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ASIS&T Draft Strategic Plan Open for Comment

July 1, 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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Chris Cunningham

June 12, 2025

Candidate for Treasurer Biography Expand Dr. Chris Cunningham finished his Doctoral studies at the University of South Carolina. He received his Master in Library and Information Studies from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, focusing on technology and his Bachelor in Art in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with minors in Mathematics…

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Rebekah Willson

June 12, 2025

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dr. Rebekah (Becky) Willson is an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at McGill University (Montréal, Canada). Dr. Willson’s research is in the field of information behaviour and practices – particularly focusing on individuals and groups who are undergoing transitions and living with uncertainty, including academics working on…

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Isto Huvila

June 12, 2025

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden. His primary areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social…

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Marlene Holmner

June 12, 2025

Candidate for President-Elect Biography Expand Dr. Marlene Holmner holds a DPhil in Information Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and is an Associate Professor and the current Head of the Department of the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research interests lie in the fields of Information Ethics,…

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2025 Board Elections

June 12, 2025

In accordance with the ASIS&T Bylaws, all Professional, Retired, Student, Lifetime, and Institutional Members in good standing on May 1 of the election year shall be entitled to one vote on the Board of Directors Ballot. Should you prefer to vote by mail, please send an email to lmiddleton@asist.org to request a paper ballot. Paper…

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SLA Merger Information

June 10, 2025

ASIS&T will use this space to share information with our current and future members about the plans for and process of merger with the Special Libraries Association. A working group consisting of Heather Kotula, 2025 SLA President-Elect; John DiGilio, 2025 SLA Past President; Christine Pelosi, SLA Director; Julie Smith Maekask, SLA Director; James Manasco, SLA Director; Ian…

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ASIS&T/SLA Merger Comments & FAQ

June 10, 2025

The following comments have been received from ASIS&T and joint members in response to the ASIS&T/SLA merger framework: Some personal historical notes from Linda Smith: SLA/ASIS(T) merger discussions were active but failed in the summer of 1971 when I began studying for my MS in Library Science. Subsequently I joined SLA and helped found an…

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SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces

June 6, 2025

Webinar Description This webinar, Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces, will feature Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak, co-authors of Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia. Drawing from their personal and scholarly insights as disabled scholars, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility…

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Julien to Receive the 2025 Award of Merit

May 29, 2025

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Heidi Julien is the recipient of the 2025 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 award…

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SIG-Infolearn Events

Call for Chapters: Collaborative Information Seeking

September 9, 2014

A call for chapters has been issued for a book on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) to be published in 2015 by Springer. Chapter submissions are due by October 15th. CIS – also referred to as collaborative information retrieval and collaborative search – focuses on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity, and that people working in collaboration to perform information-seeking…

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September 22 Book Discussion

September 4, 2014

Join members of the NEASIST Program Committee as we discuss bestselling author James Gleick’s book, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.  In the first of this two-part meetup, we’ll discuss chapters 1-7.  In the second, we’ll discuss the remainder of the book.  You’re welcome to join even if you haven’t finished the reading!…

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Nomination Deadline Extended!

September 2, 2014

SIG-STI is calling for nominations/self-nominations for officers for the 2014-2015 term period. NEW DEADLINE:  Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Please see previous post for the description of these positions: – Chair-elect – Secretary /Treasurer – Communications Officer – Webmaster We hope you will join us!

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Newsletter 2014

September 1, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Stories of Information Science / Information Scientists” Do you have a story of information science and/or information scientists to share with the ASIS&T community?  If so, please consider submitting a short story (~300-800 words) to be included in the HFIS newsletter. A gift card of $30 will be awarded if your story…

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SIG-HLTH 2014 Annual Business Meeting

August 24, 2014

The SIG HLTH business meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, November 4th from 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Information regarding the location is forthcoming. During the meeting, we will brain storm potential new activities such as workshops, competitions, panels, and networking events. We will also appoint new officers at the meeting as necessary, depending on the workload sketched out. We look…

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Need Your Input: Time for SIG-HLTH Dinner on Monday, Nov 3

August 24, 2014

We are having a SIG HLTH member dinner on Monday, Nov 3. Please indicate what time you would be available to come. Here is the link to the Doodle poll:http://doodle.com/bbb3f9gnbm2242xm#table The dutch treat dinner will be at a local restaurant with diverse options. We are looking for a good restaurant, and if you have any recommendations, please let…

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2014-16 New Leaders assigned to the European chapter

August 23, 2014

2014-16 New Leaders assigned to the European chapter or under mentorship by members of the European Chapter: Agnes Mainka, doctoral student at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf. Mentor: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Professor, Aix-Marseille University, France Placement: European Student Chapter Stephann Makri, Lecturer (Associate Professor), City University, London. Mentor: Isabella Peters, Professor, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, German Placement: European…

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Web Presence Update: Logos, Personas, and Pillars

August 12, 2014

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Diane Rasmussen Pennington ASIS&T’s staff members and the Web Presence Task Force remain very busy on the Web redesign front. As chair, I wanted to share some updates and get some feedback from our members and readers. I’ll start with our two visual options, and proceed to the content…

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Announcing the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper award winners!

August 10, 2014

ASIS&T SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are pleased to announce the winning papers of the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards. The winner of the 2013 Best Social Informatics Paper and $1,000 is: Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreetMap. American Behavioral Scientist, 57,…

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2014 Annual NEASIST Networking Dinner

August 9, 2014

The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology invites you to join us for our 2014 Annual Networking Dinner: The Spider and the Web: Can the Information Age survive another 25 years? Join your colleagues for an evening of conversation as we explore the future of the Information Age with Dr.…

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