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SIG News, November 2024

SIG News, November 2024 SIG-AH /  SIG-VIS SIG-AH and SIG-VIS have decided to merge to form SIG-Arts & Visual Cultures (SIG-AVC). Travis Wagner will serve as Chair of the SIG for the 2024-2025 year. If you are interested in running to serve as Chair-Elect, please contact Lydia Middleton not later than November 30, 2024. SIG-CMR…

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Upcoming Webinars and Events

Upcoming Webinars and Events ASIS&T Webinars, your source for online live and on-demand content created by the Association for Information Science & Technology, are free to ASIS&T members. Our webinars connect you with experts and global thought leaders in information science, management, and business on relevant professional issues. Webinar: Evidence Doesn’t Speak for Itself Presenter: Sue…

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Affiliated Organization News, November 2024

Affiliated Organization News, November 2024 IFLA Library History SIG- Call for Book Chapter Proposals Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2024 Full chapters will be due in April of 2026. The book will be published in 2027 by De Gruyter academic publishing Read more about the Call for Proposals. International Journal on Digital Libraries International Journal…

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From Your Executive Director, September 2024

From Your Executive Director, September 2024 Dear Colleagues, What an exciting time it has been here at ASIS&T Central! Today I had the pleasure of orienting our new incoming Board Members, Lu An and Timothy Dickey, and immediately after that we had the ASIS&T President’s Lecture with David Lankes. What a great presentation that was!…

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Governance Update, September 2024

Governance Update, September 2024 The Board of Directors met on July 29, 2024 via Zoom. 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; Aylen Imeri, PhD; Luanne Sinnamon, PhD;…

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Greyson to Receive Inaugural 2024 Impact Award

Greyson to Receive Inaugural 2024 Impact Award The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Devon Greyson of the University of British Columbia will receive the 2024 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and…

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Media Ruins Wins ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award

Media Ruins Wins ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award Maggie Jack The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology, written by Margaret Jack and published by MIT Press is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2024.…

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“Don’t Say Gay in Alabama” Chosen for 2024 Best JASIST Paper Award

“Don’t Say Gay in Alabama” Chosen for 2024 Best JASIST Paper Award Bharat Mehra Baheya Jaber 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…

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Bessho to Receive 2024 Pratt Severn Student Paper Award

Bessho to Receive 2024 Pratt Severn Student Paper Award 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…

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