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Congratulations to the ASIST Student Chapter!

Filed under GSLIS Administrative, GSLIS Student Orgs
Posted by GSLIS, September 28, 2005
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Congratulations to the ASIST Student Chapter for winning this year’s Outstanding Student Chapter Award. Since the citation says it best, I’ve included it below:

The ASIST 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 ASIST 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 ASIST Student Chapter, see their website at: http://web.simmons.edu/~asist/new-site/index.html