ASIS&T News

ASIS&T Executive Director Search Update and Open Forums Posted on December 5, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara ASIS&T Executive Director Search Committee update and invitation to all ASIS&T members to participate in the process. ASIS&T Executive Director Search Committee is comprised of Sandy Hirsh and Clara Chu as Committee Co-Chairs, Jamshid Beheshti, Nadia Caidi, Lynn Connaway,…

New Jersey Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series Award Announced Posted on November 30, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara The New Jersey Chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that this year’s Distinguished Lecture Series Award will be presented to Dr. Barbara Wildemuth, Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina…

ASIS&T is proud to announce the winners of the eminent Watson Davis Award to Diane H. Sonnenwald, PhD and Donald O. Case, PhD Posted on November 23, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara On October 18, 2016 at the ASIS&T annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dr. Case and Dr. Sonnenwald received the prestigious Watson Davis award. Commemorating…

ASIS&T to Participate in #GivingTuesday Posted on November 15, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara Something magical happens when we tell a person that they matter.  That they are important.  It changes their lives by empowering them.  And the wonderful thing is – we all can make this magic happen. There is nothing more magical than having…

2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting/Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon: Report and Recommendations EDITOR’S SUMMARY ASIS&T has continuously worked to enhance diversity and inclusion over its long history, including the formation of the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues and the name change from the American Society for Information Science and Technology to the Association for Information Science and…

ASIS&T Announces next Editor-in-Chief of JASIST Posted on November 6, 2015 by ASIS&T Staff It is with great pleasure that the ASIS&T Board announces that Javed Mostafa, Professor at the University of North Carolina, will be the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), starting in January 2016. Mostafa brings…

Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet? Posted on November 4, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff       Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet? by Robert Graboyes, PBS Newshour     Observe librarians, and you’ll learn quite a bit about 21st century physicians. Digital technologies are…

George Douglas Ryerson Posted on November 3, 2015 by ASIS&T Staff   George Ryerson George Douglas Ryerson, age 81, died on October 30, 2015 in Westerville, Ohio. George was ASIS&T Treasurer, 1999 – 2001, and served several terms as Treasurer of the Central Ohio Chapter, among other activities for the Chapter. As colleague Gerard Platau…

ASIS&T 2017 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Washington D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia), USA | Oct. 27-Nov 1, 2017 Submission Deadline (paper): April 16, 2017 Diversity of engagement: Connecting people and information in the physical and virtual worlds 2017 is a special year for the Association for Information Science &…

Primer for Falling Short of Their Professional Needs Posted on October 25, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara In a recent Inside Higher Ed article, Professor Wiegand provides an analysis based on his recent book, Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, on how we fail to consider all the various assets public libraries provide. As…