NEXT SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EVENT
T.B.D.PAST EVENTS
Presentation
“A Penny Earned: Making the Case for Public Library Investment Using the Results of Recent Research and Meta-analysis.”
In May 2012 Professor Jennifer Arns from the University of South Carolina gave a presentation at the Dublin City Public Library on Pearse Street. Her talk reported on a federally funded national research project that provides data showing an economic return of $5.00 to $6.00 for every $1.00 spent on public library funding.
Presentation & Reception
Gatekeepers, Organizers, and Catalogers; The changing nature of knowledge and what it means for library and information science professionals.
Professor Claire McInerney
17 April, 2012 at 6:00pm in SILS, Room 107
Reception for SILS Alumni, SILS Staff and Students, and Friends of SILS immediately following the presentation.
Prof. McInerney's research is focused on the study of strategis and effective integration of information and communications technology (ICT) in the workplace to facilitate knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and knowledge management. To this end, she also studies the social and cultural factors inherent in the use of ICTs as well as Gender and Technology. She is Director of the Knowledge Institute at Rutgers University, and Chair of the Library and Information Science department at Rutgers. Her talk will explore the rapid change in the way people are learning, the diminishing numbers of editorial gatekeepers in new forms of publishing and what it means for both the library profession and LIS education.
We hope you will join us on April 17th!
Presentation & Reception
Never Too Many Cooks: The Evolving Nature of Scientific Authorship
Blaise Cronin
13 December, 2011 at 5.00pm in SILS, Room 107
Reception for SILS Alumni, SILS Staff and Students, and Friends of SILS immediately following the presentation.
Talk abstract
Research and writing have been de-coupled; it is no longer necessary to craft a chapter, page, paragraph or even a sentence to earn one’s authorial spurs. In some fields, the author is no longer an individual but a corporation, ensemble or collective; the Romanticized notion of the isolated ego, the individual genius, has been rendered passé. In contemporary science ‘authorship’ has been re-framed as ‘contributorship,’ with specialized inputs of different kinds, ranging from conceptualization through experimental design and data analysis to drafting, potentially warranting a byline. For those who don’t achieve author status, there is always the acknowledgement, an often overlooked but potentially illuminating source of insight into the effectively invisible contributions of the numerous peers, trusted assessors, and professional colleagues who help keep the wheels of science spinning. In this talk Blaise will: (a) consider what it means be an author in an age of hyperauthorship and team-based science; (b) outline new forms of publishing (e.g., blogs, vanity presses); and (c) show how the journal article’s paratext reveals the importance and pervaisiveness of articulation work.
Blaise Cronin, Ph.D, DSSc., DLitt (h.c.) FCLIP, FCMI, FRSA
Blaise Cronin is the Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington, where he was dean for 19 years. He is concurrently an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University London and also Edinburgh Napier University. His research focuses on collaboration in science, scholarly communication, citation analysis, and the academic reward system. His books include The Citation Process (1984), The Scholar’s Courtesy (1995) and The Hand of Science (2005). He has also published on topics such as information warfare, strategic intelligence, and digital pornography. Professor Cronin is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and for 10 years was Editor of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. In 1997, he was awarded the degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., honoris causa) by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh for his scholarly contributions to information science. In 2006 he received the Award of Merit from the American Society for Informations Science and Technology, the Society's highest honour.
UCD SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - 2 MINUTE MADNESS EVENT: 28 SEPTEMBER, 2011 .
Following the success of the UCD SILS Alumni Association launch event, the 2 Minute Madness event took place on the 28th of September, 2011. This was an opportunity for SILS alumni and staff to present a recent or ongoing project in 2 minutes using 1 slide.
This event was held in the Seminar Room at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin from 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Presenters at the event included Anne Murphy, Robin Stewart, Aoife Lawton, Marie G. Cullen, Maria Souden, Jean Henefer, Senan Healy, Norman Su, John McManus, Diane H. Sonnenwald and Caroline Montgomery.
A video recording of this event has been made available to SILS Alumni members.
UCD SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LAUNCH EVENT: 25 May, 2011
In celebration of the official launch of the UCD SILS Alumni Association, an event was held at the National Library of Ireland on 25th May, 2011. The event was a great success and was strongly attended by both past and current alumni.
Guest speakers at the event included Deirdre-Ellis King and Tom Finholt.
About the Guest Speakers
Thomas A. Finholt is the external examiner at SILS, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
Deirdre Ellis-King held the post of Dublin City Librarian from 1985 until 2010. She served four terms as President of the Library Association of Ireland, 1992 & 1993 and 2007 & 2008 and also served on the Board of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council) for four consecutive terms from 1990 to 2010.
Below are some photos taken at the event featuring SILS staff along with past and present alumni. 
Claire Nolan (SILS) and Professor Diane Sonnenwald (Head of SILS) pictured with the raffle winners.
Carol Maddock (National Library of Ireland)
Tom Finholt (University of Michigan and External Examiner at SILS)
Deirdre Ellis King
