SIG-Infolearn Events
NEASIS&T has planned an exciting summer webinar, presented by Jon Ippolito, exploring how libraries and digital collections are grappling with a surge in AI-generated submissions. When: August 7, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EDT) Where: Virtual Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $25 for non-members Register for the event (ASIS&T members should log in before…
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The Australian band Crowded House had a famous song, ‘Always Take the Weather With You’. To be honest, I wish they would take the weather as it’s raining again in Glasgow. So many news stories now are around weather: floods, droughts, heat waves, and loss of natural habitats. Climate action is one of the Grand…
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ASIS&T Executive Director, Lydia Middleton has recorded a video sharing updates about the organization. Captions are available by clicking “cc”. Please note that these captions are auto-generated so may not be 100% accurate. Back to Inside ASIS&T, July 2025
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Over the past six weeks, ASIS&T has been collecting and responding to member feedback on the possibility of merger with the Special Libraries Association. On June 29 the associations held a joint Town Hall where many member questions were answered. The details of the proposed merger along with links to the questions and responses as…
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Dear Colleagues, I’m happy to be nearing the final stages of strategic planning for the next three years of work for our organization. It’s been a pleasure working with our enthusiastic and committed task force and the Board of directors and learning about their vision for the organization. In recent months, it’s been very exciting…
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In the 2025 ASIS&T Membership Survey, we asked you how we could improve your member experience. Our dedicated Membership Committee took time to analyze your feedback, and created a summary for the Board to use as a foundational document to guide the Strategic Planning process. Here are some of the items we wanted to highlight…
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Meet New Colleagues. Grow Your Engagement. Give Back To Your Professional Community. Volunteer with ASIS&T. Volunteers are the life-blood of ASIS&T and provide the intellectual capital and human resources to power all we do! Don’t miss this opportunity to give back to your profession while enhancing your professional network and your CV! ASIS&T is seeking…
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Join the Sponsors Making a Difference Help champion the people who make this conference a vibrant and impactful gathering. Your sponsorship directly supports the scholars, practitioners, and students who are advancing the field of information science through their research, innovation, and collaboration. Join us in empowering the work that shapes our community and the future…
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JOIN US AT THE 2025 ASIS&T ANNUAL MEETING – REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE The 88th ASIS&T Annual Meeting is set to take place November 14-18, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Virginia, USA. This year’s theme, “Difficult Conversations: The Role of Information Science in the Age of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,” promises a thought-provoking program filled with dynamic…
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25-28 AUGUST 2025 Online/On-Demand Certificate Course Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a disruptive but transformative technology that can bring value to libraries by enabling increased library use, optimizing collection analysis, and enhancing the user experience. Library and information professionals must keep abreast of advances in AI technologies in order to provide innovative and value-added services, access,…
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UNT ASIS&T is starting a newsletter in order to keep our community up to date with chapter activities, upcoming opportunities, and important news. As you know, being a member of our student chapter is totally free! If you would like to join our international parent organization, student memberships are only $40. This gets you access…
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The State Library of Ohio is a state agency that serves state government, all types of libraries, and residents. The State Library also serves the community: 1) directly, by building and managing quality collections and providing hands-on service to state government, 2) cooperatively, through collaborative efforts and information sharing networks such as OhioLINK, the Ohio Digital Library, Serving Every Ohioan,…
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The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2019 Winter Event: The amount, variety, and production rate of data have increased exponentially and rapidly. We also have tools that make data more available and make crunching data…
Read MoreOn behalf of the ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Chapter, I would like to announce the following officer positions for 2019: Chair: Sam Chu (University of Hong Kong Chair-elect: Tina Du (University of South Australia, Australia) Past-Chair: José Miguel Baptista Nunes (Sun Yet-Sen University, China) Secretary: Dan Wu (Wuhan University, China) Treasurer: Waseem Afzal (Charles Sturt University, Australia)…
Read MoreBy Naresh Agarwal I was asked to write about my impressions of the ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting (AM18), which was held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada from November 10-14, 2018. My tweets from the conference are accessible at https://twitter.com/nareshag. I have not missed a single ASIS&T meeting since my very first annual meeting in 2008 in Columbus,…
Read MoreBy Ana Roeschley The 14th Annual International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) was sponsored by ASIS&T and was co-located in Vancouver on November 9th and 10th. Occurring immediately before the start of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, ICKM was an opportunity for knowledge management scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas on the topic before heading into…
Read MoreWelcome to the 2018-2019 SIG-DL Executive Team & Committee Conveners! 2018-2019 SIG-DL Executive Team Chair: Tamarack Hockin Chair-elect: Ekatarina Grguric Secretary: Alessandra Seiter Treasurer: Nushrat Khan Communications Officer: Bushra A. Jaswal Webmaster: Carla Colombati Past Chair: Nushrat Khan 2018-19 SIG-DL Committee Conveners Webinars: Anna Maria Tammaro
Read MoreThe Journal Education for Information will be publishing several Special Issues, with two of them having (extended) deadlines in January: Innovative approaches in (L)IS education (Jan 15 2019) Engaging with Open Science in Learning and Teaching (Jan 31 2019) Both Issues will be edited by members of the Eurpean Chapter. For further information, please see the full Call for…
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MIRS is a one-day research symposium co-hosted by the University of North Texas College of Information, the UNT ASIS&T Student Chapter, and SLANT to showcase the research efforts of information scholars and practitioners. The theme for MIRS 2019 is Information, Language, and Power. Students and early professionals are highly encouraged to submit their work. Abstracts…
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