[Sigiii-l] SIG Activities at the 2003 Annual Meeting

[Yin Zhang]

Dear Colleagues, 

As the ASIST Annual Meeting is approaching, I would like to draw your 
attention to some SIG III activities during the conference: 

Sunday, October 19 at 6 pm: 
Welcome reception and SIG Rush. Please visit the SIG III table for 
news and information on how to get involved. 

Monday, October 20 at 8 pm: 
SIG III International Reception. Volunteers are needed prior to and 
during the event. Volunteers are also needed to help collect items 
for people unable to attend, and anything else that needs to be done 
to ensure a lively and successful auction.  Come and have fun! 

Tuesday, October 20 at 7:30 am:
The first SIG III planning meeting will be held in SIG Planning Room 
A. Please check the bulletin board for time and place for the second 
meeting. If you can't come to the planning meetings, please feel free 
to send your suggestions and proposals to Sue O'Neill Johnson at 
sueojohnson at msn.com.


In addition, SIG III will sponsor or co-sponsor the following 
sessions at this Annual Meeting:  

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2003
10:30 am
Transborder Dataflow: Implications for Information Dissemination and 
Policies between the US, Canada and Mexico

2:00 pm
The Public Domain Under Pressure

4:00 pm
The 2nd Global Information Village Plaza: Connecting Multi-Cultural, 
Multi-Lingual, and Multi-media Universes


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2003
8:30 am
Sharing and Accessing Internet Resources Across Barriers of Nation, 
Language, and Collection

10:30 am
New Information Models for Rural Populations in Developing Countries

2:00 pm
World Summit on the Information Society


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003
1:30 pm
Cultural Variations of Internet Development and Use


Hope to see you there! 


Yin Zhang
SIG III Communication Officer

Assistant Professor 
School of Library and Information Science 
Kent State University 
Kent, OH 44242 
yinzhang at slis.kent.edu