From evardell at email.unc.edu Wed Oct 7 16:46:53 2015 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:46:53 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] SIG HLTH Toiletry Donation Drive during ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting Message-ID: This year SIG HLTH will be sponsoring a collection of donated toiletries to benefit The Little Bit Foundation, an organization committed to helping disadvantaged school-aged children in St. Louis (http://www.thelittlebitfoundation.org/). Bring any extra hotel toiletries (either from home or from your hotel) and place them in a box by registration. Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and soap are encouraged. SIG HLTH will take the donated toiletries to The Little Bit Foundation at the end of the conference. This is an easy way to give back to our host city. Thank you for your participation! 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We will be sending out a ballot to vote on officers closer to the annual meeting. The officer responsibilities are as follows: Chair-Elect: the Chair-Elect supports the current Chair by attending officer meetings and assisting with preparing any applications for SIG-sponsored content at the annual ASIS&T meetings. The Chair-Elect assumes Chair responsibilities (organizing SIG HLTH meetings, promoting the SIG, guiding the direction of SIG activities and goals) once the Chair steps down from her/his term. Secretary/Treasurer: the Secretary/Treasurer takes notes during SIG HLTH meetings and prepares balance statements for ASIS&T leadership. Please contact Si Sun, current chair (at sisun at rutgers.edu) or me with any questions. Thanks! 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Your name: Poster title: Poster author list: Poster number (is available): (SIG HLTH officers are not eligible for this award.) Contacts: Si Sun, Chair sisun at rutgers.edu Emily Vardell, Chair evardell at email.unc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 15 14:15:41 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:15:41 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM Message-ID: <3811-2201510415181541198@LEN-dick-2011> St. Louis Hyatt and ASIS&T are extending the cut off dates for discounts until OCTOBER 23. Rooms were tight and people were having problems. But rooms blocked for the potential World Series games have opened up so we are able to make this effort to help you save. _____ 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology -- Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch - St. Louis, Missouri Program and Registration at: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/ The 2015 ASIS&T conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ?including academics and practitioner? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on cultural institutions, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. 8 Preconference Workshops 40 Contributed Papers 18 Panel Discussions Plenary sessions: Aaron Doering -Building Community Online: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas through Innovative Design- Doering is associate professor in the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, currently holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology. His research involves the design, development and evaluation of online and mobile teaching environments; technology integration in K-12 settings; and the innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning. Sarah Morton -Creating Impact: Issues, Challenges and Solutions- Morton works at the intersection of social research, policy and practice in a range of leadership roles. She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Also within the University of Edinburgh, Sarah is the knowledge exchange specialist for the Centre for Community and Public Health Sciences and an impact analyst. She is a director of What Works Scotland and she is also an associate of the research unit for research utilization at the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and was a member of the Scottish Funding Council working group on Knowledge Exchange and Public Policy. Her research has investigated the process assessing the impact of research on policy and practice. She has a specialty in contribution analysis and uses this approach in a variety of projects, often working with non-academic partners, and also to assess the impact of research. Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From sisun at rutgers.edu Wed Oct 28 00:21:02 2015 From: sisun at rutgers.edu (Si Sun) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:21:02 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] SIG HLTH Dinner @St. Louis Message-ID: Dear Members, We are planning a dinner for SIG HLTH members and friends at *8:00pm on Monday, November 9*. Please choose your favorite restaurant using this survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7C3ZHWK). We will go to the one with the highest vote. *Please respond by November 3*. Results will be posted on November 4. We look forward to your response! All the best, Si -- Si Sun ASIS&T SIG HLTH Immediate Past Chair PhD Candidate Library and Information Science School of Communication and Information Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From evardell at email.unc.edu Thu Oct 29 22:13:14 2015 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:13:14 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] SIG HLTH Officers + Social + Best Poster Award Message-ID: I'm very pleased to announce our new slate of SIG HLTH officers: Miraida Morales, Chair-Elect Miraida Morales is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at Rutgers, focusing on the role of language on health information practices. She uses mixed methods that incorporate community engaged research and linguistic methods such as NLP and corpus linguistics to analyze consumer heath information. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y, and has an MLIS from Rutgers and an MA from NYU. In her free time, she likes to run half marathons and play the djembe, though not simultaneously. Deborah Charbonneau, Secretary/Treasurer Deborah Charbonneau is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She currently teaches in the areas of Library Management, Health Informatics, and Research Methods. Dr. Charbonneau was selected as one of 2015 recipients of the ASIS&T New Leaders Award, and she was also awarded the 2014 Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship from the Medical Library Association. Samantha Kaplan, Communications Coordinator Samantha Kaplan is a second-year doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests involve health misinformation, decision-making, and information use. She has served as chair of the Doctoral Student Association at UNC since January 2015 and, prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, worked in a Marketing and Outreach capacity in multiple organizations. You'll have the opportunity to meet the new officers at the following activities at the annual meeting: SIG HLTH Business Meeting from 1:30 to 2:40 pm on Monday, November 9, in Sterling 5 SIG HLTH Dinner Social at 8 pm on Monday, November 9 (if you haven't voted on the dinner location, please do by 11/3 at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7C3ZHWK) Please also note that we will be awarding a SIG HLTH Best Student Poster Award this year. Please send us an email with your name and poster title to be considered. See you at the meeting! Emily Emily Vardell, MLS SIG HLTH Chair-Elect PhD Student and Teaching Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://evardell.web.unc.edu/ Editor of: The Medical Library Association Guide to Answering Questions about the Affordable Care Act -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: