Chapter Assembly extends its hearty congratulations to the
Student Chapter
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for
winning the 2006
ASIS&T Chapter of the Year Award! Read all about it
below to see why this
honor is so well-deserved. Many thanks to the jury for
their hard work:
Michelle Kazmer, Shawne Miksa, Nancy Roderer, Debora Shaw,
and Lisl Zach.
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The Student Chapter of the Year Award goes to the UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS AT
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ASIS&T Student Chapter. This chapter
doubled in size in
2005/2006, attracting 80 new members. The chapter
co-sponsors an
orientation with the school and other student chapters at
the beginning of
the school year, and holds elections right away to encourage
new member
participation. The chapter also participates in orientation
for LEEP (the
distance education program), and chapter activities are made
available one
way or another to this remote audience and the general
public through such
devices as streaming audio. Many chapter members are active
in local and
national ASIS&T activities. In 2005/2006, the chapter
held 6 regular
business meetings and 13 events, including workshops on xml,
unix/linux,
wikis, copyright, and podcasting; a visit to the Missouri
Botanical
Gardens; a meeting with Roy Tennant; a Christmas party; and
a barbecue.
They also raised $500 by selling branded mugs so that events
could be kept
free-of-charge. Jury members for this award had the
following to say:
***An excellent chapter on all fronts. Programming is
strong, and approach
to finances shows creativity. Including LEEP students is a
brilliant
innovation which will certainly benefit all students and the
GSLIS program.
***Good, intentional inclusion of distance education
students and early
semester mobilization for a successful year.
***Nice mix and good number of topical meetings and use of
web to link to
past events for recruitment.
***Impressive initiative for fundraising.
Congratulations to the officers of the University of
Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign ASIS&T Student Chapter:
President: Matt Cordial (cordial uiuc.edu)
Vice-President: Richard Urban (rjurbanuiuc.edu)
Secretary: Karla Stover (kstover2uiuc.edu)
Treasurer: Gary Peeples (gary.peeplesgmail.com)
Publicity Officer: Parmit Chilana (pchilan2uiuc.edu)
LEEP Liaison: Helen Linda (hlinda2uiuc.edu)
Faculty Advisor: Dr. P. Bryan Heidorn (pheidornuiuc.edu)
Beata Panagopoulos
ASIS&T Chapter Assembly Director
Head of Technical Services
Kennedy School of Government Library
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-496-1775
fax 617-495-1972
beata_panagopoulosharvard.edu
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