From rhill at asis.org Mon Feb 29 09:54:35 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:54:35 -0500 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Survey - Perceptions and experiences w/ AAIAT Publications Message-ID: <388-220162129145434860@LEN-dick-2011> [Please excuse duplication] Dear all, The ASIS&T Publications Committee would like to collect information about your perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications, specifically The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (The Bulletin), and The Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Proceedings (The ASIS&T Proceedings). As an ASIS&T Publications user (author, reader, and/or reviewer), your responses are extremely important to us. We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao 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 rhill at asis.org Mon Feb 29 10:07:32 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:07:32 -0500 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Corrected Survey - Perceptions and experiences w/ ASIS&T Publications Message-ID: <388-22016212915732406@LEN-dick-2011> [Please excuse duplication. Apologies for earlier typo] Dear all, The ASIS&T Publications Committee would like to collect information about your perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications, specifically The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (The Bulletin), and The Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Proceedings (The ASIS&T Proceedings). As an ASIS&T Publications user (author, reader, and/or reviewer), your responses are extremely important to us. We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao 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 i.m.johnson at rgu.ac.uk Sat Feb 6 05:50:03 2016 From: i.m.johnson at rgu.ac.uk (IAN JOHNSON (0616285)) Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:50:03 -0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] =?utf-8?q?FW=3A_a_library_from_Syria=E2=80=99s_ruins?= Message-ID: From: melanet-l at googlegroups.com [mailto:melanet-l at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Riedlmayer, Andras J. Sent: 05 February 2016 19:11 To: Middle East Librarians Assn. list Subject: [MELANET-L] These rebels have amassed a library from Syria?s ruins BuzzFeed News Feb. 4, 2016, at 11:06 a.m. These Rebels Have Amassed A Library From Syria?s Ruins In a war-ravaged suburb of Damascus, rebel fighters nurture a library of 15,000 books to keep the hopes of revolution alive. Borzou Daragahi, BuzzFeed News Middle East Correspondent Sarah Dadouch, BuzzFeed Contributor ISTANBUL ? Outside, winter?s chill grips the grey, war-ravaged city, a nightmarish landscape of bombed-out buildings, piles of rubble, and smoldering trash frequently strafed by screeching warplanes or regime helicopters loaded with crude bombs made of dynamite and metal shards. But inside the basement of a residential building in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, the world beyond Syria?s borders opens up. It is a place of learning and ideas, with books salvaged from the wreckage outside and cobbled together into a makeshift library of 15,000 volumes. A photocopy of an old history book, a shelf full of children?s stories, and self-help books by Tony Robbins, sit alongside a J.M. Coetzee novel, a volume of Islamic scholarship, and slim editions of Arabic poetry by Mahmoud Darweesh or Nizar Qabbani. They are read by candlelight during lengthy power outages or at the war front by rebel fighters. ?With all the destruction, we need to hold onto our culture,? said Ahmad, one of the main organizers and the spokesman of the library. Speaking to BuzzFeed News over the course of weeks of interviews conducted over a dotty Skype connection, he asked that his last name be withheld for fear of regime reprisal against his family. 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