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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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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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