Well this is my first ASIS&T and I’m looking forward to it. As a fresh off the grad podium librarian I am a bit curious to see what ASIS&T is all about.
Any one else heading to the Daser Summit pre-conference workshop titled Shaping Things to Come? It is hosted by SLA, ASIST and ACS.
I’ll admit, it took me a few seconds to get over the scary sounding title Daser Summit III / 8th Quadrennial Tri Society Symposium (think lasers, tasers and all other kinds of intergalactic weapons and something that sounds like a chemical formula). DASER stands for Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources. Ah, that sounds much more interesting, and right up my alley. And… I’m a new librarian so I’m definitely interested in hearing from “visionaries” in the field.
It is at the Hilton tomorrow (Friday, November 3) at 9 am. Not really sure exactly where in the Hilton. Perhaps someone more enlightened than I could comment and let us all know where to go.
November 2nd, 2006 at 07:09pm
laura.robinson
Plan to join us at this SIG-DL sponsored panel at ASIS&T AM 2006, on Monday Nov. 6, 2006 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. The panelists are Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University & Editor, JASIST; Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Samantha Hastings, University of South Carolina & Editor, ASIS&T Monograph Series; and Anita Coleman, University of Arizona and Editor, dLIST.
The goal of the panel is to explore the concept of the commons by framing it in the context of scholarly communication while also honing our understandings about digital libraries and repositories as technologies and socio-cultural artifacts. Panel members will uncover the pros and cons of the commons for LIS research and scholarly communication by describing the cognate and competing extant information realities. Edie Rasmussen will discuss the role of digital libraries in the commons. Anita Coleman, dLIST editor, the first open access archive for the information sciences will present her latest research about open access archives and the commons. Donald Kraft, Editor-in-chief of JASIST, will share his experiences editing a peer-reviewed ISI-ranked journal. Samantha Hastings, editor of ASIS&T monographs will share book publishing plans and concerns. Brief overviews together with the questions of each presenter for the audience/other panelists are already available, in case you want to peek ahead or perhaps even discuss online.
November 2nd, 2006 at 03:56pm
anita.coleman
