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The European Student Chapter (ESC) is partner of the ISSI 2013 Doctoral Forum: ISSI 2013 Doctoral Forum Fifth Doctoral Forum at 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference July 15, Vienna, Austria Description: The primary objective of the event is to provide doctoral students with a forum for presenting and discussing their research projects with…
Read MoreThe second ASIS&T European Workshop will be held at Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland on the 5th and 6th of June 2013 (travelling on June 4 and the evening of June 6). The workshop is organised by the Department of Information studies, School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University and Department Cultural Sciences, Lund…
Read MoreHello all SIG SI members! At our business meeting at ASIS&T 2012 in Baltimore it was decided to begin a SIG SI newsletter, to be coordinated by me, new Secretary Lysanne Lessard. It aims at gathering all SI-related activities in one place, in order to improve the visibility of SI activities in general and of SIG SI within ASIS&T. We’re aiming…
Read MorePhD research internships at Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective. Please contact danah boyd with any questions you have. Application deadline: January 30th, 2013. Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for PhD interns to join the Social Media Collective for Summer 2013. For these positions, we are looking primarily for social science PhD students (including communication, sociology, anthropology,…
Read MoreCall for Chapters: Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration
Call for Chapters: Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration. Proposals due January 15th, 2013; full chapters due March 15th. Please send chapter proposals to editors Pnina Fichman and Noriko Hara of Indiana University, Bloomington, or contact them with any questions you have. Introduction Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of Wikipedia articles are written…
Read MoreCall for Papers for the AMCIS 2013 mini track on “Global and Cross Cultural Aspects of Crowdsourced Content Production and Knowledge Repositories.” Paper and panel submissions due February 22, 2013. Please contact Pnina Fichman (fichman@indiana.edu) and Noriko Hara (nhara@indiana.edu) with any questions. 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013) Hyperconnected World: Anything Anywhere Anytime Chicago, Illinois, USA…
Read MoreCall For Papers for AMCIS 2013 mini-track on Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’13). Paper submissions due February 22nd, 2013. Please contact mini-track chairs Howard Rosenbaum <hrosenba@indiana.edu> and Pnina Fichman <fichman@indiana.edu> with any questions you have. 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013) Hyperconnected World: Anything Anywhere Anytime Chicago, Illinois August 15-17, 2013…
Read MoreCall for Papers, Panels, and Workshop Proposals: Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation, 24-27 October 2013, Denver, USA. Most submissions due March 14th, 2013 (deadline extended as of Feb 14th). More information is available in the full CFP on the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Web site. Internet Research 14.0 will focus on the theme of Resistance and…
Read MoreThe OCLC usability lab was established in 1990 as one of the first Usability Labs in the Central Ohio area. It was the post-doctoral project of Mike Prasse, who has been manager of the ULab since its beginning. This presentation will a history of the ULab (now in its third incarnation), and will include various…
Read MoreValetta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013 (TPDL 2013, http://www.tpdl2013.info) The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013)…
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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. 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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