ASIS&T News
The following comments have been received from ASIS&T and joint members in response to the ASIS&T/SLA merger framework: Some personal historical notes from Linda Smith: SLA/ASIS(T) merger discussions were active but failed in the summer of 1971 when I began studying for my MS in Library Science. Subsequently I joined SLA and helped found an…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Heidi Julien is the recipient of the 2025 ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the Association. The award’s purpose is to recognize an individual who has made particularly noteworthy and sustained contributions to the information science field. The award…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Naresh Agarwal is the recipient of the 2025 Bob Williams Research Grant. The Grant is awarded to an outstanding research proposal exploring the history of information science and technology. Agarwal’s grant proposal is titled, “Weaving the history of the information science field…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Alex H. Poole has been awarded a 2025 Bob Williams History Fund Award for his research paper titled “‘There’s a big difference between going through life with the wind at your back, and going through life leaning into the wind’: Feminism in…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Namali Suraweera, PhD, is the recipient of the 2025 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership. The award’s purpose is to recognize a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities. Dr. Namali Suraweera is an Academic Developer…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Indra Ayu Mckie, PhD, is the 2025 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award for their dissertation titled, “Co-experiencing conversational AI: An ethnographic exploration of embodied interactions with voice assistants.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Erin Canning is the recipient of the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award. The award’s purpose is to foster research in information science by recognizing the year’s most outstanding doctoral dissertation proposal while encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Rawan Almakinah, Lateef Ayinde, Jane Bartley, Hassan Mortada, and Le Yang are the recipients of the 2025 ASIS&T New Leaders Award. The award’s purpose is to engage and retain new members and to identify potential for new leadership in the Association. Rawan…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce Kyong Eun Oh as the recipient of the 2025 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. Since 1980, this annual award has honored the unique teaching contributions of exceptional teachers of information science. Oh is an Associate Professor (Full Professor as of July 1)…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Candice Taylor has been selected as the 2025 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 of information science. Taylor’s paper entitled, “You Have to…