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Deadline: 10 September, 2020

SIG AH is pleased to announce the call for nominations for officers for the 2020-21 year. We are seeking candidates for the open positions of Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, Communications Officer, Membership Officer, Webmaster, and Newsletter Editor. The SIG AH Committee service is a wonderful opportunity to help drive research and scholarship in information science and technology, combined with arts & humanities. The efforts of this SIG are open to the global association membership and support the future of information science and technology. SIG AH offers strong networking opportunities within a smaller segment of the international ASIS&T level.

Take this opportunity to join the leadership of SIG AH and help us continue to develop our interdisciplinary future. Committee service is a chance to develop skills, enhance professional experience and network with a team of other arts and humanities-focused information professionals.

The SIG AH Chair's specific responsibilities are the following:

  1. Provide leadership that assures all SIG members derive benefits from their participation in the SIG. This should include, but not be limited to, regular communication with SIG members and substantive programming.
  2. Serve as default Cabinet Representative for the SIG.
  3. Submit the Annual Report and Annual Budget (in conjunction with the treasurer or secretary/treasurer, if the office exists).
  4. Manage SIG affairs, including chairing the annual planning meeting and providing accurate minutes of all SIG meetings to Headquarters and to the SIG Cabinet Director.
  5. Appoint chairs and members of SIG committees.
  6. Serve as chair of the SIG's nominating committee.

The SIG's Chair-elect, who automatically becomes Chair in the following year, has the following responsibilities:

  1. Work closely with the Chair in planning and executing SIG programs
  2. Serve as the default Alternate SIG Cabinet Representative.
  3. Assume the duties and responsibilities of the Chair in the event of the Chair's absence, resignation, or removal from office.
  4. Assume the primary responsibility for planning the SIG's programs during the year, including the technical sessions to be proposed for the following Annual Meeting.
  5. Be responsible for ensuring that the officer's roster for the year he/she will serve as Chair is sent to the Cabinet Director and Headquarters immediately following elections.

The Secretary/Treasurer is a combined position, elected for a one- or two-year term. This will depend on the person/s running for this position. It may also be broken into two positions, with responsibilities being split. For example, If there are two or more persons running, and one wishes to maintain records of meetings and correspondence, and the other one is interested in finances/expenses, those preferences can be included when the person sends in their interest to a position. Responsibilities include the following:

  1. Keeping records of all meetings and correspondence to members
  2. Assisting in making logistical arrangements for SIG meetings and activities.
  3. Being aware of Association policies regarding SIG finances and expenses, as this officer, in cooperation with the Chair, prepares and submits the SIG's budget and receives the SIG's quarterly financial statements.

The Communications Officer carries out one of the most important functions of SIG AH, communicating with members. Responsibilities include the following:

  1. Be in regular contact with the membership to solicit information for the newsletter, iConnect, Twitter, Facebook page, or any regular communication channel(s) used by SIG AH.
  2. Be familiar with the subject area and understand the procedures and mechanisms of using ASIS&T-owned/sanctioned channels with the assistance of Headquarters.

The Membership Officer is responsible for reaching out to recruit more members.

  1. Reach out to retain ASIS&T members by communicating with those whose memberships have lapsed or who are about to renew to encourage their continued involvement in ASIS&T.

The SIG AH Webmaster Officer is responsible for the following:

  1. Maintains the SIG AH webpage
  2. Continues to build new content by adding new pages, posts and links to the newsletters.

The SIG AH Newsletter Officer is responsible for the following:

  1. Prepares and edits the quarterly newsletters
  2. Collects the articles from contributors
  3. Works with webmaster to publish the newsletter in HTML form for the website.

Interested volunteers who wish to serve on this committee should send their interest to the SIG AH Chair, Julie Carmen, at carmen.julie@gmail.com.  Please include the position you wish to serve on with a brief bio.  The bio can include your education, experience, and interest in working with SIG AH. If you have any questions, you are encouraged to send them to the Julie too. Develop your leadership skills by becoming more involved with this international professional organization by nominating a colleague or yourself for the positions listed. The Call for Nominations closes on 10 September, 2020 at 11:59 PST and the election will take place on 24 September, 2020. New committee members take office at the end of the Annual Meeting in October, 2020.

SIG-IEP

The Information Ethics and Policy Special Interest Group seeks nominations for 10 free student registrations to the Sociotechnical Change Agents: ICTs, Sustainability, and Global Challenges Workshop:

"Aligning with the theme of the 2020 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Special Interest Group Social Informatics (SIG SI) will hold its 16th annual symposium in conjunction with SIG Social Media (SIG SM) and SIG Information Ethics and Policy (SIG IEP), allowing for ASIS&T members to better discuss how we might work collaboratively as "change agents actively addressing society's grand challenges" (ASIS&T, 2020). The purpose of this full-day workshop is to investigate how research and practice focused on the interaction of people, technology, and society may address societal grand challenges, including addressing the United Nation's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual, and theoretical work, as well as practice cases and demonstrations. This collaborative workshop will consist of interactive panel and breakout sessions throughout the day. Part 2 will be presented on Sunday, 1 November."

Those interested in nominating themselves should write a short blurb describing why they would like to attend this workshop and how they feel it relates to their future research. There is a 200-word limit for this blurb.

Please email nominations to Dr. Abigail L. Phillips (Chair-IEP),for further review. Additionally, if you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Phillips.

Deadline: Friday, August 28, 2020, 11:59pm EST

SIG-III

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) is pleased to announce the winners of the InforShare Award for 2020:

  1. Jlouk Yahya, Knowledge and data engineering student, ESI in Alirfane, Rabat, Morocco
  2. Mayank Trivedi, University Librarian & Senate Member, University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
  3. Nkeiru Amauche Emezie, Librarian, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria
  4. Nicoleta-Roxana Dinu, Librarian/International Relation Officer, Bucharest, Romania
  5. Humphrey Lance Kombe Keah, Knowledge Manager, Nairobi, Kenya
  6. Arjun Sanyal, Assistant Librarian, Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP), Dharamshala, India
  7. Fatemeh Pazooki, Librarian, Alzehra University, Tehran, Iran
  8. Salman bin Naeem, Assistant professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan
  9. Omobolade Adeagbo, Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Congratulations to all awardees, and a very warm welcome to the ASIS&T family!

SIG-SI 

The first award to announce is our Social Informatics Best Paper Award. Out of eight nominated papers, relevant papers received two reviews from social informatics scholars, with those reviews then evaluated by our Best Paper Award jury of Rachel Simons (SIG SI Chair), Kolina Koltai (SIG SI Co-Chair-Elect), and Adam Worrall (SIG SI Awards Coordinator). Reviewers and the jury evaluated papers on their relevance to social informatics; the clarity of their methods, findings, and implications; their significance and contribution to social informatics research; and their overall strength as deserving of the Best Paper Award.

The award jury chose one winning paper whose authors will receive the $750 (US) prize: Irene V. Pasquetto (Harvard University), Christine L. Borgman(University of California Los Angeles), and Morgan F. Wofford (University of California Los Angeles / University of Michigan), for their paper "Uses and reuses of scientific data: The data creators' advantage," published during 2019 in Harvard Data Science Review, volume 1 issue 2. Uses and Reuses of Scientific Data: The Data Creators' Advantage · Harvard Data Science Review 

Given the high quality of nominated papers, we also wish to recognize two honourable mentions:

  • Carter Østerlund and Kevin Crowston (both of Syracuse University), for their paper "Documentation and access to knowledge in online communities: Know your audience and write appropriately?", published during 2019 in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, volume 70 issue 6, pp. 619-633. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24152
  • Kyle M. L. Jones (Indiana University, Indianapolis [IUPUI]), Alan Rubel (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Ellen LeClere (University of Wisconsin, Madison), for their paper "A matter of trust: Higher education institutions as information fiduciaries in an age of educational data mining and learning analytics," in press and available in early view since 2019 at the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24327

The second and third awards we wish to announce are our inaugural Emerging Social Informatics Researcher Awards. Four students self-nominated for these awards, with their applications adjudicated by myself (as SIG SI Awards Coordinator) and SIG SI Co-Chair-Elect Colin Rhinesmith. We assessed the relevance of the student's current and future research to social informatics, along with their submitted or accepted contributions to the ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting and our own Social Informatics Research Symposium. Two winners are being recognized as emerging researchers in social informatics, who each receive free / reimbursed registration for ASIS&T 2020 and the Social Informatics Research Symposium, where they will be able to network and interact with other social informatics researchers. They are: Diana Floegel and Joseph Winberry

All award winners will be recognized during the 2020 Social Informatics Research Symposium, co-organized by SIG SI, SIG SM (Social Media), and SIG IEP (Information Ethics & Policy), to be held online on Saturday, October 31st and Sunday November 1st, as part of the ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting. A reminder that early registration for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting ends today, Friday August 7th. For more details on and to register for the Annual Meeting and Social Informatics Research Symposium, please go to https://www.asist.org/am20/.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to Adam Worrall for his hard work as Awards Coordinator for SIG SI!

SIG-SI

The Information Ethics and Policy Special Interest Group seeks nominations for 10 free student registrations to the Sociotechnical Change Agents: ICTs, Sustainability, and Global Challenges Workshop:

"Aligning with the theme of the 2020 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Special Interest Group Social Informatics (SIG SI) will hold its 16th annual symposium in conjunction with SIG Social Media (SIG SM) and SIG Information Ethics and Policy (SIG IEP), allowing for ASIS&T members to better discuss how we might work collaboratively as "change agents actively addressing society's grand challenges" (ASIS&T, 2020). The purpose of this full-day workshop is to investigate how research and practice focused on the interaction of people, technology, and society may address societal grand challenges, including addressing the United Nation's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual, and theoretical work, as well as practice cases and demonstrations. This collaborative workshop will consist of interactive panel and breakout sessions throughout the day. Part 2 will be presented on Sunday, 1 November."

Those interested in nominating themselves should write a short blurb describing why they would like to attend this workshop and how they feel it relates to their future research. There is a 200-word limit for this blurb.

Please email nominations to Dr. Abigail L. Phillips (Chair-IEP), abileigh@uwm.edu for further review. Additionally, if you have any questions, please reach out to Dr. Phillips.

Deadline: Friday, August 28, 2020, 11:59pm EST

SIG-VIS

We've been on a bit of a hiatus the last two years...but SIG VIS has a strong base of members and lots of money. All we need are some folks to take on leadership roles to help usher our group into a new era.

Are you interested in a leadership role within ASIST and would you like to help SIG VIS spend its money? Please reply to this message or email me directly to register your interest in a leadership position. We need your help to maintain SIG VIS as an active group within the Association. If we are not successful at filling any leadership roles this year, we might consider merging SIG VIS with another ASIST SIG.

Please note: SIG VIS has signed up for our 2020 Business Meeting at the virtual Annual Meeting. These will be held via Uncommons session and a link to attend will be sent out closer to the start of the 2020 Annual Meeting.

The SIG VIS Business Meeting is scheduled for 10:30am on Tuesday, October 27.