http://www.aplici.org Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_948" align="alignright" width="500" caption="Laurie Calhoun, Tara Murray, Julia Cleaver, Mary Panke"][/caption]APLIC members attending the SLA conference in New Orleans got together for dinner, and then met up again at the International Reception. We looked good at dinner, but forgot to take a picture. We got caught in one of ... http://www.aplici.org/events/aplic-sla/ APLIC President Claire Twose was featured in an article about embedded librarians on Inside Higher Ed. Embedded librarianship is a hot topic (there were two sessions about it at the SLA conference last week). APLIC members got an early look at what Claire is doing at the Hopkins Population Center during ... http://www.aplici.org/libraries-and-librarians/inside-higher-ed-article-features-aplic-president-claire-twose/ Following is a report on Amy Tsui's presentation at the 2010 APLIC conference. Tsui, a professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, began her talk by saying that APLIC president Claire Twose has been "invaluable" to her research. Tsui continued talking ... http://www.aplici.org/aplic-conference/amy-tsui/ In addition to the APLIC conference (my favorite, of course) I also regularly attend the much larger SLA annual conference. Because SLA is so big, I thought it might be helpful to pick out a few programs that would be of particular interest to APLIC members. If you've spotted a ... http://www.aplici.org/events/sla-2010-picks-for-aplic-members/ Working with Tara Murray last week on the APLIC Policies and Procedures manual (transition to electronic format), it struck me that we do this kind of thing above and beyond our regular work for a reason. This excellent item picked up from IBM's Smartplanet site might explain why. Even if it ... http://www.aplici.org/uncategorized/aplic-as-an-open-source-community/ This is the first of a series of posts reporting on talks given at the APLIC Annual Meeting. Presenters : Allison Burns, Family Health International; Tara Murray, Population Research Institute, Penn State University; Kay Willson, Futures Group Put two information professionals in a room and you know that eventually they will begin ... http://www.aplici.org/aplic-conference/conf_build/ APLIC doesn’t do things as others do – let’s be clear about that. This was my first conference and, truth to tell, my heart was not beating especially fast knowing I would be spending five days in Dallas, Texas. Preconceived ideas, you see. So – conference hotel, the usual story: big spaces ... http://www.aplici.org/aplic-conference/not-a-conventional-banquet/ Draft minutes from the 2010 annual APLIC business meeting held during the conference in April are now available. If you were at the meeting and have any corrections, please send them to Tara Murray. http://www.aplici.org/aplic/minutes-from-2010-business-meeting-now-available/   Understanding How Twitter is Used to Widely Spread Scientific Messages (8 pages; PDF) by: Julie Letierce and Alexandre Passant and John Breslin and Stefan Decker From the Abstract: According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter was ranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web researchers to spread information. In order ... http://www.aplici.org/technology/understanding-how-twitter-is-used-to-spread-scientific-messages/ The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project recently conducted a qualitative assessment of health information needs in Uttar Pradesh, India. The assessment was designed to inform stakeholders on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the health information system in the state and to identify priority issues and suggest potential solutions. K4Health ... http://www.aplici.org/population-news-and-research/what-are-the-health-information-needs-of-key-audiences/