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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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Posted on January 26, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington How many of you know about ASIS&T’s webinar program? The association provides a wide range of webinars. Most webinars are free for ASIS&T’s members, and they are archived so you can view them at any time. With our webinars, you can learn about new things at any…
Read MorePosted on January 20, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Please see the message below from Kevin Hoffman from Seven Heads Design about the status of our web redesign project. You can view our progress at any time by visiting https://www.asist.org. If you have any comments or questions about the developing site, please fill out the form…
Read MoreDid you attend our conference on data visualization on January 15? Whether you were able to join us or not, we hope you’ll stop by Andala Coffee House on January 22 to discuss applications of visualization techniques in academia and industry. This event is open to all. You don’t need to be a member of…
Read MoreThe schedule and program for the 2015 iConference has been posted, to be held in Newport Beach, CA March 24th – 27th. Registration is open with early rates good through January 15th(this Thursday). We include below (click “read more” if necessary) a summary of workshops, papers, and interactive sessions that we believe ASIS&T SIG SI members may find interesting at the iConference. Click on each of…
Read MorePosted on January 13, 2015 by Adam Worrall Our “Get to Know a SIG / Get to Know a Chapter” series returns today with our first featured student chapter! We talked to the ASIS&T Student Chapter at Simmons College, which runs programs of interest to students of the Simmons School of Library and Information Science. The Simmons…
Read MoreJoin us for a presentation by Amanda Page, Project Coordinator for the Harvard Open Access Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Amanda will be touching on the Open Access climate right now, the history and success at HarvardOA outside of Harvard and Other Opens. The presentation will be followed by an open…
Read MoreEmily Vardell, MLS Emily Vardell, MLS, is a Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests focus on health information behavior, particularly health insurance literacy and decision-making. As a Teaching Fellow, she has served as the instructor…
Read MoreJoin us in Puerto Rico for AMCIS 2015 August 13-15, 2015, El Conquistador Resort The theme of AMCIS 2015 is Blue Ocean Research Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University <hrosenba@indiana.edu> Pnina Fichman, Indiana University <fichman@indiana.edu> STIR ’15 solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory,…
Read MoreThe call for submissions for the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting has been posted. Papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials are due by April 30th; posters, demos, and videosare due by July 1st. ASIS&T 2015 will take place in St. Louis, Missouri from November 6-10, 2015. This year’s theme is “Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community.” Information science research is inspired by, and designed to, address…
Read MoreThe New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2015 Winter Event: Data Visualization: How to Do It and Do It Well In our information-rich society, data is everywhere. Big and little, data shapes our lives from the…
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