National Preview Talk : Extending Sense-Making Models with Ideas from Cognition and Learning Theories

Our fourth and final presentation on Monday was by Pengyi Zhang (with Dagobert Soergel, Judith L. Klavans, and Douglas W. Oar). Pengyi's talk explored sense-making models, based on an experiment with information school students who were given a task of gathering and synthesizing information to answer complex questions, mimicing the work done by information analysts.

Extending Sense-Making Models with Ideas from Cognition and Learning Theories

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National Preview talk : JASIS&T Open Access Policy and the ASIS&T Scholarly Communication Survey by Margeaux Johnson

Our third presentation Monday was by Margeaux Johnson (of U of Maryland's I-School). Margeaux presented data from surveys about open access awareness and publication rates among ASIS&T members, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) authors, and other authors of articles in open access publications. This survey was conducted just as JASIST became green road open access, and it is intended to provide a baseline to see how attitudes and publication habits change due to that change.

JASIS&T Open Access Policy and the ASIS&T Scholarly Communication Survey by Margeaux Johnson

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National Preview Talk : FRBR Applied to Scientific Data

Our second presentation on Monday night was a talk by Joseph A. Hourclé, who works at the Virtual Solar Observatory. His presentation looked at using the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) for organizing and synchronizing the observatory's data.

FRBR Applied to Scientific Data by Joseph A. Hourclé

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National Preview Talk : Graduate Information Programs and Accreditation: Landscape Survey and Analysis

Our first presentation on Monday night was ASIS&T president Nancy Roderer presenting research by Samantha Becker of the University of Washington. The research was an assessment of the various information professional training programs.

This underlines both ASIS&T's emphasis on the broad nature of the information professions-- far more than just librarians and information scientists--, and also ties in with the ongoing ASIS&T effort to coordinate the certification and accreditation of information professional educational programs.

Graduate Information Programs and Accreditation: Landscape Survey and Analysis

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