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The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Dania Bilal is the recipient of the 2026 Watson Davis Award for Service. The award recognizes an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T and made substantial and lasting contributions to ASIS&T…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms, written by Amelia Acker and published by MIT Press, is one of two recipients of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2026. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo as the winner of the 2026 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. Since 1980, this annual award has honored the unique teaching contributions of exceptional teachers of information science. Sanfilippo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Travis Wagner is the recipient of the 2026 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. Wagner is an Assistant Professor at the University…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Katherine Knight has been selected as the 2026 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. Knight’s paper entitled, “Librarians, not lawyers:…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the recipient of the 2026 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…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Saira Hanif Soroya is the 2026 recipient of the Lois Lunin Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to the practice of information science and technology through leadership, mentoring, and innovation. Saira is an Associate Professor in the Department…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Nayana Kirasur is the recipient of the 2026 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 Kate McDowell will receive the 2026 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and provides role models and examples for new scholars wishing to translate research into…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Nathan Johnson is the recipient of the 2026 Bob Williams Research Grant. The Grant is awarded to an outstanding research proposal exploring the history of information science and technology. Johnson’s grant proposal is titled, “Where We Forget: Information Systems and the Redistribution…
From the Chair of SIG-STI
Hello! My name is Michael Luesebrink and I am the current chair of the special interest group (SIG) for Scientific and Technical Information (STI). Â I am using this column as an opportunity to reach out to the members of STI as part of an initiative to encourage more members to learn about our SIG and…
CFP: Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspective in IS Development @ CAISE 2015
A call for papers has been issued for a Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on June 9 as part of CAISE 2015 (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). Abstracts are due by March 7th; full papers by March 15th. The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in IS development, the long…
ASIS&T SIG/STI Sponsors a Best Paper Award
The special interest group (SIG), Scientific and Technical Information, is pleased to announce their annual Best Paper Award. This award is conferred upon a research article, which is acknowledged by our peers as the best paper in the library and information science literature that pertains to the subject of scientific and technical information. The winner will receive…
Join Us to Work with Local and Student Chapters
We need volunteers to initiation communication with local and student chapters in our effort to enhance academic exchange and encourage future collaborations. This could be a great opportunity for us to strengthen personal connections with members of local ASIS&T organizations. We encourage volunteers to: – Contact the leadership of local chapters and student chapters –…
Sign Up for SIG-HLTH Listserv
We noticed a major problem with communication with our members is the lack of automated sign-in for our listserv. We have added all members to our listserv and you will be receiving our newsletters from now on. Please email Si Sun at sisun@rutgers.edu if you would like to sign up with a different email address.
Member Spotlight January 2015
Laura M. Eisenmann Laura M. Eisenmann has extensive experience in global professional services firms delivering knowledge management solutions, developing digital knowledge products and databases, and organizing information for findability and reuse, including content architecture, taxonomy development, metadata management, search, and usability. She currently leads the Knowledge Management function at Health Advances, LLC, a strategy consulting firm advising…
Webinars for 2015
PLEASE FILL OUT OUR SHORT SURVEY BELOW We are planning a few webinars for the coming year, starting from February, 2015. The themes we planned are as follows: 1. Conversation between areas: Communicate patient work with clinical care. 2. Methodology: qualitative research and quantitative research methods in health informatics. We are looking for speakers and ideas on other…
Smart Libraries
FLUX ET FORMES DES ESPACES DE LA CULTURE Architecture and libraries: flows and forms in spaces dedicated to culture This one day symposium took place at the 29th January, 2015 and was held at the Lyon Central Library. It was co-organized by the Central Public Library of Lyon (BML) and École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des…
ALISE 2015: Breaking down silos, pouring coffee
Posted on February 4, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the ALISE 2015 conference in Chicago. ALISE is the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Its members are LIS faculty members, and the research presented mostly focuses on issues related to LIS education. It’s also perhaps the most important…
On webinars on webinars
Posted on January 26, 2015 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington How many of you know about ASIS&T’s webinar program? The association provides a wide range of webinars. Most webinars are free for ASIS&T’s members, and they are archived so you can view them at any time. With our webinars, you can learn about new things at any…
Bilal to receive 2026 Watson Davis Award for Service
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Dania Bilal is the recipient of the 2026 Watson Davis Award for Service. The award recognizes an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T and made substantial and lasting contributions to ASIS&T…
Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms Wins Best Information Science Book Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms, written by Amelia Acker and published by MIT Press, is one of two recipients of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2026. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information…
Sanfilippo to Receive Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo as the winner of the 2026 ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. Since 1980, this annual award has honored the unique teaching contributions of exceptional teachers of information science. Sanfilippo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences…
Wagner to Receive 2026 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Travis Wagner is the recipient of the 2026 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. Wagner is an Assistant Professor at the University…
Knight to Receive 2026 Pratt Severn Student Paper Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Katherine Knight has been selected as the 2026 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. Knight’s paper entitled, “Librarians, not lawyers:…
Connaway to Receive the 2026 Award of Merit
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the recipient of the 2026 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…
Soroya to Receive 2026 Lois Lunin Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Saira Hanif Soroya is the 2026 recipient of the Lois Lunin Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to the practice of information science and technology through leadership, mentoring, and innovation. Saira is an Associate Professor in the Department…
Kirasur to Receive the 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Nayana Kirasur is the recipient of the 2026 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…
McDowell to Receive 2026 ASIS&T Research Impact Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Kate McDowell will receive the 2026 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and provides role models and examples for new scholars wishing to translate research into…
Johnson to Receive 2026 Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Nathan Johnson is the recipient of the 2026 Bob Williams Research Grant. The Grant is awarded to an outstanding research proposal exploring the history of information science and technology. Johnson’s grant proposal is titled, “Where We Forget: Information Systems and the Redistribution…
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Porrexerat mutatas ita campos caelum viseret locoque rudis. Homini tollere aer caeli acervo. Occiduo onus origo zonae iapeto inminet nulli elementaque.Deducite usu montibus igni tegit dixere campoque quem nulli.
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