From rhill at asis.org Tue Oct 4 08:23:09 2005 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:23:09 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Blogs and Wikis at ASIS&T 2005 Annaul Message-ID: <200510041227.j94CR7aS025501@mail.asis.org> This message is being sent to ASIS&T members and several ASIST lists, to announce two important additions to the ASIS&T 2005 conference. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. And we are grateful for the initiative and skills of the developers, Beatrice Pulliam, Brad Hemminger and Jackson Fox. Volunteers truly do make ASIS&T what it is. Blogs and Wikis at ASIS&T 2005 Conference This year for the first time, ASIS&T will host both a Blog and a Wiki, dedicated to the ASIST 2005 conference. You've heard lots about blogs and wikis in recent years, including at ASIS&T. You may already be a frequent user of them. This year we hope you will participate by viewing or contributing to one or both of them. Our goal is to facilitate all types of communication related to the conference: writing your thoughts about the conference, discussing papers, planning birds of a feather dinner outings, finding out about things to see in Charlotte, etc. We welcome all participation, and your feedback, so that we can continue to improve your ability to communicate with your colleagues. The blog and the wiki will be available before, during and after the conference. Their home page web addresses are below, and they are also linked off of the ASIST program website. Please try them! ASIS&T 2005 Blog: http://asist2005.neasist.org Sponsor: ASIST and New England Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIST) Editor: Beatrice Pulliam, Providence College, Chair-Elect, New England Chapter Description: The chief goals of the ASIS&T blog are to publish timely information about conference session discussions, highlights, and other ASIS&&T Annual activities (SIG Dinners and Meetings, SIGCON, etc.), to provide a central portal of resources to assist attendees in maximizing their conference experience, and to reinvigorate the community of practice of information sharing among member colleagues! We are inviting attendees-first-timers and long-standing members alike-to contribute to the conference blog. Those interested in blogging from the ASIS&T blog should contact asistblog at neasist.org or track down Beatrice Pulliam at the conference. Entries will be listed in reverse chronological order, and organized by "categories" to help readers to quickly locate content of interest. All blog posts are open for commenting by meeting attendees and readers experiencing the conference virtually. ASIS&T 2005 Wiki: http://ils.unc.edu/asist2005/wiki/ Sponsor: ASIST and UNC School of Information and Library Science Editors/Developers: Brad Hemminger & Jackson Fox, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Description: The goal of the ASIS&T Wiki is to provide a shared online space for people to interact about the conference program and activities, in hopes of enriching attendee's experiences, as well as providing lasting value in comments and reviews. The wiki's structure follows that of the conference program. Each activity or listing in the conference program web pages has its own wiki link, which takes you to the wiki page specific to that program activity. Wiki's by design allow everyone to add comments by editing "community" pages. Thus, anyone can contribute to a page. Examples: Ask a question or comment on a paper: You can ask questions or add comments on a conference paper: before the conference so that the author can take it into consideration, during the conference like a blogger, or afterwards, to keep the conversation going. All the questions and comments are consolidated on the wiki page for that paper, making it easy to review everything relevant to that paper. Suggest a Birds of a Feather dinner outing: Post a notice in the Birds of a Feather area for a topic. Solicit people to attend. They can sign themselves up online. Negotiate where and when to meet online. Share information about activities in Charlotte: Post information about fun things to do in the Charlotte area. Look over what others have suggested. _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Mon Oct 17 15:26:40 2005 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:26:40 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] FW: The October 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Message-ID: <200510171931.j9HJURn7006701@mail.asis.org> _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 -----Original Message----- From: dlib-subscribers-admin at dlib.org [mailto:dlib-subscribers-admin at dlib.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Wilson Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:45 PM To: DLib-subscribers Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The October 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The October 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for the October issue is ARKive contributed by Hamish MacCall, Wildscreen. The articles include: The CREE Project: Investigating User Requirements for Searching within Institutional Environments Chris Awre and Ian Dolphin, University of Hull; Gabriel Hanganu and Tony Brett, Oxford University; and Caroline Ingram, CSI Consultancy Using Machine Learning to Support Quality Judgments Myra Custard and Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository Leslie Johnston, University of Virginia Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services Xiaorong Xiang and Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors Yvonne Hultman ?zek, Lund University D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the October 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers at dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From CASmit07 at syr.edu Fri Oct 21 14:02:00 2005 From: CASmit07 at syr.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:02:00 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIGMED Events at ASIST 2005 Message-ID: Here is SIGMED-specific information for ASIS&T Annual in Charlotte. Please plan to join us for the following events. Also, if you have issues/concerns/questions to bring to the table, whether you can actually be at the events or not--please don't hesitate to contact Catherine Arnott Smith at casmit07 at syr.edu. Monday, Oct. 31st, 12:00-1:00 PM, Park Room. -SIG MED business meeting: Incoming Chair: Catherine Arnott Smith from Syracuse University. Tuesday, November 1. 6:30 p.m. Dutch Treat Dinner. Meet at ASIST Message Board. Our final destination: Luce's Ristorante e Bar, 214 North Tryon (6 blocks' walk from hotel). Done in time for SIG CON! Sunday evening, Oct. 30th. -Welcome Reception and SIG RUSH - Catherine Arnott Smith will be staking out the table and looking for anybody who even looks like they're THINKING about medical informatics. Come and join her! STI has three technical sessions on the Annual program: Tuesday, November 1. 8:30-10:00 AM. Ontological Research & its Applications to the Biomedical Domain (with SIG CR). Grand Ballroom D Wednesday, November 2. 8:30-10:00 AM. Medical Informatics in Context. Grand Ballroom C. And Wednesday, November 2. 3:30-5:00 PM. Improving Access to Health Information: Digital Libraries For the Health Sciences (w/ SIG DL). Grand Ballroom C In addition, although it is not a session sponsored by SIGMED, our membership should be interested in the following: Wednesday, November 2. 10:30-12:00 AM. Finding and Using Medical Information. Grand Ballroom C Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Studies 326 Hinds Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315) 443-6889 work email: casmit07REPLACETHISTEXTWITHATSYMBOLsyr.edu ********************************** Eccentrics are generally obliged to publish their own literature. --Ernest A. Codman, MD. A study in hospital efficiency: As demonstrated by the case report of the first five years of a private hospital. (Privately published, 1918). ********************************************** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery ********************************************** The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Philip K. Dick "How to Build a Universe that won't Fall Apart in Two Days" From ellen at mail.sis.pitt.edu Sat Oct 22 13:30:00 2005 From: ellen at mail.sis.pitt.edu (Ellen Detlefsen) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Sigmed-l] FYI: why not propose a paper for for MLA 06 in Phoenix? Message-ID: Are you doing something professionally or personally transformative/relevant/socially useful? Why not consider writing it up and submitting it for the MLA Relevant Issues Section program for MLA's 06 annual meeting in Phoenix? The Section program is entitled "Transformation Begins with a Single Step....Or, If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem...." We plan a contributed papers session that takes a "swap'n'shop" or "show'n'tell" approach to showcase how medical information professionals and medical libraries promote (or provide services around) relevant issues---a review of "best practices". We invite contributed paper proposals describing front line or real world responses to contemporary problems of access, social justice, etc. Descriptions of activities that involve the power of information technologies and/or digital information are most welcome! Examples of the kinds of papers we seek include (but are not limited to) * Library support for Doctors Without Borders or similar groups * Top Ten (or twenty) titles for a diversity collection * Designing an exhibition of health issues related to disasters * Building a website on cultural competency concerns * Library services for Latino/a or First Peoples populations * Developing specialized CHI services for disabled vets * Health information outreach to refugee populations * Information services for LGBTQ health professions communities * Providing "just-in-time" information resources re breaking news [Schiavo case; tsunami/hurricane/earthquake; war; flu; etc] * Building a tolerance/diversity toolkit * Designing diverse recruitment strategies for the next generation of information specialists * Strategies for LIS education for diversity/cultural competence * Etc., etc., etc. Please submit your MLA '06 paper abstracts by November 7. You could be selected to present a paper in Phoenix, May 19-24, during MLA '06. Submission guidelines, FAQs, and program themes are available on MLANET at http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2006/index.html And, yes, non-MLA members can submit proposals, present papers, and attend the meetings; members of AMIA and SLA may register for the MLA member rate. Questions? Email me at ellen at mail.sis.pitt.edu peace, paz, pax, paix, pace, pokoj, fred, friede, vrede, mir, heiwa, uxolo! Ellen Ellen Detlefsen Relevant Issues Section, Program Chair, MLA 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, School of Information Sciences Core Faculty, Center for Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh 135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15260 email: ellen at mail.sis.pitt.edu OR detlefseneg at upmc.edu website: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~ellen/ phone messages to: 412-624-9444 - Departmental FAX: 412-648-7001