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Call for papers: IWILDS2020@CIKM2020 – First International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search Workshop Website Workshop date: October 19th (full day), collocated with CIKM 2020 Important Dates Submission deadline: 2020-07-15 Acceptance notification: 2020-08-15 Camera-ready submission: Workshop date: 2020-10-19 Keynote talks by Carita Kiili, Faculty of Education & Culture, University of Tampere, Finland Claudia Hauff,…
Read MoreSociotechnical Change Agents: ICTs, Sustainability, and Global Challenges Aligning with the theme of the 2020 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Special Interest Group Social Informatics (SIG SI) will hold its 16th annual symposium in conjunction with SIG Social Media (SIG SM) and SIG Information Ethics and Policy (SIG IEP), allowing for ASIS&T members to better discuss how…
Read MoreThe Dataverse Community is excited to announce the sixth annual Dataverse Community Meeting! #dataverse2020 will take place over Zoom on June 17, 18, and 19. Learn more and register for free at https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dcm2020. You don’t need to use Dataverse or even be familiar with Dataverse to join. #dataverse2020 is open to anybody interested in research…
Read MoreOn May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in Minneapolis, at the hands of police brutality and, as a community, ASIS&T grieves with his family and so many other families who have suffered as a consequence of racism and injustice. We stand in solidarity with those speaking up for justice on the…
Read MoreJASIST Special Issue on “Digital Humanities (DH)” This special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) mirrors the increasing worldwide attention on Digital Humanities (DH), “a discipline in its own right” (Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth, 2004, xxiii). It is noticeable that DH has generated a paradigm shift at the intersection…
Read MoreSIG USE Early Career Best Paper Award The SIG USE Early Career Best Paper Award was established in 2020 and is administered by the SIG USE Awards Committee. It is sponsored by SIG USE. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of a Certificate for the winning author (and each co-author) and a…
Read MoreDownload Strategic Plan as PDF Executive Summary This document outlines and describes the strategic plan for the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the years 2020 to 2025. Development of the plan was led by a Strategic Planning Task Force formed shortly after the Annual Meeting in Melbourne in October 2019. A variety…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce two conference support awards for participation in the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually this year. Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing new voices to the chapter. There is one student award…
Read MoreIn accordance with the ASIS&T Bylaws, each Professional, Retired, Student and Institutional Member 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 ballots must be returned to the ASIS&T office not later than June…
Read MoreIn early 2020 the ASIS&T Governance Committee was tasked with reviewing the ASIS&T Constitution & Bylaws and proposing amendments that would address to concerns. The first concern was that the Chapter Assembly Director and SIG Cabinet Director were each elected by their respective bodies yet held seats on the Board of Directors, the rest of…
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2026 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award Application Deadline: Monday, July 20, 2026 Notification of Award Winners: mid or late August 2026 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: 6-10 November, 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand Application: NEASIST 2026 Conference Support Award application NEASIS&T Conference Support Award The Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T is offering up to 4 conference support awards to…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dimaz Ardhi, Kayla Burt, Satyam Kumar, Jannatul Muna, and Dwi Sari are the recipients of the 2026 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. Dimaz…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Ning Zou is the 2026 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, “From Data to Action: Towards a Framework for Collaborative Personal Informatics in Dementia Care.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Valuing Curation Infrastructures,” written by Morgan F. Wofford, Andrea K. Thomer, Libby Hemphill, Katherine Polasek, & Elizabeth Yakel, published in Volume 76, Issue 12 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST), is the recipient of the Best…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Sanda Erdelez is the recipient of the 2026 Research in Information Science Award. The award recognizes an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution to information science research. The award is for a systematic “program of research” in a single…
Read MoreThe 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…
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