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