Friday March 2 is Reserach Day, the day when all the SLAISers who’ve been doing research (with faculty members or on their own) present what they’ve been doing with poster sessions or full on presentations. There’s a keynote speaker and lunch. At least a couple of ASIS&T@UBC members are presenting, and a few more are volunteering. Check out the Research Day Program and we 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.

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.