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Calendar
January 21 through January 28

Thursday, January 25, 5-7 PM, El Arroyo, GSA Happy Hour. Join us at the first GSA happy hour of 2007. Free drinks while supplies last. El Arroyo is at 124 W. 5th st. For more information please contact Moira Priven, GSA Programs Director.

ADDED EVENT. Thursday, January 25, Noon - 1 PM4:30-6:00 PM, SZB 556, Dr. Scott Robertson, Brown Bag Lunch. Students are invited to bring their lunches (drinks provided) to meet Professor Robertson, faculty candidate from Drexel University. For more information, please contact Dr. Galloway.

ADDED EVENT. Thursday, January 25, 4:30-6:00 PM, SZB 468, Dr. Scott Robertson, Digital Democracy: A ballot interface for searching political Information. The Internet has become an important source of political information for voters. Voters use traditional search tools to get information, but this may limit what they can find and may not provide the best results for comparing candidates or studying issues. This talk reports on an empirical study of an information portal prototype that is based on a ballot. The talk will also describe an ongoing project to study political information gathering "up close" using HCI methods and to use participatory design to develop a political information portal. Professor Robertson is interested in HCI, KM, and CSCW in general, and works in these areas in aid of his research on digital democracy. For more information, please contact Dr. Galloway or Dr. Turnbull.

Friday, January 26, 6:30-9:00 PM, 2313 Tower Dr., SAA Potluck. Another new semester greets us, and it's time for Dr. Gracy's semi-annual UT-SAA pot luck dinner. Please bring your favorite dish to share and join us Friday evening, January 26 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.  The pot luck is a great opportunity to get to know your fellow students and professors in an informal setting.  It also gives you another opportunity to learn about SAA and join our chapter. There will be a sign-up sheet on the SAA bulletin board (4th floor SZB outside the lab) as soon as the University re-opens.  If you think you'll come, please write your name and the dish you plan to bring on the sheet (meat and soft drinks will be provided). As always, all students, faculty and staff interested in archives or Records Management are welcome. For more information, please contact Sarah Quigley, President UT-SAA.

ADDED EVENT. Sunday, January 28, 5-7 PM, Spider House, UT-ASIST Meeting. This is just a quick reminder to everyone planning on attending the UTASIST happy hour / afternoon tea that we are meeting t at 5pm, at the Spider House north of campus. I It ought to be a good time! But it will be a better time if you come. Hope to see you there! For more information please contact Dimitri Lundquist.

Future Events
Mark Your Calendar

Monday - Friday, January 29 - February 9. Dr. m. c. schreafal visit. Dean Dillon writes, "We have a guest visiting the school for two weeks starting next week: Prof. m. c. schreafel, whom many of you may remember from her colloquium here over a year back. I asked her to put a brief note together expressing her interests (see below) but the main thing is for you to have a chance to connect with her and hopefully engage in some fruitful exchanges. She is currently a faculty member with the IAM group in the ECS Dept at Univ. of Southampton, that same dept which is partnering with MIT on Web Science, and she was formerly a faculty member at Toronto. She will be housed for the visit in 445 and could be a great resource for classes, doc students, and various talks on her work. Please note - this is not a recruitment visit, she is visiting while on sabbatical and is keen to engage with many of you. Please make her feel welcome - I've done this myself in other places and its easy for a stranger to feel lost. She is a bright, engaging scholar and I am sure you will enjoy meeting her, but don't sit back and wait to engage." For more information, please contact Dean Dillon.

Wednesday January 31, 12th class day.

Wednesday January 31, 4:30-6 PM, Trudy's, SLA Happy hour. The first (and hopefully not last) Special Libraries Association Happy Hour will be at Trudy, on 30th St. All are invited, all are welcome! No membership rules apply. At the happy hour we will discuss possible tour locations for SLA. Additionally, keep in mind we are still in need of a co-director, soon to be two when I graduate at the end of the semester. For more information, please contact Heather Karbal.

Thursday, February 15, 3:30-4:30 PM, Townes Hall 2.111, Dr. Scott Pagel, "Literature of Witchcraft Trials." This is the 3rd Annual Rare Book Lecture at the School of Law. Scott Pagel is the Director of the Jacob Burns Law Library at George Washington University and a specialist in legal bibliography. Professor Pagel has been instrumental in the growth of the rare book collection at the Jacob Burns Law Library. For this talk, he will explore the literature of witchcraft trials using examples from his library's special collections. Professor Pagel was formerly director of the law library at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to his work on legal bibliography, he has written on law library management issues, labor law research and immigration law research. The lecture is free and open to the public. UT students and staff are welcome and encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Addy Sounder via email or phone, 471-7263.

Monday-Saturday, March 12-17, Spring Break. Hooray--let's party. (Or study ??)

Tuesday, March 20, 7:45 AM - 5:PM, JJ Pickle Conference Center, ARMA-Austin Spring Workshop, Back to the Basics: Implementing an Electronic Document System. This all day workshop begins with the morning session with Bruce Miller, fonder and president of RIMtech, Inc, with 20 years experience developing Records Management Software. Hi will be leading the discussion, e-Records Implementation. The workshop concludes with Bob Gutz, City of Austin, who is an expert in electronic records management. The Conference Center is located on the Pickle Research Campus at Burnet Rd. and Braker Ln. You may drive and park in the conference parking lot or take the UT PRB bus or the Austin bus no. 3 (be sure to get off at the Burnet stop before Braker--ask the bus driver to let you know when). Before March 5, Registration includes breakfast and lunch and is $150 for ARMA members, $175 for others, and a special $35 for students. Please see the announcement for more information on registration, the content of the workshop, and speaker biographies. For more information, you may also visit the ARMA-Austin Website, visit the event Website, or contact Scott Willrich. If you are at all interested in records management or archives, the spring and fall ARMA-Austin workshops are important events to attend both from their content and the contacts you will make.

Friday, March 30, 7-9 PM, SZB 556, Jamie Kamph. Mim Watson, Book Arts Lecture. Jamie is a AIC Professional Associate in private practice as a book conservator, and also an exhibiting book artist. Jamie Kamph came to bookbinding from a career as an editor/publisher in 1971 when she met and began studying with Hope G. Weil. Since 1973 she has worked as a designer bookbinder and book conservator at Stonehouse Bindery in Lambertville, NJ. She has lectured and taught at Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University, the New York Public Library, Anderson Ranch, the Princeton Public Library, and in the Princeton and Pennington, NJ school districts. Her design bindings are held in private and public collections including the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Princeton University Graphic Arts Department, the University of Texas, and Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Library. She has exhibited her work widely with the Guild and at Yale University Library, the Aspen Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Grolier. In 2003, she was awarded the Helen Ward DeGolyer Award for American Bookbinding, sponsored by Bridwell Library. Her writings on bookbinding have been published in magazines and she is the author of A Collectors Guide to Bookbinding. She has work in the recent Guild of Bookworkers 100 the Anniversary Exhibition: (for the whole exhibition) (for a photo of her work in the retrospective portion of the exhibition) (images of her work at the Bridwell library in Dallas). For more information, please contact Chela Metzger.

Monday, April 16, Summer and Fall registration begins. See UT course schedule time details for summer, fall, when they are posted.)

Friday, May 4, last day of spring classes.

Wednesday - Tuesday, May 9-15, exams.

Saturday, May 19, 9-11 AM, Bass Concert Hall, Graduate School Convocation.

Saturday, Man 19, 1-2 PM, TBD, iSchool Convocation.

Saturday, May 19, 2-3 PM, TBD, iSchool Reception.

Saturday, May 19, 7-10 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement.

Notes

This Website was created by senior Ph.D. students for all Ph.D. students (and anyone else interested) to fill the information gap between official information and more informal information desired by many Ph.D. students. This Homepage provides announcements (if any) and summaries of current and future activities that might specifically be of interest to Ph.D. students in the iSchool. The links on the left sidebar provide access to other information that you might find useful.

If you are a new Ph.D. student, we suggest you read the orientation page (link on the left sidebar) for things you need or might like to know. More senior Ph.D. students might also want to review this page occasionally to see how things have changed.

Items on this Webpage are normally updated weekly during the long semesters and monthly during the summer semester. Additions and changes to the current week or month 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, calendar entries, corrections, and other comments to any of the Webpages on this Website are always appreciated. Email me or grab me in the hall.

This Website is a work-in-progress, you may expect to see some omissions and items to be provided; however, all links should work. We would appreciate an email with any suggestions, comments, or corrections relating to content and any links that do not work as you might expect them to.

Content Manager: Don Drumtra . Updated, 2007 January 24