NEASIS&T Events

Are you going to the ASIST annual conference this year? Wish you could go? Just want to hear about some interesting and up-and-coming ideas that were presented?

Join members of NEASIS&T to chat about the conference! Nothing formal, just a fun gathering to talk about events and programs presented at ASIST, while the news is still fresh. We’ll be having an informal gathering at Green Street Grill in Central Square, Cambridge on Thursday, November 13th from 5:30-7pm.

Hope you can make it! If you can, please RSVP to Remlee Green (remlee@mit.edu) by the morning of the meet-up (11/13), so we can save you a seat. If we don’t hear from you, feel free to join us there!

Registration is now open for “Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices,” which will be held on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:30am - 4:00pm, Kotzen Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA. This event is co-sponsored by NEASIS&T and the Simmons College Student Chapter of ASIS&T.

Register here: http://neasist.org/pc/programs/20081105.html

ABOUT THIS EVENT: “While devices like PDAs, portable phones, and digital music players have been on the scene for almost a decade, mobile devices have now reached an unprecedented level of popularity. Devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, and Kindle are no longer simply tools for communication–they are now a primary channel through which everyday people interact with news, music, blogs, wikis, television, video, books, academic content, the world wide web, and more. Platforms like Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and the new Google Android will continue to challenge information service organizations to deliver content in new ways, and embed services within these virtual environments… [More info on program web site]

SPEAKERS:

• Andrew Yu is the Mobile Devices Program Manager for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Ellyssa Kroski is an Information Consultant, Reference Librarian, writer and speaker in the field. She blogs at iLibrarian and InfoTangle.
• Michelle Kraft a Senior Medical Librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library, and author of “The Krafty Librarian,” a blog for medical librarians discussing medical library technologies and applications.
• Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stanley Wiechers are the founders of Semapedia.org, a non-profit, community-driven project that connects the physical and virtual worlds. Semapedia-Tags which are cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia (or any of Wikipedia’s sister projects such as Wikibooks and Wikinews).

SCHEDULE:

8:30-9:00 —- Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 —- Welcome & Introduction
9:15-10:15 —-Andrew Yu - “Introduction to mobile devices and platforms”
10:15-10:45 — Networking break
10:45-11:45 — Ellyssa Kroski - “Libraries and the Mobile Web”
11:45-1:15 — Lunch (included with registration)
1:15-2:15 —- Michelle Kraft - “What’s in Your Pocket? Mobile Medical Applications”
2:15-3:00—–Alexis Robin Rondeau and Stan Wiechers- “Connecting the virtual and physical world with Semapedia Tags”
3:00-4:00 —- Panel

REGISTRATION INFO:

• Online registration or pre-registration must be received by Thursday, October 30, 2008.
• Registration fee includes lunch and refreshments.
• Registrations will be processed on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited, online registration is encouraged.

COST:

• ASIS&T or SLA member: $45.00
• Non-ASIS&T member: $85.00
• Student/retiree/between jobs: $30.00

Register here: http://neasist.org/pc/programs/20081105.html

Questions: Contact Christine Quirion, cquirion@mit.edu

Registration is now open for Gary Marchionini: Understanding Human Information Interaction

Monday, September 15, 2008
Kotzen Center, Simmmons College, Boston, MA

Understanding how people interact with information is a fundamental problem of information science. Interaction includes finding information in libraries and the WWW, consuming and evaluating what is found, and using this information to transform personal and global knowledge. Today, most human information interaction (HII) is mediated by technologies and much of the research is informed by principles and techniques that evolved in the field of human-computer interaction. This talk will focus on empirical techniques used to study HII, particularly user studies in laboratories. Investigations of personal health record usability, video retrieval, and exploratory search will be used to illustrate these techniques.

Join NE ASIS&T colleagues and Simmons students for this thought provoking talk by Gary Marchionini.

About Gary Marchionini:
Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. Professor Marchionini has had grants or contracts from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, NASA, the National Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. He has published over 180 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press. He was Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems from 2002-2008 and serves or has served on a dozen editorial boards. His current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; personal identity in cyberspace; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching

SCHEDULE:

6:00 PM- 6:30 PM - Networking and Refreshments
6:30 PM- 7:15 PM - Presentation by Gary Marchionini

COST:

$20-ASIS&T Members
$30-Non-Members
$10-Students/Retirees

The proceeds of this event will be donated to the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science to support the research efforts of doctoral students.

Registration is required, please register by September 9th: http://neasist.org/pc/programs/20080915.html

Join NE ASIS&T colleagues and Simmons students for a thought provoking talk by Gary Marchionini: “Understanding Human Information Interaction”

Understanding how people interact with information is a fundamental problem of information science. Interaction includes finding information in libraries and the WWW, consuming and evaluating what is found, and using this information to transform personal and global knowledge. Today, most human information interaction (HII) is mediated by technologies and much of the research is informed by principles and techniques that evolved in the field of human-computer interaction. This talk will focus on empirical techniques used to study HII, particularly user studies in laboratories. Investigations of personal health record usability, video retrieval, and exploratory search will be used to illustrate these techniques.

About Gary Marchionini:

Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. Professor Marchionini has had grants or contracts from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, NASA, the National Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. He has published over 180 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press. He was Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems from 2002-2008 and serves or has served on a dozen editorial boards. His current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; personal identity in cyberspace; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching

Location: Kotzen Center, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA

Schedule:
5:30 PM- 6:00 PM - Networking and Refreshments
6:00 PM- 6:45 PM - Presentation by Gary Marchionini

Prices:
$30.00 for Non-members
$20.00 for ASIS&T members
$10.00 for students or retired ASIS&T members

The proceeds of this event will be donated to the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science to support the research efforts of doctoral students.

Save the Date, we hope to see you there! Registration will open soon through the NE ASIS&T web site: http://www.neasist.org

NEASIS&T is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2008 awards are:

Jodi Schneider
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
for her paper entitled “FRBRizing MARC records with the FRBR Display Tool”

and

Jaime Snyder
Syracuse University
School of Information Studies
for her paper entitled “Image-Enabled Discourse: Towards an Exploratory Analytic Framework”

These awards entitle each recipient up to $750 to help defray the costs of attendance at the 2008 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, “People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People” which takes place October 24-29, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio.

Congratulations to both Jodi and Jaime for their excellent papers! More info…

If you missed Robert Wolfe’s presentation at the NE ASIS&T Awards dinner, you can follow this link to view the text of his presentation. A podcast link will follow soon.

Join your SLA Boston and NEASIST colleagues for a Dine Around

6:30 pm on Tuesday August 5, 2008 @ Namaskar Indian restaurant

234 Elm Street, Somerville
Right in Davis Square
http://www.namaskar-cuisine.com/index.html

Register:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=XVz_2f9AtEUy_2bBdrcElTsdgg_3d_3d

We would appreciate knowing that you are coming by Monday August 4 so we can make a reservation.

Questions? Dorothy Barr – dbarr@oeb.harvard.edu or 617-495-1348

Thursday June 26th @ 5:30pm-7PM

Some say that Green is the new black. Meanwhile, we’ve got more energy and resource-consuming gadgets that have become integral to everyday life. Join us for an informal and fun meetup where we’ll discuss strategies and technologies to reduce the amount of energy, paper, and other resources we consume at work and home (or by working at home). Feel free to bring questions or ideas about what you’re doing to work smarter, or links your favorite blogs and podcasts about living and working Green.

It’s not mandatory but if you know you’re coming and you let us know, we’ll save you a seat. You can send an email to Christine Quirion at cquirion[at]mit.edu, or just find us there. Weather permitting, we’ll be sitting outside on the patio.

The Cambridge Brewery is located at:

1 Kendall Square, Bldg 100
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-494-1994

http://www.cambrew.com/

(Accessible from MBTA Red Line at Kendall station)

NEASIS&T awards dinner with special guest Robert Wolfe of the MIT Libraries
Thursday, June 12, 2007
MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA
Registration Now Open!

Join us for an evening of networking, and recognizing our colleagues. Dinner will be served, and Robert Wolfe of the MIT Libraries will speak about the semantic web,in practice.

“Skepticism appears to be a popular sentiment regarding the endlessly imminent arrival of the Semantic Web…. This presentation will demonstrate the real, actual applications of Semantic Web techniques in real, actual library information organizations. Surprise! The Semantic Web is already here, having sneaked in the back door, while our attentions were on XML and other information technologies.”

Want to find out more? join us on June 12th.

The deadline for the Student Travel award is May 16th. The New England chapter will be giving 2 awards for up to $750 for travel to the ASIS&T annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio. more info