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Assignment 5 (the last - yay!) and its dropbox are now in Moodle.

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Actually, next PPTs plural, are in Moodle, in the usual 3 or 6 to a page format.

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Is in VISTA.Order will be me, presentations, meeting

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Please use the discussion page of the relevant wiki page when you respond to a committee's work. For one thing, if we all post publicly there should be less redundancy and more opportunity to be prompted to think of other things. Also, I have no way of gauging your level of participation in these kinds of feedback activities if you do it by individual e-mail to committee members.

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Over the past couple of weeks, in one or both classes, I played Paul Butterfield's East West (a seminal album in my misbegotten hippie youthdom, see the Wikipedia entry) and Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks - IMHO the best of his "new" sound.

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We are listed in Greenstone - see http://www.greenstone.org/examples, and scrool down to "Notable ...".

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I have put up the PPT for the next area of coverage, and I suspect we will get to some, perhaps not all, of it tomorrow. I apologize for the lack of action on Assignment 2. I will endeavour to have 2 and 3 back to you before the next meeting.

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We have been having a fun but hectic time at ASIST. Last night the Simmons students and the New England Chapter went to dinner with the LA students and chapter, to celebrate our shared awards (chapters of the year and student chapters of the year). Here's our own Caryn Anderson making a toast.


There are more pictures in flickr, in the Simmons ASIS&T flickr account here.

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Please distribute this information to anyone who might be interested in this wonderful opportunity to receive research support. Note: Deadline date January 31, 2008 for applications.

Joan Stein, Chair, Ingenta Award Jury 2007-2008
Library Research Round Table, Past-Chair 2007-2008

Ingenta Research Award

Purpose

The Ingenta Research Award is given annually by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association to support research projects about acquisition, use, and preservation of digital information.

Example areas of research include:

* The analysis of online journal usage data to develop conclusions and predictive models which may be used by libraries and publishers in determining future behavior
* An investigation of the issues surrounding institutional archiving, particularly costs, preservation and securing the participation of faculty
* A study of information seeking behavior of readers and/or authors
* The development of future models for verifying the relative usefulness of publications
Other topics related to digital publications will also be considered.

Eligibility

Applications are welcome from practicing librarians, faculty and students at schools of library and information science, and independent scholars.
Criteria

The Ingenta Award Jury will evaluate applications on the basis of the following
criteria:

1. Appropriateness of the proposed project to understanding of seeking and use of digital information.
2. Significance of the problem.
3. Design of the study.
4. Qualifications of the investigator(s).
5. Realism of the timetable.

Amount

The grant consists of up to $6,000 for research and up to $1,000 for travel to a national or international conference to present the results of the research. Expenditures must directly support research; the award does not cover indirect costs or overhead. Half of the research amount will be paid within one month of the selection of the awardee; the remaining half will be provided approximately six months later upon the receipt of a satisfactory progress report as determined by the Ingenta Award Jury Chair and the ALA staff liaison to the Ingenta Award Jury.
How to apply

Send:
1. Proposal of no more than 6 double-spaced pages that provides
1. overall statement of the project
2. relation of the project to previous research
3. research questions
4. method/plan of investigation
5. timetable for the work
6. significance of the project
7. plan to disseminate the results
2. Budget (1 page)
3. Curriculum vitae (2 pages)

Deadline

All submissions must reach the ALA address on or before Thursday, January 31, 2008.
You will receive confirmation via e-mail within two days.
Before Thursday, January 31, 2008, email the Proposal, budget and curriculum vitae
to:

Letitia Earvin
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 1-4274
Fax: (312)280-4392
E-mail: learvin@ala.org

If email attachments are not possible, applicants must send nine (9) printed copies to the address above and they must be received by Thursday, January 31, 2008.

Obligations

Authors retain the right to present and publish their findings where they choose. Ingenta reserves the right to post an abstract about the project on their website.

If you are interested in applying for this award, please consult:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/orsawards/ingentaresearchaward/ingentaresaward.htm
and read the following for more information:

* Schedule and Procedures
* 6-Month Report
* Final Report
Listing of previous Ingenta Research Award Recipients

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We have a lot of important things on the committee agenda, so this is what is going to happen. The library reports will come first, then the committee meeting. if there is enough time, i will go last. If there isn't enough time, I will put myself off until next class, when I had myself unscheduled (I think we are a week ahead of where we were last semester).

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In VISTA. I will be brief, as I want to be sure to have enough time for the DL work to be done.

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I read everyone's readings yesterday - it was actually a lot of fun. I placed my comments as a comment on whichever one was the last reading. I will do this again in November for the next round. I was hoping that this assignment would give you a chance to get the bigger picture, as we tend to focus on the components in class, and also to integrate thie bits and pieces which this course and your other courses and your work experience throw at you piecemeal. Largely I think this assignment is succedding in doing that. I noticed two related points raised by a number of you - grantwriting and business models. I will try to address these if I can. Also, I see that these readings have given many of you a chance to think about the future of libraries in general, and what kinds of changes you should be getting ready to initiate if we are all to survive.

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From Ashley P.

I left class today without my umbrella, and it was not there when i returned to look for it. Nor is in in the lost & found. It really is a very nice umbrella with a small but significant degree of sentimental value. It's medium-sized and black with a green foliage print on the inside. Did anybody find it and squirrel it away for safe-keeping?

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I will be looking at your readings for the first third of the semester this weekend, and also Assignment 1 files. Just FYI.

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This week's music comes from jazz great Houston Person. I am a sucker for jazz sax in small quartets (preferably without an organ, and preferably with bassist Ron Carter) - this man, Stanley Turrentine, Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and so on. This (and bluegrass) was what I lived on while doing my doctoral studies at Syracuse. You can find out more about Houston Person here.

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Hi all - hope you had a nice Columbus Day. Simon and I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving, but with pasta, so it was kind of a combined Canadian/Italian thing. Anyway, I have posted the PowerPoints for Friday, and the next assignment (only one left after this). Also, I changed the course outline to reflect the fact that we will be going into the lab on October 26, not this week.

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Today's music (if the classroom projector is fixed in time) will be the album Navicularia, from the group Berroguetto. Berroguetto play music from Galicia in the north of Spain. Galician music is included in the broad "Celtic" rubric, and so they have appeared frequently at Celtic Connections in Glasgow. I have seen Berroguetto a dozen times over the past decade or so (but never in Spain, alas). The Web site (which needs updating) is here.

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Is there

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A free conference out west:

Next Generation Library Catalogs
Wednesday afternoon, November 7, 2007, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Ballroom in the UMass Amherst Campus Center
You are invited to join colleagues from Western Massachusetts and nearby areas of New England for an interesting and informative program about "next generation" interfaces for library databases. For full details see http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm

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Please print and sign this photo release form and return it to me. As you know, we are documenting ourselves in flickr, and need your individual permission.

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A new "points" assignment has been added to Moodle and the wiki. Get the description of it first from Moodle (in the October 12-18 box), then sign up for one of the groups in the wiki, as you did for the biography.

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I loaded the next PPTs and a handout into Moodle (and also a dropbox for Assignment 3 and for the biographies).

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