Events of 2012
  1. May, 2012: The first Award Ceremony of the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona was held on May 4, 2012. AZ Chapter was a cosponsor. The Chapter presented the Best Presenation awards to the four winners noted in March 2012 event and welcomed the four students as new members of ASIST and the AZ Chapter. Chapter Representative Hong Cui gave a brief speech on ASIST and the Chapter. Chapter Chair Yan Han presented the awards.
  2. March, 2012: AZ Chapter cosponsored Library Student Organization's 2012 Annual Symposium with the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona. The event featured ten presentations given by the Masters and Ph.D students of SIRLS and drew around 40 attendees. By the votes of the audience, four best presentations were selected, including those by Ph.D student John Walsh (presentation topic: use information literacy to help community college students learn), Masters students Edward Mccain (presentation topic: digitization project at the Center of Creative Photography), Stacey McCraw (presentation topic: being an ambassador of Wikipedia), and Sharon Thompson (presentation topic: controlled vocabularies and ontologies). It is worth noting that all presentations were liked by the audience. 
  3. Jan - May, 2012: AZ Chapter Web Design Contest. We announced a Chapter Web Design contest in Jan 2012. Yan, Qianjin and Hong prepared the contest guideline and Hong prepared the content that should be included in the website and advertised the event at 1. the School of Information Science and Technology, School of Management Information Systems, and Computer Science Department at University of Arizona, 2. Pima Community College, 3. Computer Science Department of Arizona State University, and 4 Computer Science Department of Northern Arizona University. All four officers reviewed the final submission. Unfortunately no website was selected to be the winner due to limited submissions.
  4. Jan 2012: AZ Chapter was awarded a Chapter Development Award by ASIST.
Events of 2013
  1. Jan - March, 2012: Ever thought of building a real ontology that will be used? Please join us to create a plant habitat ontology to support information access of plant information. The activity will be led by Dr. Hong Cui and her Research Assistant Julian Etienne (both are Chapter members) and is related to several NSF-funded projects (also led by Dr. Cui). We have everything ready to start the project including a botanist who will supervise the quality of the ontology. Your involvement in the project may be identifying good habitat terms from our pool of candidate terms extracted from Flora of North American, figuring out where in the ontology the term should be added, and/or adding the terms to the ontology. You can get involved anywhere from the world at any time you would like. To join the project, please sign up at  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlZCRo88lw50dHRnVGZFNGdmeGpheWpla0ZnN1FvQ0E before March 25, 2013.