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ASIS&T 2024 International Awards Deadline is 1 April These coveted and prestigious ASIS&T awards represent the greatest recognition and respect professionals may afford their colleagues. All ASIS&T members and non-members are invited and encouraged to submit nominations for the awards. Selections of award recipients are made after thoughtful and thorough consideration by appropriate committees or…
Read More87th 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 Closing Keynote Speaker- Ranjit Singh: The Ordinary Ethics of Putting People First Ranjit Singh is a senior researcher at Data & Society,…
Read MoreThanks to all who responded to the recent iConnect user survey. Your feedback was valuable in helping us to assess what users like and don’t like about the iConnect community platform. The data from the survey will be shared with the Membership Committee, and in the coming months, we will be incorporating your suggestions to…
Read MoreASIS&T would like to celebrate and recognize your accomplishments. 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! Blessing Mawire Director, Integra Professional Solutions (information…
Read MoreASIS&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! Azadeh Aletaha – Dissertation Defense…
Read MoreASIS&T is delighted to announce the publication of the first full issue of ARIST in more than a decade! Members have full online access to the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), a collection of peer-reviewed, comprehensive, and systematic reviews on topics relevant to information science, computing science, technology studies, and related fields.…
Read MoreCheck 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. AI and India’s IT Odyssey-From Humble Beginnings to Global Dominance: A Fireside Chat with…
Read MoreAfrica Chapter The Africa Chapter will have its quarterly general meeting on 27Â March 2024 at 13h00 GMT (Time: 2pm WAT; 3pm SAST; 4pm EAT) – check your time here. Zoom meeting link:Â https://uct-za.zoom.us/j/98239361150?pwd=MWZGemtmUitERm1aVmt0NWtMV3NmUT09Â (Meeting ID: 982 3936 1150 & Passcode: 032037). The chapter would like to showcase the rich and diverse research that members are involved in.…
Read MoreSIG-AI (Artificial Intelligence) SIG-AI and the Europe Chapter are hosting an online Research Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Early Career Researchers and PhD Students. The symposium will take place on Monday 25th March 2024, 1:00 – 3:00 PM UK time, or 9:00 – 11:00 AM EDT. There is still time to register to attend by clicking on…
Read MoreASIS&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. ASIS&T SIG-AI and the European Chapter Online Research Symposium on AI…
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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…
Read MoreSeason 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…
Read MoreThe following is Lydia Middleton’s State of the Association address from the 2024 Annual Business Meeting. Back to Inside ASIS&T, November 2024
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreASIS&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…
Read MoreHere 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
Read MoreDifficult 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…
Read MoreEffective 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
Read MoreASIS&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…
Read MoreMembers 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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