NEWSLETTER
May 2008
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Publishing
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May 2008 ACE Publishing SIG
Newsletter
For information, contact Kyle
McCaskill,
Chair, PubSIG.
In This Issue:
1. How to be helpful with very little effort: be a session monitor in Traverse City!
The ACE 08 program committee still needs session monitors at the Traverse City conference. Monitors announce the session and presenters, hand out and pick up evaluation forms, and help with time keeping. If you're attending a session anyway, it's easy enough to introduce the speaker, pass out and collect forms, and keep track of time. Please e-mail Gloria Holcomb at gloria@ksu.edu if you can help.
2. ACE editing workshop is full!
"Instruction for Those Who Make Others Look Good" is filled and has a waiting list. This would appear to mean that this workshop, which is being cosponsored by the Writing SIG, is meeting a real need for many ACE members. Many thanks to all of you who participated in the professional development discussions last year that led to the development of this workshop, and especially to my colleagues on the workshop planning committee: great job, PubSIG!
3. Don't miss the PubSIG business meeting in Traverse City (Wednesday 1:15 to 2:45).
This meeting can't be effective without you, the SIG members! A sneak preview of the agenda is below. Highlights include
Tentative Business Meeting Agenda
Welcome and introduction of new leaders: the passing of the scepter. (Wait—we don’t have a scepter! Or do we?)
Welcome to new members
Summary of officers’ report
Congratulations to our Award of Excellence winner
Awards — presentation of silver and bronze awards to those present
Sharing from award winners
We invite all winners (gold through silver) to take a few minutes to share
something with us about their projects.
Special thanks to editing workshop committee
Janet Byron/chair
Sandy Clarke
Joy Landis
Kyle McCaskill
Judy Winn
Helen White
Discussion of editing workshop
Did it work? Should we do this again?
Looking ahead, what should the PubSIG be doing this year?
On behalf of our SIG, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to our SIG's newest members:
Lauren Rouse
Graduate Student, Texas A&M University
Pamela Donner
Coordinator, Publications and Communications,
University of Missouri
Therese Harris
Publications Editor, Washington State
University
Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Project Manager/Editor, University of
Idaho
5. The changing of the PubSIG guard
Okay, so we didn't get to wear spiffy red uniforms and giant bearskin hats, but Kevin, Sandy, and I have had fun being PubSIG leaders. I couldn't have asked for two better coleaders! As Kevin will be assuming the role of chair at the our PubSIG business meeting in Traverse City, this newsletter is pretty much my last formal action as chair. I continue to be impressed by the energy and talent among our membership. Some great surveys were initiated on the listserv, and have been added to our Web site (http://www.aceweb.org/sigs/publishing/index.html):
Kevin got the Case Studies resource going. And we organized what promises to be a very successful editing workshop. Serving as a PubSIG leader for three years has been a privilege and a learning experience. Thank you!
Kyle, on behalf of your PubSIG leaders,
Kyle McCaskill, Chair
Kevin Leigh Smith, Vice Chair
Sandra Clarke, Vice Chair-Elect
Joy Neumann Landis, incoming Vice Chair-Elect
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