Carolinas Chapter Events
Friday, February 26, 2010
9:30am - 12:00pm
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Learn about information visualization and design for academic posters and presentations from SILS doctoral candidate and designer Songphan Choemprayong.
Examples of Songphan's designs can be seen here.
There will be hands-on activities. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and current projects to this event.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Event Details:
Friday, February 26, 2010, 9:30am - 12:00pm
Graduate Student Center, UNC Chapel Hill campus
Students (with ID or student email address): $15
ASIS&T members: $15
General: $20
Registration for this event is closed .
Sponsors:
Carolinas Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (cc:asis&t)
UNC-ASIS&T Student Chapter
AMENDMENT: This event will be held in Murphey Hall, rm 105.
Come out and enjoy an evening watching TED Talks with discussions led by ASIS&T President Professor Gary Marchionini!
Details:
Cost: $5 (includes free popcorn)
When: 7pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Where: Murphey Hall, rm 105, on the UNC Campus, (Chapel Hill, NC 27514).
Come out and enjoy an evening of socializing with fellow ASIS&T members -- and match your brain against library and information science trivia questions!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9am - 1pm
There are roughly a gazillion open-source CMS products using a variety of means (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, blogging software, etc.) to manage documents, graphics, text, and other digital creations. They can also be used to manage web content, and hold the promise that all you need to do is create the content and leave the HTML markup and publishing to the CMS.
But just what exactly is a CMS? What does it look like? How does it work? Many CMS products are free or open-source--but does that mean they're cheap in terms of the time you spend setting them up?
This event is intended for beginners or those new to the CMS idea. It's especially for anyone who's been asked to use a CMS to revamp their organization's web site, but doesn't know where to start or where to go for more information.
There will be no hands-on activities at this event, but there will be plenty of opportunity to see a few choice CMS products in action and to ask lots of questions.
Event Details:
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 9am - 1pm
Manning Hall, UNC Chapel Hill campus
Students (with ID or student email address): $15
STC and ASIS&T members: $25
General: $35
Presenters:
Jeff VanDrimmelen: "What is a CMS? Do I Need One?," WordPress
Julia Kulla-Mader: Drupal
Jonathan Pletzke: Joomla
Schedule:
| 9-9:30a.m. | What Is A CMS? Do I Need One? |
| 9:40-10:10a.m. | Break-Out Groups (one presenter for each room, one CMS for each room) |
| 10:20-10:50a.m. | Break-Out Groups |
| 11-11:30a.m. | Break-Out Groups |
| 11:30-12:00p.m. | Lunch and chat |
| 12:00-1p.m. | Continue eating during informal Q&A with all three presenters |
For further details, please see the workshop wiki, and the workshop flyer.
Sponsors:
Carolinas Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (cc:asis&t)
STC Carolinas Chapter
NC State Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication
Summary notes from the workshop.
A panel of experts speak on the future of reference services
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz, Assistant Professor, UNC-CH School of Information & Library Science
Panel Participants:
- Carolyn H. White, Media Coordinator, McDougle Middle School
- Susan Forbes, Assistant Director, EPA-RTP Library
- Lisa Dendy, Durham Public Library
- Amy VanScoy, Associate Head, Research and Information Services, DH Hill Library (NCSU)
Details:
January 14, 2009, 4-5 pm
Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill
Join cc:asis&t for a wine-tasting social at The Wine Cellar in Durham's Sutton Station. Enjoy holiday cheer with friends and colleagues, and celebrate the season! (You may even find some great gift ideas...) Light snacks will be provided.
Details:
Where: The Wine Cellar at Sutton Station (5850 Fayetteville Rd., Durham NC 27713).
Phone: (919) 806-3111
When: Thursday, December 11th with the tasting starting promptly at 7:30 PM.
Cost: $10/person -- 10% of all wine sales will go to support cc:asis&t and its programs. Credit cards are accepted.
**If you want to attend, please RSVP to Mike Brown at brownmeb (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu.**
A presentation by Jason Neal, M.L.S., Lecturer, North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Sciences (NCCU SLIS)
Event Details:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Shepard Library, NCCU Campus, Durham, NC
5:00 p.m. Food and business: Room 339, Student Lounge
5:30-6:30 p.m. Program: Room 324/325
Description:
Typical 20-year-olds in post-World War II America grew up with radio as an established medium, witnessed the growing ubiquity of television, communicated with friends by rotary phone, and used libraries as their primary information retrieval systems.
Typical 20-year-olds in modern America grew up with television as a long-established medium, witnessed the growing ubiquity of the Internet, communicate with friends through a variety of telecommunications technologies, and use a variety of information retrieval systems whose origins go back the post-World War II era.
Along with social and historical contexts, technology affects the workplace and recreational expectations of different generations. Join us as Jason Neal explores how these factors have influenced the attitudes (and our perceptions) of four generations: Silents, Boomers, Xers, and Millennials.
Refreshments will be provided after the presentation.
Co-sponsors:
NCCU SLIS Student Chapter of the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
UNC-Chapel Hill Student Chapter of ASIS&T
Directions and Parking:
Driving directions
NCCU Campus Map
The best places for visitors to park are along Cecil Street, on the residential streets west of Fayetteville Street, and along or north of Lawson Street.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
9am - 4:30pm
This workshop will showcase some of the innovative uses of technology in terms of virtual and immersive environments for interacting with information. The day's events will generate attendee discussion around the use, integration and evaluation of such tools (how do we evaluate the use of these technologies? how can research improve practice? how can practice inform research?, etc.).
The program will feature a colorful mix of research projects ranging from electrical stimulation of the nervous system with cochlear implant, to scalable visualization of genealogy links, an experiential look at the death penalty, visualizing activity on a busy website, and comparing human and yeast cell protein interaction networks. Attendees need not be familiar with the disciplines of these research projects - the program will expose you to the use of immersive and interactive technology across a range of disciplines and then encourage discussion about the possibilities.
Event Details:
Saturday, September 13, 2008, 9am - 4:30pm
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), UNC Campus - ITS Manning
211 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Free for ASIS&T members, $50 for non-members (ASIS&T student membership is only $40)
Breakfast, lunch and a reception are included in the program
Payment must be received by September 8, 2008, attendance is limited to 45
Parking available at Ram's Head Parking Deck on Ridge Road north of Manning Drive; Dogwood Parking Deck, corner of Manning Drive and Hospital Drive, one block west of ITS Manning
Please also view the workshop flyer.
Presenters and Participants:
- David Borland, Senior Research Software Visualization Developer, RENCI, UNC
- Charles C. Finley, Research Associate Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (UNC and NC State)
- Elizabeth Evans, Academic Outreach Specialist, Division of Teaching and Learning, Information Technology Services, UNC
- Ray Idaszak, Director, Visualization and Collaborative Environments, RENCI, UNC
- Eric Knisley, Senior Visualization Research Content Developer, RENCI, UNC
- William Kaufmann, Professor, UNC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, Genetic Susceptibility Research Core, Center for Health and Susceptibility; Director, Program in Toxicogenomics, UNC
- Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org; Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information & Library Science, UNC
- Julia Mack, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, UNC Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
- Reagan Moore, Professor in the School of Information & Library Science and RENCI, UNC
- Ruth Marinshaw, Director RENCI Engagement Center, UNC
- Javed Mostafa, Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center
- Diane Neal, Assistant Professor, NCCU School of Information and Library Sciences
- Joyce Rudinsky, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Communication Studies
- David Tinapple, Lecturer, UNC Department of Art
- Mark Reed, Research Associate, RENCI, UNC
- Weimao Ke, PhD student, School of Information and Library Science, UNC
- Ken Galluppi, Senior Researcher, Disaster Studies, RENCI, UNC
- Mike Conway, Social Computing Room Developer, RENCI, UNC
| 9-10a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast |
| 10-10:45a.m. | Track I (Dome room), Track II (Social computing room), Track III (Tele-immersion room) |
| 11-11:45p.m. | Track I (Social computing room), Track II (Tele-immersion room), Track III (Dome room) |
| 12-1:30p.m. | Lunch (outside or rm. 2400) |
| 1:30-2:15p.m. | Track I (Tele-immersion room), Track II (Dome room), Track III (Social computing room) |
| 2:30-3:30p.m. | Panel |
| 3:30-4:30p.m. | Reception |
Summary of the workshop by cc:asis&t 2008-2009 Program Committee Chair, Mike Brown
Pictures from the workshop
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
What is an institutional repository? How do topics like scholarly communication, copyright, institutional memory, digital libraries, metadata, intellectual property, research impact, digital preservation, and Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) fit in the concept and implementation of an institutional repository?
In the spirit of classical oration and political debate Dr. Helen Tibbo and Kevin Smith, MLS, J.D. will square off on these topics with a duel of dialog.
Following the debate, Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library at NCSU, Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer at Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at University of Michigan, and Carolyn Hank, SILS PhD student and project manager with the UNC Institutional Repository will join the panel discussion.
Featured Participants:
Dr. Helen Tibbo is professor in the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina. Her current research is in digital curation, digital preservation and curriculum development in this emerging field. She chairs the Digital Curation - Institutional Repository Committee charged by the Chancellor with developing a plan and prototype for the Institutional Repository at UNC.
Kevin L. Smith is the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University providing consultation on copyright, scholarly publishing and licensing issues. He serves on the faculty of ARL's Institute on Scholarly Communications and ALA's Committee on Legislation Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. He also has a highly-regarded blog on scholarly communications.
Event Details:
Carolina Digital Library & Archives (CDLA) Facilities
1st Floor of Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/wilson/directions.html
6:00 PM Dinner from Mediterranean Deli
6:30 PM Debate & Discussion
Summary:
The Great Debate was well attended with about 60 people present and multiple institutions represented. Discussion was lively with a significant amount of participation from audience members. In conclusion, the participants agreed that more conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of institutional repositories is required.
