SLIS NEWS: Snoopy Dance, ASIS&T, 5 Things

Hello friends and colleagues,

Whew! Got home last night very late, did the Snoopy-dog joy dance and was happy to be back in the office today!

ASIS&T was very interesting, met many possible recruits and our display table was packed with people talking about our new Ph.D. program and all the great things we are doing here. Should have made a recording for answering, "Where is Bob Williams, is he coming, did he really retire. . .????" Told everyone that he was doing his CROP Walk and they wished him well.

The presentation on digital libaries and publishing was packed. I talked about how a networked/collaborative book might work and what impact it has on scholary communications, libraries and personal digital libaries. Hopefully, we'll be putting one together soon. The Institute for the Future of the Book is a good place to start thinking about new forms of communication and media. http://www.futureofthebook.org/ There is a blog for the meeting at www.asis.org and some great photos.

Museum Computer Network meeting was fantastic! Some of the best sessions AND our state library website was used as an example of great work in the opensource software discussion! I was so proud when John Chadwick said, "dr. sam is from South Carolina now * do you know the folks that did the website?" and I could say "YOU BET I DO!" with much pride.

Here are your 5 things to do, contemplate and act on if needed :

1. IT”S CHILDREN”S BOOK WEEK and USC students are gearing up for Cocky's Reading Express this week. Dr. Sorensen is reading on Friday, November 17 on the field adjacent to Strom Thurman’s Wellness Center. Details are at http://www.libsci.sc.edu/ccbl/speciale.htm See you there!

2. From ALA News Online: Davenport, Rettig Seek ALA Presidency
he American Library Association Executive Board approved the Nominating Committee’s selections for ALA presidential candidates at its October 29-30 fall meeting in Chicago. Seeking the 2007-2008 ALA presidency are Nancy Davenport, president of Nancy Davenport and Associates, and James Rettig, university librarian at the University of Richmond (Va.). The board also approved two candidates for the 2007-2010 term as ALA treasurer: Rod Hersberger, dean of the University Library at California State University at Bakersfield, and Jo Ann Pinder, recent executive director of the Gwinnett County (Ga.) Public Library. Electronic ballot information will be transmitted to all ALA members with valid e-mail addresses who are current as of January 31, 2007. ALA members without valid e-mail addresses on file will receive materials by mail. Those who prefer to vote by paper ballot may contact the Member and Customer Services department at 800-545-2433 and press 5, or e-mail membership@ala.org. Candidates’ campaign statements will appear in the March issue of AL. Voting begins March 15, 2007.

3. From my good friend Joe Janes on blogs and blog readers’ advisories? Have to read this one!
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/inetlibrarian/2006columns/internetoct06.htm

4. Good technology review of the new Sony ebook reader: http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17766&ch=infotech

5. Google Audio coming soon? http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2635642

Have a great week!

sam

SLI S NEWS: Fun, Conferences, 5 Things

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are having so much fun at SLIS, it's hard to catch a spare moment! We are busy getting our new programs ready for prime time and keeping our MLS operating at top level. We are planning a fund raising event so we can rent a bus to take a bunch of us to ALA in Washington DC next summer. Will keep you posted.

I'll be out of the office next week for the American Society for Information Science annual meeting in Austin, Texas and then on to Pasadena for the Museum Computer Network. At ASIS&T, in addition to my governance responsibilities, I am presenting two papers and moderating a panel on image retrieval.

Competing Information Realities: Digital Libraries, Repositories, and the Commons
Donald Kraft, Edie Rasmussen, Samantha Hastings, Anita Coleman
A Conception-Based Approach to Automatic Subject Term Assignment for Scientific Journal Articles EunKyung Chung and S.K. Hastings

At MCN I am presenting:
Close Encounters of The Third Kind: The 3 Rs of 3-D in the Cultural World
Moderator: Elise C. Lewis, University of North Texas
Participants: Tony Hushion, Royal Ontario Museum; Brian Porter, Royal Ontario Museum; and Samantha K. Hastings, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina

I will also be recruiting for the best and the brightest at both conferences!

Here are your 5 things to do, read or think about.
Hope you appreciated Ms. Dewey last week!

1. Excellent resource for current Grant Announcements from SC
Department of Education
http://ed.sc.gov/agency/offices/grants/currentgrantannouncements
federalcorporateandprivate.html


2. Frank Baker, our media literacy expert points out that media educators Kathleen Tyner and Sue Lockwood Summers are two featured authors in the latest issue of _Computers in the Classroom_. If you don't already receive the magazine, you can download it, or just specific articles
at: http://www.ciconline.org/aboutcic/publications/cicmagazine.htm

3. Minority Enrollment Grew by More Than 50% From 1993 to 2003, Report Says Minority-student enrollment at colleges and universities increased by 51 percent in the decade ending in 2003, an improvement driven by growth in the number of Hispanic and minority-female students, according to a report scheduled for release today by the American Council on Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/10/2006103002n.htm

4. Google shares toys and tools for search engines
http://www.physorg.com/news80881668.html

5. NITLE/Wesleyan Report on Digital Images Released Oct. 31
Digital images are changing the way professors teach at colleges and universities--although often at great personal expense of time and resources, according to a new study by David Green. "Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions," published today, details the results of an intensive study of digital image use by more than 400 faculty at 33
liberal arts colleges and universities in the Northeast. The full report and an executive summary are available at Academic Commons, an online forum for new technologies and liberal education:
http://www.academiccommons.org/imagereport

Have a wonderful week and let me know if there is anything I can do for
you!

sam