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ASIS&T Statement on IMLS Funding Posted on February 16, 2018 by Stephan Addo The US White House budget request for FY2019 proposes funding for the orderly closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (https://www.imls.gov/). IMLS is a US Federal Agency that is the primary source of funding for public museums and libraries…

FEBRUARY 2018 JASIST Now Available Online Posted on February 1, 2018 by Stephan Addo The February 2018 JASIST (Vol. 69, Iss. 2) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! With 12 research articles – topics ranging from information retrieval (IR) systems to the analysis of a weighted citation network – there’s something…

JANUARY 2018 JASIST Now Available Online! Posted on January 4, 2018 by Stephan Addo The first issue of JASIST for the new year (January 2018; Vol. 69, Iss. 1) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! With an editorial on “Documents and (as) Machines” from JASIST’s editor-in-chief, Javed Mostafa, an AIS Review…

DECEMBER 2017 JASIST Now Available Online! Posted on December 1, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (December 2017; Vol. 68, Iss. 12) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! With an AIS Review on research synthesis methods and 10 research articles, with topics ranging from data reuse behaviors to acknowledgments…

Best JASIST Paper of the Decades Posted on November 7, 2017 by Stephan Addo These papers were selected from a slate assembled by a bibliometric study commissioned by Wiley, and vetted by members of the JASIST Board, the SIGs, and the 80th Anniversary Advisory Group. Members were asked to vote on the slate and the…

NOVEMBER 2017 JASIST Now Available Online! Posted on November 7, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (November 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! It’s the special issue on biomedical information retrieval with 11 research articles ranging from What Makes an Effective Clinical Query and Querier? to Triaging Content Severity in…

2017 Chapter Event of the Year Award Posted on October 9, 2017 by ASIS&T Staff The 2017 Chapter Event of the Year Award goes to the Central Ohio Chapter’s (CO-ASIS&T) “2017 Summer of Tours.” The purpose of the award is to recognize the best event held by a Chapter during the previous year. Criteria used…

2017 Best Information Science Book Award Posted on October 9, 2017 by ASIS&T Staff The winner of the Best Information Science Book Award is Interactions with Search Systems by Ryen W. White, published by Cambridge University Press. The award is given to the author whose book is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution…

Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award Posted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo Natalie Ornat, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is awarded the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award for her paper Reading for Your Life: The Impact of Reading and Writing During the Siege of Sarajevo. The purpose of…

SIG Member of the Year Arjun Sabharwal portrait Posted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo Recognition for SIG Member of the Year goes to Arjun Sabharwal, SIG/VIS and SIG/AH member. The purpose of the award is to recognize the service of an individual to the program of a particular SIG. It is given for significant…