Welcome to the Calendar page of the Ph.D. Students' Website. See notes below.

Announcements

HOORAY!
Lance Hayden passed his
qualifying exams on March 23.
Shake his hand when you see him.

New Webmaster needed. The iSchool communications tools--the Ph.D. Website, elist, and Blackboard site--need a new master. Traditionally, an iSchool Ph.D. student completing their first year has volunteered assume this responsibility until reaching candidacy. If you are interested in learning how these tools work and in supporting communications between your fellow colleagues, please contact the current Webmaster.

Annual Reviews. In case you missed Dr. Harmon's message, all Ph.D. Students except candidates should schedule their annual reviews between March 2 and April 27. Specific guidance was attached to the message.

No more additions. As of April 1, the current Webmaster will no longer be adding items to this Website. Corrections will be made to ensure accuracy until the end of the current semester.

Calendar
April 8 through April 15

Tuesday, April 10, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, SZB 468, Irina Shklovski, Program to be announced. This is an iForum presentation. Irina is from Carngie-Mellen University and a potential member of our faculty. For more information, please contact Dr. Galloway.

Wednesday - Friday, April 11-14, San Antonio, Convention Center, Strong Libraries, Strong Communities. TLA Annual Conference. Hundreds of programs, speakers and exhibits by vendors, meet prospective employers, find a job, and have a great San Antonio experience. Placement Service for May/August/December 2007 graduates. (Ron Pollock of Career Services is giving a workshop on March 21(see above) to prepare you for this Placement experience.) Special rate for IS student members. Dr. Immroth reminds us, "Includes the famous I School Reception on Thursday evening at Rosario's (remember we're the party school of UT, America's #1 party school) Don't miss this one!!!" For more information, about the conference, please visit the event Webpages or contact Angelica Delgado, UT ALA/TLA Coordinator. You may also volunteer to man the iSchool booth, April 12: 10:15 AM. - 5:00 PM, April 13: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, April 14: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. To volunteer, or more information about the eworkshop or booth, please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, by email or phone, 471-2623.

Wednesday, April 11, 7-9 PM, Hogg Auditorium, James Carville and Mary Matalin, All's Fair; Love, War, and Politics. Both speakers are prominent political consultants and renowned for extraordinary intelligence and uncanny political commentary, as you may recall from their involvement in the CNN talk show, Crossfire.  James Carville served as Chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign, while Mary Matalin served as director of Former President George Bush's 1992 re-election campaign.  They were married in 1993. Today, Carville and Matalin are not only a champion of their party's conviction but a leading voice in creating and advocating strategies and tactics.  It's rare for the unlikely couple to appear together for a lecture, and the SECL is proud to bring this dynamic duo to the University of Texas. You may pick up a free ticket from the Student Events Center office, UNB 4.300, on the 4th floor of the Union, beginning April 2nd at 9am. In order to insure a seat you must have your ticket.  Seating is limited, and will be given based on first arrival.  Its recommended attendees arrive half an hour in advance of the lecture. Tickets do not guarantee a seat. Parking is available at the San Antonio Parking Garage. Please join us. For more information, please

Friday, April 13, Abstract submissions due for the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 30 - June 1, at UT. Abstracts are of no more than 500 words. The contributions must be written in English and should be double spaced. The Program Committee will select relevant submissions. Selected speakers will receive an email by April 27 with guidelines for their presentation. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. extended abstract submissions will be accepted through a web- based form . See notes below on conference.

Friday, April 13, 7-9 PM, UNB 3.202 (Ballroom), Seth MacFarlane. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of television's hit Emmy Award-winning series' "Family Guy" and "American Dad," has earned a reputation for sparing little in his pursuit of no-holds-barred humor. "Family Guy" chronicles the antics of the dysfunctional Griffin family, the smartest of which is a talking dog. An anchor of FOX's Sunday night lineup, the show took an unprecedented road to success. MacFarlane also produces "American Dad" for FOX, based on another off-kilter family led by a CIA-agent father on perennial alert for terrorist activity. In addition to his role as creator and executive producer, MacFarlane is the voice of many of his animated characters. At the podium, he takes audiences inside some of the most innovative television programming for a behind-the-scenes peek at everything from the writers' many neuroses to the one "Family Guy" episode that FOX refused to air. Admission to the MacFarlane lecture is free. A pass is required for admission but does not guarantee admission to the event. UT students, faculty and staff may obtain passes from the Texas Union Student Events Center Ticket Office (Room 4.300) by presenting a UT ID. Pass distribution will begin on Tuesday morning, April 3rd, at 8:00 AM (pass distribution: weekdays 8AM-5PM). This event is not open to the general public. Co-sponsors of this event are The Texas Union Student Events Center's Distinguished Speakers and Music & Entertainment Committees. The Student Events Center is an organization that is funded primarily by the Texas Union Fee paid by all students. For more information please visit the Student Programs Website or call 475-6630.

Saturday, April 14, 10 AM - Noon, Clean, Green, Campus--Beauriful U Day plus Longhorn ReLeaf. Do you want to help make our campus a prettier place? Do you have two hours to spare? Sign up to volunteer on Saturday, April 14th, from 10AM - Noon. Volunteers can choose a litter cleanup project or a tree planting project. This kind of teamwork helps us keep our campus looking great. Continental breakfast provided. To sign up and for more information please visit the event Website or contact the Campus Environmental Center.

Saturday, April 14, Noon-9 PM, Zilker Park Hillside Theater, Texas Bengali Cultural Alliance, Bengali and South Asian New Year Festival. This year's celebration brings you traditional open air cultural program and band show, authentic traditional Bengali and South Asian Cuisine, ethnic dresses, jewelry, henna, free kids games, free sarees raffle drawing every hour, and much more. For more information please see the flyer, visit the TBCA Website, or contact TBCA via email or phone 412-9193.

Future Events
Mark Your Calendar

Sunday-Saturday, April 15-21, National Library Week. Take a librarian to lunch.

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

Monday, April 16, SZB 564, 5 PM, Deadline for applications for Summer and Fall teaching assistantships. Please visit the TA scholarship Website for more information on the process and application forms or contact Carla Criner via email or phone, 471-5654.

Friday, April 20, Time to be Announced, iSchool Student Association, The Amazing Race - iSchool Edition. Hey iSchoolers! Want to show your knowledge of UT, Austin and all things library? Want to compete for fabulous prizes? Want to ease some semester stress in a fun-filled and hilarious way? Join us for The Amazing Race - iSchool Edition brought to you by the Student Association. This year, iSchool week is ending with a bang. Teams of 2-4 people will race around campus competing in both mental and physical tasks to see who has what it takes to win the iSchool Amazing Race! Mark your calendars NOW - more details to follow. Questions? Want to register as a team or an individual? Want to volunteer to staff the event? Please contact Lea Susan Engle, SASI Co-Director

Saturday, April 21, 8 AM - 2 PM, Austin High Parking Lot, ARMA, Shred Day. With the increased awareness of identity theft, many people know they need to dispose of personal records in a way to insure that others can't find and misuse the information. ARMA and the City's Solid Waste Services Department are providing an opportunity to families and individuals to bring up to five file boxes of paper for FREE on-the-spot confidential shredding. Mobile shredding trucks will be provided by Austin Shred, Centex Shred, and Iron Mountain. The objective is to help with home records management, identity theft protection while publicizing the value of Records Management and Recycling. Sponsored by Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) and the City of Austin Solid Waste Services Department. Austin High is located at 1715 W. Cesar Chavez (old First Street). In lieu of a fee for the service, donations will be accepted for the Capital Area Food Bank. Volunteers are needed. To volunteer or for more information, please contact Jannette Goodall via phone, 974-9045.

Saturday, April 21, Hogg, Okkervil River, special strings and horns show. Okkervil River is one of Austin's leading bands. The event is also an MEC production and tickets will be at an absurdly low $10. Tickets are on sale now and are available at
the PAC box offices located at Hogg Auditorium, Bass Concert Hall, and online.

Monday, April 23, final submission due for Drexel, Connections 2007, May 18-20. See details below.

Tuesday, April 24, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, SZB to be announced, Nathan Freier, Program to be announced. This is an iForum presentation. Nathan is from University of Washington and a potential member of our faculty. For more information, please contact Dr. Galloway.

Friday, May 4, last day of spring classes.

Friday, May 4, 2-4 PM, SZB 1 (Al Kiva Auditorium), Capstone Poster Session. The poster session will begin with "Minute Madness" during which each student will have 90 seconds to condense his or her project and present it as a pitch to the audience. Following Minute Madness, students will take their places beside their posters as attendees circulate to view the posters. Students will answer questions about their posters/projects and provide explanations to attendees who stop to view their posters. The Dean's Award for Capstone Excellence will be accorded to the most outstanding project/poster. For more information please visit the Capstone Poster Website or contact Carla Criner via email or phone, 471-5654.

Friday, May 4, 2-4 PM, Tower Garden, UT Remembers. At the university's annual "UT Remembers" memorial program, students,
faculty and staff who died in the past year are remembered. Family and friends are invited to the public ceremony where Tower bells toll as each person's name is read. We ask your help in reviewing the list of students and current and retired faculty and staff who died in the last 12 months. The list on the link below can be sorted by name, classification or department. If you are aware of an omission, please contact LaToya Hill for students, Dorothy Harris for current or retired faculty members, or Robin Jarman for current or retired staff ,embers. Your prompt response will help us make sure each family receives an invitation to UT For more information, please contact Susan Clagett, Office of Relationship Management and University Events, via email or phone 471-7753.

Saturday - Tuesday, May 5-22, UT's Annual Trash to Treasure. Volunteer with Trash to Treasure and help reduce waste during move out! Trash to Treasure's goal is to reduce waste during move out by recycling students' unwanted stuff in a campus-wide garage sale. More than 150 volunteers will be needed from May 5-22 to collect and sort donations. Shifts are 9AM-Noon, Noon-3PM, and 3PM-6PM. All volunteers get a free Early Bird Pass to the Trash to Treasure Garage Sale on August 26th, so you can get the best deals. You also get access to a volunteer-only secret preview on August 25th, where you'll get to scope out the stuff before anyone else. This is a campus-wide recycling effort, and we need your help! To volunteer. To volunteer and for more information, please visit the event Website or contact Will Beard at williamhenrybeard@gmail.com via email or phone 260-5592.

Wednesday - Tuesday, May 9-15, exams.

Tuesday, May 15, ALA Annual Conference Advance registration deadline. For more information, please contact Angelica Delgado, UT ALA/TLA Coordinator.

Friday, May 18, deadline for $100 advance student member registration for the ALA Annual Conference, in Washington, D.C., June 21-27. See dates below for conference details and links. For more information, please contact Angelica Delgado, UT ALA/TLA Coordinator.

Friday-Sunday, May 18-20, Drexel iSchool, Philadelphia, Connections 2007. For over a decade the Connections conference has given doctoral students in information studies the opportunity to network, share ideas, present research, and receive feedback from an audience of fellow students. Doctoral students working in all areas of information studies are invited to submit proposals. In an effort to provide all doctoral students with an opportunity to present their work we encourage students to submit proposals to present research at various stages of completion. Important dates: Submission Deadline February 26th, 2007; Acceptance Notification March 19th, 2007; Final Submission Deadline April 23rd, 2007Proposals should outline research in the fields of:
• Library Science
• Information Science
• Information Systems
• Management Information Systems

Proposals should include a brief summary of the research, a title author’s name(s), contact information, and affiliation. See http://connections2007.ischool.drexel.edu for more detailed information. For more information please visit the event Website, or contact Christine Wania or George Abraham Conference Chairs.

Saturday, May 19, 9-10 AM, Bass Concert Hall, Graduate School Convocation. For more information please contact Andrea St. Lawrence, via email or phone, 232-3618.

Saturday, May 19, 2-3 PM, Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall, iSchool Convocation. For more information, please contact Carla Criner, via email or phone 471-3821.

Saturday, May 19, 3-4 PM, UNB 3.128 (Sinclair Suite), iSchool Reception. For more information, please contact Carla Criner, via email or phone 471-3821.

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

Monday-Saturday, May 20-25, College Station, Texas A&M Book History Workshop. Taking place in the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A&M University, this five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to the history of books and printing with an emphasis on hand press era printing and its allied technologies--typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and ink-making. The combination of labs with seminars will provide students with practical experience as well as a broad historical survey of the field. Students will have the opportunity to cast type in a hand mould, set lines of type, impose formes, make paper, produce relief and intaglio illustrations and print on a replica common press. The workshop is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, book collectors and private individuals who work in areas related to or who have an interest in book history. Past workshops have also included a series of evening lectures by scholars active in the field of book history. If you are interested in taking the workshop, please register soon as the workshop is filling up very quickly. To register, or see photographs from previous workshops, please visit the event Website. For more information, please visit the event Website or contact Christopher L. Morrow, Ph.D., Curator for Outreach,Cushing Memorial Library and Archives Texas A&M University, via email or phone, 979-845-1951.

Wednesday- Friday, May 30 - June 1, ACE 2.302 (AVAYA Auditorium), Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. The first Texas Conference on Digital Libraries will be held at the University of Texas at Austin. Registration is forthcoming. There will be no registration fee for TCDL; however, space is limited, so please register as soon as it is available in order to ensure your participation. Important Dates:

• March 15, Abstracts may be submitted
• April 13, Abstracts due
• April 27, Notification of acceptance
• May 18, 2007, Final presentation due
• May 30 - June 1, 2007, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Registration will be available March 1st. There is no registration fee for TCDL. However, space is limited, so please register as soon as possible in order to ensure your participation. Please visit the event Website for registration and the latest conference information.  If you have any questions, please contact Hillary Spiller, Administrative Associate for the Texas Digital Library at 512- 495- 4129.

Saturday- Wednesday, June 3-6, Denver, SLA Conference.

Thursday-Wednesday, June 21-27, ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The ALA Annual Conference is a great place to advance your career and connect with a wide variety of new colleagues from around the world. ALA is focused on making your conference experience rewarding. In addition to the hundreds of programs and networking opportunities at Annual, special events and programs for first-time conference attendees have been set up to help you 'do' conference right. First time attendees will be matched up with an ALA Ambassador to help you personally make connections to programs, people and places before conference. Get expert advice on programs to attend, exhibitors to visit, parties to frequent, and ways to get the most out of conference. ALA Divisions and Round Tables will be sponsoring 101 programs throughout the conference to help you navigate programs, meetings and exhibits based on the kind of work you want do, or the type of library where you plan to work. First-time attendees will also receive special invitations to receptions sponsored by exhibitors and library vendors .Special events this year include the World Premier of "The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society". Get involved in "The Insider's Guide to Capitol Hill", "Library Day on the Hill", and volunteer projects as part of "Librarians Build Communities". Hundreds of programs on nearly every topic in library services are offered.

Student members of ALA receive significantly discounted rates for the conference. ALA Student Members can register before March 2nd, 2007 for only $85.00! If you are not currently a member of ALA, Student Membership only costs $28.00 per year. Save nearly $100.00 by joining. Registration rates: Early Bird (until 3/2/07): $85; Advance (until 5/18): $110; Onsite: $120. Dorm housing will be available in D.C. Hostels and other less expensive housing options are available as well. Please visit these two sites for more information or to register: Conference website (membership and registration, hotel maps, travel info, etc.); Annual Conference Wiki (info from local people and long timers). For job seekers, the New Members Round Table (NMRT) offers free resume review services at the Placement Center. Pre-register for the Placement Center to review the list of libraries that are hiring, and come prepared to meet prospective employers. Connect with your future career today at ALA Annual Conference. Note that the Honor Dance for Dr. Roy at the National Museum of the American Indian is scheduled for 3:30-5:30 PM on Friday June 22 and Dr. Roy's inaugural banquet at the Grand Hyatt, DC, is scheduled for 7-10 PM on Thursday, June 26. For more information, please contact Angelica Delgado, UT ALA/TLA Coordinator.

Wednesday, August 29 - Sunday, September 2, Chicago, SAA Conference. For more information, please contact Dr. Gracy.

Notes

This Website was created by senior Ph.D. students for all Ph.D. students (and anyone else interested) by providing informal information to fill the gap between official information and word of mouth interchanges. It provided the informal information desired by many Ph.D. students when it was created. 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 Ph.D. might find interesting and 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 April 8