Gary visit
From LIS 419 Spring 2008
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[edit] Events
- Night before - dinner with Sheila, Kris, Michele, maybe Candy
- Where (near or in St. Botolph's)?
- Sheila: Would it be too weird to do tapas (Tapeo, 268 Newbury Street)
- Where (near or in St. Botolph's)?
- Mid-morning get together with doctoral students (10:30), P-310E
- P-310E has been booked for the day
- Candy be there to do introductions
- Lunch with doctoral students (11:30), P-310E
- Peishan is taking care of arrangements for this
- Opening of usability lab (symbolic cutting of ribbon - photo op) (2:00)
- Tech Lab address (2:00-2:30), has been booked
- Rong and Terry will introduce Gary
- Lab staff (either Linnea or Peishan) will present Gary with a Usability Lab labeled gift (engraved small hard drive), and little pens for attendees
- Move to the lab hallway to cut the ribbon (2:30)
- Reception with master's students, faculty, staff, et al. (cheese, fruit, et al.) (3:00)
- In P-310E, already booked; could be in student lounge instead
- We can bring in food from outside and get reimbursed - Sheila will do
- Dean speaks here (Michele knows)
- Early dinner, 4:30-5:30, Dutch except for Gary, RSVPs will be needed - need to make reservation
- So far: Candy, Gerry, Rong, Robin, Sheila, Linnea
- Need to send out invite to Braddlee, Gail and academic tech staff once we have flyer
- Registration schmooze for Student ASIST/NEASIST event (6:00)
- Kotzen booked, 5:00 to 8:30
- need to fill out paperwork for room and tables in Events office (Kris, or perhaps ASIST students, since they will be ordering food)
- NEASIST talk (intros by NEASIST folk - Sheila speaks here) (6:30-8:00)
- NEASIST takes care of publicity for this part of event
- Candy will send out campus announcement in first week of September
- Title and blurb now available (below)
- Kris checking with Liza on parking situation
[edit] Travel and Lodging
- Gary arrives on Sunday the 14th, and leaves on Tuesday the 16th
- Gary has booked his flights, $239, will need to be reimbursed
- Michele has arranged room at St. Botolph club for ca. $100/night (http://www.saintbotolphclub.org/)
[edit] Money and NEASIST
- Michele is covering costs of gifts
- Gary will donate half of his honorarium to the GSLIS Doctoral Students Research Fund.
- Expenses include
- airfare ($239)
- hotel (approx $200)
- transportation (cabs, approx $100)
- his food other than lunch and dinner (2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, approx $100), **honorarium ($500), Gary will donate half of his honorarium to the doctoral fund.
- doctoral lunch
- Gary's dinner
- opening reception mingle food
- Student ASIST needs to order for this and NEASIST, so it's cheaper, do they know?
- Sheila: I know, and am working on getting student chapter officers together to organize all of this.
- All attendees to the evening talk have to register and pay (students, $10; ASIST members, $20; non-members, $30); NO exceptions
- include a statement that we are raising money for GSLIS Doctoral Students Research fund
- NEASIST will contribute $600 to the event, and any revenue that comes in for the meeting part beyond expenses would be donated to GSLIS for support of GSLIS Doctoral Students Research Fund
[edit] Doctoral students who can attend
Leach, Piorun, Froggatt, Bordac, Zhang, Saunders, Pontika, Bartley
[edit] Evening program
Join NE ASIS&T colleagues and Simmons students for a thought provoking talk by Gary Marchionini: "Understanding Human Information Interaction"
Understanding how people interact with information is a fundamental problem of information science. Interaction includes finding information in libraries and the WWW, consuming and evaluating what is found, and using this information to transform personal and global knowledge. Today, most human information interaction (HII) is mediated by technologies and much of the research is informed by principles and techniques that evolved in the field of human-computer interaction. This talk will focus on empirical techniques used to study HII, particularly user studies in laboratories. Investigations of personal health record usability, video retrieval, and exploratory search will be used to illustrate these techniques.
About Gary Marchionini:
Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. Professor Marchionini has had grants or contracts from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, NASA, the National Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. He has published over 180 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press. He was Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems from 2002-2008 and serves or has served on a dozen editorial boards. His current interests and projects are related to: ! interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; personal identity in cyberspace; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching
Location: Kotzen Center, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Schedule:
- 6:00 PM- 6:30 PM - Networking and Refreshments *6:30 PM- 7:15 PM - Presentation by Gary Marchionini
Prices:
- $30.00 for Non-members
- $20.00 for ASIS&T members
- $10.00 for students or retired ASIS&T members
The proceeds of this event will be donated to the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science to support the research efforts of doctoral students.
Save the Date, we hope to see you there! Registration will open soon through the NE ASIS&T web site: http://www.neasist.org <http://www.neasist.org>
Christine Quirion
Document Services Librarian
MIT Libraries
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg.14-0551
Cambridge MA 02139
phone: 617-253-5667
email: cquirion@mit.edu
