Notes from the 2005 SIG-LT Meeting

October 31, 2005

Attending: Rafal Kasprowski, Ann Eagan and Kjersten Elias

Rafal reviewed the SIG Cabinet activities and talked about the SIG reorganization into traditional and virtual SIGs. Since only three people attended the meeting, Rafal will send a message out to the SIG-LT discussion list to solicit nominations for officers. Several program ideas were proposed for the 2006 ASIST Annual Meeting. Rafal and Ann ended the meeting by drafting the 2004-2005 Annual Report.

  • Link Resolvers
  • Metasearch Tools
  • Open Source Software
  • Search Result Visualization

Addendum to the Planning Meeting

On Wednesday, November 2, 2005, the All SIG Planning meeting took place. Ann Eagan presented the SIG-LT program ideas and received the following feedback:

  • Link Resolvers - implementation, technical aspects; Rafal will take the lead on creating the program proposal. Pascal Calarco suggested speakers for this session: David Walker from California on RSS and SFX and Mark Dehmlow, Electronic Resources Librarian, Notre Dame on SFX MarcIt! And SFX and IEEE Proceedings work. Pascal also indicated he would be willing to help.
  • Metasearch Tools - implementation, how well are they doing in practice; need someone to create proposal.
  • Open Source Software (such as Shibboleth) - need someone to create proposal.
  • Search Result Visualization via OPACs and browsers (such as Grokker, AquaBrowser) - need someone to create proposal. Diane Neal, SIG-VIS Co-chair, dneal@mail.twu.edu, indicated VIS would be interested in co-sponsoring this program.
  • SIG-MED presented an idea for a program on Resources on PDAs for Practitioners. I indicated that SIG-LT would be interested in co-sponsoring.

Michael Leach, incoming ASIST President, encouraged SIGs to think beyond the Annual Meeting for programming. He mentioned the DASER Summit and the Information Architecture Summit as examples of how SIGs worked with other SIGs, chapters and ASIST Headquarters to create alternative programming. He also said that the IA Summit calls upon a good deal of ASIST Headquarters support for registration, on-site registration and publications. The first DASER Summit tapped into the SIG project fund which is available to all SIGs. In the ensuing discussion, JASIST was also mentioned as a way for SIGs to share information. SIG-SI (formerly SIG-STI) had a Perspectives issue where papers from the Tri-Society Symposium were published. SIG-III reminded everyone that programming is not limited to the U.S., either.

The SIG Cabinet Director, Vicki Gregory, reminded everyone to submit officer lists as soon as possible. She will add the officer names to SIG-L. If anyone's email address changes during the year, please let her know so that important SIG information gets out to all officers.