Re-connecting and learning together
The School of Information Sciences’ annual Alumni & Friends Day has grown to become a fun and successful event for classmates to reunite and
network, while learning and sharing new knowledge and skills. Alumni & Friends Days is open to students, graduates, and friends of SIS, and
everyone is invited to participate.
The SIS Alumni Board hosts the event and often chooses this day to honor the Distinguished Alumni Award, which was inaugurated at the School’s 30th Anniversary Celebration in 2002. We hope that you will join us for the next Alumni & Friends Day. See details of this and past events below.
SIS Faculty and Alumni & Friends Day 2008
The School of Information Sciences Alumni Board invites you to join former classmates, favorite faculty members, and new graduate students at the SIS Alumni & Friends Day 2008.
The School of Information Sciences Alumni Board invites you to join former classmates, favorite faculty members, and new graduate students at the this year's Alumni & Friends Day.
On Saturday afternoon, March 8, we will hear discussions from SIS faculty members Dr. Bill Robinson and Dr. Suzie Allard. Our alumni speaker, Franciel Azpurua-Linares, will share a unique perspective of the non-traditional information landscape. Finally, SIS faculty will sponsor a poster session during the afternoon reception.
WHAT: Alumni & Friends Day 2008
WHEN: March 8, 1 pm – 3 pm | Reception & Faculty Poster Session: 3 – 4 pm
WHERE: McClung Museum Auditorium,
1327 Circle Park Dr., UT Campus
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to Linda Sherman, lsherman@utk.edu or (865) 974-7916, to attend.
PROGRAM:
• Dr. Ed Cortez: Welcome and State of the School Address
• Dr. Bill Robinson will speak on “Readability,”
• Dr. Suzie Allard will speak on Information Professionals 2.0
• Franciel Azpurua-Linares will speak on “Librarians, Information Engineers, and Knowledge Workers, Oh My”
• Alumni Board President Chrissie Anderson Peters will present the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award
• Reception & SIS Faculty Poster Session
Program Abstracts
- Dr. Bill Robinson talk on “Readability” will provide a brief look at Amazon book statistics on genre fiction categories and what they tell us about readability of popular fiction.
- Dr. Suzie Allard will speak on “Information Professional 2.0”: Information professionals are facing new challenges with expanding content, new e-environments, and a growing schism between users in terms of their level of e-ability. Allard’s work with high-tech professionals, document creators, earth scientists and students offers some insights into what might be part of the IP2.0 toolkit and how the fundamentals of librarianship continue to stay relevant in a 2.0 world.
- Franciel Azpurua-Linares (SIS ’98) will speak on “Librarians, Information Engineers, and Knowledge Workers, Oh My.” Her talk will provide a bird's eye view of how the information workers of the 21st Century have access to a variety of non-traditional work opportunities in the fluid landscape and nature of the information world.
2007 Alumni & Friends Day: "SIS Faculty Leading the Way"
The School of Information Sciences Alumni Board invites you to join former classmates, see your favorite faculty members, and meet new graduate students and new faculty at the SIS Alumni & Friends Day 2007.
This year's program is titled "SIS Faculty Leading the Way," and is
designed for you to get reacquainted with the SIS faculty. A poster session
during the afternoon reception will be an ideal way for guests to mingle
with their former professors and new faculty members.
WHEN: March 3, 2007, 1 pm – 3 pm | Reception: 3 – 4
WHERE: McClung Museum Auditorium, UT campus
Program
- Dr. Ed Cortez: Welcome and State of the School Address
- Dr. Carol Tenopir: How Electronic Journals Are Changing Scholarly
Reading Patterns - Dr. Jinx Watson and Dr. Kimberly Black: Contemporary Issues in
Children’s Literature: African-American Literature Roundtable, Best
International children’s books, and a “little bit of Sendak” - Alumni Volunteer Voices Panel
- Recognition of the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Award
- SIS Faculty Poster Session
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to Joel Southern at
(865) 974-6727 if you wish to attend.
2006 Alumni & Friends Day
Our featured speaker, and a wonderful storyteller, Peggy Sullivan, will
speak about Library Heroes: Past, Present & Future. Dr. Sullivan is the
only woman to have served in both ALA’s highest elective office and
its highest staff office.
WHEN: March 11, 2006, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: McClung Museum Auditorium, UT campus
Program
2:00 - 2:30: Registration & Networking
2:30 - 3:00: State of the School by Dr. Ed Cortez
3:00 - 3:15: Recognition of the 2006 Distinguished Alumni
3:15 - 4:30: Presentation by Peggy Sullivan
4:30 - 5:00: Optional tour of SIS
5:00 - Optional: Dining-out at local restaurants (sign up sheets will be
available)
Biography
If there is one woman whose name is synonymous with librarianship, it is Peggy Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan was President of the American Library Association from 1980 – 1981 and Executive Director from 1992 to 1994, among other positions at ALA. She has worked in public, school, and academic libraries in Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, and Illinois.
Sullivan has published extensively in professional and educational journals and has written several books, including two children’s books. She has taught in graduate library education programs and was Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University.
Thoughts on Heroes
“It’s funny how often heroes come up, one way or another, in conversation and correspondence,” Sullivan says. “In preparation for my talk at the University of Tennessee, I have been asking other librarians about their heroes and learning how varied they are. There are whole groups of heroes who have been significant in library history, others who are memorable for a single decision or action.
I have also begun to wonder: do we choose heroes who are what we would want
them to be, then try to emulate them, or do they become our heroes because
they have gone before us in paths similar to the ones we have chosen?”
2005 SIS Alumni & Friends Day
On May 21, 2005, the alumni board chose to use Alumni & Friends Day
to celebrate East Tennessee’s early history while remembering its library
and information sciences roots. Steve Cotham, reference manager of the
McClung Historical Collection at the East Tennessee History Center, gave
attendees a memorable behind-the-scenes tour of the brilliantly renovated
McClung Historical Collection for genealogical and historical research and
the Knox County Archives.
Afterwards, the group walked across the street where former UT Chancellor
Bill Snyder led a tour of the renovated Tennessee Theatre. Later, attendees
met with library “movers and shakers” for dinner.
2004 SIS Alumni & Friends Day
On June 12, 2004, the SIS Alumni Board presented a program on “Advocacy
for Libraries,” which included presentations and sessions on working with
government officials and policymakers to support the work of libraries.
Interim director Doug Raber addressed advocacy broadly, while keynote
speaker Judith Gibbons, a member of the ALA Advocacy Committee, discussed
strategies for effectively gaining and keeping the attention of policymakers
in local government.
