ASIS&T Student Chapter Events Archive
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Faculty Speaker: What Does it Mean to be an Expert Searcher in a 2.0 World?
Virginia Tucker
Virginia Tucker presents highlights from her current research into how good searchers become expert searchers addressing critical concepts that need to be understood, regardless the search engine being used. Virginia Tucker has had a varied career working in different search environments, as academic librarian, information architect, public law librarian, and full-time lecturer at SJSU.
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Faculty Speaker: Digital Asset Management (DAM) 101
John Horodyski
John Horodyski, an SJSU SLIS faculty member, discusses Digital Asset Management (DAM). Topics include: • What is DAM? • How did it come about? • Why is DAM needed? • Who is doing DAM? • Where is DAM going?
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Visiting Speaker: NHM Research Library - Warp Speed to the Cloud
Richard Hulser
Richard P. Hulser, Chief Librarian of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, has 30 years of international experience working in and with a variety of library and cultural institutions to enhance their use of technology for information management. He provides a description of a special library in a museum including updating of services from a totally manual operation to one incorporating electronic tools in addition to maintaining an extensive print collection.
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Meeting Speaker: Using you MLIS skills in information architecture
Theresa Putkey
Theresa has a background in the software and web design fields, which have shown her that content is often used as a salve to fix bigger communication and interaction problems. She moved into information architecture to ensure that companies use their dollars most effectively, plan correctly, and execute the user experience and information architecture phases efficiently. MLIS students are uniquely positioned to do user experience and information architecture work. Find out more about user experience and information architecture and how you can transition your skills to a less traditional role.
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Meeting Speaker: Library 2.011 Presenters Discuss Games and Learning
Mardi Veiluva
Mardi attended the first Library 2.011 WorldWide Virtual Conference as a Student Volunteer and shared her experience as a volunteer at this three day/two night virtual event. Mardi also focuses on discussing gaming and its place in academic libraries as a learning tool. (February 8, 2012)
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Student Workshop Speaker: Content Management – Culture, Content, and Control
Lorraine Stein
How do you get content quality under control when information resides among divergent work groups with their own rules? The lack of content quality is a competitive weakness and costly challenge for businesses with intellectual property. Content management can bring about accuracy, relevancy, consistency, and re-usability only when there is organizational conformity in rules, roles, and responsibilities. Lorraine Stein discusses how she uses her SJSU SLIS classes in the business world to instill content management processes and best practices in the workplace.
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Student Workshop Speaker: MLIS Career Alternative
Toni Rodriguez
Career alternatives and variations in course selection within the MLIS degree will be discussed. If you're trying to transition into the library world, but find yourself competing for jobs with more seasoned library professionals, there's no reason why you should limit your job search to libraries (public or academic). There's always a need for information professionals in every sector. It's all up to you. Toni Rodriguez discusses possible non-traditional pathways for your career.
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Faculty Speaker: How Will We Define Web 3.0? (World Usability Day Talk)
Jeremy Kemp
Library and information science professionals around the world are deep in the midst of implementing user-generated content and social Web applications. But what comes next? Predicting trends, advocating for needed information resources and smoothing their adoption may be the greatest challenge for library and information professionals moving forward. This talk explores a variety of perspectives from those who say they can define Web 3.0. It touches on futurism, forecasting emerging technology trends, and how to promote their appropriate adoption. YouTube – How Usability Leads to Social Change (associated with the same event) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8GoQrDUuPw Further information about the SJSU ASIS&T Student Chapter World Usability Day Talk may be found on the World Usability Day website: http://www.worldusabilityday.org/sjsu-asist-student-chapter-world-usability-day-talk-how-will-we-define-web-30
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Faculty Speaker: How Usability Leads to Social Change (Usability Scavenger Hunt)
Jeremy Kemp
In conjunction with World Usability Day, Dr. Jeremy Kemp proposed a team of SJSU students be entered to compete virtually in Portland, Oregon CHIFOO's usability scavenger hunt contest. For more information about the scavenger hunt, see the following URL: http://www.chifoo.org/index.php/chifoo/events_detail/world_usability_day_2011/ The recording on November 9th, facilitated by Dr. Jeremy Kemp, organized the teams and kicked off the 24-hour scavenger hunt, which ended at 6pm the next day, November 10th. The teams also met after Dr. Kemp's talk on November 10th from 7:30-8:00pm to share the results of the scavenger hunt with each other.
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Meeting Speaker: Student Design Competition at 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Melissa Hunt Glickman
Melissa shares her experience participating in the Student Design Competition at the 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Students (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) in any discipline attending the 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting were invited to participate in teams in an onsite design competition. Team members worked together for several days to come up with a solution to an assigned design problem. Melissa and her teammates WON the 2011 Student Design Competition.
