Inside ASIS&T, January 2024

A new year may offer hope and inspiration, an opportunity to start afresh. We may revisit our goals and perhaps set new goals.  Some of these goals will encounter various fates over time – accomplished, reconsidered, or forgotten.  Others may accompany us throughout the year, helping us to chart our progress in a given endeavour.   …

Greetings friends and colleagues! I always struggle in January to find exciting things to write about in my column. The winter months are when we at ASIS&T regroup from one Annual Meeting and get ramped up for all of the things that go into the next Annual Meeting. We clean up the database and get…

87th Annual Meeting of theAssociation for Information Science and Technology 25-29 October, 2024 Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity and Care in Information Research and Practice Annual Meeting Website Plans for the 87th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Calgary, AB, Canada, October 25-29, 2024, at the Calgary Hyatt Hotel are well underway! We are excited by our…

Register Today Access to trustworthy and reliable information is essential in a civil society. In a world with many different and powerful stakeholders shaping the information landscape, the ease with which anyone can produce, use, and circulate data leads to the unresolved question of how authoritative information could possibly be distinguished from information sludge. This…

Sponsored by: ASIS&T is proud to announce a new award for 2024 focusing on the tremendous impact of Information Science. We are grateful to Rutgers University School of Communication and Information for agreeing to fund the award for five years, and to Stephann Makri, Heather O’Brien, and Ian Ruthven for conceiving of and proposing the…

By now you know that membership in ASIS&T has many benefits, including education and networking opportunities, awards and scholarship programs, discounts for training, and access to our private community site. However, did you know that ASIS&T has three levels of Institutional Memberships with benefits valuable to institutions of all sizes? All ASIS&T Institutional Memberships enjoy…

by Timothy J. Dickey, US Midwest Chapter The ASIS&T U.S. Midwest Chapter was delighted to welcome ASIS&T President Crystal Fulton and Executive Director Lydia Middleton to a virtual Chapter meeting on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. Crystal and Lydia shared their thoughts and vision for ASIS&T, its members, and its components, in a wide-ranging and spirited…

Charting Success: An Exciting Voyage with ASIS&T by Md. Anwarul Islam I thought I should take some time to reflect on my journey since my Ph.D. days in Japan. I am now a Professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. If I have learned and achieved much during this time, I think a huge part…

Members of ASIS&T have full access to the Journal of Information Science and Technology (JASIST). If you are not sure how to access your member benefit, contact Pamela Yonker at pyonker@asist.org. To view issues of JASIST, log in to the Info Hub at www.asist.org and click Resources from the left-side navigation. Then click “Journal Access.” JASIST Volume 75, Issue…

Check out the newest articles from Information Matters (IM), ASIS&T’s digital-only communication translational forum for information science, bringing relevant and current research evidence and industry developments, news, and opinion to a global public audience free of charge. Sign up for our weekly newsletters from IM. Gemini Is Multimodal Hamid Reza Saeidnia     False Information about AI: Did Pope…

Asia Chapter Asia Chapter Name The Asia-Pacific Chapter has changed its name to the Asia Chapter. When the ASIS&T Asia Pacific Chapter was originally established, it included the countries of Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. The Oceania Chapter was launched in the Fall of 2023, which now includes those three countries. Therefore, to more…

SIG-AI (Artifical Intelligence) Call for Nominations for the SIG AI Best Artificial Intelligence Published Paper Award ASIS&T SIG AI announces a call for nominations for the SIG AI Best Artificial Intelligence Published Paper Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize the best paper published in the scope of SIG AI (see www.asist.org/sig/sigai). Papers that…

ASIS&T Webinars, your source for online live and on-demand content created by the Association for Information Science & Technology, are free to ASIS&T members. Our webinars connect you with experts and global thought leaders in information science, management, and business on relevant professional issues. SIG-III International Café January 24, 2024 9:00 AM EST Join via…

Eighteenth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2024) March 20-22, 2024 | Wuhan, China iConference 2024 Virtual Academic Program: April 15 – 18, 2024 Onsite Academic Program in Changchun, China: April 22 – 26, 2024 52nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI) June…