[Editors] MIT Editors' Club Minutes, Dec. 2012

[Elizabeth A Thomson]

MIT EDITORS' CLUB

*Meeting Notes from December 18, 2012*

Over 20 Editors made it to our last meeting of the year---a great turnout, probably in part because the meeting was smack dab in the middle of the campus AND because folks were interested in the topic at hand.

*Photos Photos Photos*

Emer Garland-Scott and Tom Pixton of Communication Production Services (CPS) were going to give us a 15-minute summary of  CPS' new photo library, but we spent the entire hour peppering them with questions and otherwise talking photos.

The 1,018 images in the new photo cover general views of MIT that could be of interest to any MIT communicators. Cool features: the library is searchable, and the images are…..FFFRRREEEEEE! Tom noted that as of this meeting (12/18), the library already had over 40 users.

I'm not going to go into any detail about how to access these photos (see links below), but suffice it to say that 1) you need a Flickr account for your department/lab/center, and 2) you need to connect with CPS.

Here is a link to the MITNews story about the new library; it includes additional links in the sidebar to CPS and to guidelines for using the library:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/cps-flickr-photo-library.html

IN ADDITION, our own Robyn Fizz of Information Services and Technology (IS&T) is doing a story on the library. She'll send us the url as soon as it's up.

I'm sure that some of you will still have questions. (We spent an hour, after all, discussing questions from the 20 Editors at this meeting, and there are 230+ folks in this club.) So---feel free to contact either Emer or Tom. Emer can be reached at: emer at mit.edu<mailto:emer at mit.edu> phone: (617) 258-9368; Tom is at tpixton at MIT.EDU<mailto:tpixton at MIT.EDU>, (617) 258-0648.

*Thank You!*

A big "Thank You" to Patsy Sampson of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for hosting this meeting. ALSO: a belated thanks to Denise Heintze of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences for hosting the NOVEMBER meeting.Denise also very kindly covered for me because I was recovering from a cold and unable to attend.

*Next Meetings*

Here are the MIT Editors' Club meetings for Spring 2013. All meetings are from 12-1, and you are welcome to bring a lunch.

Friday, January 18
E38-254 (CPS); folks from MIT Copytech will give us a presentation

Monday, February 11
NE18-95 (Office of Sponsored Programs)

Wednesday, March 27
46-3160Q (McGovern Institute for Brain Research)

Monday, April 22
66-360 (Chemical Engineering)

Thursday, May 16
1-236 (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Monday, June 10
NW17-218 (Plasma Science and Fusion Center)



I wish you all a wonderful, peaceful holiday season,

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Associate Director of Communications
MIT Resource Development
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