It’s a tie!
The Student Chapter of the Year Award has two winners this
year! The Award
will be shared between the student chapters at Simmons
College and UCLA. A
hearty congratulations to both chapters!
The Student Chapter of the Year Award Committee would like
to recognize the
many accomplishments of all Chapters that submitted reports
for the award.
Everyone should be very proud of their many accomplishments.
The committee
was very impressed with all report submissions.
UCLA student chapter
The UCLA student chapter engaged in a significant number of
activities for
its first re-active year. It was very impressive. The
chapter is also
noteworthy for its use of new media for communications,
online presence, and
workshop/activity topics. Their relationship with LACASIS
bodes well for the
health of ASIS&T because it provides a clear link
through which students
will continue to be involved after they graduate. This
chapter demonstrated
a plan for retention of members, in addition to recruiting
new members. They
had many excellent programs and interaction with other
groups.
Current membership is 37, a great increase from the 6
members at the
beginning of the years. So, they were able to recruit 21 new
members.
The number of events and workshops from both chapter was
outstanding:
UCLA held 27 events, and had 8 meetings with cooperative
ventures. Some of
these events and workshops included a six-part career
development series
called Career Fest 2007 in which they introduced a variety
of information
professions, a NetVibes Mini-Workshop in which they
introduced students to
the NetVibes technology for creating virtual reference
portals. They also
had movie nights, topic panels, and journal groups.
Simmons College student chapter
One committee member remarked that the Simmons chapter “has
found a way to
its members' minds -- through their stomachs!” The Simmons
chapter has also
done a good job retaining membership numbers. Their chapter
activities take
wonderful advantage of the resources available to Simmons
because of its
geography and academic connections (within and outside
Simmons). Their
chapter activities are offered consistently and reflect
current interests of
students and practitioners. the Simmons chapter maintains
consistent
communications and uses current media for communications.
The chapter gave
and received awards during the 2006-7 reporting year.
Simmons held a total of 71 meetings, events and
workshops—this included 8
meetings, 16 events, 47 workshops over the Fall and Spring
semesters.
Emerging Technologies Workshops covered topics such as XHTML
&CSS, Wikis,
User interface design, Podcasting and Internet Radio,
Setting up an RSS
Aggregator, etc. Members assisted students in holding an
Advising Day for
incoming GSLIS students, and Speed Geeking II, in which five
panelists spoke
to small groups of 3 or 4 about technology related jobs.
Current membership is 39, a slight decrease from the 44
previous, however
they recruited 28 new members, and retained 11.
Who is and was Responsible?
UCLA
Jean-François Blanchette, Faculty Advisor
Gregory H. Leazer, Faculty Advisor
Andrea Lynch, LACASIS Student Chapter Advisor
Grace Lau, Chair
Monique Escamilla, Vice-Chair
Lua Gregory, Secretary-Treasurer
Jill Detrick, Programs Lead
Ashley Burdick, Social Chair
John Khuu, Social Chair and Webmaster
Tommy Keswick, Assembly Representative
Matthew Wittmer, Alternate Representative
Shilpa Rele, Webmaster
Simmons
Chair: Jennifer Lege and Alison Cody
Vice-Chair: Alison Cody, Ellen Wilson, and Jennifer
Langley
Secretary/Treasurer: Michael Klein, Ben Florin
Newsletter Editor/Publications Chair/(Web Manager: Joanna
Weston
Faculty Advisor: Candy Schwartz, Sheila Denn
Mt. Holyoke Coordinator: Adam Novitt
NEASIS&T LiaisonSally LeGore
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Congratulations again to both chapters!
Shawne D. Miksa
October 9, 2007
ASIST Student Chapter Representative
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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
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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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