From diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk Thu Oct 8 03:07:55 2015 From: diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk (Diane Pennington) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 07:07:55 +0000 Subject: [Sigvis-l] SIG VIS Call for Nominations Message-ID: <106F013AD7EFCD4980EC804398CEA746242A2B88@EX2010-MBX2.ds.strath.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, & Sound (SIG-VIS) is pleased to announce this year?s call for nominations for SIG VIS Officers. We are seeking nominations for: Chair-Elect Secretary/Treasurer Communications We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic folks to join the SIG VIS executive team. This is your chance to take a lead on SIG VIS initiatives and to shape the future of the SIG! Please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. In your nomination, please include your name, institutional affiliation, the position you are interested in, and a brief paragraph about your background. Please e-mail your nomination to Diane Rasmussen Pennington at diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk. Nominations will be accepted until October 20, 2015. Once it closes, we will open up the online voting system. If you are a current SIG VIS member, you will receive a separate email with instructions on how to vote. The election results will be announced through the SIG VIS list. Please email us if you have any questions. ASIS&T SIG-VIS Nominating Committee: Andrea Copeland, Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science, Indiana University School of Informatics, ajapzon at iupui.edu Chris Landbeck, Asst. Dir. of Experiential Learning, School of Information, Florida State University, clandbeck at fsu.edu Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 15 14:15:43 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:15:43 -0400 Subject: [Sigvis-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM Message-ID: <3817-2201510415181543636@LEN-dick-2011> 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 From diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk Tue Oct 27 04:58:27 2015 From: diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk (Diane Pennington) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 08:58:27 +0000 Subject: [Sigvis-l] 2015-2016 SIG VIS Officers Message-ID: <106F013AD7EFCD4980EC804398CEA746242AD9F9@EX2010-MBX2.ds.strath.ac.uk> Dear SIG VIS Members, On behalf of the SIG VIS Nominating Committee, I am pleased to announce our SIG's officers for the coming year. All four people ran uncontested, so no election is needed. They will be appointed at the Annual Meeting in St. Louis, as we have done in past years for uncontested elections. Their names, positions, and bios are provided below. If there are any questions, please let us know. Thank you, SIG VIS Nominating Committee Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Chris Landbeck, and Andrea Copeland Chair: Krystyna Matusiak Dr. Matusiak received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to the Morgridge College of Education, she worked as academic librarian for 12 years in public services and digitization. She was the Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she planned and designed over 20 distinct digital collections. Dr. Matusiak also served as a digitization consultant for projects funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at the British Library and assisted digital library projects at the Press Institute of Mongolia in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem. Dr. Matusiak has strong interests in international librarianship and serves as an officer of the IFLA Library Theory and Research Standing Committee. Her research interests include digital library development and evaluation, indexing and retrieval of digital images, usability, and information seeking behavior. Chair-Elect: Jeremy L. McLaughlin Thank you for considering me for the position of Chair-Elect for SIG VIS. During the 2014-15 ASIST year, I was Chair of SIG AH and worked with the leadership team on collaborative efforts around programming and events, membership outreach and engagement, and communications efforts. During that time, I also served as Chair of the SJSU ASIST Student Chapter. Both of these positions have given me the opportunity to work with teams across the organization, large and small, and with some success. The areas of membership value and engagement and SIG programming are two that I would like to work on with SIG VIS in the coming year. In addition to my work with ASIST, for over a decade I have been in sales and outreach for publishers and library-related vendors. My research interests include repositories and open platforms in scholarly communications, data visualization, research information and research data management, Digital Humanities and technology applications in the arts and humanities. I currently live in Denver but do not ski or snowboard, so plan to devote my time to SIG activities during the hibernation months. Secretary/Treasurer: Hsin-Liang (Oliver) Chen Hsin-liang Chen is an Associate Professor in the Palmer School of Library and Information at Long Island University. His research interests center on the applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to assist users in accessing and using information in different environments. Communications: Eka Grguric Ekatarina (Eka) Grguric is a Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries working in the User Experience department on the Web Team and in the Digital Libraries Initiatives department on an initiative to support Open Science activity at NCSU. She recently completed an MLIS at the University of British Columbia iSchool (SLAIS: The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies) during which she took courses focused on topics in Human Computer Interaction. Diane M. Rasmussen Pennington, PhD Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland diane.pennington at strath.ac.uk +44 (0)141 548 3900 http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/diane.pennington/ The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263.