NEASIS&T Events

Are you a lover of TED Talks? Or maybe you’re wondering just who this Ted person is that everyone keeps talking about? Either way, join us for an evening of TED Talks, pizza, and sparkling conversation, on Wednesday, April 29, from 5:30-8! Vote on your top choices for viewing at the festival. We’ll show several of the talks that you’ve voted for and include some time between films to chat about the ideas presented in the talk.

TED Talks are “inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and doers,” available at http://www.ted.com. TED stands for “Technology, Entertainment, Design,” but talks span a vast range of topics. The TED conference challenges intriguing people to “give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).” Many focus on technology and design, and no matter the topic, most are extremely engrossing. Sound good?

Sign up by Monday, 4/27
Optional: vote for the talks

Twitterers: we’ll set up a hash tag for the event. (If you don’t know what that means, come and find out!)

Details:
Wednesday, April 29, from 5:30-8pm
5:30-6: pizza & networking
6-8: TED Talks & conversation

Cost: $10 (covers pizza, salad, and drinks)

MIT Bush Room, building 10, room 105
Directions to MIT

P.S. Also save the date for the annual awards dinner on June 2!

Thursday, April 9, 5:30-7:00pm
Bombay Club, Harvard Square

Join us for the first NEASIS&T book club night! We’ll chat about the provocative and insightful “Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age” by Jeff Gomez. Gomez “contends that printed books will be replaced by digital books and that book distributors and readers should actively support the transformation by encouraging digital book creation and the standards required for storage and delivery” (WorldCat summary). If you can, read the book ahead of time… If not, come anyway! Those who have read it can enlighten the rest of us. Check out more details and reviews in the links below.

If you don’t want to buy the book, a few local libraries own it:
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163616481
Minuteman: http://library.minlib.net/record=b2583442

Please let us know if you’re coming by replying to remlee@mit.edu by the morning of the event, so we can save you a seat. If you don’t RSVP, feel free to join us anyway.

We’re currently planning a lot of fun events for NEASIS&T over the next few months… We’ll give you more details soon, but in the meantime, here are some dates to save:

4/9 - 5:30-7pm: Book club night - Print is Dead by Jeff Gomez (Start reading!)
4/29 - evening: TED talks film festival
6/2 evening: Awards dinner

NEASIS&T now has a Twitter feed! Join our feed here: http://www.twitter.com/neasist. We’ll update you on upcoming events and related news bites.

Don’t have a Twitter profile yet? See http://www.twitter.com to start one.

Want to know more or share your ideas? Come to the meet-up this Thursday, 2/19, 5:30-7:00pm at Johnny D’s in Davis Square! Please RSVP to Darcy Duke (darcy@mit.edu) by the morning of the meet-up (2/19), so we can save you a seat at the table/bar. If we don’t hear from you, feel free to still join us there!

NEASIS&T Meetup: Twitter!
Thursday February 19th @ 5:30-7pm
Johnny D’s, Davis Square, Somerville: http://www.johnnyds.com/

Twitter. Love it? Hate it? Don’t know what it is? Come talk about microblogging with NEASIST - join us for an informal and fun meetup where we’ll share how we are using it for private or professional use.
Twitter is not just for broadcasting what you had for lunch - it’s also a giant database of information. Find out how companies such as Comcast are using Twitter to track who is talking about their organizations and use that as a tool to improve customer service. Come join us for drinks and casual conversation and share some interesting Twitter applications you know about.

Hope you can make it! If you can, please RSVP to Darcy Duke (darcy[at]mit.edu) by the morning of the meet-up (2/19), so we can save you a seat at the table/bar. If we don’t hear from you, feel free to still join us there!

Here are some links to two of the presentations from the November 5th Mobile Mania event. We will be posting more slides as they become available. Also don’t forget to keep an eye out for podcasts of the presentations, coming soon!

Libraries To Go: Mobile Tech in Libraries, Ellyssa Kroski

What’s In Your Pocket?: Mobile Medical Applications, Michelle Kraft

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