ASIS
Annual Meeting 1999
Knowledge:
Creation, Organization and Use
Washington, D.C. October 31-November 4, 1999
More than 1,000 people attended, an excellent turnout for a society
with around 3,000 members. Among the attendees were at least nine
from the local chapter: Huijie Chen; Ruth Fenske, NORASIS Membership
Promoter; Tom Froehlich; Steve Gallant, NORASIS Chair-Elect; Scott
Lapinski; Erica Lilly, NORASIS Assembly Representative; Penny
O'Connor, NORASIS Secretary; Ed Sawyer, NORASIS Chapter Chair;
and Marcia Lei Zeng, NORASIS past chair. Tom was communication
officer for SIG HFIS, and put together sessions on History and
Foundations of Information Science. He received loud acclaim for
his paper at SIG-CON. Scott delivered a paper on The "Inappropriate,"
policies and politics of unrestricted Web access. Erica was the
organizer of a session on designing interfaces for users with
special needs. Marcia delivered a paper on metadata structure
for a digitized historical fashion collection. Marcia was recognized
for her service as chapter chair, Erica was recognized for SIG
contributions, Ruth and Penny for their roles as Chapter advisors,
and Erica and Penny for service as listowners of ASIS-L, the ASIS
listserv.
On Sunday at noon several of us attended the excellent leadership
development session: Using technology to leverage mentoring.
Many of the technical sessions dealt with knowledge management.
Plenary speaker Tom Sudman of Digital AV has posted his KM slides
at www.asis.org.
Sessions on XML and metadata (including Marcia's) were packed
to overflowing. Intellectual property and intellectual freedom
were not only substance for technical sessions; they reverberated
through presentations on database protection, electronic publishing,
and information retrieval.
The capstone plenary was on Intellectual Property Rights and the
Emerging Information Infrastructure, reporting the difficult work
of the Computer Science and Telecommunication Board. See the recently
released report at: www.cstb.org.
Read more about 1999 ASIS Annual Meeting in an upcoming issue
of the ASIS Bulletin.
Penny O'Connor
Annual Meeting Photos
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Erica Lilly, Ruth Fenske, Penny
O'Connor, Marcia Zeng
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Marcia Zeng
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Marcia Zeng
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Ruth Fenske, Ed Sawyer, Penny
O'Connor, Steve Gallant
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