NEASIS&T

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

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

Registration: 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-pu

blishing 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

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: 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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Join us for an informal and lively discussion about the impending United States of America vs. Aaron Swartz case. Swartz has been charged with 13 felonies for hacking into the JSTOR database from the MIT network and downloading millions of articles.

Whose side are you on – was he simply freeing information that should be publicly available, or did he truly commit a crime? What does this mean for research libraries? How is legislation keeping up with the digital revolution?

Food for thought:

• Wired Magazine: “Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles”
• College & Research Libraries News: “Library licensing and criminal law: The Aaron Swartz case”

When:
Thursday, November 8, 5:30pm to 7pm

Where:
Champions Sports Bar, Marriott Hotel
Kendall Square plaza (next to the Red Line)
50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
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When:
Thursday, August 16, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Where:
Uno’s Pizzeria (lower level)
22 JFK Street (Harv. Square)
Cambridge, MA

What:
All Things Data Visualization

Data Visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form. Good data visualization should appear as if it is a work of art. This intrigues the viewer and draws them in so that they can further investigate the data and info that the graphic represents.

Come learn more about what folks are doing to make data more interesting.  Come share what you have been doing with your old line graphs.  Bring your ipad or other devices – as the restaurant is wired for us to share.

Check out these links for points of discussion:

• radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/why-data-visualization-matters.html
• www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/data-visualisation-visualization
• flowingdata.com/2011/12/21/the-best-data-visualization-projects-of-2011/

Announcing the NEASIST  2012 Annual Awards Banquet

Date: Wed., May 23

Time: 6 to 9 p.m.

Place: MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass. Directions & Parking

Schedule:

6:00-6:30 Cocktails & light hors d’oeuvres
6:30-7:45 Dinner
7:45-9:00 Award presentations followed by speaker, Dr. Andrew Dillon

NEASIST welcomes ASIS&T President-Elect, Dr. Andrew Dillon.

The title of the talk is BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL:PREPARING FOR TRANSITIONS IN THE LIBRARY & INFORMATION PROFESSION

Andrew Dillon is the Dean and Louis T. Yule Professor of Information Science at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin where he also holds appointments in Psychology and Information Risk & Operations Management.  Andrew has been an active researcher of the human response to information technology for the last 20 years.  Defying professional categorization, he has held appointments in departments or schools of cognitive science, computer science, psychology, instructional systems technology, management information systems, library and information science, and informatics. Having published more than 100 articles and books on various aspects of human information behavior and design, Andrew serves or has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals such as the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Interacting with Computers, the Journal of Documentation, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.  He advocates a view of information science as a means of accelerating discovery and shaping a more democratic world.

Thank you to everyone who made it to yesterday’s event, and a special thanks to our terrific speakers for your good humor and awesome presentations!

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Going Mobile Slides

• Bobbi Fox and Corinna Baksik, Library Technology Services, Harvard University IT
  Adventures in Mobile Development
• Dave Bretthauer, University of Connecticut Libraries
  Mobile Web at UConn Libraries
• Amy Deschenes, Simmons College Library
  Designing Library Access for the Mobile Web
• Edward Iglesias, Central Connecticut State University
  Lessons Learned: The Evolving Nature of Mobile Websites
• Maura Keating, Bryant University Library
  Let’s Build a Mobile Website
• Carli Spina, Harvard Law School Library
  Presentation
• Remlee Green, MIT Libraries
  MIT Libraries & MIT Mobile

When: Monday, April 23rd, 1pm-5pm
Where: MIT Bush Room
Directions and Parking

Smartphone sales eclipsed PC sales for the first time in late 2010. Some analysts predict mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web device worldwide by 2013.

Designing for mobile web experience offers a new set of challenges and opportunities for libraries. We need to better understand our users, plan for mobile-friendly content, ensure contextually relevant information, and collaborate with technology partners. On Monday April 23rd, join us to learn from colleagues who are taking their libraries mobile. Light snacks, coffee, and tea will be served.

• Dave Bretthauer, Webmaster, University of Connecticut Libraries
• Amy Deschenes, Systems & Web Applications Librarian, Simmons College Library
• Bobbi Fox, Digital Library Software Engineer & Corinna Baksik, Systems Librarian; Library Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology – Harvard Library
• Remlee Green, User Experience Librarian, MIT Libraries
• Edward Iglesias, Systems Librarian, Burritt Library, CCSU
• Maura Keating, Reference Librarian, Bryant University Library
• Carli Spina, Emerging Technologies and Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library