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Hi SIG SI members, we are now seeking nominations for three officer positions with the SIG. The first of these is for the position of Chair or Co-Chair of the SIG for 2017-18. The responsibilities of the SIG’s Chair or Co-Chair include organizing and running SIG SI’s annual symposium / workshop, with assistance from invited symposium committee members (if…
Read MorePosted on October 9, 2017 by ASIS&T Staff The 2017 Chapter Event of the Year Award goes to the Central Ohio Chapter’s (CO-ASIS&T) “2017 Summer of Tours.” The purpose of the award is to recognize the best event held by a Chapter during the previous year. Criteria used to judge chapter events are relevance for…
Read MorePosted on October 9, 2017 by ASIS&T Staff The winner of the Best Information Science Book Award is Interactions with Search Systems by Ryen W. White, published by Cambridge University Press. The award is given to the author whose book is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution in the field of information science…
Read MorePosted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo Natalie Ornat, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is awarded the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award for her paper Reading for Your Life: The Impact of Reading and Writing During the Siege of Sarajevo. The purpose of this award is to encourage student research…
Read MorePosted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo Recognition for SIG Member of the Year goes to Arjun Sabharwal, SIG/VIS and SIG/AH member. The purpose of the award is to recognize the service of an individual to the program of a particular SIG. It is given for significant contributions to the membership of the SIG through…
Read MorePosted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo SIG/Arts & Humanities’s (SIG/AH) publication, The June/July Bulletin Special Section on A New Open Humanities has been chosen as the winner of the ASIS&T 2017 SIG Publication of the Year Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize the best publication by a SIG during the previous year.…
Read MorePosted on October 5, 2017 by Stephan Addo SIG/Visualization, Images & Sound (SIG/VIS) has been chosen as the winner of the ASIS&T 2017 SIG of the Year Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding professional accomplishments and activities of an ASIS&T Special Interest Group. SIGS are evaluated on a number of criteria, including…
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The Central Ohio Chapter is pleased to announce that it has been awarded ASIS&T’s Chapter Event-of-the-Year Award for its “2017 Summer of Tours”! The Summer of Tours offered tours and expert practitioner presentations at five different central Ohio information institutions. Reviewers noted the diversity of these five tours (one associated with a school library, one…
Read MorePosted on October 3, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (October 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! With 17 research articles ranging from Temporal Dynamics of Eye-Tracking and EEG During Reading and Relevance Decisions to Mendeley Readership as a Filtering Tool to Identify Highly Cited Publications, there’s something for everyone!…
Read MoreOfficers SIG-DL is seeking nominations for the following officer positions by Monday, October 30, 2017: Chair-elect Secretary/Treasurer Communications Officer Membership Officer Webmaster Details about the responsibilities of each officer position can be found here. Committee Conveners We are also seeking nominations for Committee Conveners: Digital Liaisons Committee Webinars Committee Newsletter Committee Nominations Current SIG-DL members in…
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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…
Read MoreThe 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…
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 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…
Read MoreThe 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:…
Read MoreThe 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…
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 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 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…
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…
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