Southern Ohio Chapter of the Association for Information Science
Volume 18, Number 4 December, 1997
Read on to find out the highlights!
| *Election Results | *SOASIS Committee Appointments | *Message from the Chair | *1997 SOASIS Awards | *Report from ASIS '97 | *SOASIS Board Meeting Minutes | *Annual Treasurer's Report |
If you have any news, ideas, comments or observations to share with SOASIS members, please forward it to me at the following email address: wipplevi@oplin.lib.oh.us
Happy Holidays!
Victoria Whipple, eNewsletter editor
ELECTION RESULTS
The 1998 SOASIS Board is as follows:
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Chair |
Elna L. Saxton Head, Periodical Services Department University of Cincinnati Libraries PO Box 210033 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0033 ph:513/556-1413 fx:513/556-1505 Elna.Saxton@uc.edu | ||
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Chair-Elect |
Victoria Whipple Reference Librarian Washington-Centerville Public Library 111 W. Spring Valley Road Centerville, OH 45458 ph:937/433-8091 fx:937/433-1366 Wipplevi@oplin.lib.oh.us | ||
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Secretary |
Alison Armstrong Head, Training & Educational Services Department University of Cincinnati Libraries PO Box 210033 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0033 ph:513/556-1761 Alison.Armstrong@uc.edu |
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Treasurer |
Marianna Wells Head, Geology Physics Library University of Cincinnati Libraries PO Box 210153 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0153 ph:513/556-0388 Marianna.Wells@uc.edu |
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Newsletter Editor |
Victoria Whipple Reference Librarian Washington-Centerville Public Library 111 W. Spring Valley Road Centerville, OH 45458 ph:937/433-8091 fx:937/433-1366 Wipplevi@oplin.lib.oh.us |
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Assembly Representative |
John Tebo Head, Chemistry Biology Library University of Cincinnati Libraries PO Box 210151 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0151 ph:513/1494 fx:513/556-1103 John.Tebo@uc.edu |
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Alternate Assembly Representative |
Yvonne Michal Davis 1593 Oak Knoll Dr. #2 Cincinnati, OH 45224 ph:513/287-3494 ydavis@tso.cin.ix.net |
Workshop Committee: Yvonne Davis, Chair; Karen Marsh; Marianna Wells
Awards Committee: Jim Cretsos, Barbara Davis, Karen Marsh
Web Committee: Earl Einhaus, Doug Kaylor
Membership Committee: Alison Armstrong, Jim Cretsos
Nominations & Elections: Not yet appointed
Volunteers needed and appreciated! If you are interested in working on a
SOASIS committee, please contact Elna Saxton, 513/556-1413
Are you a member of ASIS?
The ASIS mission is to advance information professionals and the field of
information science. Our local chapter, the Southern Ohio Chapter of ASIS,
is working hard to advance the mission of ASIS by providing methods of
communication and continuing education for information professionals in the
region.
Change is constant, especially technological change, in information
science. Yet information professionals in one discipline often are isolated
from the key developments in others. If you don't like working in
isolation, look at what ASIS has to offer. The ASIS Web site
Then take a look at our web page
If you want to be a part of the fun and share the experience with our
dedicated and lively members who are web-mastering, putting together
workshops, editing newsletters, and learning about Internet2, digital press
operations, Java, and on and on....our Chair, Elna Saxton (513/556-1413),
is waiting to hear from you. By the way, you will learn more about these
dedicated and energetic members in upcoming issues of the e-newsletter when
we begin our "member profiles" column.
All our student readers take note: Full-time and part-time students can
join ASIS for for just $30 yearly. What a deal!
Elna Saxton, Chair
At the September 17, 1997 Program and Meeting of SOASIS, several members
were recognized for their contributions to the chapter. Karen Marsh,
SOASIS Chair, presented awards and checks to the award winners and
certificates of recognition to other significant and noteworthy SOASIS
contributors. Jim Cretsos presented Karen Ruud Marsh the Heberle Eyles
Leadership Award.
HEBERLE EYLES LEADERSHIP AWARD (plaque and a check for the amount of $100)
SOASIS OUTSTANDING MEMBER AWARD (plaque and a check equal to the amount of
one year of membership dues to ASIS)- John Tebo and Marianna Wells
JOHN KAHLES MEMBERSHIP AWARD (plaque and a check equal to the amount of
one-half year of membership dues to ASIS)- Elna Saxton
CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION
Elna L. Saxton, Chair
The ASIS '97 Annual Meeting technical program covered "Digital
Collections: implications for users, funders, developers, and
maintainers." The following observations were made by SOASIS member Doug
Kaylor.
The overall quality of the meeting was very good. There were a number of
excellent presentations, and they ranged from academic theory to the
applied practice. The Web continued to dominate
and shape much of the discussion, and it seems to me that people are
finally coming to terms with some of the issues of organizing and searching
the sprawl of information on the web. I found some of the work being done
on data warehousing, intelligent agents, and metadata to be very promising.
Tom Kalil from the National Economic Council was a keynote
speaker. He spoke briefly and answered a variety of information-related
questions, while avoiding others. He sounded like a political expert who's
columns you read or who you see speaking on TV. What I found particularly
interesting was what he didn't say. The one question he refused to deal
with was encryption. When a member from the audience tried to get a
statement on the Clinton administration's policies on encryption, Mr. Kalil
made a brief joke, just stood there, smiled, and gave no answer. When a
follow-up question produced no further answer, just silence, the next
questioner went to the microphone and the session continued with the
encryption questions unanswered.
Perhaps the most satisfying part of the conference was seeing SOASIS's own
John Tebo receive an award as Chapter Member of the Year. This was
presented during Chapter Assembly. John, Yvonne Davis, and I were there
representing SOASIS. Congratulations, John!
Other Chapter Assembly business included a report from the ASIS
Membership Committee. The committee, through a focus group technique,
queried members, former members, and likely members from the corporate
world regarding membership benefits. Preliminary results indicate that
local networking activities are an attractive benefit. Chapters like
SOASIS play a crucial role in providing these benefits to its members.
The Annual Meeting is not just all business, there is a great deal of
socializing that goes on. ASIS has its own culture, which can be very
inclusive and welcoming. I had dinner with a past ASIS president on the
night before the conference started - just an accidental meeting that lead
to an invitation to dinner. I find it hard to imagine that happening in
some of the other professional meetings I have attended where the
differences between leadership and membership are much greater. But ASIS
is different - and that's a good difference!
Doug Kaylor
SOASIS Board Meeting
Present: Karen Marsh, Marianna Wells, Rich Spohn, Jim Cretsos,
Elna Saxton, John Tebo, Victoria Whipple, Alison Armstrong
Congratulations were extended to John Tebo for being awarded
SOASIS Chapter Member of the year. (Jim Cretsos)
1)Marianna distributed the treasurer's report from the past year.
2)Outreach was discussed. Lots of ideas were thrown out such as;
Increasing the mailing list with adding groups such as other
Ohio/regional ASIS chapters, GCLC, SLA, various Kentucky
Institutions. Put ads for our programs & workshops in UC
Currents & perhaps offer Saturday workshops.
3)Ideas for workshops & programs were discussed.
Rich, John, Alison & Victoria will work on an Internet2 program for
February. We anticipate a 1/2 day of lecture/panel type presentation.
Location perhaps between here & Dayton or in Dayton.
Workshop Committee: Yvonne will chair with Karen and Marianna
to develop a 1/2 day workshop on Java Scripting - or something similar.
This would be more of an interactive type program and could be a 1/2 or
full day.
Potential programs were discussed and included; L/N thesuarus development
for business databases, metadata, medical center &/or NetWellness & its
evolution, UC's Digital Press & Dayton Art Institute's imaging. For some
of these we will consider working with another group, such as Central ASIS
or GCLC to share expenses.
4)Committees needed for next year:
Awards: to convene in February & needs one continuing member.
Web: should be a committee rather than just a task force. Earl will
continue his work on the webpage and Doug has agreed to work with Earl on
this committee. We may want to link to people's pages from our site & link
to our newsletter. If anyone else is interested in working on the SOASIS
webpage, please contact Elna.
Membership: Jim & Alison will work on this committee. Karen
volunteered to assist with the gathering of profiles, etc.
Jim will get the existing labels from Elna & will contact HQ for
additional membership information. We need to concern
ourselves with recruitment and retention. Need to be more
aggressive. Some suggestions included inviting guests to our
programs, memAlert from ASIS to SOASIS, get help from HQ
generally, have extra copied of the bulletin for easy distribution.
Nominations & Elections Committee: Will be appointed later
in the year.
Newsletter: Victoria will continue as editor. She needs an updated
membership list. Ideas for upcoming newsletters include thumbnail sketch
of new members (ask them to provide a brief bio), get updates of existing
members & have a one page member profile
beginning with officers - Jim will be glad to do some interviews.
Need conference report for newsletter. Minutes, election results,
treasury, committee membership will also go to newsletter.
DEADLINE for newletter submission is 12/15.
Meeting Adjourned at 6:07pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Alison H. Armstrong, Secretary
Submitted
Happy Holidays to all...and look for upcoming program annoucements soon
after the New Year!
Victoria Whipple
Document date 12.22.97
Did you know...
http://www.asis.org/Chapters/soasis/index.htm.
- Karen Ruud Marsh
-Yvonne Davis - for organizing a most successful workshop on "Managing Web
Servers"
-Victoria Whipple - for instituting and editing our electronic SOASIS
e-Newsletter
-Elaine Gillam - for the early development of the SOASIS Web Page
-Earl Einhaus - for mounting the SOASIS Web page
Thursday, December 4, 1997 5:00pm
University of Cincinnati Engineering Research Center rm 405
We over spent by about $1,500. but our balance is still healthy at about
$6,000. We need to replenish as well as expend.
Jim will continue and Karen volunteered to serve. Need one
other member.
ANNUAL TREASURER'S REPORT
October 1, 1996 - September 30, 1997
ANNUAL INCOME
Chapter Rebates @$164.34 each ......................$ 328.68
Chapter Meetings ...................................$ 1,215.00
Member Donation ....................................$ 9.75
Interest on Account ................................$ 174.28
Total Income .......................................$ 1,727.71
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ANNUAL EXPENSES
Chapter Meetings ...................................$ 1,850.00
Joint Chapter Meetings with SLA ....................$ 528.00
Supplies/Postage/Copying ...........................$ 241.28
SOASIS Mugs Reorder ................................$ 156.30
Awards
Outstanding Member Awards, 2@$115.00 $330.00
John Kahles Membership Award $ 57.50
Heberle Eyles Ledership Award $100.00 .....$ 387.50
Award Expenses .....................................$ 122.57
Bank Charges .......................................$ 14.85
Total Expenses .....................................$ 3,300.50
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December 4, 1997
by Marianna Wells, Treasurer
Washington-Centerville Public Library
111 West Spring Valley Road
Centerville, OH 45458
937-433-8091
wipplevi@oplin.lib.oh.us 
