Congratulations to the ASIS&T Student Chapter!
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Posted by Web Team, September 30, 2005
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Congratulations to the Simmons College Gradute School of Library and Information Science’s ASIST Student Chapter for winning this year’s Outstanding Student Chapter Award. The citation from the award notification sums it up best:
The ASIS&T Outstanding Student Chapter Award this year is going to two chapters, one at the University of Washington and the other at Simmons College. They could not be more different from each other—in size, in the nature of their parent institutions, and in their geographic locations. However, they have leadership and excellence in common. Both have offered frequent programs to their members, programs which have attracted new members to the fold, and which have garnered attention beyond the confines of their schools. Both have contributed materially to national ASIST activities by creating Web sites for conference attendees, serving as volunteers at meetings, and actively participating in committees and other ASIST units. Between then they have:
- offered workshops, tours, or talks on assistive and adaptive technology, XML, CSS, information architecture and design, and the semantic web
- brought to their schools guests such as Michel Menou, Dale Flecker, Marcia Bates, and Sam Oh
- updated their student chapter web sitesregularly, informed by information design and usability discussions withfellow students.
The UW created a career week for students—an event which ended up involving other student groups, and is likely to become an annual event. Some of their members had extensive participation in the 2005 IA Summit and are on the planning committee for the 2005 Annual Meeting and the 2006 IA Summit. They have awarded scholarships for attendance at national and regional ASIST meetings. Members of the Simmons chapter converted the student chapter manual into a Web publication, developed a checklist for event management, and created the visitors information Web site and the first-time attendees primer for ASIST 2004. They hosted an event on the Google scanning project which attracted a standing-room-only attendance from departments all over the campus.
As the jurors noted:
- “ASIST is truly fortunate to have such anincredible group of leaders and innovative program designers.”
- “I would love to work with this group of officersat the national level.”
- “I will certainly be looking for them to assumelarger leadership roles within ASIST in the next year or two.”
Congratulations to the ASIS&T student chapters at the University of Washington Information School and the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Officers during the award year:
- Chair: Caryn Anderson/Kjersten Elias
- Vice-chair: Kara Schwartz/Bill Sloan/Julka Grodel
- Secretary/Treasurer: Arun Sannuti/Diane Post
- Assembly Representative: N/A
- Publications Chair (Web Manager): Diane Post & Heather Cougar/Brian Talbot & Frances McConihe
- Faculty Advisor: Candy Schwartz
- Mt. Holyoke Coordinator: Adrienne Boudreau
- LISSA Liaison: Heather Cougar
- NEASIS&T Liaison: Caryn Anderson/Arun Sannuti
For more information about the Simmons College ASIS&T Student Chapter, see their website at: http://web.simmons.edu/~asist
