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ASIS&T/SLA Merger Comments & FAQ

By lydmiddleton1 | June 7, 2025 | Comments Off on ASIS&T/SLA Merger Comments & FAQ

The folllowing comments have been received from ASIS&T and joint members in response to the ASIS&T/SLA merger framework: Some personal historical notes: 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 SLA Student Group…

SLA Merger Information

By lydmiddleton1 | June 5, 2025 | Comments Off on SLA Merger Information

ASIS&T will use this space to share information with our current and future members about the plans for and process of merger with the Special Libraries Association. A working group consisting of Heather Kotula, 2025 SLA President-Elect; John DiGilio, 2025 SLA Past President; Christine Pelosi, SLA Director; Julie Smith Maekask, SLA Director; James Manasco, SLA Director; Ian…

Julien to Receive the 2025 Award of Merit

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Julien to Receive the 2025 Award of Merit

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…

Agarwal to Receive 2025 Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Agarwal to Receive 2025 Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant

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…

Poole to Receive Bob Williams History Fund Best Paper Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Poole to Receive Bob Williams History Fund Best Paper Award

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…

Suraweera to Receive 2025 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Suraweera to Receive 2025 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership

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…

Mckie to Receive the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Mckie to Receive the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award

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…

Canning to Receive the 2025 ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Canning to Receive the 2025 ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship

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…

New Leader Awards Announced

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on New Leader Awards Announced

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…

Oh to Receive Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Oh to Receive Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

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)…

ISO/FDIS 26324 Digital Object Identifier System

By SC Webmaster | June 30, 2022

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 26324 Digital Object Identifier System Description: This document specifies the syntax, description and resolution functional components of the digital object identifier system. It specifies the general principles for the creation, registration and administration of DOI names (where DOI is an initialism for “digital object identifier”). This document defines the syntax for…

US Midwest ASIS&T members invited to apply for Annual Meeting award

By Midwest Chapter Webmaster | June 30, 2022

The US Midwest Regional Chapter of ASIS&T invites US Midwest Regional Chapter members to apply for the Chapter’s award of full registration fees for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting!  The Chapter provides one award annually, in order to increase chapter representation at the Meeting and to support a member who might not otherwise find means to…

Soo Young Rieh to Receive 2022 Watson Davis Award for Service 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 20, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Soo Young Rieh of the University of Texas at Austin is the 2022 recipient of the Watson Davis Award for Service. The award’s purpose is to recognize an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service…

Harry Bruce to Receive the Association for Information Science and Technology 2022 Award of Merit 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 19, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Harry Bruce is the recipient of the 2022 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 is based…

Bhakti Gala to Receive the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)  2022 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 19, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Bhakti Gala, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, is the 2022 recipient of the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award.   The award recognizes a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in…

To Commemorate the SIG-DL 22nd Year Anniversary A Call For Nomination: SIG-DL Awards – Open Theme

By SIG-LIB Webmaster | June 16, 2022

TO COMMEMORATE THE SIG-DL 22ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY A CALL FOR NOMINATION: SIG-DL AWARDS – OPEN THEME SIG-DL COMMEMORATION AWARDS  2022 COMBINED AWARDS: 1 Student Engagement Award: $1000.00 combined award -SIG-DL & SIG-VIS – entry instruction please visit the link: https://www.asist.org/2022/05/21/best-student-paper-award/   STUDENT SIG-DL Awards 2022 ASIS &T Annual Meeting: Award 2: 1 SIG-DL Best Paper…

ARIST, Call for Submissions

By pyonker@asist.org | June 15, 2022

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) publishes comprehensive and systematic reviews on topics relevant to information science, computing science, and technology, broadly defined. An ideal ARIST manuscript presents both an historic overview and a discussion of contemporary trends related to the topic being investigated. The audience for ARIST reviews is diverse, including…

Zhe He Receives the 2022 Lois Lunin Award 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 15, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Zhe He of Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. is the 2022 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.  Dr. Zhe He is an Associate…

“Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” Receives ASIS&T 2022 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 15, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence,” written by Kate Crawford and published by Yale University Press is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2022. The award’s purpose is to recognize the…

Jesse Ludington Receives 2022 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award 

By pyonker@asist.org | June 15, 2022

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Jesse Ludington has been selected as the 2022 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.    Ludington’s paper entitled, “Social Media as…

ASIS&T/SLA Merger Comments & FAQ

By lydmiddleton1 | June 7, 2025

The folllowing comments have been received from ASIS&T and joint members in response to the ASIS&T/SLA merger framework: Some personal historical notes: 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 SLA Student Group…

SLA Merger Information

By lydmiddleton1 | June 5, 2025

ASIS&T will use this space to share information with our current and future members about the plans for and process of merger with the Special Libraries Association. A working group consisting of Heather Kotula, 2025 SLA President-Elect; John DiGilio, 2025 SLA Past President; Christine Pelosi, SLA Director; Julie Smith Maekask, SLA Director; James Manasco, SLA Director; Ian…

Julien to Receive the 2025 Award of Merit

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Agarwal to Receive 2025 Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Poole to Receive Bob Williams History Fund Best Paper Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Suraweera to Receive 2025 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Mckie to Receive the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Canning to Receive the 2025 ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

New Leader Awards Announced

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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…

Oh to Receive Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

By lydmiddleton1 | May 29, 2025

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)…

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