ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2017 News Washington, D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia) October 27 – November 1, 2017 Diversity of engagement: Connecting people and information in the physical and virtual worlds ASIS&T has confirmed our keynote speakers for our 2017 Annual Meeting (AM17). Dr. Richard Marks, Senior Research Engineer and Head of the PlayStation Magic Lab at […]
The June/July issue of the Bulletin is now available for review. This issue has a special section on A New Open Humanities, with articles such as “Using Zombies to Teach Collaborative Scholarship and Born-Digital Publishing” by Jamie A. Thomas or Four Claims on Research Assessment and Metric Use in the Humanities by Björn Hammarfelt. Review the entire […]
President’s Page This column is featured in the ASIS&T Bulletin June/July Issue by Lynn Silipigni Connaway Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the 2016-2017 ASIS&T President. She is Senior Research Scientist and Director of User Research at OCLC Research. She can be reached at connawal@oclc.org I have so many great developments to share with you […]
The Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce the hiring of Lydia Middleton, MBA, CAE as its new Executive Director effective May 8, 2017. Middleton was hired after an extensive search from a pool of more than 200 applicants. “On behalf of the ASIS&T Board, I […]
The newest edition of JASIST (June 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers. With 14 research articles ranging from Rhetoric and the Cold War Politics of Information Science to Ensemble Analysis of Topical Journal Ranking in Bioinformatics, there’s something for everyone! Also in this issue, two open access AIS Review articles and a letter […]
The Bob Williams History Fund (formerly the ASIS&T History Fund) was created for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research and publication in the history of information science and technology. The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from ASIS&T members and others with interest in the history of information science and technology. The […]
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Doctoral Colloquium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Crystal City, Virginia Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:30-12:30 Doctoral students are invited to participate in the 2017 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science […]
The Euro Student Chapter is offering: Basic conditions, availability, and the value of open data in comparison May 19-20, 2017; Bonn, Germany At the Open Southeast Asia’s Data Civil Society, Southeast Asia In this workshop, we will bring together ideas and best practice examples of open data projects with an impact on the society, government […]
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The EuroIA summit is Europe’s leading Information Architecture (IA) and User Experience (UX) conference. It is a platform for exchange between veteran Information Architects, experts from foreign fields practising IA, and newcomers to the practice of IA and UX design. It shows hands-on results and best practices, along with the methods to get there. It is organised every year in September, in a different European city. EuroIA 2016 Amsterdam will be the 12th edition. Learn more about EuroIA
