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NoveList’s Victoria Caplinger – Beyond Subject Headings: Metadata as a Readers’ Advisory Tool

NoveList’s Victoria Caplinger – Beyond Subject Headings: Metadata as a Readers’ Advisory Tool Metadata is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when the conversation turns to Readers’ Advisory. But the landscape of RA is changing – readers are increasingly becoming more self-sufficient, the publishing world is exploding and traditional publishing categories are…

2017 Chapter Event-of-the-Year Award!

2017 Chapter Event-of-the-Year Award! The Central Ohio Chapter is pleased to announce that it has been awarded ASIS&T’s Chapter Event-of-the-Year Award for its “2017 Summer of Tours”! The Summer of Tours offered tours and expert practitioner presentations at five different central Ohio information institutions. Reviewers noted the diversity of these five tours (one associated with…

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – The Right to be Forgotten and the Impact on Digital Collections

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – The Right to be Forgotten and the Impact on Digital Collections Here’s a few more presentation slide from our morning panel, “The Right to be Forgotten and the Impact on Digital Collections”. Enjoy! Jen Johnson (Library Consultant, State Library of Ohio) – DPLA Johnson-DPLA Aaron O’Donovan (Digitization and Local History Librarian, Columbus…

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – Evolving Landscapes in Academic and Public Libraries

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – Evolving Landscapes in Academic and Public Libraries More presentation slides from the afternoon panel, “Evolving Landscapes in Academic and Public Libraries”. Alison Armstrong (Associate Director for Research & Education, OSU Libraries) Armstrong-Connect-Collaborate George Needham (Director, Delaware County District Libraries) Needham-Everything-New-is-Old-Again Terry Reese (Head of Digital Initiatives, OSU Libraries) Reese-Rejoining-Information-Landscape

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – Big Data Management and Digital Privacy

Midwest Regional Conference presentations – Big Data Management and Digital Privacy Presentation slides from the afternoon panel, “Big Data Management and Digital Privacy”. Amanda Rinehart (Data Management Services Librarian, Ohio State University) Rineart-When-Private-meets-Public Pete Pascuzzi (Health & Life Sciences Librarian, Purdue University) Pascuzzi-Greasing-the-Wheels Kayla Siddell (Data Curation Librarian, Indiana State University) Siddell-Managing-ETD-data

LIS in Europe – ASIS&T Berlin Regional Meeting in October

LIS in Europe – ASIS&T Berlin Regional Meeting in October The European Chapter is inviting you to its regional meeting on Library and Information Science in Europe. The ASIS&T sponsored event will be held at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, October 4th 2017. Please follow the links for the current programme and registration information. ASIST Programme_Berlin…

Lynn Silipigni Connaway – Midwest Regional Conference presentations

Lynn Silipigni Connaway – Midwest Regional Conference presentations Hello all! We hope you had a great time at the first ever ASIS&T Midwest Regional Conference. Below you will find slides for both presentations from ASIS&T President and OCLC Researcher Lynn Silipigni Connaway, who kicked off the day and was later one of our two featured…

Scientivity Contest

Scientivity Contest You are a Library and/or Information Science (LIS) Student? You are working on an exciting research topic and want to share your work with others? Your thesis was not produced to gather dust on a shelf? If you can answer all these questions with YES then you should participate in our SCIENTIVITY contest for LIS Students in Europe! This is your chance to share your work with…

2017 ASIS&T Midwest Regional Conference

2017 ASIS&T Midwest Regional Conference 2017 ASIS&T Midwest Regional Conference Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Library September 8, 2017 – 8:30am– 4:30pm Join library professionals and faculty to learn about innovation and change in information science at the 2017 ASIST Midwest Regional Conference. Stay up to date with best practices and learn about: Innovations in 21st-Century services Big data management The library…

Berlin Regional Meeting

Berlin Regional Meeting Sponsored by the ASIS&T European Chapter 4 October, 2017, 10:00 – 16:00 Humboldt University Berlin, Germany PROGRAMME The History of Library and Information Science in Europe Fidelia Ibekwe SanJuan, IRSIC – Aix-Marseille University European Library & Information Science Map Christine Meschede, Universität Düsseldorf Virginia Ortiz-Repiso, Chair, ASIS&T European Chapter Digital Libraries and…