could be recovered.


The research focus in ASIS&T should develop.

Memorials were significant but it was difficult to get people to write
memorials (entries in DLB were advocated as models).

Podcasts of oral histories about pioneers would be a desirable addition.

Sessions at the ASIS&T Annual meetings must have a dual role, interesting
SIG members and the wider membership of ASIS&T.

6. Any other business.

Julian Warner was thanked for this service as Chair.

Kathryn La Barre was welcomed into office.
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