Activities of Student Chapters
Student Chapters should endeavor to hold regular meetings for transacting the business of the Chapter. The principal function of the Student Chapter is to schedule events and activities of interest to student members and students at large. Examples of such activities include:
- A website with links to appropriate resources for those interested in information science.
- A listserv or email or hard-copy newsletter, or a column in a student newsletter, or a column in a Chapter newsletter.
- Visits to local area libraries; information centers, corporations, and institutions, or guest speakers from these organizations.
- Guest speakers who are ASIS&T officers or representatives.
- Workshops addressing topics such as career planning, interviewing, and resume writing and posting resumes online.
- Workshops teaching students multimedia skills and website construction and management skills.
- Workshops teaching practical computer skills such as use of word processing, spreadsheets and data analysis software, file and database creation and management software, use of electronic services such as listservs, email, file transfer protocols.
- Sponsorship of Student Members to local or national ASIS&T meetings, or at least car-pooling and hospitality arrangements.
- Workshops, institutes, seminars etc. addressed to a general audience (at which registration fees might be a possible source of funds).
- Fund-raising activities (raffles, t-shirt sales, sale of a cookbook prepared by the student chapter and so on).
- Creation of a Student Member database and/or website with student resumes or links to student resumes to aid in bringing job hunters to the attention of employers.
- Displays related to information science topics, perhaps tied into a Student Chapter or a local Chapter program.
- Involvement in a local Chapter or Special Interest Group program (some Student Chapters host one Chapter program a year).
- Recruitment into ASIS&T of new students at the beginning of each semester (through brochures, announcements, etc.).
- Joint activities with Student Chapters of other organizations.
- Hosting or attending training sessions held by database or equipment or software vendors.
- Picnics or movie festivals (taken perhaps from the films shown at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting).