SIG-IEP Webinar
The ASIST Europe Chapter & SIG-III warmly invite all interested information scholars, educators, and students to an exciting Information Science Pub Quiz, a brain-teasing event designed to challenge and entertain via Zoom on 3 April 2025 at 3pm BST / 4pm CET (see in your time zone here). The Chapter & SIG have together created a fun-filled session of…
The US Northeast Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology (NEASIS&T) invites you to join us for our 2025 Annual Conference, which will be held virtually. Registration is now open: Register for the conference. What: NEASIS&T’s Annual Conference When: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Where: Virtual Who: NEASIS&T (US Northeast Chapter of the Association…
Awards Recipients 2024 Winner of SIG Social Media Senior Researcher Award Purpose of the Award This award is a lifetime achievement award that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. Such contributions may include 1) scholarly contributions to the advancement of our…
Dear SIG-HLTH members, All SIGs were tasked by ASIS&T leadership this month to develop a list of up to five values that characterize ASIS&T as an organization: its members, events, and staff. This activity is aligned with the development of ASIS&T’s next strategic plan. On Wednesday, February 19, the SIG-HLTH executive board met and drafted values.…
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper Awards Title: Standardizing Vehicle Travel Speed Data for Road Safety Authors: Liliana Salas, College of Information Science and Arlie Adkins, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: In 2022, almost 50,000 people died in road crashes in the United States, with speeding…
NEASIS&T Executive Committee Recap – January 2025 Happy New Year from NEASIS&T! As we kick off 2025, I’m thrilled to share some updates from the Executive Committee and reminders about upcoming chapter activities! NEASIS&T 2025 Annual ConferenceOur annual conference is just over two months away! Please save the date for Tuesday, April 1. The theme…
Halò (hello in Scots Gaelic) In my first column of 2025, I would like to start by thanking Crystal Fulton for all her hard work in her Presidential Year. Those who had the pleasure of working with Crystal know that she is fun, caring, and committed, and we have been blessed to have her as…
Greetings Colleagues: I hope all who celebrated recent holidays had a joyous time and that everyone celebrated a Happy New Year. Here in the US we are getting our footing under a new presidential administration and assessing what the future holds on important topics like censorship, transparency, etc. But enough about that! Here at ASIS&T…
ASIS&T is excited to share that as of January 1, 2025, ASIS&T has partnered with Global Management Partners (GMP) to provide management support services for ASIS&T. While Lydia remains the Executive Director fully employed by ASIS&T, GMP is providing all other staffing for the associaton. While a change of staff involves some growing pains, we…
Effective January 1, 2025, the new address for the ASIS&T office is: 1935 County Road B2W Suite 165 Roseville, MN 55113 United States Please inform your business office (if applicable) of this change. Thank you! Back to Inside ASIS&T, January 2025
Summer of Tours Cartoon Library
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 1:45 – Meet at Cartoon Library OR 3:30 – Meet at Cartoon Library Tour the Newly Renovated Billy Ireland Cartoon Library at The Ohio State University Join the Central Ohio Chapters of Special Libraries Association and the Association for Information Science and Technology (SLA…
Call for nominations: SIG SI’s 2013 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award
SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2013 or a conference paper presented in 2013. The author or authors will present their paper at the 10th Annual SIG SI…
Join us on June 25th
You are invited to NEASIST’s June Meetup, Meet and greet and eat (nachos), happening next Wednesday, June 25th, at 6pm at Champion’s in Kendall Square. Join members of the Program Committee as we brainstorm topics, speakers, activities and events for the coming year. We’ll buy the nachos, you bring the bright ideas! Are you wondering…
Call for nominations: SIG SI’s 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Award
SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informaticsduring the 2013 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 10th Annual SIG SI Symposium on Saturday, October 30th, 2014 and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2014 Annual Meeting…
Call for Participation: SIG SI’s 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium
ASIS&T SIG SI, along with our co-sponsor the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, is happy to announce the Call for Papers and Participation for our 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities. The symposium will take place on November 1st as part of the ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting in Seattle. The deadline for paper, poster, and panel proposals is August…
New Newsletter Category
The ESC newsletter gets an update! The new category “I was at…” will give you the chance to share your experience from conferences around the world. This category replaces the former “Reports” category where students wrote summaries of conferences they have attended. By introducing the new category, we would like to bring the focus on you as…
Leveraging the Power of FRBR in Library Data
Diane will describe the ongoing efforts of OCLC Research to apply principles of the FRBR model to the WorldCat database. OCLC’s FRBR activity involves grouping bibliographic records into work clusters based on author and title information in bibliographic and authority records. The results of the clustering are visible in WorldCat.org and as experimental linked data…
Slides and video now available — The Spider and the Web
Thanks to everyone who turned out for our 2014 Networking Dinner on the 7th! It was a great event with a timely presentation on information policy by Bryant University’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. José-Marie Griffiths. If you were unable to attend, be sure to check out Dr. Griffiths’ presentation, recorded and made available…
And the Winners Are…
The ESC Student Chapter congratulates the winners of the first “Movie meets Science” contest 2014! Three amazing videos have been submitted and your votes have decided: If you have missed to watch a video, no worries! All videos are online on YouTube. We like to thank all contributors for their engagement. You are very inspiring…
Dr. Allen Kent, Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Passed Away at 92 Years
Posted on May 1, 2014 by ASIS&T Staff Age 92, on Thursday, May 1, 2014, helped change the world through his pioneering work in computer technology. Born in Harlem, New York, in 1921, Kent was the son a a tailor. He attended City College of New York. Studying chemistry and served in the U.S. Air…
ASIS&T Europe Chapter & SIG-III Information Science Pub Quiz
The ASIST Europe Chapter & SIG-III warmly invite all interested information scholars, educators, and students to an exciting Information Science Pub Quiz, a brain-teasing event designed to challenge and entertain via Zoom on 3 April 2025 at 3pm BST / 4pm CET (see in your time zone here). The Chapter & SIG have together created a fun-filled session of…
Voices Through Data: Integrating Information Science, Storytelling, and Digital Literacy – Registration is Open!
The US Northeast Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology (NEASIS&T) invites you to join us for our 2025 Annual Conference, which will be held virtually. Registration is now open: Register for the conference. What: NEASIS&T’s Annual Conference When: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Where: Virtual Who: NEASIS&T (US Northeast Chapter of the Association…
SIG SM Competition Award Recipients 2024
Awards Recipients 2024 Winner of SIG Social Media Senior Researcher Award Purpose of the Award This award is a lifetime achievement award that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. Such contributions may include 1) scholarly contributions to the advancement of our…
Please Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey
Dear SIG-HLTH members, All SIGs were tasked by ASIS&T leadership this month to develop a list of up to five values that characterize ASIS&T as an organization: its members, events, and staff. This activity is aligned with the development of ASIS&T’s next strategic plan. On Wednesday, February 19, the SIG-HLTH executive board met and drafted values.…
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper Awards Title: Standardizing Vehicle Travel Speed Data for Road Safety Authors: Liliana Salas, College of Information Science and Arlie Adkins, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: In 2022, almost 50,000 people died in road crashes in the United States, with speeding…
NEASIS&T Executive Committee Recap – January 2025
NEASIS&T Executive Committee Recap – January 2025 Happy New Year from NEASIS&T! As we kick off 2025, I’m thrilled to share some updates from the Executive Committee and reminders about upcoming chapter activities! NEASIS&T 2025 Annual ConferenceOur annual conference is just over two months away! Please save the date for Tuesday, April 1. The theme…
President’s Message January 2025
Halò (hello in Scots Gaelic) In my first column of 2025, I would like to start by thanking Crystal Fulton for all her hard work in her Presidential Year. Those who had the pleasure of working with Crystal know that she is fun, caring, and committed, and we have been blessed to have her as…
From Your Executive Director, January 2025
Greetings Colleagues: I hope all who celebrated recent holidays had a joyous time and that everyone celebrated a Happy New Year. Here in the US we are getting our footing under a new presidential administration and assessing what the future holds on important topics like censorship, transparency, etc. But enough about that! Here at ASIS&T…
ASIS&T Partners with GMP
ASIS&T is excited to share that as of January 1, 2025, ASIS&T has partnered with Global Management Partners (GMP) to provide management support services for ASIS&T. While Lydia remains the Executive Director fully employed by ASIS&T, GMP is providing all other staffing for the associaton. While a change of staff involves some growing pains, we…
ASIS&T Change of Address
Effective January 1, 2025, the new address for the ASIS&T office is: 1935 County Road B2W Suite 165 Roseville, MN 55113 United States Please inform your business office (if applicable) of this change. Thank you! Back to Inside ASIS&T, January 2025
SIG-IEP Webinar
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