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Webinar: Who Even Wrote This? Welcome to the Post-AI Library – August 7 webinar

July 14, 2025

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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President’s Message, July 2025

July 11, 2025

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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From Your Executive Director, July 2025

July 11, 2025

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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Proposed Merger with SLA – Vote to Open July 28

July 11, 2025

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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ASIS&T Draft Strategic Plan Open for Comment

July 11, 2025

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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2025 Membership Survey: Turning Your Input Into Action

July 11, 2025

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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Call For Volunteers – Committees

July 11, 2025

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 at the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting

July 11, 2025

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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Annual Meeting News, July 2025

July 11, 2025

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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IDEA Institute 2025

July 11, 2025

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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SIG-Infolearn Events

Student paper contest

August 8, 2016

Students! Are you tired of preparing papers which immediately migrate into professors’ files never to been seen again? Recover your papers, send your most promising to the 2016 ASIST SIG/MET Student paper contest, and present your work in Copenhagen, Denmark! Papers should discuss theories, methods, policies, case studies, etc. on aspects of the measurement of…

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New Leader Awards

August 4, 2016

Posted on August 4, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff Please join us in congratulating the ASIS&T 2016 New Leader awardees! Rebekah Willson, PhD.  Rebekah recently graduated from Charles Sturt University, Australia and will be taking a faculty position at University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Rebekah will be working with President-elect, Lynn Silipigni Connaway. Lynn…

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2016 Joint SIG-USE/SIG-SI Symposium

August 2, 2016

Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE) This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on information behavior (IB) or on…

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CFP-A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop – Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology

August 1, 2016

Call for Papers and Participation Enhancing Lives through Information and Technology – A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark October 15, 2016 Organizers Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Katriina.Bystrom@hioa.no<mailto:Katriina.Bystrom@hioa.no> Pnina…

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Regional Meeting

August 1, 2016

Posted on August 1, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff We are sorry to announce that the ASIS&T regional meeting at OCLC has been cancelled.  We hope to reschedule it to Spring 2017.

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What does “accreditation” mean to the information professions? And is it worthwhile?

August 1, 2016

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Bill Kules This blog thread is for practitioners, faculty, students, and anyone else interested in accreditation issues as they affect the information professions. Accreditation by the American Library Association (ALA) is a core element of many (but not all) information programs in North America, with the objective of ensuring that programs…

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The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award

July 21, 2016

Call for nominations for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2015 calendar year. The…

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New PhD Scholarships in Australia and in Amsterdam

July 21, 2016

Melbourne, Australia: A PhD scholarship for research in the field of urban data is available through the Melbourne Networked Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. Cities around the world increasingly deploy varied and multiple data streams — from apps on user-devices to distributed sensor networks — in order to inform better settings for service…

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ASIS&T “Meet the Author” Series: Dr. Robert Epstein

July 14, 2016

Posted on July 14, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff ASIS&T’s New “Meet the Author” Series: Premiering July 21st  2016 with Popular Google Critic Dr. Robert Epstein   Come meet Dr. Epstein and have a live discussion about how Google Search could be the 21st century New Mind Control.   REGISTER HERE for Jul 21, 2016 at 2:00 PM…

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Research Commons at the Ohio State University Libraries Tour

July 12, 2016

Join CO-ASIS&T and Meris Mandernach and Joshua Sadvari for a tour of the new Research Commons at The Ohio State University on Tuesday, July 12, 2016. The Research Commons at The Ohio State University Libraries leverages campus partnerships to provide support services at each stage of the research lifecycle. It enhances the Libraries’ mission by…

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