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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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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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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 innaugural 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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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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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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The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Seiji Bessho has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award. The purpose of the award is to encourage student research and writing in the field of information science. Bessho’s paper entitled, “Concentration, Evacuation, Internment,…
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Early Bird Deadline Approaching Secure the Early Bird rates for the 2024 ASIS&T Annual Meeting by making your reservations by August 5. Rates, including Workshop registration rates, go up on August 6 and again after October 10. Reserve your spot today! Program Notes We had unprecedented submission numbers this year so we anticipate record-setting attendance…
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The ASIS&T Annual Meeting serves as a connection point between individuals seeking employment opportunities and institutions seeking to fill positions. Whether it’s in person or virtually, we can help you connect with your future employer or employee, academic home or faculty member. ASIS&T will collect CVs of prospective candidates and job postings of prospective employers…
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Did you know ASIS&T offers Institutional Memberships? With three levels of memberships to meet your needs, the program provides members with opportunities and resources to enhance professional skills and elevate your institution’s influence in the field. This year, ASIS&T institutional members will benefit from additional valuable benefits offered exclusively at the 2024 Annual Meeting in…
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Join us for the interactive workshop, “Generative AI and the Future of Information Science Education” at ASIS&T 2024 in Calgary on October 26, 2024! Deadline for expression of interest is August 1, 2024. The workshop will be hosted by Bryce Newell, University of Oregon, and Nicholas Proferes, Arizona State University. Background The educational enterprise is entering a…
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SIG STI is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Paper Award goes to Andrea K. Thomer and Nicholas M. Weber for their paper, The Phylogeny of a Dataset, which was presented at last year’s ASIS&T annual conference in Seattle and appears in the Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The…
Read MorePosted on September 3, 2015 by Adam Worrall Catholic University Student Chapter (CUA-ASIS&T) logo We continue our “Get to Know a SIG / Get to Know a Chapter” post series today with an interview with the Catholic University of America ASIS&T Student Chapter (CUA-ASIS&T). Located in Washington, DC, CUA-ASIS&T “provides an opportunity for its [student] members to…
Read MoreJoin us at Thornton’s Fenway Bar and Grille on Friday, September 11, for a night of trivia with our regional student chapter! We hope to see you there.
Read MoreCall for I-Stories SIG History & Foundations of Information Science http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/ Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we think we’ve pinned or penned them down nicely with…
Read MorePosted on September 1, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Dr. Robin Peek passed away on August 21, 2015, in Boston, MA. Dr. Peek was an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She worked at Simmons for over 20 years and retired in 2014. She was a distinguished scholar in the…
Read MoreThanks to an anonymous donation, seven student membership have been awarded to students nominated by country representatives and officers of the European Chapter. The awards are made based on publications in major information science journals and active participation in Chapter events. The awardees are: Farhan Ahmad MSc., doctoral candidate at Åbo Akademi University, Finland Ivana…
Read MoreSIG-STI is calling for nominations/self-nominations for officers for the 2015-2016 term period. Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2015. – Chair-elect – Secretary /Treasurer – Communications Officer – Webmaster Chair-elect (2 year commitment) The Chair-elect, who automatically becomes Chair in the following year, works closely with the Chair in planning and executing SIG programs and serves as…
Read MoreAdam: Could you tell me a little about the history of the European Chapter, especially recently? Isabella: The European Chapter is characterized by a diverse group of members spanning across a large geographical region which not only include European countries but also e.g. Israel. This makes it sometimes difficult to connect and exchange – face-to-face…
Read MorePosted on July 24, 2015 by Adam Worrall The next interview in our “Get to Know A SIG / Get to Know a Chapter” series is with ASIS&T’s European Chapter. The Chapter is “the leading European community of academics and practitioners in the field of information science” and looks to “facilitate networking ideas and community building across the national borders…
Read MoreASIS&T SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for two awards. One, the 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper Award, is for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2014 calendar year. The other, the 2015 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award, is for…
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