News and Events for 1999

December 1999 Graduation
Friday, December 10, 1999 -- 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd.
Please RSVP to Kevin Martin by December 2, 1999.
10th Anniversary: Dean's Forum on Information Ethics
" HIV/AIDS: Ethical Implications of a Modern Pandemic" - presented by Jeffrey Huber
(SIS Alumnus '91) Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Women's University
Wednesday, December 1, 1999
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium.
Reception to follow at the Frick Fine Art Cloister.
SEMINAR
" A little theory, some intuition, and a lot of experiments; Developing probabilistic models for information retrieval"
presented by Stephen Robertson-Microsoft Research, UK
Tuesday, November 23, 1999 Room 501 IS Building
Reception - 11:30 am
Seminar - 12:00 pm
BOV Reception
Students, Staff and Faculty are all invited to attend this reception with the SIS Board of Visitors.
Thursday, November 18, 1999
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Student Lounge - 2nd Floor of IS Building
Twelfth Annual Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture:
" Information Transformed" Presented by Brian Kahin
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Colloquium:
" A Place for Knowledge Management in Existing Course Structure?"-presented by Elizabeth Orna, partner with Orna/Stevens Associates and author of several articles on practical information policies, managing information for research, and information management in museums.
4:00 pm / Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Room 503 IS Building.
One-Day Archive Workshop:
" Probing Archival Appraisal Practice for a New Millennium"
Saturday, October 30, 1999
Colloquium:
" Tracking the Elusive Impact of Information"
Presented by Michel J. Menou -- International Consultant in Information Management Systems, Gentilly, France
Wednesday, October 27, 1999
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Room 409 IS Building
Fall Term 1999 New Student Orientation Schedule
Thursday, August 26, 1999 and Friday, August 25, 1999
The Working Meeting for Graduate Archival Educators will be hosted by SIS on on August 24, 1999.
Library "Building": A New Perspective. MLIS Students traveled to Haiti in April 1999 to set up a library.
1999 SIS Student Awards Announced.
Attention MLIS Students: You are invited to a Mixer on Tuesday, March 30, 1999 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm in Room 501!
Attention MLIS Students: You are invited to attend a "Mix & Mingle" with the COA (Committee on Accreditation) Review Panel Members on Monday, March 22, 1999 in Room 501 from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Food will be provided!