NEASIS&T

2013 NEASIS&T Student Travel Award – Apply by Friday, May 3, 2013

The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce the availability of one award of up to $750 to reimburse expenses for attendance at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting (November 1-6, Montreal, Quebec).  Applications must be received by Friday, May 3. The winner  will be notified by Friday, May 24.

One award for the best ESSAY will be offered to student members of ASIS&T* in the New England, Upstate New York or Eastern Canada regions. Students must be enrolled in an information science** master’s or doctoral program. In order to be reimbursed, the award winner will submit receipts substantiating travel and conference related expenses, such as costs for registration, airfare, food, and lodging.  The award winner will also be expected to meet with a NEASIS&T representative at the conference.

Submit an essay that addresses the following questions in specific detail:

* Why do you wish to attend the ASIS&T Annual Meeting?

* How do you believe you will be able to use the conference experience to further your career?

* How might NEASIS&T or ASIS&T benefit if you receive the award?

Essay criteria:

* Essay must be written in English.

* Essay may not exceed 500 words or two double spaced pages.

* Student must be sole author.

The coversheet should include the following information:

* Applicant’s name

* Address

* Phone number / E-mail address

* School affiliation / information science program / Student ID number

* Proof of ASIS&T membership (e.g. ASIS&T member number, copy of email receipt of payment, or photocopy of check canceled by ASIS&T Headquarters)

PLEASE NOTE:

The ASIS&T Annual meeting is one of the most highly regarded meetings in the information science field. It covers the breadth of activities and endeavors of the information community with technical sessions addressing specialties of the information professional. The 2013 Annual Meeting, ” Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries” takes place November 1-6 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Papers should be submitted as attachments and sent by email to: bpanagopoulos@suffolk.edu

*You may join ASIS&T via the web at http://www.asist.org/membership.html

**Terms describing information science programs are varied: they may be called: Library and Information Studies, Information Science and Policy, Information and Library Science, Information Studies, etc.

Questions? Contact Beata at (617) 573-8541, e-mail: bpanagopoulos@suffolk.edu

Join us for the 2013 Annual NEASIST Networking Dinner!

Date:       Tue., May 7
Time:       6 to 9 p.m.
Place:      MIT, Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349)  find it on MIT MAP

Register now until Sunday, May 5.

Schedule:

6:00 Networking
6:30 Dinner (Mexican buffet)**
7:30 Award presentations followed by speaker, Dr. David Weinberger

NEASIST welcomes David Weinberger who will talk about

LIBRARY AS PLATFORM: Opening up to Support our Communities in the Production of Knowledge*

David Weinberger, Ph.D., writes about the effect of the Internet on ideas. He is a co-author of the bestseller, The Cluetrain Manifesto (2000) and is the author of “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” and “Everything Is Miscellaneous.” His new book, “Too Big to Know” (2012), looks at how the networking of knowledge and expertise is changing how we understand our world and make decisions in it; it has won two international “book of the year” awards. Dr. Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and is co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, where he is also leading the Harvard Library Interoperability Initiative. He has been a marketing adviser to many high tech companies, and adviser to several presidential candidates, and was recently a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and lives in Boston.

*Library as Platform

NEASIST will announce and congratulate the NEASIST Chapter Member of the Year and Student Member of the Year.

** Prices
NEASIST/ASIST/SLA member:       $25.00
Public (non-member):                   $35.00
Student/retiree/between jobs:    $18.00

Thanks for attending! Slides from the event are available via the links below:

• Open-Source Online Textbooks
• Shifting Forward in Digital Publishing: EPUB 3
• Creating EBooks Using Open-Source Tools

When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 8:15am to 1:00pm

Where: Simmons College, School of Management, Room M501, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA

Registration: http://neasist-ebooks.eventbrite.com/

Digitally publishing your own work is powerful and empowering.  Surprisingly, creating ebooks with text, images, audio and hyperlinks is neither complicated nor expensive.  By using EPUB, anyone can create an ebook, from elementary school students to university instructors.

Come hear about an exciting project on open-source online textbook creation, a discussion about the latest EPUB standard which supports wildly innovative e-publishing capabilities, and a demonstration of open-source publishing tools you can use to publish your own creative content.

Program
“Open-Source Online Textbooks”
Speaker: Dustin A. Lewis, H20 Project Manager and Technical Lead
Dustin will introduce us to a new suite of online classroom tools called H2O, developed and provided by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Library. H2O allows professors to freely develop, remix, and share online textbooks under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

“Shifting Forward in Digital Publishing: EPUB 3″
Speaker: Nettie Lagace, Associate Director of Programs at NISO
Nettie will provide an overview of EPUB 3, a standard which, while tightly integrated to Web standards, also offers many innovations, including support for rich media, interactivity, global language support, and styling and layout enhancements. EPUB 3 advances capabilities for better accessibility and more and richer metadata, thereby improving discoverability and the user experience.

“Creating Ebooks Using Open-Source Tools”
Speaker: Karie Kirkpatrick, Journals Technology Specialist at The MIT Press
Karie will provide an overview of open-source tools that you can use to convert your PDF or Word document into an ebook—either as an EPUB file or as a Kindle (MOBI) file. This presentation will focus on the PDFMasher conversion tool, the Sigil EPUB interface, and the Calibre ebook management tool.

Agenda

The Book as iPad App: iBooks Author

Slides from the event are now available via Slideshare

The event is free, but registration is required.

When: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 5:30pm-7pm (EST)

Where: MIT Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349)  find it on MIT MAP

What: 5:30-6pm: Refreshments & networking, 6-7pm: Guest speaker, Nicole Hennig

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5113622984#

iBooks Author is a free ebook authoring tool by Apple that runs on the Mac platform. It enables easy creation of interactive ebooks that can be sold or offered for free through Apple’s iBooks store. It also allows for exporting non-interactive PDF versions that can be sold anywhere. The interactive ebooks will run on iPads and can include embedded multimedia, such as slide shows, movies, quizzes, 3D images, embedded math formulas, and more.

In this informal talk, we’ll look at examples of some titles created with this tool, show the interface and how it works, and discuss why this is of interest to those looking to create interactive books.

Hope to see you there!

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