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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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Posted on October 24, 2016 by Yolande Nanayakkara Share your input to inform the search for new ASIS&T Executive Director! Due 10/31 The ASIS&T Board is interested in hearing your input on what you would like to see in our next Executive Director. If you haven’t already, please complete a brief survey or send your input to us…
Read MoreThe ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Internet Ethics and Policy (SIG IEP) is seeking nominations for officers for 2015-2016. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the following positions: • Chair-elect • Treasurer • Communications / Social Media SIG Information Ethics and Policy (IEP) helps ensure that ASIS&T members are aware of…
Read MorePosted on October 21, 2015 by ASIS&T Staff By vote of the Board of Directors, ASIS&T will provide reduced membership fees for all membership categories for countries whose GNI per capita as calculated by the World Bank (or GNP per capita as calculated by IMF for those countries not included in the World Bank data)…
Read MorePosted on October 16, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff A wonderful time was had by the attendees of the ASIS&T 2016 Annual Meeting at the Welcome Reception in Copenhagen. This took place after a full and exciting opening day which started with the New Attendee/New Member brunch, immediately followed by plenary speaker, Greg Welch, Florida Hospital Endowed…
Read MorePosted on October 16, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff Visit with friends – old and new – at this John Wiley & Sons sponsored gala, Monday at 18:30. Interact with meeting attendees, Poster authors, and learn the winners of the Best Paper and Best Poster Awards from the Annual Meeting Committee. Featured Posters Engaging Young Children in Visual Literacy…
Read MorePosted on October 16, 2016 by ASIS&T Staff The ASIS&T 2016 AM conference will host its first Diversity and Inclusion Luncheon on Monday, Oct. 17. This sold out luncheon is designed to deepen engagement with multiple aspects of diversity and inclusion. These issues include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, culture and nationality; age…
Read MoreASIST headquarter has decided that ASIST membership fees will be based on the gross national income of a country in the future. Many European countries will be affected from this regulation. More information you can find in this >> document.
Read MorePosted on October 8, 2015 by Adam Worrall ASIS&T SIG KM logo (courtesy SIG KM’s Facebook page) Today we continue the “Get to Know A SIG / Get to Know a Chapter” series with an interview with SIG KM: Knowledge Management. SIG KM concerns itself “with all aspects of knowledge within all types of organizations, including…
Read MorePosted on September 28, 2015 by ASIS&T Staff If you missed the Strategic Planning Town Hall sessions, you can still review the slides from these sessions HERE. You can also send your thoughts about the draft Strategic Plan electronically until October 9, 2015. You can read the Strategic Plan HERE . If you couldn’t make it…
Read MorePlease join us as part of ASIS&T 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri for the 11th SIG SI Research Symposium, to be held on Saturday, November 7th, 2015, from 8:30am – 12:30pm at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. We will be in Grand C, on the fourth floor right near the elevators and escalators. The symposium, subtitled “The Impacts of Social Informatics Research,” will include presentations of research with…
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