{"id":947,"date":"2012-05-17T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boo.simmons.edu\/wpress\/?page_id=947"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:21:41","slug":"service-to-profession","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/service\/service-to-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"service to profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/\">service<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-school\/\">to school<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-college\/\">to college<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-profession\/\">to profession<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/past-service\/\">past service \/ other accomplishments<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/index.php\/service\/service-to-humanity\/\">to humanity<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC ASSOCIATION (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asis.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE &amp; TECHNOLOGY &#8211; ASIS&amp;T<\/a>)<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube 36pKwd8sQy8]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2012 Was awarded the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award for 2012. The award was established in 1992 to recognize a new ASIS&amp;T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&amp;T activities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2012 &#8211; present Deputy Director, Chapter Assembly (a 3-year commitment leading to Director and Past Director) and a member of the ASIS&amp;T board.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2012 &#8211; present Past Chair, SIG\/ED<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2011 &#8211; Oct 2012 Chair, SIG\/ED &#8211; Special Interest Group on Education for Information Science (Chair-Elect from Oct 2010 &#8211; Oct 2011; Treasurer from April-Oct, 2010)\n<ul>\n<li>Monthly skype meetings; presence on social media; communication and outreach; initiated quarterly newsletter (<a href=\"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/nareshagarwal\/files\/2012\/07\/ASIST-SIG-ED-Newsletter-June-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF of first issue sent out in June 2012<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Started new website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asistsiged.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view online<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Liaised with ASIS&amp;T History preconference<\/li>\n<li>June 2012 Proposals to organize 2 panels and a workshop accepted at the ASIS&amp;T 2012 Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD, Oct 26-30)<\/li>\n<li>Agarwal, N.K. and Miller, K. (submitted). Traditional Student Party (formerly known as the Secret Student Party). Proposal submitted to the ASIS&amp;T 2012 Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD, Oct 26-30).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/nareshagarwal\/files\/2012\/07\/Agarwal-Miller-ASISTstudent-party-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author full-text PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Organized 4 webinars by Bill Wisser on blended\/hybrid learning (Apr 24, May 17, Jun 21, Jul 17, 2012); introduced the speaker in the first 2 webinars.<\/li>\n<li>Planning 2 more webinars and a virtual meeting of student chapter leaders and advisors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2011 &#8211; present Past Chair, SIG\/HLTH &#8211; Special Interest Group on Health (Chair from Oct 2010 &#8211; Oct 2011; Chair-Elect\/Vice Chair from Nov 2009 &#8211; Oct 2010)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oct 2010 &#8211; present Student Chapter Representative to Chapter Assembly, ASIS&amp;T Student Chapter Advisors (Alternative Assembly Representative from Nov 2009 to Oct 2010)\n<ul>\n<li>Planning virtual meeting of student chapter leaders and advisors in collaboration with SIG ED<\/li>\n<li>Sep 2011 Invited and liaised with jury members for the ASIS&amp;T Student Chapter of the Year, 2011 [read the citation and presented the award during the Awards Luncheon at Annual Meeting, Oct 11].<\/li>\n<li>Organized a Secret Student Party, an ASIS&amp;T tradition, at the ASIS&amp;T 2011 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Oct 9-13 (addressed the students).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sep 2010 Jury member for ASIS&amp;T Student Chapter of the Year, 2010 (evaluated 3 chapters; invited to and addressed student participants at the ASIS&amp;T 2010 conference (Pittsburgh, PA), Secret Student Party, Oct 24, 2010)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nov 2009 &#8211; Oct 2010 Vice Chair, SIG\/SI (Special Interest Group on Social Informatics)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nov 2009 &#8211; Aug 2010 Co-faculty Advisor (along with Sheila Denn and Linnea Johnson) to the Simmons student chapter of ASIS&amp;T<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>New England College of Optometry (NECO)\/New England Eye Institute (NEEI)\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nov 2009 &#8211; Dec 2010 Member, Working Group, NECO\/NEEI &#8216;Technology in Educational \/Electronic\u00a0 Health Records (TIEHR)&#8217; project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Association of Pacific-Rim Universities (APRU) Doctoral Students Network (DSN), consisting of PhD students from 42 universities in the Pacific-Rim\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aug 2009 &#8211; Aug 2010 Advisor, APRU DSN\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprudsn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2007-2009 Chairman, APRU DSN; provided support towards successful organization of the 10<sup>th<\/sup>APRU Doctoral Students Conference (APRU DSC 2009), Kyoto, Japan, Jul 6-10, 2009; 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0APRU Doctoral Students Conference (APRU DSC 2008), Vladivostok, Russia, Jul 14-18, 2008 (gave a plenary on DSN during the conference on Jul 17); started a &#8216;League of Friends&#8217; to connect PhD students in 42 universities and beyond (aprudsn.ning.com)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2006-2007 Elected Member, APRU DSN Executive Committee; provided support towards successful organization of the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0APRU Doctoral Students Conference (APRU DSC 2007), Tokyo, Japan, Jul 30-Aug 3, 2007; gave a plenary on DSN during the conference on Aug 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Member\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">ASIS&amp;T &#8211; The American Society for Information Science &amp; Technology (Sep 2008 &#8211; present)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">ALISE &#8211; Association for Library and Information Science Education (Dec 2008 &#8211; Dec 2009)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">AIS &#8211; Association for Information Systems (May 2007 &#8211; May 2009)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">DSI &#8211; Decision Sciences Institute (Oct 2008 &#8211; Oct 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>service &#8211; to school | to college | to profession | past service \/ other accomplishments | to humanity SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC ASSOCIATION (AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE &amp; TECHNOLOGY &#8211; ASIS&amp;T) [youtube 36pKwd8sQy8] Oct 2012 Was awarded the James &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/service\/service-to-profession\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions\/6372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/naresh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}