July 2010 Meeting Agenda
Agenda:
Topic Time Allotted: 5 Minutes
-President's Report
-Vice President's Report
-Treasurer's Report
-Communications Manager's Report
-Member-at-Large Report
-Marketing Report
-PhD Rep Report
-BSIR Rep Report
New Business Time Allotted: 55 Minutes
* BBQ/Potluck - Aug 20
* SOIS Booth at state fair, volunteers needed - Aug 7
* LAN/WAN Party (via SUSO) - Fall 2010
* Mentoring program update
* PantherTube
* UWM Professor rating system
* LAN School classroom management software, for more info see http://www.lanschool.com/
* Other events/issues - see below
SOIS Org Events and Issues for 2010-2011
Events:
· Thesis Workshop
o Round table discussion with students and faculty
o What you should do to prep for the thesis
o What is being looked for in a good thesis
· Job workshop/boot camp
o Resume help via SOIS and CDC
o Roundtable with professionals, what they are looking for in a candidate
o How to interview; DE Student’s Skype in at scheduled times
o Partner with SOIS AA Chapter
· Meet & Great (beginning of Fall/Spring)
o Free food and drink in Bolton 521
o Hold at the Rec Center (alternate to 521)
· SOIS Town Hall
o Do all questions this time around
o Encourage video questions
· SOIS Faculty/Staff Recognition
o survey students for outstanding instructors
o add to current SOIS recognition ceremony
· Online Meetup
o Survey feedback from DE Students suggested that they want some sort of online meetup to allow them to talk, meet one another in a ‘face-to-face’ format.
o There is a tiny chat room available http://tinychat.com/uwmsois
Issues to work on:
· More SOIS Computer Lab Hours
· Mentoring program for DE Students
o Prepping proposal for SOIS
· SOIS needs to have a better connection with the CDC
o Help students find work after/during school
o Constant resource and good for networking
o Partner with SOIS AA Chapter
· Research and present the possibility for a portfolio option
· Better advertise campus resources to ALL students
o Currently being addressed by SOIS Web Dev Team
· Summer/winter held comps
o Usually too few participants to hold comps session
· Reorganize the lounge
o See Attached Proposal
· ALL SOIS talks/speakers need to be streamed
o Currently Being Addressed by SOIS Web Dev & SOIS IR Teams
· GI Bill and DE Fees
o GI Bill will not pay for DE fees ß being looked into now by Dean Hope
· All SOIS Classes in uwm.edu/schedule should have a syllabi attached to the class
Student Lounge Reorganization
General Forum
~ Coffee Shop
Desc: Anything not related to Grad School, SOIS, Careers, Comps, Thesis, Libraries, the information profession aka Real Life
~ Grad School Survival
Desc: Help your fellow students figure out how to survive. Talk about classes and receive first hand ideas from other students about class offerings.
~ Book Club
Desc: Talk about your favorite books. Suggest a title and discuss. Create your own little forum for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Library lit, Non-Fiction.
~Meet Up!
Desc: State where you live - if you so choose - and perhaps learn of others that are in the SOIS program in your neck of the woods. Planning on going to a convention? Want to see if anyone else is going? Trying to arrange for a ride or a roommate? This is the place to post!
~ Classifieds
Desc: Buy, Sell, Swap Textbooks & Stuff
Career Planning
~ Job Postings
Desc: Know of any job openings? Share with your cohorts!
~ Resources
Desc: Share websites, career articles, and blogs about planning your career; or discuss career tips, writing resumes, interview tips. Don’t forget about the Career Development Center (CDC) [http://www4.uwm.edu/cdc/] they can help you fix your resume and go over interviewing strategies. There is also pantherJOBS [https://www4.uwm.edu/cdc/get_hired/panther_jobs.cfm], “UWM's primary resource for connecting UWM students and alumni with local and national employers”.
~ Internships
Desc: Paid experience - no credits
~ Fieldwork
Desc: Unpaid experience - earns credits
Student Organizations
~ MLIS Org – Input Area
Desc: Ideas for future events? Questions you have and no idea who to ask? Post your ideas here and the SOIS MLIS Org will look into it.
~ MLIS Org – For Distance Learners
Desc: Distance Education Representation: We're here to serve you. Please, use this forum to tell us how we can do that!
~ The Perfect Distance Ed Class
Desc: If you could, how would you design the perfect online class?
~ Society of American Archivists (SAA) – General Information
Desc: The SOIS Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
~ Society of American Archivists (SAA) – Meeting Minutes
Desc: The SOIS Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists Meeting Minutes
~ Society of American Archivists (SAA) – Professional Development
Desc: conferences, internships, etc.
Last Semester Planning
~ Comps
~ Thesis
~ Graduation Information
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
~ Academic Libraries
~ Archives Concentration or CAS
~ Information Law, Policy and Ethics Concentrations
~ Information Technology (IT) Concentration
~ Organization of Information Concentration
~ Public Libraries
~ School Media Specialists
~ Special Libraries
~ Young Adult