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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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Hi everyone, I am now able to report the results of our recent election for SIG SI officers. This includes votes received from the morning of November 2nd until the evening of November 9th. (Note that one duplicate ballot — from the same IP as one submitted three minutes earlier — was discarded, but would…
Read MoreNEASIST January Conference theme: APIs Research, reporting, and metadata management. APIs are available from all areas of the library and information science field and beyond. They have a lot of power, but how do we use them? Explore this topic with us at the January conference, Understanding and Using APIs! Please save the date for…
Read MorePosted on November 7, 2017 by Stephan Addo These papers were selected from a slate assembled by a bibliometric study commissioned by Wiley, and vetted by members of the JASIST Board, the SIGs, and the 80th Anniversary Advisory Group. Members were asked to vote on the slate and the results are as follows: The entire…
Read MorePosted on November 7, 2017 by Stephan Addo The newest edition of JASIST (November 2017) is now available online for reading by members and subscribers! It’s the special issue on biomedical information retrieval with 11 research articles ranging from What Makes an Effective Clinical Query and Querier? to Triaging Content Severity in Online Mental Health Forums. There’s something for…
Read MoreCheck out these pictures from the 2017 Pre-Conference Workshop at ASIS&T on 10/28/17! A fun day. Soo Young Rieh my co-organizer and I extend many thanks to our expert panelists, Denise Agosto, June Ahn, Sam Chu, Nicole Cooke, and Eric Meyers for top-notch presentations and leadership. Also extending so many thanks to all who participated…
Read MoreWe have a wonderful new group of folks on the NEASIS&T board and they are all looking forward to working with you, our members, to create great programming, explore new topics in information science, and learn from each other in this vibrant network of curious information technology enthusiasts. They introduce themselves below! Don’t forget, if…
Read MoreCALL FOR PAPER dg.o 2018: 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research Theme: Governance in the data age Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands 30 May – 1 June, 2018 (Wednesday – Friday) http://dgo2018.dgsociety.org/ Email: dgo2018(at)easychair.org Twitter handle: #dgo2018 *TRACK*: Maturity and Sustainability of Open Governmental Data Track Chairs: Dr. Tobias Siebenlist and Dr. Agnes Mainka Department of…
Read MoreCheck out the amazing paper and poster abstracts for the 2017 SIGUSE Symposium! Papers Making for Graphicacy and Media and Information Literacy with People Who are Blind and Visually Impaired (Abigale Stangl & Tom Yeh) More than Accessibility: Social and Critical Frameworks for Exploring Marginalization of People with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Amelia N. Gibson & Dana Hanson-Baldauf) Technology…
Read MoreTake control of SIG-DL! We’re seeking nominations for officers, including: Chair-elect Secretary/Treasurer Communications Officer Membership Officer Webmaster Details about each officer position can be found here. Committee Conveners We are also looking for Committee Conveners: Digital Liaisons Committee Webinars Committee Newsletter Committee Nominations If you’d like to push forward the Digital Library agenda, it’s time to…
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Metadata is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when the conversation turns to Readers’ Advisory. But the landscape of RA is changing – readers are increasingly becoming more self-sufficient, the publishing world is exploding and traditional publishing categories are dissolving, and librarians face a world in which there is stiff competition for…
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