Fall07

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General Meetings

Evenings, 5:30-6, have been working well. What day(s) of the week do you prefer?

  • Alison: Tues, Weds & Thurs
  • Ben: Mon, Tues, Weds
  • Joanna: Friday, but I can make any day but Monday work
  • Jen: Tues, Weds & Thurs
  • Sheila: I can make any day work
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Lunch w/ ASIS&T Events

Should we try again with those this semester? I think part of the problem was the sporadic and poor publicity - my fault, as they were always the lowest-priority items on my punchlist. I would say that if the consensus is that we want to do them, perhaps someone else could volunteer to take on the organizing/publicity? (Not a big commitment.) What do you think?

  • Sheila: I like the idea -- particularly for me, it's an opportunity to get to know some of the student members on a less formal basis than in class or even in ASIS&T meetings. I would even be happy to organize them -- although I don't want to be one of those nasty faculty advisors who takes over too many things. ;)
  • Ben: I'll volunteer for organizing and publicity, though I'm not sure that I can make that many lunches (Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays).
  • Jen: I can help organize and publicize, as well. I'd only be able to make a Friday lunch (class until 12:30 -- otherwise I'm @ work in Davis M-Thu).
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Fall Semester Events

In the works

  • Cosponsoring Skillshare with PLG, Sat Sept 22 - I'm working with Wendy Brown, who hasn't needed much of anything from me yet. (Want to present?)
  • Second Life evening in October that we are cosponsoring with NEASIS&T, will either be Weds 10/10 or 10/17 - Sally goes to the meetings, and I think she has been working with them on this. I don't think they will need a ton of support from us on this since they have such strong GSLIS connections already.

Ideas/Possibilities

  • End of semester party (or cosponsor w/ LISSA if they do that again) - we'd corral a committee to plan this again.
  • From Rong Tang: "Alison Evatt, from Graduate Education Program of Thomson Scientific, has offered to provide a Quantum2 professional development seminar to GSLIS students. Quantum2 is "the Thomson Scientific leadership development program for information professionals. http://quantum.dialog.com/"

Evatt will be on campus on October 10th with Rong's class in the morning, and Rong suggests doing this event that afternoon or evening and cosponsoring it with SLA. As you can see, the date may conflict with the Second Life thing, and I wouldn't want to double up in one day like that. Even if Second Life is the 17th, I feel like that might be too much in a short period of time (especially since it's the two weeks prior to annual). But, that's assuming that NEASIS&T needs a lot of support from us, which may not be the case.

Thoughts? Do you think this is worth pursuing for the 10th, or if she is willing to come to campus another time?

    • Sheila: I think this might be worth doing, especially if we could make it in the afternoon so that it won't conflict with the Second Life evening, if that happens on the same day. But I understand not wanting to double up on one day as well.
  • Other ideas (from Candy, early last semester): Informal chat event with David Seaman (MLIP student/former director of DLF); Ellen Duranceau, who works in Acquisitons and Licencing Services for MIT Libraries, would be happy to come and talk about licencing, as in contracting with vendors for resource services.
  • After hearing Lichen Rancourt speak at the Scriblio event last semester, I thought it might be neat to cosponsor some sort of digital divide event, with her as one of the speakers. Seemed like it might be a good fit to cosponsor with PLG and/or SIR. Thoughts?
    • Sheila: I like this idea a lot. I think the digital divide is one of those things that needs to be brought up on a regular basis, because it can be easy to forget how much of a problem it still is. PLG is definitely a good co-sponsor -- for SIR it would depend on whether we were going to just talk about the digital divide in this country or around the world.
    • Joanna: I am also in favor of this idea. I really interested by what she had to say last semester, and would love to hear more.
    • Ben: The Digital Divide Network was founded in Newton. I imagine they might know someone around who can help identify speakers. Unfortunately Andy Carvin (the founder) recently moved to Washington for his NPR gig.
    • Jen: Definitely. I missed the Scriblio event, but read Lichen's blog and think she would be great.
  • What else? I thought I had a couple other ideas but at the moment they escape me.
    • Ben: I took a tour of the Bentley College usability lab last fall, and they seemed willing to offer a tour to a Simmons student group when they have down time. Unfortunately, it looks like this might mean winter/summer break. I could send an email and see what their schedule is like.
    • Jen: Jessamyn West is pretty excellent & talks a lot about technology (web 2.0, social technologies, blogging) and libraries (and often rural libraries). The work she does on AskMetafilter is also interesting. I'm happy to get in touch and ask if she'd be up for another talk at Simmons (I know she's been here in the past).
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