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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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You wasn´t able to join our latest webinar on How to Write Successful Journal Manuscripts and Convince the Reviewer? No worries, you can watch the full webinar here. If you like the video you can also subscribe to our YouTube Channel: Asist European Student Chapter
Read MoreResults of the 2016 ASIS&T Board of Directors Election Congratulations to the new board members and thank you to all the candidates! President-elect Lisa Given ASIS&T offers scholars, professionals, and students, worldwide, a home for sharing ideas, insights and innovations in information science research and practice. If elected President I will focus on the following…
Read MoreDear friends, the European Student Chapter (ESC) invites you to its next webinar on: How to write successful journal manuscripts and convince the reviewer ==================================================== Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. CEST (UTC 3:00 p.m.) ==================================================== Experienced reviewers and editors from information science and related fields will answer your questions and give you…
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Revitalizing the Battelle Library: Planning & Implementing Change Battelle is the world’s largest nonprofit research and development organization, with over 22,000 employees at more than 60 locations globally. Every day, the people of Battelle apply science and technology to solving what matters most. Battelle’s own mission includes a strong charitable commitment to community development and education, including STEM…
Read MoreFor the department WTS at our location in Cologne, we are looking for a Research Associate (Doctoral candidate) (f/m) in Information Extraction/ Information Filtering (salary group TV-L EG 13, 100%, limited to 24 month) starting on September 1, 2016. GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest infrastructure institution for the Social Sciences…
Read MoreJennifer Ferguson’s workshop on using faculty material to build collections was a big success! We paired up and worked in teams to look over faculty CVs and syllabi that we brought with us. An important take away was that faculty members interweave their own research interest into their courses. So, don’t worry that the material…
Read MoreElfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award ($1000) Recipients: Debbie Rabina & Emily Drabinsky Affiliation: Pratt Institute Title: A Blueprint for Information Intervention for Incarcerated People Student Travel Award ($500) Recipient #1: Leslie Thomson Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Recipient #2: Sarah Chizari Affiliation: University of South Carolina Recipient #3: Danielle Pollock Affiliation: University of Tennessee Interdisciplinary…
Read MoreIt is our great pleasure to announce that Dr. Sanda Erdelez has been chosen as the 2015 ASIS&T SIG USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research. Dr. Erdelez’s work on opportunistic discovery of information has had an ongoing and significant impact in the field of information behaviour research. Her Information Encountering Model…
Read MorePosted on June 1, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff Doctoral Colloquium at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark October 18, 2016 We invite doctoral students to participate in the 2016 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of…
Read MorePosted on May 27, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2016 With mixed feelings, regret for ourselves but happiness for him, the ASIS&T Board learned that after 27 years at the service of our organization, our Executive Director, Dick Hill, will be passing the baton at the end of the year in…
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