From rhill at asis.org Wed Aug 6 14:47:51 2008 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:47:51 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Aug/Sept Bulletin TOC - Special Issue on IA Message-ID: <3811-2200883618475130@Dick-new-IBM> Current Issue August/September 2008 Vol. 34, No. 6 http://www.asis.org/bulletin.html SPECIAL SECTION Information Architecture Introduction: Taxarcana and Other Boons for Business by Stacy Surla, Guest Editor of Special Section http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Surla.html Exploratory Search in Different Information Architectures by Tingting Jiang and Sherry Koshman http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Jiang_Koshman.h tml Tagging: Emerging Trends by Gene Smith http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Smith.html The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms by Luke Wroblewski http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Wroblewski.html Audiences and Artifacts by Nathan Curtis http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Curtis.html How to Be a User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Buley.html FEATURE Fulbright Senior Specialist Program - Library Science by Emil Levine http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Levine.html COLUMN The Student Scene Informatics Student Activities at UCLA by Sarah Buchanan http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Buchanan.html DEPARTMENTS President's Page http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_PresidentsPage. html Editor's Desktop http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Editor.html Inside ASIS&T http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Inside.html ASIS&T Membership Survey 2008 by Margeaux Johnson and Nancy K. Roderer http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-08/AugSep08_Johnson_Roderer .html Sincerely, Richard B. Hill ASIS&T Executive Director Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Tue Aug 12 15:17:58 2008 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:17:58 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIG CON Call for Speakers Message-ID: <3811-220088212191758755@Dick-new-IBM> SIG-CON -- Call for Panel Speakers ASIST Annual Meeting Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 8:00 ? 9:00 pm Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio United States of America Third Rock from the Sun 25,000 Light Years from the Galactic Center Introduction SIG/CON is an award-winning Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. The function of SIG/CON is to "explore the fundamental notions of information science, and expose them for what they are" (C.D. Batty, Remarks at SIG/CON, 1987). SIG/CON has been in the forefront of research across all areas of study, although the group is perhaps best known for advancing the theories of baloonean logic and titular colonicity. The roster of distinguished information scientists who have made public (with startling and refreshing lucidity) their research findings at SIG/CON represent the diversity of national and international institutions associated with this field. Further information on this important Special Interest Group can be found at: http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/con/sig-con.html Speaker Proposals Proposals should reflect current research, or prospective research. Originality is important, but creative presentation styles are much more important. The proposal should be three pages in length, single spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with 0.75 inch margins, no footers or headers, and headings of 14 point, Arial Black. You may use blank pages in order to reach the three page required length. Two pages is unacceptable, as are four or five pages?the number is three. The proposal should address one of these Panel Session Themes: - Information Seeking Behavior Models of the Dead and Semi-Dead - Taxonomies and Ontologies for non-Homo sapiens Species - Alternate-Reality Historical Analyses of Information Science - Frustration-Affective Relevance Feedback for Web 3.0 IR Systems If you don?t like any of the themes listed above, please feel free to suggest one of your own. Proposal Due Date: Friday, 12th September 2008 Notification of acceptance will occur at the whim of the session Chair?hopefully within a week, but you never know. Feel free to bug him if you don?t hear back in a reasonable amount of time. Potential speakers who annoy the Chair increase their chance of acceptance. Please email your proposal to: Michael Leach mrleach at fas.harvard.edu or leach at simmons.edu Faxed or snail-mailed proposals will not be accepted. Should you go ahead and send your proposal by any of these methods, my 9 year old daughter will turn them into origami animals. Questions, comments, suggestions, complaints and other useless communications can be addressed to the same email addresses listed above. Final Note This is a real Call for Speakers, notwithstanding the content of this Call. If you?ve attended a SIG-CON session in the past, you have great understanding of the intricacies of this Universe in which we inhabit. If you have never attended a SIG-CON session, you have my sympathies?and I invite you to attend this year. Sincerely, Michael Leach Chair, SIG-CON Past President, ASIST Adjunct Faculty, Simmons College GSLIS Head of Collection Development, Cabot Science Library, Harvard University Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900