I received the following annoucement from Sanda Erdelez on behalf of the ASIS&T SIGUSE (American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Needs Seeking and Use Group) in my email this morning:
Please join us next Tuesday (September 20, 2005) from 8:00-8:30 PM Central Time for a first live webcast about topics in human information behavior research.
Host: Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri
Guest: Karen Fisher, U. of Washington, Chair SIG USE
Karen will talk about the Theories of Information Behavior, a book in ASIS&T monograph series that was published this summer by Information Today.
LiS Webcast is also known as LISRadio at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. They intend to “present interesting and stimulating conversations with movers, shakers, and the odd gadfly or two in libraryland.” The September 6, 2005 webcast is titled “Job Opportunities for Next Gen Librarians.”
They also have an “On the Job” webcast on Thursdays, in which they interview past graduates of SISLT.
Webcasts are archived.
Links:
SIGUSE
ASIS&T
Peter Morville, who co-authored the book that everyone interested in information architecture reads, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, has started a blog findability.org | ambient findability + the design of findable objects . He states,
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s a borg. I mean, it’s a blog. Yes, after years of quiet resistance, I’ve succumbed to the call of the blogosphere. I’ve been assimilated.
In blogging, my most transparent and prosaic goal is to promote my new book, Ambient Findability. I’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into this strange text, so I won’t be shy about inviting folks to read it.
ALA | Hurricane Katrina. Most librarians are already aware of this Web page put together by the American Library Association. This link leads to a lot of news about efforts to help libraries and librarians who went through the hurricane. News includes suspension of dues due for hurricane victims, the CQ Press decision to replace all of their books that were lost by libraries during the storm, an appeal from the SOLINET Job Bank for temporary or permanent jobs for librarians, and a list of preservation resources compiled by ALA/ALCTS.
ALA President Michael Gorman wrote (full text) that New Orleans is still being considered as the location for the ALA 2006 conference: “The single most important thing that ALA can do for New Orleans is to hold our conference there if we can.”
American Libraries Online is keeping an ongoing status page on libraries in the region hit by the hurricane.
The world of librarianship is small. I imagine that most librarians know of someone, a friend or colleague, who was touched by the storm. It is still so overwhelming to grasp. It seems that every day we read or hear about another problem to be resolved. My heart goes out to you.
