Enterprise Abstraction

National Science Advisor position to be phased out

CBC is reporting that upon the retirement of the current (as well as first and only) National Science Adviser, Arthur Carty, the position will not be re-filled and will be phased out.  Dr. Carty was formerly the President of the National Research Council.

ILS Expo - Koha

George Duimovich asked me to pass this on as it may be of interest to library professionals in and around Ottawa:

As part of an ILS expo, Industry Canada in collaboration with the Council of Federal Libraries Consortium
is presenting a seminar on Koha in Ottawa.  Anyone interested is invited to RSVP with Naomi Haberstock at Industry Canada (haberstock.naomi@ic.gc.ca):

Liblime (Koha open source system): Friday July 27, 2007 9 a.m. to 12:00 noon at
395 Wellington St, Ottawa, Room 156  (LAC Headquarters)
 

Drano Act

I love it when politicians and well meaning but probably misguided persons try to apply laws to clean up the Interwebs.  So confusing.  So many pipes.  I suggest a modification to C-427:

1. This Act may be cited as the Internet Drano(TM) Act.

What is with this need to control the Internet?

Stats Canada IT Conference 2007

John told me about a conference that Statistics Canada is hosting - the IT Conference 2007.  According to the call for papers and programme, it's very much about enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture this year.  I'm sorry I hadn't been aware of it earlier... oh well.

Looks like a good program.  You can register here.

NRC summer jobs

Students who would like to apply for summer jobs at the National Research Council (of which CISTI is a member) may apply online.

The deadline to apply is January 31 2007.

The NRC Summer Employment Program provides students with practical career-related   experience in research and development, library sciences, communications and   marketing.

The Summer Employment Program offers students a challenging and intellectually   stimulating environment, while providing them with access to superior equipment,   facilities and expertise. Summer positions are offered at NRC institutes and   corporate offices. Each term lasts for a period of approximately sixteen weeks   (four months). Salaries are based on the number of academic terms a student   has completed.

Information Management Day(s)

My friend Tammy points me to the Government of Canada IM Conference 2006, which is open to Government of Canada department, agency and crown corporation employees only.

Last year (2005) I was honoured to receive, as part of a fantastic team, the Information Management Community Recognition Award for our work on CISTI's Secure Desktop Delivery service at this event.

This years conference will take place over two days - October 2 and 3, 2006 in Ottawa.