SIS Alumni & Friends Day 2008 is March 8 - RSVP Today

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.

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's 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’s talk 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.