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InSITE: Updated Schedule on Web and other Important Details
Please print this email
and read it carefully.
NEW COPY OF SCHEDULE
We have put a new copy of the preliminary schedule on the
web. You can access it from the home page
http://Insite.nu or directly at
http://2009.informingscience.org/Schedule.htm This
copy has links to the PDF files of all the papers so you can access and read the
ones that interest you. (When you open some papers you may see a message about a
missing font. This is caused by some quirk in Adobe, but the papers display as
they should so you can ignore the message. We are in the process of fixing
this.)
We know that some of you are still waiting to hear about
funding and/or travel visas. We and fellow delegates prefer to have no empty
spots for the presentations, so please let us know if for any reason you will
not be able to attend. We will then be able to make minor adjustments to the
schedule.
THURSDAY, 11 JUNE - STUDY TOUR
There are still some spaces on the June 11 pre-conference
tour. If you wish to spend time with fellow delegates learning about the history
and people of Macon,
please sign up right away. The cost is $40 per person and information about it
is at
http://2009.informingscience.org/studymission.htm . To sign up, please visit
http://tiny.cc/LogBackIn and correct your profile. We need a final
count as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact us.
FRIDAY 12 JUNE - WORKSHOPS AND GARDEN TOUR
Macon State College is known for its lovely gardens and has
just re-landscaped part of their campus. We are offering a free 1-hour guided
tour of the gardens on Friday morning. Following that, we are presenting a
series of workshops that are open to all delegates at no
charge. While you do not need to register for this garden tour
or the workshops, it will help us if you can let us know by email if you are
planning to attend any of these so we can arrange for transportation between the
Ramada and Macon State College during the day.
9-10 Garden Tour of
Macon
State
Workshops
10-11 Information Policy and the Professor: Tim
Ellis and
Bill Hafner
11-12 Academic Uses of Second Life: Wm. H. 'Bill'
Burkett
noon-1 Lunch on your own, but we
will make it easy for you to order food to be delivered to the conference site.
1-2 Publishing with the Informing Science Institute
journals and books:
Linda Knight,
Alex Koohang, T.
Grandon Gill,
Yair Levy,
Bob Travica, Betty Boyd, Eli Cohen
2-3 What is Informing Science?:
T.
Grandon Gill, Zbigniew
Gackowski,
Alex Koohang, Bob Travica, and Eli
Cohen
3-4 Creating Research Manuscripts for Publication: Linda
Knight and Terry Steinbach
Bus from campus to Ramada
5:00-7:00 pm Informal Reception at Ramada Hotel
(Peach Room)
GROOME SHUTTLE FROM ATLANTA AIRPORT TO
MACON
Thank you to those who have told us you plan to use the
shuttle. If you have not done so, please let us know so
Groome can ensure that they will have enough vehicles at the appropriate
times.
Directions to Groome Pick-Up
Area at Atlanta
Airport
After claiming your baggage at Terminal North or Terminal
South baggage claim, follow the signs toward Ground Transportation / MARTA. Exit
the terminal through Door W1 or Door W2 and follow covered walkway to the left.
The walkway will lead you past the construction zone on your right and down a
slight decline. Groome Transportation
is located on the Green Row in the non-metro pick-up
area. Just look up for the green cubes.
Groome
will pull into one of the spaces numbered 15 and 16 about 15 minutes prior to
departure time and must pull out promptly as scheduled due to time limits placed
by the Atlanta Airport.
Click here
for a map of the airport.
Schedule at
http://www.groometransportation.com/schedule_macon_warnerrobins.php
Contact number for Groome (Toll
free from within the US):
800-537-7903
To receive a $5 discount, be sure to tell
Groome that you are with the InSITE conference. You
can pay by Visa, MasterCard, or American Express credit cards or by cash.
CONFERENCE VENUE
Most conference activities will be held in the new
Professional Sciences
Building on the
Macon campus of Macon State College. The presentation
rooms are equipped with computers and projectors and are connected to the
Internet. The presentation rooms all have the latest versions of Microsoft
Office programs.
A map of the campus is on the web at
http://www.maconstate.edu/maps/docs/newcampusmap.pdf We
suggest you print this and bring it with you. The best access to the
Professional
Sciences
Building
(section B4 of the map) is from the West Campus Parking Lot and through the
Jones building.
PARKING PERMITS
If you will be driving a car to the campus, you will need a
parking permit. We have put a copy of the permit on the web. If you need one,
let us know and we will send you the URL and password. Since you need to print
this and put it in the back of your car, print it before you leave! To drive to
the campus from the Ramada, go north on
Chambers Road and make a left turn onto the
Eisenhower Parkway
Highway 80. Continue west under the I-475 freeway, past
Romeiser Road, and turn
right at the Macon State College main entrance. Keep to your left and park in
the West Campus parking lot.
TAXI COMPANIES
Should you need to use a taxi, the following two companies
have been recommended to us:
Radio Cab (478) 781-0076 and Yellow Cab (478) 742-6464
POWER-POINT
PRESENTATION SUGGESTIONS
Paper presentations should be about 20 minutes to leave
time for questions and discussion. We have placed some tips for creating
PowerPoint presentations on the web at
http://tiny.cc/PPTtips
(or
http://2009.informingscience.org/docs/PPTTipsForPresenters4.ppt). A link to
this is also on the conference home page. Thank you to S. L. Shea and Namdar
Mogharreban for letting us modify and use their work.
HOW TO CONTACT US DURING THE CONFERENCE
Email is the best way to reach us (EliCohen@InformingScience.org).
Should you need to reach us by phone, you can do so between June 6 and 18
at this mobile phone number: +1 (707) 694-3567. Before or after those dates, use
our regular phone number in California
of +1 (707) 537-2211. Also, you can reach us by email or by Skype (ID
EliBCohen).
OTHER BITS OF INFORMATION
How formal should you dress?
We are often asked, What is the dress code? We
respond casual business. Suits are more formal than necessary; slacks or
skirts with shirts or blouses are fine. It may be cool inside, so bring a jacket
or sweater. Computer science people, put on a shirt
and long pants. Business people, take off your tie and jacket.
Weather
Although the buildings will be air conditioned, it probably
will be quite warm outside during the day so we suggest that you bring a hat and
sunscreen. Rain is not typical, but you never know.
Tipping
In the
US
it is customary to tip waiters, taxi drivers, and others who perform services.
For meal services, the tip should be 15-20% of the total
charge because the wait staff needs their tips to make ends
meet. For taxi drivers and baggage carriers, a dollar or two is usually
appropriate.
Sales Tax
Sales tax is added to most purchases within the
US. The tax varies from place to place. In
Macon, the current sales tax is about 7%. This means if
an item is priced $5, you will be charged
something like $5.35 since the sales tax is added when the purchase is made.
Electrical Power
The electrical service is 110 volts, so be sure any
electrical devices you bring can run on 110. You will also need a plug adaptor
for US electrical outlets.
All the best,
=eli
and Betty
Eli Cohen and Betty Boyd
Conference Organizers
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