[Siguse-l] RE: Sig use newsletter

[Eszter Hargittai]

Hi Everyone,

I agree with Sanda's suggestions. I, too, would like to see information
about people's research and the specific parameters she outlined sounded
good.  I guess one thing I would add is that I would be interested in
hearing about recent projects as well, that is, ones that may not be
ongoing right now but are relevant to the SIG's focus.

My "home" or "base" discipline is not IS so pretty much anything about the
field will be interesting to me, but I realize that may not be the case
for others.

Another idea is for people to report on conferences they've been to other
than the ASIST annual meeting (and whatever else may be standard in the
field) which they have found helpful for our research area.

I would also appreciate hearing about journals where people have published
or where people have read relevant pieces.  Then again, I guess we can
figure that out from bibliographies.

Finally, at some point it may be interesting to see pieces on how other
fields overlap with IS.  My training is in Sociology and I will be
teaching in a Communication department.. I've been amazed at how little
dialogue there is between some fields that clearly have so much overlap in
research interest.

Eszter

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Erdelez, Sanda wrote:

> Hi Linda:
> I would like to know about current research activities (those with
> external funding and also those without) of SIG USE members. For example
> each contribution could include structured elements such as: PI name and
> contact info, institution, research topic, user group studied, method,
> research questions, study duration, funding agency (if available),
> project status: (new, in process). Once the project is completed, the PI
> could write a very short preliminary report for the newsletter.
> I believe this would be a good way to share our research in progress.
> Cheers,
> Sanda
>
> Dr. Sanda Erdelez
> Associate Professor
> School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
> University of Missouri - Columbia
> 221 H Townsend Hall
> Columbia, MO 65211
> USA
>
> tel. (573) 882-5088
> fax. (573) 884-4944
> email: sanda at missouri.edu
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:29:23 -0500
> From: Linda Cooper <lcooper at suffolk.lib.ny.us>
> To: siguse-l at asis.org
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> Subject: [Siguse-l] SIG USE Newletter
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> Dear SIG USE members -
> Thank you for your contributions to the SIG USE 2000-2002 bibliography.
> These will be linked by our Webmaster to the SIG USE web site so they
> will be available as a standing reference source to our membership and
> other site visitors.
>
> Now to the newsletter:
> Before we solicit 'news' contributions for our proposed newsletter, we
> would like to give members an opportunity to contribute their thoughts
> on what type of information they would find most helpful in a special
> interest group newsletter. What would be most appreciated? We want to
> best serve your interests, so let us know your thoughts here. Based on
> your response, we hope to give the SIG USE Newsletter a first run this
> summer.
> Thank you for supporting SIG USE!
> Best regards,
> Linda Cooper
> Communications Officer - SIG USE
>