The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), a special operating agency of Industry Canada (IC) invites students enrolled in a Master’s degree program in the field of library and information science (i.e. MLS, MLIS) to apply for the position of Information Specialist with its Resource Centre.
SIM alumna, Ingrid Langhammer (class of 1976), is this year’s recipient of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services Award for Special Librarianship in Canada. Please see the press release below for further details and join us in extending our congratulations to Ingrid!
(Reposted from http://socialmedialab.ca/?p=1711) When it comes to tweeting about the upcoming election, Canadians are showing their famous sense of humour. Based on a sample of over 14,000 messages posted on twitter with the hashtag #CNDPOLI (collected between March 26 – April 3), we found that of the tweets that did express sentiment (6,860~49% ), about 65% expressed positive sentiment, and approximately 35% expressed negative sentiment.[1] This finding is contrary to what one would expect from a polarizing topic such as politics. It is also very different from previous analysis of election related tweets. For example during the 2008 Presidential election in the US, researchers from Rutgers University and Yahoo found that the majority of tweets posted during the live presidential TV debate were negative.[2] To find out why our dataset contained more positive tweets than negative, we decided to examine the actual content of the tweets in our dataset, using Netlytic, a web-based text mining and social networks discovery software package that we are developing at the http://socialmedialab.ca/and IBM’s ManyEyes to visualize our findings.
I don’t remember a lot of first year Orientation week, but I do remember DJIM. I was really surprised and impressed that SIM had a real live peer reviewed journal run by students, and I wanted to work on it from the very first day.
Did you miss Dr. Bernie Hogan’s public lecture last week? The Social Media Lab has posted the audio file on their website, and have synched the slides to correspond with Dr. Hogan’s lecture. You’ll find the Slidecast on Socialmedialab.ca.