Thanks to everyone for coming to the Dewey Know Our Trivia fundraising event last week. It was a lot of fun and a tight race to the very end. The top three teams were:

1. #winning
2. Brian Patrick & Woodrow Wilson
3. See Also:

We raised some money and had a good time. Many thanks to Shannon, Mahria, Heidi and Jessie for organizing the event and to Koerner’s Pub for providing us with a location. Do you think we should do more of these next year? Let us know in the comments, or you could show up at our next event and talk to us in person.

What? A next event? Why yes! On Tuesday March 15th we’ve got our final Cool Tools Day of the term in the Terrace Lab from 12:30-1:30pm. Learn/share about some nifty tech tricks before it’s too late. Too late because we won’t be doing any more until at least September. Sign up here!

Also, we’re going to hit you up for coming to our last meeting of the year on March 29th. If you’d like to be involved with ASIS&T@UBC next year we’ll be holding elections at that meeting so let us know if you’re interested.

The coffee and donuts at Cool Tools days (along with the gifts for the speakers we have come in) don’t pay for themselves. Shocking, I know. Supporting SLAIS Research Day is another part of our mandate that takes cash. So, to raise some money, we’re joining up with the SLAIS Librarians Without Borders student group for a trivia night fundraiser. (I’m unsure which group is responsible for the punny title. Perhaps that will be a trivia question?)

Who: SLAIS students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members
What: Trivia Pub Night: Form teams of 2-4 to compete for a round of beverages
When: Wednesday, March 9, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Where: Koerner’s Pub, in the basement of the Graduate Student Centre at UBC
Why: A fundraiser for SLAIS student groups ASIS&T and LWB
How: Pre-register your team to guarantee a table by emailing Heidi at hkschiller@gmail.com, or just show up at the door!
Cost: $20 suggested minimum donation per team (cash only please)

For more information, email Heidi at hkschiller@gmail.com

Want to find out more about LWB? Here’s their website.

When: February 2, 2011 12:30-1:30 pm (but probably shorter)
Where: The Trail room
What: This is just a short checking in kind of mini-meeting. We’ll recap Cool Tools Day 3, pass around a signup for Cool Tools 4, discuss some fundraising possibilities, and talk about the Rex Turgano and Friends Variety Hour Lunch we’ve got coming up on February 23rd. Here’s the agenda in PDF form. Hope to see you there!

We had our first ASIS&T@UBC meeting of 2011 on Tuesday and thanks to everyone who came out. The minutes from the meeting have gone up on our Minutes page, so if you missed the meeting (like I did, unfortunately) you can take a look at what the group discussed.

The major points to note were:

1. the fundraising (which is part of our mandate) has been shifted from the TShirt extravaganza to exploring other options (in other words, the excitement wasn’t there but we still need to find a way to pay for our events – suggestions are welcome)
2. Cool Tools day is coming up next week
3. Research Day is also approaching, so get your papers presentable and submit them by January 24th
4. we’re going to be bringing in Rex Turgano, founder of thegreenpages.ca for an informal talk in February (space will be limited; we’ll let you know when it’ll be as soon as it’s all confirmed)

Our next meeting is Tuesday February 2, 2011 12:30-1:30 in the Trail Room, but before that we hope to see you at Cool Tools Day. I suppose it’s possible we’ll see you on the intertubes as well. We’re here a lot.

Maybe you hang around at SLAIS and have seen these posters hanging around.

If not, well, here’s the deal: If you can design a sweet T-Shirt on the theme of technology you could win fabulous, nay, stupendous prizes from ASIS&T@UBC. We’re looking for something to put on a shirt and sell as a fundraiser. There are aren’t many restrictions on what it should look like (it doesn’t have to incorporate our name or anything like that) except that it should be a one colour design and have something to do with technology.

The deadline for submitting your design (via email to: asist |DAWT| ubc {AT} gmail [DAWT] com) is Friday January 7, 2011. You have all of December to be creative!

We had a meeting today at SLAIS and we’ll be posting the official minutes at some point, but for now, here’s a quick recap.

Heather and Alex talked about the ASIS&T conference out in Pittsburgh earlier this month. Heather pitched for people to volunteer and otherwise participate in Research Day. We discussed our wildly successful Cool Tools events and when we’ll have the next one to welcome the new cohort showing up in January, as well as the possibility of selling TShirts as a fundraiser, since apparently we’re supposed to be raising funds so we can rent a bus some day. Some awesome road-trippish kind of day. There will be a TShirt design contest coming, with a deadline of January 7, 2011. More information as the posters get made.

There was also an election for the soon to be vacant (once Alex graduates) position of webmaster and Justin Unrau (that’s me) is now it.