SIG-Infolearn Events
After two successful tours of the Library Media Center at Thomas Elementary (Dublin City Schools) and SEA, Limited Forensics and Research Library, CO-ASIS&T is continuing our third annual Summer of Tours with the CML Operations Center on Tuesday, June 13. Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of Columbus Metropolitan Library’s operations and technical services with Laura Simonds,Collection Services Manager. We’ll…
Read MorePosted on June 5, 2017 by Yolande Nanayakkara President’s Page This column is featured in the ASIS&T Bulletin June/July Issue by Lynn Silipigni Connaway Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the 2016-2017 ASIS&T President. She is Senior Research Scientist and Director of User Research at OCLC Research. She can be reached at connawal@oclc.org I have so many great…
Read MoreExploring the Challenges & Uses of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections June 6, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT View webinar here Presenters Professor Timothy W. Cole Alex Olivia Kinnaman Deren Kudeki Over the last 2 decades, libraries and cultural heritage institutions have expended resources digitizing their important special collections. However, many of the resulting…
Read MorePosted on June 1, 2017 by Yolande Nanayakkara The Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce the hiring of Lydia Middleton, MBA, CAE as its new Executive Director effective May 8, 2017. Middleton was hired after an extensive search from a pool of more than 200…
Read MorePosted on June 1, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (June 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers. With 14 research articles ranging from Rhetoric and the Cold War Politics of Information Science to Ensemble Analysis of Topical Journal Ranking in Bioinformatics, there’s something for everyone! Also in this issue, two open access AIS…
Read MorePosted on May 31, 2017 by Yolande Nanayakkara The Bob Williams History Fund (formerly the ASIS&T History Fund) was created for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research and publication in the history of information science and technology. The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from ASIS&T members and others with interest in…
Read MoreThis Library Carpentry, one-day, hands-on workshop will cover jargon busting, data structures, using regular expressions for pattern matching, use of the Bash shell (aka the command line) to speed up and automate tasks, and using OpenRefine for data cleanup. We welcome groups enrolling as this helps with post-workshop integration of the skills. Participants will be…
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SEA, Ltd. is a multi-disciplined forensic engineering and fire investigation company specializing in failure analysis, research, and testing. SEA is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with 11 regional offices across the U.S. Join the library staff as we discuss how we keep our services relevant and contribute to the financial growth and success of our organization. The…
Read MorePosted on May 19, 2017 by Yolande Nanayakkara CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Colloquium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Crystal City, Virginia Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:30-12:30 Doctoral students are invited to participate in the 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2017…
Read MorePosted on May 18, 2017 by Yolande Nanayakkara The Euro Student Chapter is offering: Basic conditions, availability, and the value of open data in comparison May 19-20, 2017; Bonn, Germany At the Open Southeast Asia’s Data Civil Society, Southeast Asia In this workshop, we will bring together ideas and best practice examples of open data…
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Hello everyone I would like to start by saying how grateful I am to be able to work with you all. ASIS&T is a very special organisation, and I look forward to helping you develop it in fruitful and interesting new directions over the next year. Â I particularly would like to thank Crystal, Lydia and…
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.                                                    (John Keats, To Autumn) It is hard to…
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The following is Lydia Middleton’s State of the Association address from the 2024 Annual Business Meeting. Back to Inside ASIS&T, November 2024
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The Board of Directors met on October 25, 2024 in Calgary, AB, Canada. In attendance were; Crystal Fulton, PhD (President); Ian Ruthven, PhD (President-Elect); Abebe Rorissa, PhD (Past-President); Chris Cunningham, PhD, (Treasurer); Joan Bartlett, PhD; Maria Bonn, PhD; Tina Du, PhD; Bhakti Gala, PhD; Lisa Hussey, PhD; Aylin Imeri, PhD; Luanne Sinnamon, PhD; and Lydia…
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ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Recap We had another well attended Annual Meeting in Calgary, Canada with 421 individuals attending. There would have been more, but unfortunately many colleagues from around the globe were unable to obtain a visa into Canada. Of these, 395 were ASIS&T members. Registrants from 20 countries came together to engage in…
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Here are just a few of the thousands of AM24 photographs. To view the entirety of the photos, please visit our Dropbox Folder. Back to Inside ASIS&T, November 2024
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Difficult Conversations: The Role of Information Science in the Age of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence 88th Annual Meeting CALL FOR PROPOSALS Information science scholars and practitioners have anticipated the evolution (and expansion) of artificial intelligence (AI) for decades. AI has been called the “technology of a generation,” (UK Government, 2024) and as such, information science scholars will…
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Effective January 1, 2025, the new address for the ASIS&T office will be: 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, November 2024
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ASIS&T welcomes the following Institutions and Individuals who have joined ASIS&T since September of 2024. Institutions: University of South Carolina | United States | Institutional Affiliate Wuhan University | China | Institutional Affiliate Individuals: Anandhukrishna A S | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University | India | Professional Maria Alamgir | Manchester Metropolitan University | United Kingdom…
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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…
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