Publishing SIG NEWSLETTER January 2007

January 2007 ACE Publishing SIG Newsletter
For information, contact Helen White, Chair, PubSIG.

In This Issue:

1. Ideas Needed for Professional Development Plan
2. Award of Excellence Nominations
3. Opportunity to Serve as a PubSIG Officer
4. New members

1. Ideas Needed for Professional Development Plan

What is the single-most problematic aspect in your work? What kind of professional development training do you need to expand your skills or pursue new areas of interest? Before Christmas, the ACE Professional Development Committee asked each SIG to “identify one professional development opportunity that your SIG can plan, deliver, and evaluate in the coming three years. The event could be as simple as a one-hour presentation/discussion delivered via distance education technologies, or as grand as a two-day workshop in a location of your choosing.”

Our professional development plan is due to the committee on February 23. We need to let them know the type and topic of the event, approximate delivery dates, and the delivery method.

Let’s generate some ideas and talk about them via a conference call on Friday, February 16 at 11:30 Eastern (10:30 Central, 9:30 Mountain, and 8:30 Pacific) for an hour. PubSIG members at Texas A&M in College Station will call 182 (wait for beep/tone) 99995 (wait for beep/tone) then 187, and all other members call 979-847-9187. However, you don’t have to wait until the call to get ideas rolling. Feel free to e-mail or call any of the PubSIG officers with any ideas you have.

2. Award of Excellence Nominations

Award of Excellence nominations are due to Kevin Smith, PubSIG vice chair-elect, on February 16. E-mail your nomination to Kevin at kevlsmith@purdue.edu. For nomination forms, a list of past winners, and a description of the awards, visit http://www.aceweb.org/award/excellence.html).

• A nominee should be a current or past member of the Publishing SIG, an ACE member for the current year, and an ACE member for at least five years (not necessarily consecutive).
• Any ACE member -- active or retired -- may be nominated by any ACE member.
• The current chair, vice chair, and vice chair-elect of the Publishing SIG are not eligible for this award, nor are the current ACE president, president-elect, or vice president.

Note: February 16 is also the deadline for nominations for Pioneer, Professional, Service, and Reuben Brigham awards. Check the ACE Web site, www.aceweb.org, for descriptions and nomination forms.

3. Opportunity to Serve as a PubSIG Officer

We need someone to become the PubSIG vice chair-elect, effective this summer. Would you be interested in serving or know someone you'd like to nominate? Please e-mail nominations to Helen White at h-white@tamu.edu by March 1.

Once you've served as vice chair-elect, you'll move up to vice chair the following year and then to Publishing SIG chair the third year.

The three officers meet by phone conference every month or so, help plan the publishing offerings at the ACE conference, attend to changes in the Critique & Awards program, handle the Publishing Award of Excellence, and keep the Web page updated. We divide these chores so that no one has a time-consuming burden.

If you have any questions, contact Helen White, current chair, at h-white@tamu.edu or 979-862-3309; Kyle McCaskill, current vice chair, at kmccaskill@umext.maine.edu or 207-581-3185; or Kevin Smith, current vice-chair elect, at kevlsmith@purdue.edu or 765-494-9558.

4. New Members

A big “howdy!” and welcome to our new PubSIG members:

• Carol Church, Coordinator of Educational and Media Services, University of Florida
• William A. Warren, Publications Editor, Washington State University
• Dora Rollins, Publications Editor, Washington State University
• Brian Charles Clark, PR/Communications Coordinator, Washington State University

-- Helen White, Kyle McCaskill, and Kevin Smith

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Last updated 02/08/2007.