1999 Annual Report Page updated: June 18, 2003
SIGUCCS About Us Awards Competitions Conferences Information of Interest Join SIGUCCS Membership Services Officers & Committees		July 1, 1998 - June 30, 1999    Submitted by John Bucher SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services) had another successful year in 1998-1999 and progress was made in a couple of important areas. Our two annual conferences remain healthy, our membership appears to have stabilized, and we are fortunate to end the year with a significant fund balance. After four years of the previous board membership, we held elections in the spring of 1999 and a new board was put into place on July 1, 1999. The new board members are: Jennifer Fajman, chair; Robert Paterson, vice chair; Linda Hutchison, secretary-treasurer; Linda L. Downing, Susan E. Hales, Alan Herbert, and Lawrence K. Pickett, Jr. Are members-at-large. John Bucher will serve as the immediate past-chair. Publications: We published Volume 28 of our newsletter in two mailings. Volume 28, Issues 1, 2, and 3 and Volume 28, Issue. 4 Our web pages have recently been updated and have taken on a new look. They now include information on our conferences, the Peer review Program, and a job posting service. Special Projects: Our Peer Review Process went through some redesign this past year and will soon be re-marketed. A description of the process is provided at: http://www.acm.org/siguccs/peer.htm In early 1999 we began a discussion of a SIGUCCS service award program, to compliment our current documentation awards program. An ad hoc committee met at ACM headquarters in January to create a proposal, which was approved by the SIGUCCS executive committee at their St. Louis meeting in March, 1999. Jack Esbin has agreed to chair this awards committee, with the hope that we can provide the first award in November at the 1999 User Services conference (see note about Penny Crane at the end of this report). Conferences: The twenty-sixth fall User Services Conference was held on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 25 - 28, 1998. The theme was "Branching Out." Approximately 325 people attended the conference, with tutorial registration at around 150. The spring Computer Services Management Symposium (CSMS) was held March 7 - 9, 1999 at its usual location in the St. Louis Marriott Paviliion Hotel. The theme was "Talking it Over;" the conference was constructed as a series of plenary sessions and parallel facilitated discussion groups. Approximately 100 people attended. Future conferences include the 1999 fall User Services to be held at the Denver Marriott City Center, November 7-10, 1999, and the CSMS at the St. Louis Marriott Pavilion in March, 2000. Financial and Membership Issues: (Note: see SIG Services section in the annual report for SIGUCCS financial and membership data.) We continue to maintain a very healthy fund balance, thanks in large part to the success of our two annual conferences. As of late May, 1999, our fund balance exceeded $200,000. Although our membership continues to decline, it's not doing so nearly so rapidly. We appear to be stabilized at around 400 total members. Competitions and Awards: As we have done for many years, we held our documentation competition and awards in conjunction with the fall user services conference. Diane Jung, was our ACM SIGUCCS Competitions Chair. The awards are listed below. The Computing Organization - Web: Judge: Jennifer Dickinson, University of Idaho 1st Place: ISD Web (http://www.usc.edu/isd) John Supra, Michael Rush, Kim Jaynes, Josh Galban University of Southern California 2nd place: Computing at Cornell (http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/) Nancy Flynn, Laurie Ray, Chris Manly, Stacy Jackson Pendell Cornell University 3rd place: Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://www.wisc.edu/doit/) Brian Rust, Diane Books, Kevin Graeme, Ray Spiess University of Wisconsin-Madison Category 1: Printed Judge: Kim Jaynes, University of Southern California -- no winners Category 2: Specific Computing Services/Web Judge: Robyn Fizz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) First Place: Penn Computing Supported Products Teresa Leo, John Mulhern III, Anthony Olejnik, Mark Aseltine University of Pennsylvania Second Place: UTS Computer Help Desk Online Documentation Betsy Kimak, Bob Stocker, Carol Taylor University of Denver Third Place: (Tie) UTS Computer Help Desk Main Page Betsy Kimak University of Denver & Adventures in Information Rick Lacy, Michael McHugh, Michelle Linders University of Southern California Category 2: Specific Computing Services/Printed Judge: Babette Schmidt, University of California - Davis First Place: Revealing Possibilities John Alexander, Jude Reagan, Janet Sakell University of Virginia Second Place: The I-Files Valerie Sidwell & Kathleen Morley University of British Columbia Third Place: Student Computing Guide Colleen McCabe, Brian Rust, Mary Evansen, Kevin Graeme University of Wisconsin - Madison Category 3: Computing Services Newsletter/Web Judge: Sandy German & Polley Ann McClure, University of Virginia First Place: Networker Diane Krieger, Kim Jaynes, Michael McHugh, Michael Rush, John Supra, John Zollinger University of Southern California Second Place: @wisconsin Diane P. Stojanovich Books, Colleen McCabe, Rick Mulhern, Joe Rossmeissl, Kevin Graeme, Julie Schroeder, Bill Olson University of Wisconsin-Madison Category 3: Computing Services Newsletter/Printed Judge: Kathy Sexton & Tim Legge, University of Notre Dame First Place: Networker Diane Krieger, John Zollinger, John Supra, Michael McHugh, Kim Jaynes University of Southern California Second Place: Campus Computing & Communications Valerie Stillwell, Cindy-Wynne Kolding, Shirley Rudolph University of British Columbia Category 4: Computing How-To-Guides/Web Judges: Carolyn Nelson & Lia Scott, University of California - Davis First Place: ResNet Josh Galban University of Southern California Second Place: Internet Tip Sheets Celeste Stewart University of Pennsylvania Third Place: TRAK: Training & Resources for Administrative Knowledge Anna Love University of Virginia Category 4: Computing How-To-Guides/Printed Judges: Laura White, Duke University & Debbie James, U.S. Naval Academy First Place: Get Connected with ResNet Charlotte Roberts, Rachel Clark, Jo Ann Wimer, & Judy Burns Cornell University Second Place: BrioQuery Basics Level 1 Manual Phyllis Galt, Bronwen Heuer Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Third Place: Mac Your Thesis Word 98 Johanna Colgrove, Nathan Emmons Reed College
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