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Application deadline: Monday, September 29, 2025 Application: NEASIS&T 2025 Presenter Stipend Application This application form requires you to be logged into a Google account to access it. Need an alternative way to apply? Email us at neasist@gmail.com Notification: end of October The US Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIS&T) is offering up to 4 Presenter Stipends…
We want to hear your thoughts on how we can better serve our members and community. Whether you attend every event or just follow along from time to time, your input is incredibly valuable. Please take a few minutes to complete our 2025 NEASIS&T Chapter Survey. The survey is designed to help us understand your…
Type: New Work Item Proposal (Technical Specification) Scope: Provides methodology and structured listing of technical activity fields for classifying standards publications. Description: This standard provides a methodology, and a listing of fields of (technical) activity, organized by groups and subgroups, for classifying standards publications. By inheritance, it provides a common, harmonized understanding of standards application…
21 August 2025 – The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T members resoundingly approved their Board’s proposal…
Call for Submissions SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards SIG-HLTH, ASIS&T’s Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, is pleased to open submissions for the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award, the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Short Paper Award, and the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Poster Award. We define health broadly to encompass research…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, and Alexander Magazinov, published in Volume 75, Issue 12 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST), is the recipient of…
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Niels Windfeld Lund’s Introduction to Documentation Studies, published by Facet Publishing, is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2025. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during the preceding calendar year.…
Description: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999? Decision: Approved with comments Comments: This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation. However, the following revisions are suggested:
Description: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes: Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244? Vote: No comments.
Description: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices…
NEASIS&T 2025 Presenter Stipend
Application deadline: Monday, September 29, 2025 Application: NEASIS&T 2025 Presenter Stipend Application This application form requires you to be logged into a Google account to access it. Need an alternative way to apply? Email us at neasist@gmail.com Notification: end of October The US Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIS&T) is offering up to 4 Presenter Stipends…
NEASIS&T Wants to Hear From You! Survey Now Open
We want to hear your thoughts on how we can better serve our members and community. Whether you attend every event or just follow along from time to time, your input is incredibly valuable. Please take a few minutes to complete our 2025 NEASIS&T Chapter Survey. The survey is designed to help us understand your…
ISO/NP TS 26019: Information and documentation – International Classification for Standards (ICS)
Type: New Work Item Proposal (Technical Specification) Scope: Provides methodology and structured listing of technical activity fields for classifying standards publications. Description: This standard provides a methodology, and a listing of fields of (technical) activity, organized by groups and subgroups, for classifying standards publications. By inheritance, it provides a common, harmonized understanding of standards application…
ASIS&T and SLA Members Vote in Favor of Merger
21 August 2025 – The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T members resoundingly approved their Board’s proposal…
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards
Call for Submissions SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards SIG-HLTH, ASIS&T’s Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, is pleased to open submissions for the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award, the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Short Paper Award, and the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Poster Award. We define health broadly to encompass research…
“Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts” Chosen for 2025 Best JASIST Paper Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, and Alexander Magazinov, published in Volume 75, Issue 12 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST), is the recipient of…
Introduction to Documentation Studies Wins Best Information Science Book Award
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Niels Windfeld Lund’s Introduction to Documentation Studies, published by Facet Publishing, is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2025. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during the preceding calendar year.…
ISO/DIS 999 – Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes
Description: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999? Decision: Approved with comments Comments: This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation. However, the following revisions are suggested:
ISO/CD 25244 – Archives Performance Indicators
Description: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes: Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244? Vote: No comments.
Systematic Review – ISO 30300:2020, Records Management – Core Concepts and Vocabulary
Description: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices…
Turning Metadata into Knowledge
Join the Central Ohio Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology on March 22 for a program featuring OCLC engineer Jeff Mixter discussing current research in metadata. OCLC Research has been working on a set of experimental processes that can mine knowledge from a wide variety of data sources such as WorldCat, VIAF, and…
Fully-funded PhD: Migrants’ heritage and its management in local cultural institutions (deadline 18 March 2016)
Fully-funded PhD: Migrants’ heritage and its management in local cultural institutions (deadline 18 March 2016) https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=72964&LID=2712 This interdisciplinary project will explore how local cultural institutions (museums, libraries, and archives) can better prepare themselves to embed and manage migrants’ cultural heritage in the digital age. Migrating heritage is a feature of our globalised world, characterized by…
News about President-elect Lynn Silpigni Connaway!
Posted on March 14, 2016 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington ASIS&T members always have so many exciting things going on, and our President-elect is no exception! Dr. Lynn Silpigni Connaway, a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, has two exciting talks coming up soon: Today, March 15, she will be giving a talk at the Vatican! Her talk…
Fully-funded PhD: Migrants’ heritage and its management in local cultural institutions (deadline 18 March 2016)
Fully-funded PhD: Migrants’ heritage and its management in local cultural institutions (deadline 18 March 2016) https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=72964&LID=2712 This interdisciplinary project will explore how local cultural institutions (museums, libraries, and archives) can better prepare themselves to embed and manage migrants’ cultural heritage in the digital age. Migrating heritage is a feature of our globalised world, characterized by…
4 PhD positions in the Department of Culture and Media Studies
Open for applications: 4 PhD positions in the Department of Culture and Media Studies Ume? University! http://www.kultmed.umu.se/om-institutionen/jobba-hos-oss/ – One PhD position in Ethnology (digital humanities is a prioritized field at the faculty) – One PhD position in Literary Studies – One PhD position in Museology – One PhD position in Ethnology or Media and Communication…
Opportunity: 2016 Summer Internship at IBM Research – Almaden
IBM is looking for talented students who are interested in applying for this competitive position to join a project for the summer. Full posting: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=26059&siteid=5016&AReq=29486BR Description: The Accelerated Discovery Lab at IBM Research – Almaden has an opening for a Summer Intern. The focus of the research is the use of qualitative and quantitative data…
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium Library Tour
Join the Central Ohio Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (CO-ASIS&T) and Librarian Sheila Campbell for a tour of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Sheila Campbell has been at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for nearly 20 years. The Library at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is not open to the general…
ASIST Annual Meeting 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-18, 2016
Join your colleagues from around the world at the first ASIS&T Annual Meeting outside North America ASIST AM 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-18, 2016 PLENARY speakers, are now on the web athttps://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/pleanary-speakers/ Greg Welch, Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation, University of Central Florida Markus Bundschus, Roche Diagnostics, Head Scientific & Business Information Services CHECK AIRFARES: Right…
The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Calls for Participation in the 2016 Summer Research Institute
When: 27 June to 1 July, 2016 Where: Skamania Lodge, Stevenson WA (one hour east of Portland, OR) To learn more about the venue, see:http://www.skamania.com. Deadline: Apply by 29 March, 2016, notifications by end of April, 2016 Personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information…
ROB KLING CENTER FOR SOCIAL INFORMATICS STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT
The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is pleased to announce the 2016 Student Research Grant. This fellowship of $1,500 will be used to support a doctoral student at Indiana University, Bloomington who is studying the ways computerization, the Internet, or digital media interact with people, organizations, or society. Applicants must submit a brief statement (up to…
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