Dear ASIS&T members:
The work of the 2007 ASIS&T Chapter of the Year Jury was
difficult this
year because we received several great nominations for the
award. These
submissions are a wonderful testament to the value and
impact that the
chapters have in their local information science and
technology
communities. If you are lucky enough to live in an area
where there is an
active ASIS&T chapter, I highly recommend that you check
it out! Attend a
program and/or become involved. It's a very rewarding
experience.
Speaking of rewards, I would like to sincerely thank the
2007 Chapter of
the Year Award Jury for their tireless work: Heather
Hessell, Christine
Connors, and Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic.
This year we have two winners: LACASIS and New England - it
was a dead
heat between the two chapters. Below is the citation for
them which will
be in The Bulletin, the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Program
and on the ASIS&T
website.
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2007 Chapter of the Year (Two Winners): Los Angeles and New
England
The Los Angeles Chapter was selected 2007 Chapter of the
Year due to its
stellar performance in all of the assessment criteria. With
25 active
local members, LACASIS provides its membership with myriad
educational and
networking opportunities in the Los Angeles area. The five
events
organized by LACASIS were on topics which ranged from the
practical
“Working with Wikis” to the theoretical “Toward
Multimedia Surrogation,”
each incorporating time for socializing and networking.
With one board
member responsible for member recruitment and retention,
LACASIS has an
impressive array of activities geared towards attracting
members from many
different professional and geographic areas and keeping them
hooked on the
Society. The chapter sponsors two awards: The Margaret
McKinley Memorial
Student Scholarship which provides reimbursement funding up
to $1000 for
one student to attend ASIS&T Annual, and The
Contribution to Information
Science and Technology Award honoring individuals who have
made
significant contributions to the field. It also co-sponsors
the UCLA
GSE&IS Lazerow Lecture. Additionally, LACASIS
recognizes the
extraordinary service of its active members with a LACASIS
Member Award.
This year the chapter moved their award-winning quarterly
newsletter,
OASIS, from a traditional print/pdf format to a wiki format,
enabling
registered users to contribute content to it. And finally,
by watching
expenses and juggling priorities, LACASIS maintains its
fiscal health
while continuing to offer its members rich local programming
and services.
Our second winner, the New England Chapter, was equally
outstanding in all
Chapter of the Year assessment criteria. The Chapter
sponsored four
successful programs with an average attendance of 85. The
diversity of
the program topics (“The Dawn of the Embedded Library”,
“Geographic
Information Made Accessible,” “Designing Usable
Interfaces”, and
“Visualizing Wikipedia”) reflects the understanding that
not all of its
200 members work in libraries. In support of the
Society’s goal to
increase membership, NEASIS&T has begun offering
discounted ASIS&T
memberships to nonmembers who join ASIST at the same time
they register
for a NEASIST program. The chapter has also shifted the
pricing structure
of its programs to provide deeper discounts to ASIS&T
members, thus
encouraging membership. By convincing speakers to waive
fees and securing
free meeting space, the major programs net profits that
enable the Chapter
to offer free programs as well. At an annual awards
banquet, the Chapter
honors the Student Member of the Year, as well as the
Chapter Member of
the Year. NEASIST sponsors a Student Travel Award
competition: up to two
winners receive $750 to cover travel expenses to attend the
ASIS&T Annual
Meeting. The Chapter also supports the International
Calendar of
Information Science. With these initiatives which nurture
and support the
information science and technology community in New England
and
internationally, the chapter exemplifies the old adage:
“Think Globally,
Act Locally.”
A hearty congratulations to both Los Angeles and New England
for winning
the Chapter of the Year Award – with your dedication to
your local
membership you promote ASIST's core values from coast to
coast.
Beata Panagopoulos
ASIS&T Chapter Assembly Director
Head of Technical Services
Kennedy School of Government Library
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 617-496-1775
fax 617-495-1972
email: beata_panagopoulos harvard.edu
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2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory
firm)
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.asis
.org/Conferences/AM07/
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