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How to Build Collections around Faculty CVs and Syllabi: Wrap-up and Handout

How to Build Collections around Faculty CVs and Syllabi: Wrap-up and Handout Jennifer Ferguson’s workshop on using faculty material to build collections was a big success! We paired up and worked in teams to look over faculty CVs and syllabi that we brought with us. An important take away was that faculty members interweave their…

NEASIS&T Picnic 2016: Competitive Croquet and RDAP Recap

NEASIS&T Picnic 2016: Competitive Croquet and RDAP Recap Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Place: *location change* 25 Park Street — corner of Park Street and Harvard Ave. in Brookline Public transit: 66 and 65 buses, green line C and D trains. Parking: two-hour free on-street parking on Part Street…

Conversations on Data Management: An RDAP Review

Conversations on Data Management: An RDAP Review Thanks to the generous support of NEASIST, I was able to attend the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Summit earlier this month in Atlanta, Georgia. As a student (now recent grad!) of the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science, I first became interested in data…

Building Collections around Faculty CVs and Syllabi

Building Collections around Faculty CVs and Syllabi Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 Time: 2 PM to 4 PM Location: Wheelock College Earl Center for Learning and Innovation Parking is nigh impossible. We suggest you take public transportation. RSVP (space limited): http://www.meetup.com/neasist/events/230669019/ This is the second workshop in our Collection Development series. Jennifer Ferguson will be…

UX/UI Unconference Handouts

UX/UI Unconference Handouts Thanks to our UX experts and attendees – both in-person and virtual via our go-to meeting software – yesterday for the great turnout and lively discussions! Here is a link to our event evaluation if you didn’t get a chance to fill it out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tyy9CiRbOUHUlrVz162Av3vNRixr1huIf0je1HLZUk0/viewform There were some handouts shared at the…

Join NEASIST for our first UX/UI Un-Conference

Join NEASIST for our first UX/UI Un-Conference Date: Monday, April 25, 2016 Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Location: Faculty & Staff Dining Room right outside of The Fens Cafe in the Simmons College Main College Building. See who else is going and RSVP : http://www.meetup.com/neasist/events/229817030/ We will have a virtual participation option! Please email…

NE-ASIS&T Travel Awards 2016: 3 Conference Options

NE-ASIS&T Travel Awards 2016: 3 Conference Options Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2016 Notification of Award Winners: February 26, 2016 About the Awards: Professional and Student The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NE-ASIS&T) is pleased to announce two awards to support participation in an ASIS&T Summit or Annual Meeting. Our goals…

User Experience Design & Research — Conference Roundup

User Experience Design & Research — Conference Roundup Let’s give a GIANT thank you to everyone who helped us start off January with a productive and inspiring conference on user experience design. The New England library community is wasting no time in 2016! You can look forward to a series of posts providing slides and…

Chris LaRoche: UX Fundamentals

Chris LaRoche: UX Fundamentals Chris LaRoche of MIT and UXPA Boston took on the important role of introducing #neasistUX attendees to the basics of user experience fundamentals. This info was so valuable that I immediately resolved to attend more UXPA Boston events — meetups, Saturday workshops, and their annual conference in May. Check out Chris’s…

Anderson & English: Usability of Books in Browsers

Anderson & English: Usability of Books in Browsers Steven Anderson and Eben English of the Boston Public Library were facing a good problem. Thousands of new book objects being ingested into their collection, and they needed a browser-based, platform-agnostic interface to allow users to read content online. So, they found four open source tools and…