Inside ASIS&T

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!…

New Members of ARIST Editorial Board Announced Lisa Given, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is pleased to announce the appointment of several new ARIST Editorial Board members. The Board includes experts drawn from around the globe and across the disciplines of information science, computing science, and technology studies.…

Member Spotlight: Catherine Dumas In each issue of Inside ASIS&T, we feature a different member to discuss ASIS&T and the field of information science and technology. Please contact Pamela Yonker if you would like to be featured as a Member Spotlight. Catherine Dumas, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Director UX & Immersive Technologies Lab Co-Faculty Advisor ASIS&T Student…

2024 Annual Meeting News, September 2024 We are just weeks out from the 2024 Annual Meeting in Calgary, AB, Canada. It looks like we will have another record attendance – with more than 450 people registered for the event already. We would love to see you there, and we hope you are planning to attend!…

Member News, September 2024 ASIS&T would like to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of members. Please share with us news of your tenure, promotion, doctoral defense, job change, publication and/or grant receipt. We will recognize these accomplishments in each issue of Inside ASIS&T. Please complete this form to let us know what you’ve done! Catherine Dumas Congratulations…

New from JASIST, September 2024 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…

New from Information Matters, September 2024 Check out the newest articles from Information Matters (IM), ASIS&T’s digital-only communication translational forum for information science, bringing relevant and current research evidence and industry developments, news, and opinion to a global public audience free of charge. Sign up for our weekly newsletters from IM. The Emotional and Informational Lives of More-than-Humans Niloofar…

Chapter News, September 2024 Africa Chapter Congratulations to the new Chapter officers for 2024-2025, Chair Sarah Kaddu and Chair-elect Connie Bitso. Asia Chapter Congratulations to the new Chapter officers for 2024-2025, Chair Zhenjia Fan and Chair-elect Shaobo Liang. Canada Chapter Congratulations to the new Chapter officers for 2024-2025, Chair Brian Detlor and Chair-elect Cansu Ekmekcioglu.…