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Our dutch treat dinner is on: Monday Nov 3 8pm (we will meet at the registration desk at 8pm) Wild Ginger @ 1401 3rd Ave Seattle, WA 98101 (5 min walk from Sheraton) We thank Alexandra Fox for her great suggestions!
Read MoreLooking for all the latest news & scholarship from ASIS&T’s 77th Annual Meeting, but not able to make it to Seattle? The New England Chapter is planning a happy-hour mixer with the Simmons Student Chapter at Church Restaurant on Friday, November 14. The first of us will get there some time around 5:00pm and hopefully…
Read MorePosted on November 2, 2014 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington It’s a soft launch in beta, but it’s up! Check it out at https://www.asist.org!!! This website is the culmination of over four years of work for me. When Linda Smith was president, she asked me to chair the Webinar Task Force, which was charged with investigating our…
Read MorePlease join SIG SI for the following events at ASIS&T 2014, the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology in Seattle, WA: Saturday November 1 8:30am – 12:30pm: The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities (in Leschi, on the 3rd floor of the Sheraton Seattle Hotel). This year we are celebrating a…
Read MoreContext in Information Behavior Research Date: November 1, 2014 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA Symposium Co-chairs: K.-Sun Kim (University of Wisconsin – Madison) & Lu Xiao (University of Western Ontario) Schedule: 1:30 – 1:45 Welcome and introduction Rong Tang (Simmons College), K.-Sun Kim (University of Wisconsin – Madison) Lu…
Read MorePlease mark your calendars to attend the following SIG-STI Events during the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle. All Annual Meeting attendees are invited! SIG-STI Business Meeting Monday, November 3, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Madronna Room. Coffee and pastries will be served! 3D Technologies: New Tools for Information Scientists to Engage, Educate and…
Read MoreEuropean Student Chapter of ASIS&T: Maria Henkel, chair / social media Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Universitätsstraße 1, Düsseldorf, Germany Email: maria.henkel[at]hhu.de Homepage Joanna Mazur, co-chair University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927, Poland Email: j.mazur[at]delab.uw.edu.pl Jure Žilić, secretary Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia Trg Svetog Trojstva 3, 31000 Email: jzilic[at]ffos.hr…
Read MoreHi all, since October 15, we have a new ESC board – and it is larger than ever! Some of the members may be familiar to you while others are not. Time for a presentation of the new board members! Christine Meschede, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Christine fills the newletter editor position in the chapter. “I’m Christine, a…
Read MorePosted on October 20, 2014 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington Posted on behalf of Sandy Hirsh. –Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Social Media Manager As incoming ASIS&T President, one of my major initiatives this year is strategic planning for the association. With the ongoing changes to our field, the range of choices that people have to engage professionally,…
Read MoreHi everybody, Welcome from the new European Student Chapter board! Thanks to Tamara and all others who were engaged in the last term of the ESC, you did a great job! The elections are over and we are happy to have a highly motivated team working together in this period. The new board members are…
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This is part 4 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. Attending the Association for…
Read MoreThis is part 3 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. In 2025, I marked…
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Hello good info-folk. I am writing to you for the first time in my term as ASIS&T president. As a member of the board of directors and as president-elect, I have worked with several presidents, and admired their collaborative leadership styles, incisive intelligence and good humor. I hope I can fill those big shoes! (Metaphorically…
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Greetings colleagues, As we move into a new year of activity and opportunity for ASIS&T, I am pleased to reflect on a period marked by momentum, resilience, and forward-looking collaboration across our community. First, I want to celebrate the tremendous success of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City. Nearly 600 colleagues joined us…
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The Board of Directors met on November 15, 2025 in person in Crystal City, Virginia and via Zoom. In attendance were; Ian Ruthven (President) (zoom); Maria Bonn (President-Elect); Chris Cunningham, PhD, (Treasurer); Lu An (Zoom), Anne Barker (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Timothy Dickey, Bhakti Gala; Lisa Hussey; Aylin Imeri; Heather Kotula (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Luanne Sinnamon,…
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Vicki Gregory ASIS&T was saddened to learn of the passing of long-time member Vicki Gregory on January 4. Vicki joined ASIS&T in 1983 and, during her membership tenure, served in the leadership of several SIGs and Chapters, served as Treasurer of ASIS&T from 2008 to 2015, and was awarded the Watson Davis Award for Service…
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ASIS&T will be launching the search for a new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) in February of 2026. Steve Sawyer, the current Editor-in-Chief, will be retiring from his position in July of 2026. A search committee, chaired by Isto Huvila of Uppsala University, Sweden will be issuing…
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We are excited to announce the new dates for the ASIS&T 2026 Annual Meeting taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from November 6-10. Every effort was made to secure a venue and date that did not create challenges for members wishing to attend both the ASIS&T and ALISE Annual Meetings in 2026. We recognize the proximity…
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Register Today and Reserve Your Hotel! We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Information Science Summit & Special Libraries Conference (ISS/SLC26) taking place in June in Albuquerque, NM | USA! Carrying on the tradition of the very successful SLA Annual Conference, this conference will explore new frontiers of information science and librarianship…
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We are pleased to announce that the Exhibitor and Sponsor Prospectus for the ASIS&T Information Science Summit and Special Libraries Conference (ISSS/SLC26) is now available, and exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are officially open. Carrying on the tradition of the very successful SLA Annual Conference, this meeting will bring together a highly engaged, international audience of…
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