Dear All, The voting process regarding the proposed name change of our association has now concluded, with 89.7% in favor of the change to Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). The Board will now work with Headquarters to implement the…
A one-day Symposium at the University of British Columbia. Register here: http://www.diigubc.ca/readingdigital/
Dear all, UBC is in the process of shutting down Interchange…well, they have been for quite some time. We want to play it safe and are moving to a new mailing list. You will receive individual invitations to the mailing…
ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting October 26-30, 2012 Baltimore, MD Respond by September 13, 2012 To help ASIS&T student members who might not otherwise be able to participate in ASIS&T meetings, we provide an opportunity to attend the sessions and network…
An opportunity we want to share with you: “Digital Liaisons: Shifting Borders in Interdisciplinary Collaborations” SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2012 The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries (SIG DL) of ASIS&T is seeking proposals for an Undergraduate, Master’s, and…
From the Seattle InfoCamp ’12 Planning Team: Save the Date! Greetings, InfoCampers! We’re happy to announce that planning for InfoCamp Seattle 2012 is underway and things are lookin’ GOOD. So mark your calendars for InfoCamp Seattle 2012! When: October 13…
Just found out about this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/ays, which Amazon calls Your Media Library. Looks an awful lot, at first blush, like a LibraryThing clone: “Your Media Library on Amazon.com provides you with tools to catalog your media collection, share information, ratings…
The NYT has an intriguing hypothesis: blogging isn’t good for you*. The author profiles the rapid-paced lifestyles of several well known bloggers, and reports on the recent demise of two among them, both at the relatively young age of 50.…
The NYT carries an interesting article today on the phenomenal success of the online game Scrabulous, which it compares, in its impact on the real-world Scrabble game’s sales, to online file-sharing’s impact on the sales of music CD’s. (Registration may…
Humans are apparently much better than machines at decoding words than OCR scanners are, so Carnegie Mellon University is putting the unreadable words online for the world to decipher. All in the interest of enhancing their digitizing efforts for the…
