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The Spring program will be on May 17 at the Starr Auditorium at the Kennedy School, Harvard. Two speakers have been identified so far: Eric Lease Morgan from NC State who will speak about the MyLibrary technology used there, and Jay Budzik from Northwestern University, speaking on Intelligent Question Answering Tools. The Committee is also trying to get speakers on call center software and on content syndication (eg. isyndicate.com). Michael Leach will moderate, and the speakers will participate on an end of the day panel focusing on some discussion topics distributed earlier in the day.
A proposed date for the Awards dinner was April 27 (since then became April 13, due to availability of the MIT Faculty Club). A speaker who will talk on the Paper Computer is planned. Awards will be presented for Student Travel Award and Member of the Year.
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The Program Committee is also looking at running some hands-on workshops: one on audio on the web in June, and one on database-based web sites in August.
BALM (a Boston area web managers group) will become a forum of NEASIS. This will create a nice relationship between the two groups. The relationship will provide some source of funding for BALM events, but will not require ASIS membership of the BALM participants. BALM plans an event of a "show and tell" nature soon, with regard to web sites.
Tapes from the Open Source program are in the works. Program Committee members are looking at digital audiotape for future events.
Two months of membership information were distributed. New members: 8, renewed: 22, dropped: 16, transfers out: 1. The Recruitment and Retention subgroup has not yet been able to meet. Margret Lippert is currently sending a letter of congratulations to MLS graduates and inviting them to continue in ASIS.
The award announcement has been posted on ASIS-L and email versions have been sent to Simmons, SUNY Albany, SCSU, URI, and Syracuse. Beata will send the text to Nicole to post at MIT for MLS students within the Libraries there. It was decided that papers submitted for consideration must be from the current academic year.
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Two of the new chapter members are Simmons Chapter officers. The student chapter has several events planned for spring. A field trip is planned to Ernst & Young to learn about Knowledge Management, as is a trip to SilverPlatter. Someone from Lycos will speak at Simmons in April. A chapter luncheon is planned for May. The chapter is looking for speakers on archival EAD. Beata will send names she knows from Harvard.
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There is no report since Ginnie could not attend and there is no word on a replacement for her.
Vince was also unable to attend, so there is no finance report.
John will help again with the next issue of the newsletter until a newsletter editor is identified.
New volunteers are needed for a number of jobs: newsletter editor, board positions, program committee participation, nominating committees, the web site team, and more. A personal approach is needed to bring members into more active roles. Various possibilities were discussed. Beata will bring the ideas to the Recruitment and Retention team to act on.
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Michael will ask Dick Hill about student support in lieu of fees to attend the summit. Michael will let Paul know for recruiting purposes at Simmons. Michael would like to have a NEASIS table at the event with handouts about our activities and upcoming programs.
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The NEASIS membership subgroup will assemble some materials to make availabe at the event.
Michael would like to expand our region (and our name) to incorporate some of the areas nearby that no longer have active chapters. Julie Hurd thinks this idea has merit. We need to define boundaries geographically, then submit the idea at Chapter Assembly in the fall. If approved, it would next go to the Executive Board the following month. Michael will form a committee to look into the possibilities, and approach members from the adjacent chapter areas.
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Next Meeting: March 14, Kummel Library, Harvard