On Friday March 16th, ASIS&T@UBC is hosting a brown bag lunch with:

• Shirley Lew, Coordinator, Library Systems & Technical Services at Vancouver Community College
• Courtney Mumma, Digital Archivist at City of Vancouver Archives

This informal round table discussion will touch on topics related to systems librarianship, use and development of opensource software, and digital archives. As well as any other topics that come up. There will be lots of time for discussion and questions.

When: Noon, Friday March 16th until around 1pm.
Where: Trail Room in SLAIS lounge area
What: Brown Bag Lunch, you bring your lunch and we provide drinks and goodies

Space is limited to 15 seats so please register through Eventbrite (no login necessary).. Unless we get a lot of interest in which case we will try to book a larger room. [UPDATE: It's almost full and getting a bigger room might be harder than we thought, so if you're on the fence about the event sign up soon!]

The next ASIS&T meeting is this coming Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30 in the Trail Room (note that there is a slight time change from what we discussed at the last meeting).

You might want to come if you are interested in any of the following things we’ll be discussing:

• Re-cap of the last Cool Tools Day and planning the next one in early November.
• Planning an informal lecture/discussion on RFID.
• Planning a trivia night or two with LWB.
• And other general melange of things related to ASIS&T.

The ASIS&Ters who are in Vancouver hope to see you there (and the one in Australia is looking forward to hearing about it).

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!

Just a reminder that our first Cool Tool day of 2011 is coming up on January 25th from 12:30-1:30 in the Terrace Lab at SLAIS.

What is a Cool Tool Day? I am glad you asked. You know those little bits of technology you use that make your life easier? That’s a tool that is cool. Would you like to tell other people about this fascinating little gem? That too is cool. Come and share with your colleagues!

Generally we’ve been doing web-based things or little bits of software that are easy to demonstrate in a computer lab (if it’s software that needs to be installed it’s generally easier if you bring it in on your laptop but we can figure it out if you let us know what you need), but we’re open to any short information-technology-type presentations.

So come and share, or come and learn about the tools other people use! They’re just 5 minute presentations (we have a strict timekeeper) and good low-pressure practice for presenting information to a bunch of interested people.

We’ve got a signup sheet on the ASIS&T wiki. (Also on that page is a brief list of the Cool Tools from last term. You can get more information about those previous tools here and here.)

If you want more information about Cool Tools day and how you can participate, you can also come to our regular ASIS&T meeting this Tuesday January 18 from 12:30-1:30 in the Trail room. We’ll be discussing more than Cool Tools and we’d love to see people from the new cohort. All are welcome, technophiles and technophobes alike.

When: January 18, 2011 12:30-1:30 pm
Where: The Trail room (just off the SLAIS lounge with all the windows)
What: It’s a meeting. We’ll welcome new/interested folk, talk about Cool Tools Day 3 which is coming up in January (you can sign up on our wiki now if you want), see where we’re at in the t-shirt design contest thing, and more! So much more!

As Jessie said in her email “All are welcome to attend! Techie skills are NOT a requirement, so please don’t feel shy if that’s a concern!” Hope to see you there.