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SIG Cabinet positions are available! Nominate yourself or a friend! Posted on July 6, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Calling all ASIS&T members! Are you active within our Special Interest Groups (SIGs)? Have you chaired a SIG, or have you recently been involved in the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee? If so, why not consider running for an available…

Students! Apply for the SIG ED Travel Award! Posted on July 2, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington It’s still awards nomination season here at ASIS&T! Here is an opportunity for all of you students out to win an award that will help pay for you to #meetasistinstlouis, courtesy of the Education for Information Science Special…

Invitation to fill out our Information Professionals Survey! Posted on June 23, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington ASIS&T’s Information Professionals Task Force has been hard at work for the last several months. According to the task force’s web page, its charge is as follows: … to create a web presence that highlights the diversity and value…

Get to Know SIG USE: Information Seeking, Needs, and Use Posted on June 22, 2015 by Adam Worrall ASIS&T SIG USE logo (courtesy SIG USE) The next interview in our “Get to Know A SIG / Get to Know a Chapter” series is with SIG USE: Information Seeking, Needs, and Use. SIG USE’s interests are “people’s behavioral and cognitive…

It’s ASIS&T Award Nomination Season! Could you be a winner? Posted on June 8, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Yes, it’s that time of year again… time to start nominating you and everyone you know for ASIS&T’s awards! We outlined the New Leaders Award in a previous post that talked about how awesome the award is for new members…

Be a New Leader! Apply by June 1! Posted on May 21, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Do you have an amazing accomplishment in information science or in ASIS&T service that deserves to be celebrated? We’re sure you do! ASIS&T offers many wonderful awards each year. Through the awards, members have a chance to be recognized for all of…

ICYMI – IA Summit 2015 Recap Posted on April 29, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington IA Summit 2015, or #ias15, is a wrap. I attended it for the first time this year. I’m still exhausted from it; I did and learned so much! Some of it I expected, and some of it completely surprised me. In…

Making Research Data Services Work for Everyone Posted on April 25, 2015 by Kate Dillon Day two of the 2015 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit focused on methods for assessing research data services. As with any research, validation is key in establishing credibility of data research services in accurately and objectively representing research…

The Secrets to Successful Research Data Services The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2015 started Wednesday, April 22nd with a room packed full of data and research services librarians, specialists, and managers, data curators, archivists, and professors, just to name a few. RDAP is unique conference in that it’s smaller (about 100 attendees)…

The new asist.org has launched! Posted on April 14, 2015 by Sandy Hirsh Immediate Past President Harry Bruce led the initiative to overhaul ASIS&T’s website during his presidency. As a result, ASIS&T’s Web Presence Task Force, ASIS&T staff members, and consulting firm Seven Heads Design have been hard at work over the past year to…