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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Website. This Website contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin. The home page "Announcements," "Activities for this Week," and "Future Events" are normally updated each Sunday. Additions and changes to the current week as well as special announcements are noted in red (or other appropriate color) . Significant future calendar events are posted as they are received and time permits. Suggested additions, corrections, and other comments are always appreciated. Email me or grab me in room SZB 463 or in the hall.
Announcements CONGRATULATIONS BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE WE HAVE A
NEW PH.D. BE SURE TO CONGRATULATE HER BEFORE SHE LEAVES
Activities for the End of May Monday, May 15, Noon-1:00 PM, SZB 556, SAA Meeting. We know the end of the semester is a busy time for everyone. We hope everything is going smoothly for you all as the Spring draws to a close. In the midst of all the stress and rush, don't forget that SAA is having a meeting. Please attend and bring your thoughts on fun activities for the summer. Sarah will also be giving an update on Archives Week planning. Hope to see you all there! For more information, please contact Sarah Quigley, UT SAA President.. Wednesday, May 17, Semester officially ends. Wednesday, May 17, 11:30-1 PM and 1-4:30 PM, Goodwill Temp Services Building Austin, Jenny Baker, Archival Preservation. This ARMA meeting will beheld in two sections--a luncheon followed by a workshop. If you are in the area at the break this is an excellent way to have a good meal and learn something about the practice of archives. You may attend the lunch presentation, follow-on workshop, or both. The lunch presentation will cover the relationship between managing records and managing archives. This will include the life cycle of records, definitions, identification of records on the retention schedule, things to consider at the point of creation, types of archives. The follow-on workshop is designed to teach records managers some basics of Archival principles and practices. It will include how archives fit into retention scheduling and the records management program. In addition there will be a hands on exercises designed to teach you about archival fasteners, pH content of paper, old newspapers, photo albums, and archival file folders. You are also welcome to bring your problems and examples of photographs, textiles, oversize documents, newspapers, old papers, family scrapbooks, and other things you think need special care. After all, not everything should be tossed into a 1 cubic foot records storage box! Jenny N. Barker, CRM has been involved in Records Management since 1972 when she was hired to manage a central file room for a mineral exploration and mine evaluation division of an international mining company. She became a CRM in 1979 and has served in numerous capacities for the Institute of Certified Records Managers. She has also been a member of three ARMA Chapters: Denver, Houston, and San Antonio. The Goodwill Temporary Services building is located at 1015 Norwood Park Blvd in NE Austin, just NE of I-35 and Anderson Lane. Getting there by bus is possible but difficult, driving is easy, so you should plan to drive. The luncheon is free (sponsored by the ARMA chapter). The workshop costs $25.00 per person payable at the door. You should RSVP for the workshop by May 12. For more information and to RSVP for the workshop, please contact Jannette Goodall via email or phone, 974-9045. Friday-Sunday, May 19-21, Syracuse, NY, Bringing
Together Emerging Information Studies Researchers: A Doctoral Conference
in Information Studies. Connections 2006, aka the 11th Annual Great
Lakes Information Science Conference, is a forum for doctoral students
in information studies to meet one another, exchange ideas, present
research and attend workshops and panels in a collegial and receptive
atmosphere. In keeping with a tradition of convening Connections
in a city near the Great Lakes, Connections 2006 will be hosted by
Syracuse University's School of Information Studies in Syracuse, New
York, from May 19-21. Our goal is to attract doctoral students
working in one of three broad areas: Saturday, May 20, 2-3 PM, HRH 2.104, iSchool Convocation come and share fellowship with your colleagues. Hear our speaker, Gary Hoover, entrepreneur and author, founder of Bookstop, The Reference Book Press and Hoover’s Handbook series. Chear your selves or your colleagues on as they head off for a bright and glorious future. HRH is located just west of the fountain on the South Mall. For more information. please contact, Melba Claymon, via email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 20, 3-4:30 PM, UNB 3.502, iSchool Graduation Reception. Share good food and drinks with your colleagues, families, and professors. UNB 3.502 is the San Rita Room in the Student Union. For more information. please contact, Melba Claymon, via email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 20, 7-10 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement. Commencement
is the culmination of the academic year and a time that
brings us together as a community. We celebrate students'
accomplishments and the roles of faculty and staff in helping new
graduates achieve their goals.
You are invited to the university-wide Commencement on Saturday
evening, May 20, an occasion rich in ceremonial elements and
tradition. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Antonio O. Garza, Jr., will be
the Commencement speaker. For more information including information on other
graduation activities
scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20, please visit the commencement
Website. Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Thursday, June 1, 7-8 PM, HRHRC, Ed Nowotka, An Ode to Typewriters, . Ed Nowotka, is a book critic and writer. He will host a panel discussionof writers who compose on typewriters. For more information please visit the HRHRC Programs Website . Tuesday- Friday, June 20-23, 8 AM - 5 PM, Austin Hotel and HRHRC, ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre Conference. The 47th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association will be held in Austin June 20-23, 2006, in Austin, Texas prior to the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year's theme: "Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?" invites participants from the library, museum, and archival fields to join together in investigating common concerns relating to their shared missions to acquire, preserve, and make accessible the world's cultural artifacts and historical documents. The local arrangements committee is looking for volunteers to staff the registration booth at the Intercontinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel, 701 Congress St., and at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 21st and Guadalupe. Volunteers are asked to work 2 hour shifts and will be responsible for handing over the conference bags and badges to already registered attendees and answering questions about Austin/UT/program/logistics. Registration for the conference is now at capacity (350).The hours would be:Tues. 8 - 5, hotel lobby Wed. 8 - 12, hotel lobby
If you are interested in volunteering please contact
one of the following people:
Margaret Tenney - mtenney@mail.utexas.edu (471-3927)
Brenda Gunn - bgunn@mail.utexas.edu (495-4385)
Volunteers are entitled to a free tote bag and
attendance at any afternoon Thursday, June 29, 7-8 PM, HRHRC, Dr. Barry Powell, Alphabetology. Dr. Powell is a Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He will focus on the nature and origin of the Greek alphabet. For more information please visit the HRHRC Programs Website . Thursday, July 27, 7-8 PM, HRHRC, Dr. Mark Van Stone, The Interaction of Pen, Paper, and Scribe: The Technical and Aesthetic Forces that Shape our Letterforms. For more information please visit the HRHRC Programs Website . Friday-Thursday, Nov 3-9, Hilton Austin, ASIST Conference. The 2006 ASIST conference "Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All" will be in Austin this year November 3-9 at the Hilton Austin. This is a unique opportunity you will not want to miss. ASIS&T 2006 challenges us to explore this moment in the history of information science as people seamlessly move between their physical and digital worlds to create information realities for themselves and others. Submissions by researchers and practitioners are solicited on a wide range of topics.
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 or "mini proposal" to be accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it should 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. Ron Houston and Don Drumtra have volunteered to post their comps as two different examples of what was required. Their exams were open book and emailed to them on Monday at 8 AM with a response was due by Friday at 5 PM. But since the exams are student and committee dependent, another student's may be completely different. Ron and Don have volunteered to answer any questions you might have about their experiences. 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:
Course Comments of Ph.D. Students
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 . Updated, 2006 May 22 |
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