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Welcome to NEASIS&T

Welcome to the home page of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T).

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NEASIS&T 2009 STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

NEW CHAPTER OFFICERS

New chapter officers were elected by NE ASIS&T for 2008/2009:

  • Chapter Chair: Nicole Hennig, MIT Libraries
  • Program Chair / Chair-Elect: Remlee Green, MIT Libraries
  • Treasurer/Secretary: Sheila Denn, Simmons College
  • Membership Chair: Christine Quirion, MIT Libraries

Our new Simmons' GSLIS Student Liaison is Bill Helman.

Thanks to our present and past officers for their service to the chapter.

Links to Robert Wolfe's talk at NEASIS&T Awards Dinner
If you missed Robert Wolfe's presentation at the NEASIS&T Awards dinner, you can follow this link to download the powerpoint slides from his presentation. A podcast link will follow soon.

 

Recent Events

NEASIS&T TED Talks Film Festival:
 Wednesday, April 29, 5:30 pm-8 pm

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 here: http://neasist.wufoo.com/forms/ted-talks-voting/. 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:
http://neasist.wufoo.com/forms/registration-for-ted-event/
Optional: vote for the talks: http://neasist.wufoo.com/forms/ted-talks-voting/

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

Wednesday, April 29, 5:30 pm-8 pm at the MIT Bush Room, building 10, room 105
Directions to MIT

Agenda:

  • 5:30-6: pizza & networking
  • 6-8: TED Talks & conversation

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

NE ASIS&T Book Club Night:

 "Print is Dead!"
Thursday, April 9, 5:30 pm-7 pm

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 before. If not, come anyway! Those who have read it can enlighten the rest of us.

If you don't want to buy the book, a few local libraries own it:

April 9, 5:30 pm-7 pm at the Bombay Club, Harvard Square

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.

NE ASIS&T meetup:

Twitter!
Thursday, February 19, 5:30 pm-7 pm

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 at Johnny D's and share some interesting Twitter applications you know about.

February 19, 5:30 pm-7 pm at Johnny D's, Davis Square, Somerville

Hope you can make it! If you can, please RSVP to Darcy Duke 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!

NE ASIS&T meetup:

What I learned at ASIST…
Thursday, November 13, 5:3pm-7 pm

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.

Green Street Grill: http://www.greenstreetgrill.com

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

NE ASIS&T and the Simmons College Student Chapter of ASIS&T present:

Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devicesWednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Kotzen Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Details and Registration

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]

Robert.VanderHart@umassmed.edu
10 June 2009