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The 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…
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…
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We wouldn’t like to hold back the great news. Timothy D. Bowman is our proud logo winner. Congratulations! Below you will see his contribution and our new SIG SM logo:
Read MoreApplication Deadline: Sunday, April 1 Notification of Award Winners: Monday, April 16 About the Awards: Professional/Practitioner and Student The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce two awards to support participation in the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing…
Read MoreWelcome to the 2017-2018 SIG-DL Executive Team & Committee Conveners! 2017-2018 SIG-DL Executive Team Chair: Nushrat Khan Chair-elect: Tamarack Hockin Secretary / Treasurer: Danielle Pollock Communications Officer: Virginia Dressler Webmaster: Carla Colombati Past Chair: Alyson Gamble 2017-18 SIG-DL Committee Conveners Digital Liaisons: Eka Grguric Webinars: Anna Maria Tammaro
Read MorePosted on March 1, 2018 by Stephan Addo The March 2018 JASIST (Vol. 69, Iss. 3) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! With an editorial on the careful use of terminologies to 12 research articles – topics ranging from logarithmic tables to the cultural evolution of national constiutions – there’s something…
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by Rebekah Willson and Stephann Makri (Student Design Competition Co-Chairs, ASIS&T 2017) As co-chairs of the Student Design Competition at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, we wanted to come up with a design brief that tied closely with ASIS&T’s mission statement of ‘connecting people and information in the physical and virtual worlds’. We set what we hoped would be a stimulating design…
Read MoreThe 2018 STI conference will be held 12-14 September 2018 in Leiden (The Netherlands) at Leiden University. As part of the STI Conference 2018, Katrin Weller, Astrid Orth, Isabella Peters will be organizing a special track on the “Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics” (#sti18challenge). This specialized track focuses on the ongoing challenges for using data…
Read MoreThe International Conference on Social Media & Society is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 9th year, the 2018 conference is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark from July 18 to 20, 2018. The deadline for full papers and work-in-progress has expried, but you can still register for panels…
Read MorePosted on February 16, 2018 by Stephan Addo The US White House budget request for FY2019 proposes funding for the orderly closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (https://www.imls.gov/). IMLS is a US Federal Agency that is the primary source of funding for public museums and libraries in the United States. The…
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We recently launched our Scientivity contest for students. The task was to submit a piece of research in a creative way. Submissions were due on Friday, December 15th. We received five great submissions and had the difficult task to pick a winner, but we finally did. The jury, consisting of members from the European Chapter…
Read MoreAbout the Stipends: The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce three stipends to offset some costs of participation in the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Summit. Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing new voices to RDAP and to our chapter.…
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