Posts Tagged ‘events’
Annual NEASIST Dinner at the MIT Faculty Club!
Annual NEASIST Dinner at the MIT Faculty Club! Monday, May 17 at 6:00 pm Come out to celebrate with friends and colleagues at this year’s annual NEASIST Awards Dinner! Nicole Hennig, Head of User Experience at the MIT Libraries, will present on new gadgets and their influence on library services. Come to hear her ideas…
Read MoreTwitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Relevance of Social Media for Libraries
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Relevance of Social Media for Libraries Would you like to know more about how Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn can benefit you and your customers? Our speakers will provide a brief overview of each medium and discuss how they can benefit us as information professionals, our customers and our organizations.  Learn more, and join…
Read MoreNEASIST TED Talks Film Festival
NEASIST TED Talks Film Festival Tuesday, May 11th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Are you a lover of TED Talks? Or maybe you’re wondering just who this Ted person is that everyone keeps talking about? Either way, join us for an evening of TED Talks, pizza, and sparkling conversation. Vote on your top choices…
Read MoreSpring “Book” Club Night
Spring “Book” Club Night Stay Ahead of the Shift Tuesday, February 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm Johnny D’s 17 Holland Street Somerville, MA 02144 http://www.johnnyds.com/ We’re trying something new this Spring! Since we are all incredibly busy this time of year, especially for those of us who work in academic settings, we will be trying out a new…
Read MoreThe Open Access Community and OAIster
The Open Access Community and OAIster What is OAIster? It’s actually a catalog of millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors around the world. OAIster was built by harvesting from open archive collections using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The result provides access to digitized books, articles, and text, audio…
Read MoreMobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices
Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8:30am – 4:00pm Kotzen Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA This event is co-sponsored by NEASIST and the Simmons College Student Chapter of ASIS&T Campus Map / Public Transit / Driving Directions + Parking While devices like PDAs, portable phones, and digital music players…
Read MoreHelp us celebrate winning ASIS&T chapter awards!
Help us celebrate winning ASIS&T chapter awards! NEASIST meet-up Wed., 12/16, 5:30-7:30pm The Asgard 350 Massachusetts Ave. (between Central Sq. & MIT) Help us celebrate a great year for the New England chapter of ASIS&T! Have you heard that we’ve won several chapter awards? Drop by to hear about the ASIS&T national conference. Or if…
Read MoreGeo Tagging Digital Photography for Learning, Research, and Just Plain Fun!
Geo Tagging Digital Photography for Learning, Research, and Just Plain Fun! Presenter Mace W. Mentch, Ph.D. is Assessment Specialist in Instructional Technology and Academic Computing for Case Western Reserve University. He is responsible for the design and implementation of an array of assessment, research, and evaluation projects with emphasis on documenting learning effects and evaluating…
Read MoreThe library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century
The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9am – 4pm MIT Media Lab – Bartos Theater in Cambridge, MA Map | Directions Library closures, slashed budgets, user apathy – everything’s online, right? It’s a story many of us have heard too often…
Read MoreThe library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century
The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9am – 4pm MIT Media Lab – Bartos Theater in Cambridge, MA Map | Directions Library closures, slashed budgets, user apathy – everything’s online, right? It’s a story many of us have heard too often…
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