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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 week's events are normally posted each Sunday. Special events, additions, and changes during the week are noted in red. Significant future calendar events are posted as they are received. Suggested additions, corrections, and other comments are always appreciated. Email me or grab me in room SZB 463 or in the hall. . Recurring Symposia Each Monday, 5:30-7:30 PM, Crown and Anchor Pub, Unofficial iSchool Happy Hour. Everyone--students, faculty, and staff--is invited. Domestic is $1.50 a pint so all can afford to participate. Hope to see you there. The Crown and Anchor is located at 2911 San Jacinto just north of campus. For more information, please contact Courtney Chartier. Each Friday, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten, Traditional iSchool Happy Hour. The Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. initiated by Dean Dillon. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is cold or hot we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is comfortable we are outside in the garden where it is quieter. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard. For more information, please contact Dean Dillon.
Activities for This Week Sunday, Aug 28 and Tuesday, Aug 30 Add/drops for students who have registered and paid. Monday, Aug 29, Happy Hour. See above. Tuesday, Aug 30, SouthMall, Gone to Texas. A celebration to welcome new students to the campus. It is well worth the time to attend. The celebration includes:
For more information please visit the event Website. Wednesday, Aug 31, Fall classes begin ADDED Thursday, Friday, Tuesday, Sep 1, 2, 6, 9 AM -12 Noon and 1-4 PM. Alexander Archives Open House. Dr. Gracy writes: Colleagues: The Alexander Architectural Archives in Battle Hall on the west side of the main mall in front of the tower is having an open house. . . . Since I have students in 389F, Organization of Records Information, complete the course by processing (arranging and describing) a body of unprocessed material in an Austin archives, and since some of these processing projects are fulfilled in this archives, those in the class might take advantage of the opportunity of his open house to see the sort of material in this repository and determine whether this would be a place you would like to do your processing project. While you are there, go to the second floor to experience the reading room of Battle Hall, which was completed in 1912 as the first free-standing library building on campus. This room inspired the design of the next library, that in the tower, and the building inspired the architectural symmetry of the central campus. For more information please contact Dr. Gracy. Added. Thursday, Sep
1, 10-11 AM, ACE 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium),
Dr. John M. Carroll, Understanding and Supporting Awareness in Computer-Supported
Collaborative Work. A contemporary approach to describing and theorizing
about
joint human endeavor is to posit "knowledge in common" as a basis for
awareness and coordination. Recent analysis has identified weaknesses
in this approach even as it is typically employed in relatively simple
task contexts. Dr. Carroll suggests that in realistically complex
circumstances, people share activities and not merely concepts. He
describes a framework for understanding joint endeavor and illustrates
his analysis with a scenario from emergency management. Thursday, Sep 1, 5:30-7:30 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate Student Assembly Annual Barbecue. If you must miss one of the GSA social events this year, this is NOT the one you want to miss. Free food, live music with Bailengua, good conversation and lots of fun. Various campus services--student health, sports, parking and traffic, etc. will have representatives to answer your questions. The alumni center is on the corner of 21st and San Jacinto across just west across the street from the stadium. For more information, please contact Don Drumtra via email or phone 291-0315. Friday, Sep 2 , 5-7 PM, Dog & Duck, SLA Happy Hour. Relax at the end of your first week , and get ready for the Monday holiday by sipping a cool one with your Special Library Association colleagues. Everyone interested in Special Libraries is welcome. For more information please contact Heather Coleman or Amy Reese SLA Codirectors. Saturday-Monday, Sep 3-5, Zilker Park, Austin City Limits Music Festival. 3 Days, 8 Stages, 130 Bands. 3 day passes are sold out. Limited 1 day tickets are still available on-line (not cheap).
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Monday, Sep 5, Labor Day Holiday--no classes. Tuesday, Sep 6, 12 Noon, Input Due for the Graduate Studies Committee Meeting. The first Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) Meeting of the fall semester is scheduled for Tuesday, afternoon September 6. Dr. Harmon would like a list of items any of us would like him to report to the committee in their behalf. Examples would be petitions to approve programs of study, intentions to take the comprehensive exam in September or early October, or dissertation proposals or defenses. If you would send me an email with the topic by Noon on Tuesday, I would be happy to put together a list in our behalf. For further information, please contact Don Drumtra, via email or phone, 291-0315. Tuesday, Sep 6, 4-5 PM, SZB 468, Student Association Organization Meeting. Come and help shape the Student Association's program for the year.We have many items on our agenda which are listed below. Please join us and share your insights on the happenings this fall. Give us your feedback. What information and events would you like the ischool to be involved with this semester? For more information please contact Cara Johnston, Rob Yazzie, Maggie Gallup. or Carie McGinnis, Student Association Co-Directors. Agenda :1) Committee and Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) reps Interested in becoming more involved with the ischool? Join a committee or represent the ischool at the GSA! We will review which committees have openings and place members. 2) Graduate Work Study How do you get it? Is it worth it? 3) Banned Books Week What SASI is planning for that week. How ischool students can help. 4) SASI events Tuesday, Sep 6, 5-6 PM, UTC 1.118, GSA meeting. All graduate students are invited to attend Graduate Student Assembly meetings. Normally they are held in the Student Services Building on Dean Keaton (north campus). For this meeting only it will be held in UTC 1.118 just north of SZB. If you want to see how GSA operates you might want to attend. For more information please contact Don Drumtra, 2005-6 ischool Ph.D. rep. Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 AM - 4 PM, Gregory Gym Plaza, Party on the Plaza. It's time to PARTY on the Plaza! UT RecSports welcomes everyone to Gregory Gym Plaza to participate in Party on the Plaza! This welcome-back-to-campus event benefits the victims of hurricane Katrina and has something for everyone: Student Organization Fair, Video Arcade, BBQ Lunch, Silent Auction, Scholarship Shootout, Scholarship Serve Contest, Golf Putting Contest, and a Big Screen Movie: The Incredibles. Come and visit when you can; it is not far away. Gregory Gym Plaza is located diagonally north-east of the PC Library. For more information, please visit the event Website . Wednesday, Sep 7, 4:30-5:30 PM, SZB 468, UT ASIST Meeting. Help us plan our activities for 2005-2006. We need you input to succeed. Ideas we have talked about include:
For more information, please contact Kristin, Erika, or Valerie, Co chairs. Thursday , Sep 8, 5-7 PM, Campus Club, New Student Reception. Come and share refreshments and visit with the dean and the faculty in an informal setting. All new students should have received an invitation to the reception. Current Ph.D. students are invited to help the faculty welcome the new students. The Campus club is located at Guadalupe and 25th Street (see map). Please RSVP to Kathleen Adrian via email or phone, 471-2492 if you plan to attend. Friday, Sep 9, 6:30-10 PM, Dr. David Gracy's home, SAA Potluck. To start the semester off right all iSchool students, faculty and staff interested in archives, records management, preservation and/or conservation are invited to attend Dr. Gracy’s legendary potluck. This bi-annual event is more than just a social get-together, it’s an iSchool tradition! So, bring your family’s famous dish (or your latest culinary success) and join us at 2313 Tower Dr. for an evening of great food, wine, and conversation. You are guaranteed to meet new people and have a great time doing so! Friends and family are welcomed. After dinner SAA will welcome both new and returning students and report the latest chapter happenings. If you have a chance next week, swing by the SAA bulletin board on the fourth floor of SZB (by the iLab) and sign up! This allows others to know who is coming and what they are bringing. Hope to see y'all there! If you have any questions, please e-mail April Norris, President SAA-UT. Wednesday, Sep 14, 4-5 PM, Jessen Auditorium, President Faulkner, The University at 122. This is an annual program during which Faulkner will present the President’s Address on the State of the University. This will be president Faulkner's last such address. President Faulkner plans to present the prestigious Presidential Citation Awards for 2005 to Dr. William H. Cunningham, Frank W. Denius, and Dr. William S. Livingston. For more information please visit the UT news release on the awards. Jess en Auditorium is in Homer P. Rainey Hall. Friday, Sep 16, Last day for early registration for the 2005 annual ASIST meeting, Oct 28-Nov 2 (see below). ASIST member student registration is $130 prior to this and $160 after. If you plan to go it is cheaper to become a student member at $40 than pay the non-member student rate of $185. You may register online. Thursday, Sep 23, Room 1S15, Building C, National
Instruments, Don Shafer, Blogs
to Books. Computer science impacts more and more of everyone’s
daily life: from the code that activates your car air bags, the iPod
playing 10,000 songs hanging from your belt, to the SPAM in your mail
box. As professionals; scientists, engineers, academicians, programmers,
managers; we have more tools available to us for research, product
development and teaching than ever before. We can take graduate students
into the deep recesses of Bayesian theory and formal proofs. At the
stroke of a few keys we can bring the most advanced super computer
to a stop with our models of the upper atmosphere. But, we are ignoring
the critical areas of ethics and system correctness. We are looking
to build the next, great piece of technology but pushing aside imparting
the ethics of not “stealing” through copying intellectual
property or developing a new “Denial of Service” attack.
We are pushing slick technology but ignoring the work of pushing the
process of building working systems that get requirements correct and
don’t fail to understand the same units of measure. In many ways
we are ignoring the engineering and management of technology.
Professional societies – IEEE, ACM – seem to focus on academia, the
public sector and research while commercial and private sector users need more
attention. As professional technologists and technology managers, it is incumbent
on us to share our knowledge, experiences and best practices. Publishing is still
the best way to share that knowledge. This discussion will lead you through the
publishing opportunities available today – from blogs to books. There are
a wealth of paid and unpaid opportunities from your IEEE to your local business
journal to the blogosphere Friday-Sunday, Sep 23-25, Zilker Park, Austin City Limits Music Festival. As the festival is already well on its way to a sell out, single day tickets are limited in number, and 3 day tickets are also still available. Details on tickets are available at austincitylimits.com Tuesday, Sep 27, 11:30 AM - 1 PM, Goodwill Temporary Services,
Sandy Broady-Rudd, Marketing your Records Management
Program. What
does marketing have to do with Records Management? Tuesday, Oct 18, 11:30-1 PM, ARMA Meeting. Details will follow. Friday, Oct 28 - -Wednesday, Nov 2, Westin, Charlotte NC, Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together. , The 2005 annual ASIST meeting will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moderated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme. ASIST member student registration is $160 after Sep 16. If you plan to go it is best to become a student member at $55 than pay the non-member student rate of $215. You may register online. The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday-Friday, 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. Registration for students is $150, or if you register for both ASIST and ICKM you will save $20. Friday-Sunday, Oct 28-30, TX State Capital, Texas Book Festival: A Celebration of Words. The Texas Book Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Follow American history from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War with noted historians David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Wills; experience a series of Unfortunate Events with Lemony Snicket; aid Alexander McCall Smith in unraveling the next mystery at the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. The festival benefits Texas public libraries. Please visit the festival Website for details. Monday, Oct 31, Halloween and the first day of spring registration. Friday, Nov 3, 5:30-9:30, Red Oak Ballroom, ARMA's 25th Anniversary
Celebration. ARMA
Austin is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary Hawaiian
style! Thursday-Sunday, Nov 24-27, Thanksgiving break Friday, Dec 9, Last day of Fall Classes
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 Alina Chircu. 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, ersonal 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: Academic and Professional Writing, GRS 390W, normally offered in the fall semester. This course meets the Ph.D. program writing requirement. Advanced College Teaching Methods, GRS 390T, normally offered in the spring semester. This course, with your advisor's and teaching supervisor's permissions, can be used to meet the academic requirement for Supervised Teaching in Library and Information Science, LIS 398T. UT requires students to take department Supervised Teaching in order to become Assistant Instructors (AIs). Dissertation Courses and Other Information. In January or February of each year the Graduate School has a workshop on dissertations. The Graduate School Website also provide formats for dissertations, information on how to prepare digital dissertations, and various forms you will need for graduation. 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 September 4 |
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