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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…
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Season 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…
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The following is Lydia Middleton’s State of the Association address from the 2024 Annual Business Meeting. Back to Inside ASIS&T, November 2024
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The 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…
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ASIS&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…
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Here 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
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Difficult 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…
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Effective 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
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ASIS&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…
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Members 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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The Historic Costume & Textiles Collection at Ohio State University (OSU) is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture. The approximately 12,000 artifacts encompass a range of objects, such as textiles and articles of clothing and accessories for men, women, and children, including national dress costume from the mid-18th century to contemporary 21st…
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Just in time for summer, the European Student Chapter of ASIS&T is releasing an interview series with Information Science professionals from all over Europe! We’re kicking off the series with Prof. Dirk Lewandowski from HAW Hamburg. If you would like to see your professor or any other Information Science professional interviewed, let us know! Tell…
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Join CO-ASIS&T for back-to-back events just outside Franklin County’s southeast corner! We’ll start with a historical tour and presentation of one of the Central Library Consortium member libraries, the privately owned Wagnall’s Memorial Library. After the tour, meet us for a private talk and optional wine-tasting at the nearby Slate Run Vineyard Winery. The Wagnalls…
Read More2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Re-envisioning the Impact and Engagement of Information Behavior Research Date: October 19, 2019 (Saturday) Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: M10 (Level 1), Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia About the 2019 SIG-USE Symposium The 19th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium focuses on the impact and engagement of information behavior research. This symposium is…
Read MoreJust forwarding an email sent to me: Hello Arjun Sabharwal, I am reaching out to you as Webmaster/Newsletter Editor for ASIS&T groups including Arts and Humanities, and Visualization, Images and Sound as I believe your members may be interested in presenting at the upcoming Visual Resources Association in Baltimore. Would you be able to forward…
Read MoreDear members of the SIG/MET community The time as come to elect new SIG/MET officers. We are seeking candidates for the following positions: – Chair-Elect – Secretary – Treasurer – Webmaster – Communications You can nominate yourself or someone else by filling this form. Nominations must be received no later than August 23rd and all nominees must be ASIS&T…
Read MoreThe ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG SI) is issuing a call for nominations for the 2019 Annual Social Informatics Best Paper Awards, with nominations due by July 10. Self-nominations are welcome and the nomination process is quite short, as detailed below. Winners are also invited to present their work during SIG SI’s Research Symposium at ASIS&T 2019 in Melbourne. We seek nominations for the…
Read MoreASIST Annual Meeting 2019 Melbourne, Australia, October 19, 2019 We invite you to submit to our 15th SIG Research Symposium. We are particularly interested in collaborative work that explores the human and social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) in professional or practical settings and any work that assumes a critical stance towards the symposium’s theme,…
Read MoreDear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the 2019 ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Student Poster Award. To apply, inform the SIG-HLTH leadership team that you are a student and will be presenting a poster related to health informatics at ASIS&T 2019 by 1 October 2019. Members of the leadership team will then review your poster at the conference. Every…
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Join us for a tour of the Blackmore Library at Capital University! Our host, Shaunda Vasudev, will give a presentation about the use of space in academic libraries, and how the Blackmore Library has improved its space to meet student needs since its 2012 renovation. The renovation project vision, developed by a planning committee, was of…
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