{"id":2,"date":"2010-10-13T02:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-09-15T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:49:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is ASIS&amp;T at UBC?<\/h2>\n<p>The student group of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association for Information Science and Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asis.org\/Chapters\/student_chapter_manual.html\" target=\"_blank\">Student Chapter Manual<\/a> for ASIS&amp;T groups.<\/p>\n<h2>How can I get involved in\u00a0ASIS&amp;T at UBC?<\/h2>\n<p>Meetings are held regularly from September &#8211; April, and anyone is welcome. Times and dates of meetings will be announced on our <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/asist-ubc\" target=\"_blank\">mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers serve for the period May of the year elected to August of the following year, acting as advisors to incoming officers during the overlap of the summer term.<\/p>\n<p>For a current list of officers, and descriptions of each role, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/about\/officers\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What can ASIS&amp;T offer at UBC?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A chance to bring together students involved in the information sciences from across campus!<\/li>\n<li>Develop programs and events of interest to our student body<\/li>\n<li>Social, networking, and discussion groups<\/li>\n<li>Career and educational development opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Is there an e-mail list for the Student Chapter? How do I subscribe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is. You can find the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/asist-ubc\" target=\"_blank\">Google Group here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do I need to become a student member of ASIS&amp;T to participate in activities held by the Student Chapter at UBC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nope! Anyone interested in our activities is invited to come and participate. That said, we do encourage you to become an ASIS&amp;T (student) member for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asis.org\/membership.html\" target=\"_blank\">all the benefits<\/a> the organization offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">What is ASIS&amp;T at UBC? The student group of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Here&#8217;s the Student Chapter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1560,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}