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Bibliomining across North America 
Dr. Scott Nicholson, an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University will be traveling across the country to library schools giving a half-day workshop on bibliomining, or data mining for libraries.  The workshops will be open to library students, faculty, and local librarians.  Once complete, he will be turning this workshop into a free online workshop. 

Scott coined the term bibliomining in 2002, and is the creator of the Bibliomining Information Center and works with Syracuse students to maintain AskScott, a guide to Web search tools. He was selected as the Professor of the Year by the students of the School of Information Studies in 2004. He has worked as a reference librarian and as a statistician for Citigroup, and combines both in his bibliomining work. His research areas are library measurement and evaluation, digital reference, Web search tools, and distance education. 

These non-technical workshops are ideal for those familiar with libraries who would like to learn more about the data in library systems, data warehousing, data mining, and library evaluation. The objective of the three-hour workshop is for attendees to gain an appreciation of the bibliomining process and learn about resources that will provide the next steps in the learning process. 

Scott's 2005 tour tentatively includes stops at:
·     Drexel at Philadelphia
·     Indiana University at Bloomington 
·     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
·     University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
·     University of Washington at Seattle 
·     University of British Columbia 
·     Syracuse University 
·     Rutgers in New Jersey 
·     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

To learn more about the workshop, visit http://bibliomining.com. You can learn more about Scott and follow his travels at scottnicholson.com and read many of his works at http://bibliomining.com/nicholson.

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WISE welcomes new members at ALISE

Founding members of the Web-based Information Science Education consortium (WISE), the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, announce that five institutions of higher education have joined to create a cost-effective, collaborative distance education program that will increase quality, access and diversity of online educational opportunities. The initiative is part of a two-year, $713,492 grant received by SU and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

The new members to the consortium were introduced at the WISE membership meeting at the ALISE conference held in Boston in January and include:

·     Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies (Gustav Friedrich, Dean). 
·     Simmons College, Graduate School of Library & Information Science (Michele Valerie Cloonan, Dean). 
·     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information & Library Science (Jose-Marie Griffiths, Dean). 
·     University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences (Ronald L. Larsen, Dean) 
·     Indiana University - Indianapolis, School of Library and Information Science (Daniel Callison, Executive Associate Dean)

The WISE program is a joint effort between SU and the University of Illinois at Urbana*Champaign, focused on developing faculty training for online pedagogy; standards and metrics for high-quality online library and information science (LIS) education; and a collaborative marketplace for online LIS courses.

For more information, visit the WISE Web site at www.wiseeducation.org.
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An IST profile:  Ruth Small
Ruth V. Small, professor and director of the IST's nationally-ranked school media program, received her doctorate in instructional design, development and evaluation and has been on the faculty of IST since 1989. Ruth established the Preparing Librarians for Urban Schools (PLUS) program, a distance learning program for library service in high need urban schools. She is the first director of the Center for Digital Literacy (CDL), an interdisciplinary, collaborative research and development center which explores the need for and acquisition of traditional, information, technology, and multimedia literacies and to develop tools to foster these literacies in a variety of contexts. CDL is a partnership between the School of Information Studies, School of Education, and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Ruth created and directed IST's Summer Institute on Leadership & Change from 1991-1996 and, in 1993, its MLS distance learning program, the first Web-based, limited residency program in library science in the U.S.

Before coming to IST, "Dr. Ruth" (as her students affectionately call her) worked as a college administrator, high school principal, librarian, teacher, and instructional design and evaluation consultant. Ruth is President of SMALL Packages, a small business specializing in instructional design and evaluation. 

Ruth's research focuses on the motivational aspects of information design and use. She has published widely in this area, including several books with co-author Marilyn Arnone, on Web evaluation for elementary and secondary educators such as "Motivation Mining: Teaching Evaluation Skills to Find Web Treasures" (1999, Linworth Publishing). Other books include "Turning Kids On to Research" (Libraries Unlimited, 2000) and "Make a PACT for Success: Designing Effective Information Presentations" (Scarecrow Press, 2002). Her newest books include, "Learning-in-Community: Reflections on Practice" (Kluwer, 2003) "Having an IM-PACT on Learning" (Neal-Schumann, 2003) "Designing Information Literacy Programs with IM-PACT:  Information Motivation, Purpose, Audience, Content, and Tehcnique" (Neal-Schumann, 2005). Her research covers a wide variety of contexts including multimedia software, the World Wide Web, information systems, telecommuting, and information literacy instruction. Her work in the latter area earned her the 2001 Carroll Preston Baber Research Award from the ALA and the 1997 Highsmith Research Award from AASL. Ruth has published more than 100 articles and papers, and has served on the Editorial Boards of School Library Media Research, School Libraries Worldwide and the Journal of Global Information Management. 
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Brodsky endowment to support library conservation education at Syracuse University

Syracuse University has received a generous gift from William J. ('65, G'68) and Joan ('67, G'68) Brodsky, which has made possible the new Brodsky Endowment for the Advancement of Library Conservation. Beginning in spring 2005, the endowment will be used to promote and advance the knowledge of library conservation theory, practice and application. Programs designed for on-campus and regional participants will include lectures and workshops by prominent library conservators.

Joan also serves on the board of visitors for the School of Information Studies, from which she earned a master's degree in library science.


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LIS Returns to Cleveland! 

The School of Information Studies and Case Western Reserve University announce a collaboration that returns a top-ranked master's of science in library and information science to Cleveland, along with certificate programs in management.  

The nationally ranked #3, by US News & World Report, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University will offer the American Library Association (ALA) accredited Master of Science in Library and Information Science (LIS) program in a distance format for this unique collaboration.    

The program will begin with a seven-day residency in July 2005, with the remaining courses taken online from IST.  The program offered is the same LIS program provided on the main campus of Syracuse and encompasses its highly acclaimed curriculum, academic calendar and full time faculty by using an online mode of delivery.  

Ranked best in the world in Organizational Behavior and among the top 50 colleges and universities in the world by the Financial Times, Case Weatherhead School of Management offers Certificate Programs that provide in-depth knowledge in specific functional areas or breadth across a number of different topics to meet specific leadership needs.   

The SU students in the new collaboration will have the opportunity to take advantage of Weatherhead certificates, including Fundamentals of Management, Advancing Manager, Developing Leadership through Emotional Intelligence and the Appreciative Inquiry Certificate in Positive Business and Society Change, at a significantly reduced cost. 

For more information regarding this opportunity, please contact Kathryn Allen, [log in to unmask] or 315.443.4251.
  
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For more information. . .

Amy Sloane-Garris
Director of Communications & Graduate Marketing
Syracuse University--School of Information Studies
Tel:  315.443.6885
Fax:  315.443.6886
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www.ist.syr.edu 
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February, 2005

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