From rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu Mon Oct 5 17:00:43 2015 From: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu (Robert R Downs) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:00:43 -0400 Subject: [Sigsti-l] SIG STI Business Mtg Mon Nov 9, 2:15-3:30 pm Room Sterling 6, Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch Message-ID: <5612E4FB.3050808@ciesin.columbia.edu> Dear SIG STI Members, Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the SIG STI Annual Business Meeting, which will be held on Monday, November 9th, from 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CST, in Room Sterling 6 of the Hyatt Regency Hotel St. Louis at the Arch, during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Thanks, Bob Downs Robert R. Downs, PhD Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922 E-mail: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu From garciam at denison.edu Tue Oct 6 11:58:02 2015 From: garciam at denison.edu (Moriana Garcia) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:58:02 -0400 Subject: [Sigsti-l] Science Librarian position (Denison University). Change contact information for Moriana Garcia Message-ID: **Please, excuse cross-posting** Dear friends and colleagues from Ohio and beyond, I am relocating to Upstate New York. I have accepted a position as Science & Engineering Librarian at the University of Rochester starting Nov 1st. My last day at Denison University will be Oct 16th, so if you need to contact me in the future, please use my personal email: The search for a new Science Librarian at Denison University is open. Please, consider applying. More information here: https://employment.denison.edu/postings/1062 Thanks! Moriana -- Moriana L. M. Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian Denison University Libraries P.O. Box 805 Granville, OH, 43023 Phone: 740-587-5714 Online profile: http://libguides.denison.edu/morianagarcia Skype: moriana_1 Personal email: morianagarcia at gmail.com From garciam at denison.edu Thu Oct 15 16:52:12 2015 From: garciam at denison.edu (Moriana Garcia) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:52:12 -0400 Subject: [Sigsti-l] Fwd: [Sigdl-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM In-Reply-To: <388-220151041518162042@LEN-dick-2011> References: <388-220151041518162042@LEN-dick-2011> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Hill Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:16 PM Subject: [Sigdl-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM To: sigdl-l at asis.org 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 _______________________________________________ Sigdl-l mailing list Sigdl-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigdl-l -- Moriana L. M. Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian Denison University Libraries P.O. Box 805 Granville, OH, 43023 Phone: 740-587-5714 Online profile: http://libguides.denison.edu/morianagarcia Skype: moriana_1