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Welcome our new SIG IEP Officers: Kenneth Haggerty is moving from Chair-elect to Chair as Emad has stepped down as Chair due to a new professional opportunity! Congratulations to Emad on his new position with Indeed.com and to Kevin to being the new Chair of SIG IEP. Abby Phillips is the new Chair-Elect, moving up…
Read MoreBest Information Behavior Conference Paper Award Recipient: Caroline Mniszak, Heather O’Brien, Cathy Chabot, and Jean Shoveller Affiliation: University of British Columbia Title: Role of information resources in young parents parenting experiences Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award Recipients: Jia Tina Du and Jelina Haines Affiliation: University of South Australia, Australia Title: Working with Indigenous communities: Reflections on ethical…
Read MoreDear ASIS&T AP Chapter members,We’ve received one nomination for AP Chapter Chair-elect for 2018-2019. An election/confirmation regarding this will be conducted very soon. On behalf of the ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Chapter, I would like to invite nominations for the following officer positions for 2018-2019: Secretary Treasurer Website administrator The current officers are: Chair: José Miguel Baptista…
Read MoreCheck out the slides for the paper presentations for the 2018 SIG-USE Symposium! Waseem Afzal, Advancing Information Behavior Research: An Examination of “Flow” and “Derivatives” Xiaofeng Li, Embodied Information Practices Among Young People at Library Makerspaces Bharat Mehra, Everette Scott Sikes, & Vandana Singh, Information Technology Use Behaviors of Community-Engaged Rural Librarians: A Future beyond the Theory-Practice Discourse…
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UNT ASIS&T won big at the 2018 Annual Meeting with the chapter winning the Student Chapter of the Year Award. The awards committee stated that we won the award because of our chapter’s active engagement with our members, as well as the quality of our programing and events. We are thankful for this award and…
Read MoreThere was hearty applause last night at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Vancouver, as the Honorable Mention was cited for CO-ASIS&T in the 2018 Chapter of the Year award. Thank you all for your contributions to the life of the Chapter, and for this milestone; I’m looking forward to more great things in the Midwest…
Read MoreSIG-DL is looking for a new promising member to fill in the Secretary/ Treasurer position. There is still time join this amazing and diverse group! Please fill in your nomination in this form by Monday, November 12th – Nominations for SIG-DL 2018-2019 Executive Board. We look forward to working with you!
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The Archives of Otterbein University are housed in the Courtwright Memorial Library and include a rich collection of materials from the Theatre and Dance Department as well as numerous publications, yearbooks, journals, scrapbooks, and historical items that are of great interest to alumni. The University Archivist and Digital Initiatives Librarian have reviewed and determined which items would be of greatest interest and value to constituents. As…
Read MoreThis year’s ASIS&T SIG SI Social and Dinner at ASIS&T 2018 will take place Sunday, November 11th at 7:15pm, at Showcase Restaurant & Bar, 1122 W Hastings Street, Vancouver. The restaurant is about 6-7 minutes from the conference hotel, at the SW corner of Hastings and Thurlow, and is attached to the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle (with separate entrance). We’ll gather…
Read MoreDeadline extended: all submissions now due November 9th. The Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Digital Libraries (ASIS&T SIG DL) is inviting submissions for a student poster competition at this year’s ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Posters proposals should be 500 words in length and include Presenter name(s), a title,…
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Candidate for Treasurer Biography Expand Dr. Chris Cunningham finished his Doctoral studies at the University of South Carolina. He received his Master in Library and Information Studies from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, focusing on technology and his Bachelor in Art in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with minors in Mathematics…
Read MoreCandidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dr. Rebekah (Becky) Willson is an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at McGill University (Montréal, Canada). Dr. Willson’s research is in the field of information behaviour and practices – particularly focusing on individuals and groups who are undergoing transitions and living with uncertainty, including academics working on…
Read MoreCandidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden. His primary areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social…
Read MoreCandidate for President-Elect Biography Expand Dr. Marlene Holmner holds a DPhil in Information Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and is an Associate Professor and the current Head of the Department of the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research interests lie in the fields of Information Ethics,…
Read MoreIn accordance with the ASIS&T Bylaws, all Professional, Retired, Student, Lifetime, and Institutional Members in good standing on May 1 of the election year shall be entitled to one vote on the Board of Directors Ballot. Should you prefer to vote by mail, please send an email to lmiddleton@asist.org to request a paper ballot. Paper…
Read MoreASIS&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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWebinar Description This webinar, Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces, will feature Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak, co-authors of Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia. Drawing from their personal and scholarly insights as disabled scholars, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
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