[Siguse-l] RE: Sig use newsletter

[Michel J. Menou]

Seconding Eszter suggestions
Especially re overlaps, or interactions , or else, among Academic
Disciplines.
Inter, in interdisciplinary, might stand for interdiction (to cross
border lines bewteen disciplines).

Michel


Thursday, March 27, 2003, 5:04:07 PM, you wrote:

EH> Hi Everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

EH> Eszter

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EH> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: siguse-l-request at asis.org [mailto:siguse-l-request at asis.org]
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:01 AM
>> To: siguse-l at asis.org
>> Subject: Siguse-l digest, Vol 1 #33 - 1 msg
>>
>>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:29:23 -0500
>> From: Linda Cooper <lcooper at suffolk.lib.ny.us>
>> To: siguse-l at asis.org
>> Reply-To: Linda Cooper <lcooper at suffolk.lib.ny.us>
>> 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
>>

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