Inside ASIS&T, May 2024

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Back to Inside ASIS&T, May 2024 Transcript: Hello everybody Greetings from ASIS&T I’m Lydia Middleton your Executive Director and I am happy to give you an update on all the things that are coming up in the next few weeks of ASIS&T It’s a busy, busy time for us We’re hitting a lot of deadlines…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a disruptive but transformative technology that can bring value to libraries by enabling increased library use, optimizing collection analysis, and enhancing the user experience. Library and information professionals must keep abreast of advances in AI technologies in order to provide innovative and value-added services, access, and collection development. Issues about inequality, discrimination, data privacy, and bias, combined with the costs and evolving nature of AI, influence the adoption of AI in academic, research, and other libraries and information environments.

University Library Singel 425, Amsterdam Doelenzaal Registration Program Accommodations 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…

87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology 25-29 October, 2024 Calgary, AB, Canada Calgary Hyatt Regency Hotel Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity and Care in Information Research and Practice Registration for the 2024 ASIS&T Annual Meeting will open in early June. Stay tuned for details on Early Bird registration deadlines so…

ASIS&T staff and the Membership Committee recently conducted a member survey of iConnect, ASIS&T’s online member community. This survey told us a few things: Not all members know about iConnect and its value. Many members aren’t aware of the features inherent to iConnect. It’s time for an iConnect upgrade that will make member engagement easier…

Due Monday, June 3, 2024 The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is seeking new members to join its Editorial Board. ARIST publishes peer-reviewed, comprehensive, and systematic reviews on topics relevant to information science, computing science, technology studies, and related fields. Published under the banner of Wiley’s Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), ARIST‘s goal…

In each issue of Inside ASIS&T, we feature a different member to discuss ASIS&T and the field of information science and technology. Please contact Pamela Yonker if you would like to be featured in Member Spotlight. Andrew Cox, PhD Senior Lecturer School of Information, University of Sheffield   How long have you been an ASIS&T…

ASIS&T would like to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of members. Please share with us news of your tenure, promotion, doctoral defense, job change, publication and/or grant receipt. We will recognize these accomplishments in each issue of Inside ASIS&T. Please complete this form to let us know what you’ve done! Laureen Cantwell-Jurkovic, PhD, MLIS On Monday, April…

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. Making Sense of Sense-making Christine Urquhart Health Information Craving: A Force to Cyberchondria Wenjing…

Europe Chapter Information Science Trends Conference Call for Abstracts We welcome submissions to the Information Science Trends (IST) conference 2024, scheduled for 8-10th July. Researchers, practitioners and students are invited to participate. This year’s conference theme is ‘Living online and offline, in darkness and light’. The theme is open to your interpretation but you can find…

SIG-AH (Arts & Humanities) It’s finally here, the 2024 SIG-AH member survey! SIG-AH Member Survey.  Please complete this asap so that we can continue to work on revitalizing this SIG. What research topics should we cover? Would you like to see a summer symposium? A social event? Something else? Please share it on the survey! On June 27,…

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. Webinar: Knowledge Graph in Neo4J for Helping Student Success: a Case…

2024 ARL IDEAL Conference July 15-17, 2024 | Toronto, Canada Don’t miss out on your EXTENDED opportunity to attend IDEAL 2024 at the advance rate.! The 2024 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives (IDEAL) Conference advance rate deadline is extended until Monday, April 1. This extension is aligned with broader efforts to…