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ASIS&T Elections Open Until August 11

July 29, 2017

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Lydia Middleton All Regular, Retired, Student and Institutional Members are entitled to vote for At-Large Members and Officers of the ASIS&T Board. Current members of ASIS&T were emailed a ballot on July 7, 2017. If you are a current member and did not receive your ballot, please email the ASIS&T Office.…

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Summer of Tours: The Ohio State University, Special Collections Description & Access

July 25, 2017

Special Collections at Ohio State University are comprised of seven separate collecting units, with archival technical services support for all seven provided by the Special Collections Description & Access Department (SCDA).  This program will begin with an overview of special collections at OSU, providing context for the breadth and depth of collecting areas SCDA is responsible for working…

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Chapter Service Award Winners: Announcement and Interview

July 21, 2017

Louisa Choy and Kate Nyhan have been selected as our inaugural co-recipients of the ASIST New England Chapter Service Award for 2017 and will each receive $750 as a travel award.  Together, Louisa and Kate have worked tirelessly as our Programming Committee Chairs after years of active membership and participation on the Programming Committee and…

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CFP, 2017 SIG InfoLearn Workshop: Information and Learning Sciences Research as an Integral Scholarly Nexus

July 20, 2017

“Information and Learning Sciences Research as an Integral Scholarly Nexus” This event occurred Sat. October 28, 2017, 8:30am – 12:30pm, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, VA, close to DC. Introductory talk transcript Organizers: Dr. Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University Dr. Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan Interactive panelists: Dr. Denise Agosto, Drexel University Dr. June Ahn, New…

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Seeking Student Engagement Award Nominations

July 17, 2017

SIG-DL is offering two Student Engagement Awards to assist students in becoming active contributors within the ASIS&T community. Award 1: A modest monetary sum to assist with deferring travel costs to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Award 2: A student-level membership to ASIS&T. The SIG-DL Student Engagement Awards are intended to encourage professional activity in ASIS&T. They are…

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Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan to be Editor-in-Chief of Education for Information

July 14, 2017

EUChap Advisor Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan will be the new Editor-in-Chief of Education for Information. Current Editor-in-Chief Prof. Jamshid Beheshti says “I am delighted that Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan has agreed to be the new Editor-in-Chief of our journal, taking over at the beginning of 2018. Until then she and I will work together on the journal”. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan is…

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ESC Newsletter Out

July 14, 2017

Dear folks, the Euorpean Student Chapter has published its sumer newsletter. Topics of the issue are: • Presentation of the new ESC Board Members • “I was at…“ – four students report on their conference attendance • Do you know? (new topic) • Lexicon (new topic) • News • Do not miss (conferences & webinars)…

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The 13th Annual Social Informatics (SIG-SI) Research Symposium: The Social Informatics of Knowledge

July 12, 2017

UPDATE: We had a bumper crop of submissions to the workshop, and are excited the make the final schedule available here as a PDF file: SIGSI_Schedule_FINAL . The 13th Annual Social Informatics (SIG-SI) Research Symposium “The Social Informatics of Knowledge” will be held from 8:30 – 12:30 on Saturday 28 October at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA, USA, with papers from…

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July 2017 JASIST Now Available Online!

July 5, 2017

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (July 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers. With 11 research articles ranging from An Analysis of 14 Million Tweets on Hashtag-Oriented Spamming to “A Greatly Unexplored Area”: Digital Curation and Innovation in Digital Humanities, there’s something for everyone! Also in this issue, an…

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SIG IEP Workshop: The New Information State

July 1, 2017

Call for Participation: The New Information State: How Information Ethics and Policy Affects Everyone, sponsored by SIG-IEP,  ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Crystal City, Virginia Date: October 28, 2017 Abstract: In today’s milieu of fake news, misinformation, and generalized distrust of institutions, information ethics and policy affects everyone, across different information science research areas. In this workshop, we will analyze these…

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NEASIS&T Fall 2024 Meet & Greet

September 6, 2024

Event: Fall Meet & Greet, Northeast chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology (NEASIS&T)  Where: Online When: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT Register:  https://www2.asist.org/ap/Events/Register/QZFN2g0FdCnC0 Cost: Free for everyone! You do not have to be an ASIS&T member. Please register to get the zoom link, which will be sent…

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Minutes of ASIS&T Asia Chapter Regular Meeting (August)

September 5, 2024

Time: 20:00-21:00, August 27, 2024 Meeting Room: Zoom Participants: Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Sarira Khoir, Huichuan Xia, Yuehua Zhao Recorded by Yuehua Zhao Agenda Items:

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Greyson to Receive Inaugural 2024 Impact Award

August 20, 2024

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Devon Greyson of the University of British Columbia will receive the 2024 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and provides role models and examples for new…

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ISO 15511:2019, Information and documentation – International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL)

August 8, 2024

Voted CONFIRM on ISO 15511:2019, Information and documentation – International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL) Description: This document specifies the International Standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL), which comprises a set of standard identifiers used for the unique identification of libraries and related organizations such as museums and archives with…

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ISO/FDIS 27729, Information and documentation – International standard name identifier (ISNI)

August 6, 2024

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 27729, Information and documentation – International standard name identifier (ISNI) Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 27729? Description: This document specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the identification of public identities of parties, i.e. the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries…

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President’s Column, July 2024

July 24, 2024
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Summer has arrived!  As the Isley Brothers sang, “Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom. July is dressed up and playing a tune.” We have entered a more relaxed period in the calendar, although there is still much happening in your Association. We are excited to announce a new, annual lecture event: the ASIS&T…

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From Your Executive Director, July 2024

July 24, 2024

Dear Colleagues, It seems like we just left London and the 2023 Annual Meeting yet here we are in the throes of preparations for Annual Meeting 2024. This is the time of year when our attention turns from awards and selecting meeting content to the exciting process of registering attendees and making final preparations. October…

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Lankes to Present 1st Annual ASIS&T President’s Lecture

July 24, 2024

ASIS&T is delighted to announce the launch of the Annual ASIS&T President’s Lecture. The Lecture will be open to the public and delivered via Zoom to ensure that all who wish to may attend. The inaugural ASIS&T President’s Lecture will take place September 19 at 10 am Eastern Time (find your time here) and be…

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Media Ruins Wins ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award

July 24, 2024

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology and published by MIT Press is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2024. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during…

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“Don’t Say Gay in Alabama” Chosen for 2024 Best JASIST Paper Award

July 24, 2024

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “”Don’t Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework of LGBTQ+ information support services in public libraries-An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance” written by Bharat Mehra and Baheya S. Jaber, published in Volume 74, Issue 8 of the Journal of the…

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