The first session of the day is a session on visualization. The first presenter, Brad Eden, showed a rather dizzying array of different sorts of visualizations — up to and including “virtual Vaudeville” (http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/), which simulates an actual Vaudeville show from the early 20th century.… Read the rest
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Impressions from ASIS&T (Ellen)
Greetings from Austin! I’m having a good time at my first LIS conference. It’s been a lot of fun to meet students from so many other schools, and I’m amazed at how international the conference is. I have seen people from Japan, Finland, Australia, Ireland, India…
I’ve created a page on our wiki for the notes I’ve taken during sessions.… Read the rest
ASIST (Candy) – Day Four – Later
I am on the Annual Meeting Committee for AM07 in Milwaukee, so we had a business lunch in one of the hotel restaurants and planned strategy (keynote speakers, session types, sponsorship, and so on). It’s a great bunch, and I am looking forward to next year already.… Read the rest
Mingling at the conference
Impressions of ASIS&T
This is my first time at an ASIS&T conference, and so far it’s been an interesting experience. I don’t have a lot of time right now (wireless access at the hotel costs $10/day, and we’ve opted not to pay the fee, so myself, Ellen, Brittany and Jen have only the time we’re at the apartment we’re staying in to be online), so this will be very brief and impressionistic.… Read the rest
ASIST (Candy) – Day Four – iSchools
I organized a session called “The iSchools Movement”, a panel chaired by Andy Dillon and featuring a bunch of deans and our own Michele – the sole representative of a non-ischool. There was some disagreement about when ischools started, ranging from the mid-1960s to the 70s to a couple of years ago.… Read the rest