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Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum We are pleased to announce open registration for the second installment in the 2018 edition of our award-winning Summer of Tours! Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, the world’s largest collection of cartoon and comic art! The Billy Ireland is one of the special…

Columbus Zoo & Aquarium Library

Columbus Zoo & Aquarium Library Summer of Tours 2018: Library at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium with Sheila Campbell Join us for the 2018 edition of our award-winning Summer of Tours (2017 ASIS&T Chapter Event of the Year)!!! Our first tour will be of the Library at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, hosted by Librarian Sheila Campbell. Sheila has been…

Video: Webinar on Survey Methods

Video: Webinar on Survey Methods In this webinar, we invited Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Marie L. Radford to talk about the different steps when conducting a survey. Several questions are discussed: What types of questionnaires exist? What is sampling? What are the advantages and disadvantages of surveys? How should surveys be designed? Our experts also…

Summer of Tours 2018

Summer of Tours 2018 Announcing the return of the award-winning CO-ASIS&T Summer of Tours! The lineup will be updated with final dates as they are confirmed, so stay tuned for more information. This year we are revisiting some of our more popular tours from years past. Columbus Zoo Library Saturday, May 19, 10:00am [FULL] Billy Ireland…

News from the Ohio Digital Network, a Digital Public Library of America Hub

News from the Ohio Digital Network, a Digital Public Library of America Hub The State Library of Ohio will host a presentation on the Ohio Digital Network (ODN) and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). DPLA is an all-digital library that brings together the metadata of digital objects from America’s libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions. The Ohio…

Report: Delightful (Student) Design at ASIS&T 2017

Report: Delightful (Student) Design at ASIS&T 2017 by Rebekah Willson and Stephann Makri (Student Design Competition Co-Chairs, ASIS&T 2017) As co-chairs of the Student Design Competition at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, we wanted to come up with a design brief that tied closely with ASIS&T’s mission statement of ‘connecting people and information in the physical and virtual worlds’. We set what…

Scientivity Contest: And the winner is…

Scientivity Contest: And the winner is… We recently launched our Scientivity contest for students. The task was to submit a piece of research in a creative way. Submissions were due on Friday, December 15th. We received five great submissions and had the difficult task to pick a winner, but we finally did. The jury, consisting…

Thank you CCAD Packard Library!

Thank you CCAD Packard Library! Thank you to our generous hosts at the Columbus College of Art & Design Packard Library! See some of the neat stuff they had to share with us below (including the cat skeleton drawing aid pictured behind them). The wonderful staff at the Packard Library: Leslie Jankowski (library director), Christine…

CCAD Packard Library tour

CCAD Packard Library tour The Columbus College of Art and Design’s Packard Library will host an open house and tour of the library and its collections. The event will include a presentation about the history of the library, an introduction to some artist prints and portfolios located in special collections, and conclude with a brief…

Understanding and Using APIs NEASIS&T Winter Conference Schedule

Understanding and Using APIs NEASIS&T Winter Conference Schedule Looking forward to seeing so many of you at our conference on Monday, January 8, 2018! If you haven’t had a chance to register, go to our Eventbrite! Here is the schedule of events: Understanding and Using APIs Finding ways to connect information is one of our…