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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin.
This Weeks Events Sunday, March 6, 3-5 PM, Bates, Bradley Welch, Great Organ Series Concert. Bradley is the organist at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas and the 2003 winner, of the Dallas International Organ Competition. Admission is $14.00 for the general public and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Added Event. Tuesday, March 6, 6:30 - 8 PM, SZB 556, Grounded Theory Discussion Group. For more information please contact Don Drumtra. Tuesday, March 8, 8-10 PM, Bates, Special Concert. James Morrow, UT Director of Choral Activities invites us to attend a very special concert in Bates Recital Hall on Tuesday, March 8 at 8p. The concert concludes an important symposium here at UT and features music by the leading Brazilian composer of his generation José Maurício Nunes Garcia, including a concert overture and his Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Mass for Our Lady of the Conception). The performance will feature the UT Chamber Singers under my direction with soloists and orchestra. I hope you will join us in experiencing this wonderful, classical repertoire from Brazil. For more information, Please contact Contact: Claudia M. Scarborough, by email or phone,232-2409. Wednesday, March 9, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, A.J. Johnson and Liane Luckman, Alumni Speaker Series. A.J. is a UT MLIS 2001 graduate and Reference and Access Services Librarian in the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library. Liane is a UT MLIS 2001 graduate and Reference Coordinator at the Scarborough-Phillips Library at St. Edward's University. A.J. and Liane will discuss the differences in working in large academic library systems (UT) and smaller academic libraries (St. Edwards). The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Wednesday, March 9, 7-9 PM, Texas Union, Quadrangle Room, Student Government New Officers, Student Government Forum: Get What You VOted For. Elections Are Over... Now What?- Come Interact with Newly Elected Representatives; - Share your Ideas and Concerns about The University of Texas, the Austin Area and Student Government itself; and - Eat FREE Pizza and Cookies!!! ->Tell ALL your friends: More Students Means More Dialogue and Fun! <- For more information please contact Rabiya Mahmood. Added Event. Thursday, March 10, 4:30-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Shannon Phillips, Cubbies, Carts, and Shelving Shifts at the Alexander Architectural Archives.In this second Kilgarlin Center Forum for spring semester, Shannon will discuss several of the projects she has worked on during her 4 semesters at the Alexander Architecture Archive, including creating storage cubbies for large rolled documents, designing an a-frame cart for moving large framed drawings, researching storage options for cellulose nitrate negatives, and implementing a rehousing project for the Roy Thomas collection. Shannon is a second year conservator student. We hope to see you there. For more information, please contact Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Director, The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record via email or phone, 471-8287. Thursday, March 10, 5-7 PM, Vivo Cocina, UT ASIST Networking Social. Vivo Cocina is at 2015 Manor Road. For further information please visit the UT ASIST Website or blog or contact Valerie Gomez De La Tora. Friday, March 11, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten, Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is cool we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is warm we are outside in the garden where it is more comfortable. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard For more information please contact the student association Co-Directors, Angela, Cristen, Jacob, or Vanessa.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Monday-Saturday, March 14-19, Spring Break. Wednesday, March 17, 6:30-9 PM, ACE Avaya, Rias Muhamed, The evolution of Wi-Fi and its integration with cellular networks. T he IEEE Central Texas Section Joint Communication and Signal Processing Society would like to invite you to attend our March 2005 monthly meeting. Realizing anywhere, any time, pervasive communications services will involve delivering connectivity across multiple heterogeneous access networks, as opposed to having one ubiquitous access technology that meets all the needs of the end-user. It is likely that next generation services will involve the integration of multiple heterogeneous networks that are tied together to provide a seamless user experience. Given the remarkable success of Wi-Fi, one particular example of such integration would be that of Wi-Fi based wireless local area networks and GSM based wide area cellular networks. This talk will explore this subject by discussing the various levels of integration -from common authentication for both networks to seamless hand-over between them, the challenges associated with such integration and the solutions being developed in the industry. Be sure to join us in considering what our wireless future holds. Rias Muhamed is a research engineer with the Wi-Fi Group of SBC Laboratories, Inc. Members with reservation - $5.00, Members at door - $7.00, Non-members with reservation - $7.00, Non-members at door - $8.00, Students - Free! RSVP to Howard Headrick. For more information about our chapter and directions please visit the chapter Website or contact Rick Talbot. Monday, March 21, SZB 556, 4-5:45 PM, Interviewing Workshop. This workshop in on interviewing at placement centers and career fairs. This will help you prepare for the placement centers at TLA, ALA, and other conferences this summer, as well as for the career fairs here at UT on March 30. For more information, please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Tuesday, March 22, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Miles Efron. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair via email or phone, 471-7046. Monday, March 28, 8-9:30 PM, Bates, Kevin Noe, UT Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $7.00. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Wednesday, March 30, 10 AM - 3 PM, UNB Ballroom, Public Jobs Fair. The School of Information, in cooperation with other UT Career Services Offices, will present the Second Annual Nonprofit and Public Sector Career Fair.Use this opportunity to have direct contact with the employers and create the right impression. While many of the organizations will be nonprofits (and may have IT and other LIS related opportunities), there will also be several libraries at the event. Libraries that have registered so far include:
Wednesday, March 30, 9 AM - 11:30 AM, Erwin Center, iSchool Career Day. The School of Education will hold its Spring Career Day at the Erwin Center. If you are seeking a school library position, you need to attend this fair. Last semester, many of the school districts were actively seeking people to fill their school library vacancies. Even if you already have a position, you may want to check out what is available. Open discussions with the school districts are between 9:00 and 11:30 a.m. For these events, dress professionally, know what you want to do, and have your resumes and initial greetings ready. You usually will get one chance to favorably impress a potential employer. Use this opportunity to have direct contact with the employers and create the right impression. Note the preparation workshop on Monday March 21 about. For more information, please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Thursday-Friday, March 31-April 1, Pickle Conf Ctr, Electronic Records Forum. Thursday, March 31, 4:30-8 PM, Spider House, ASIST and iSchool Week. Learn about the iSchool and about UT ASIST. For further information please visit the UT ASIST Website or blog or contact Valerie Gomez De La Tora. Friday, April 1, 2-4 PM, CDL, Edible Book Fest 2005. The Kilgarlin Center and the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce the Third Annual Edible Book Festival!
For edible book inspiration and more information please visit the event Website or contact Carie Mcginnis. Tuesday-Friday, April 5-8, All day, Texas Library Association (TLA) Conference.For the first time in almost 40 years , librarians, library supporters, and vendors will gather in Austin for the annual TLA conference. We've assembled a conference experience like none other. National broadcaster and political commentator Cokie Roberts , chicana narrative artist Carmen Lomas Garza , MAD Magazine editor Joe Raiola , author Barbara Taylor Bradford , and (how cool is this!) actor and producer Henry Winkler are featured speakers. For registration, volunteering, and further information, Please visit the Conference Website. Wednesday, April 13, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Ruth Wolfish and Rachel Berrington, Alumni Speaker Series. Ruth is a UT MLIS 1977 graduate and the Eastern U.S. Customer Relations Manager for IEEE. She has had previous experience with Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs, and is the incoming president of the New Jersey Chapter of SLA. Rachel graduated from the University of Arizona, is the Western U.S. Customer Relations Manager for IEEE, and was the former president of the Oregon Chapter of SLA. The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Tuesday, April 19, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, presenter and topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-6:30 PM, LBJ Library, 2005 Celebration
of Volunteerism.
The Volunteer and Service Learning Center and the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Presidential Library proudly present the 2005 Celebration of Volunteerism and
Service learning with reception immediately following.
This annual event recognizes the dedicated students,
faculty, staff and UT organizations who have made significant contributions to
the Austin and Central Texas communities through their work as volunteers and
leaders.
Monday, April 25, 8:-9:30 PM, Bates, Kevin Noe, UT Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $7.00. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Tuesday,April 26, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Lynn Westbrook, topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, (The Great) and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 for the general public, $13.00 for faculty/staff, and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available on the web, by phone, 477-6060, at the UT PAC ticket office, at the Erwin Center, at HEB stores, and at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Friday, May 6, Last day of classes. Saturday, May 21, 9-11AM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studied Website and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 11 AM - Noon, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, Noon-1PM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 1-2 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, 3-4 PM, UNB 2.228 (Texas Union Theater), iSchool Convocation.For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 4-6 PM, UNB 3.502 (Santa Rita Room), iSchool Graduation Reception. For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 7:00-10:30 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement. For more information please visit the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Sunday-Friday, May 22-27, Texas A&M, History of Books and Printing Workshop. The Fourth Annual &M Workshop in the History of Books and Printing will take place at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives of Texas A&M, College Station, TX. This five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to and survey of the history of books and printing. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, collectors, private individuals and others who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The course consists of a unique combination of labs and seminars designed to provide students with practical experience as well as a broad historical survey of the field. The lab sessions will concentrate on printing in the hand press era and its allied technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and ink-making. Students will have the opportunity cast type in a hand mould. They will also set type, impose formes, and print on a replica common press. The seminar sessions will provide a chronological survey of book and printing history, beginning briefly with pre-codex structures and then concentrating on developments in the hand press era. Tuition is $600 and may provide three hours of graduate credit from University of North Texas. For registration and other information, please visit the workshop Website or contact Chris Morrow, at the library, via email or phone, 979-845-1951. Monday, May 30, Submission Due: Full papers and
posters submission to be included in the Proceedings. Call for papers for the Second International Conference on Knowledge Management--Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology--Jointly organized by the Information and Knowledge Management Society ( i KMS) & The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) http://www.ickm2005.org . The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on October 27-28, 2005 . The conference will bring together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners, and users in the areas of knowledge management and information processing. It will serve as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas, practical applications and best practices. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of information and knowledge management. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Submission Website: http://www.softconf.com/start/ICKM_ASIST2005/submit.html . For further information please contact Suliman Hawamdeh or Michael Smith . Tuesday-Sunday, August 16-21, New Orleans, SAA Annual Meeting. Please contact Dr. Gracy for more information. Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester, 2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information, and links to other pages. A detail page repeats the summary information and provides, education, a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume, and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest, we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iForums (or iFora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of Study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs on their Websites. Annual Review. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Salina Circus. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she'll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Statistics Website. The Website, www.statpages.net, provides about 600 links and about 380 statistical calculators. It is now owned by AOL. Recently AOL has begun restricting its content to AOL members, so please let me know if this Website becomes inaccessible. Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are:
Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic Programs, Ph.D.). Information on Qualitative Research Methods. In September 2004, Dr. Davis loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. A copy is also available is also at the PCL reference desk. Content Manager: Don Drumtra 2005 March 13 |
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