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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…
Read MoreCandidate 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…
Read MoreCandidate 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…
Read MoreCandidate 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…
Read MoreCandidate 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,…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreASIS&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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWebinar 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…
Read MoreThe 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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Is your library prepared when disaster strikes? Does your library have contingency plans? Wes Boomgaarden of The Ohio State University will provide an overview on disaster preparedness. This event is co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (co-asis&t) and the Central Ohio Special Libraries Association Chapter (COSLA). WHEN: …
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIST) is pleased to announce the availability of one award of up to $750 to reimburse expenses for attendance at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting (November 1-6, Montreal, Quebec). Applications must be received by Friday, May 3. The winner will be notified by Friday, May 24.…
Read MoreThe iConference 2014 Call for Participation has been posted. Deadlines are in August and September, with the conference in Berlin Mar 4-7, 2014: The ninth annual iConference will take place 4-7 March, 2014, at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The four days will include peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, Posters, Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. Also included are…
Read MoreJoin us for the 2013 Annual NEASIST Networking Dinner! Date: Tue., May 7 Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Place: MIT, Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349) find it on MIT MAP Register now until Sunday, May 5. Schedule: 6:00 Networking 6:30 Dinner (Mexican buffet)** 7:30 Award presentations followed by speaker, Dr. David Weinberger NEASIST welcomes David Weinberger…
Read MoreFor those studying social media and collecting data from social media, the Digital Methods Summer School 2013 “On the challenges of studying social media data” will be held at the University of Amsterdam from June 24th to July 5th, 2013. A set of #hashtagged tweets and @follow networks visualised to study crisis response to a natural disaster. Facebook likes,…
Read MoreCall for papers and other submissions for the Prato Conference on Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community Informatics, to be held October 28-30in Prato, Italy. Submissions are due May 15th. The full CFP can be viewed on the Prato Conference Web site, and an excerpt is included below. Queries about the conference should be e-mailed to prato2013@fastmail.fm. Prato CIRN Conference Oct 28-30 2013,…
Read MoreThe Mount Carmel Health Sciences Library (MCHSL) is a member of two library consortia enabling the Mount Carmel community access privileges to over 46 million books and other library materials. The MCHSL is a member of OhioLINK (Ohio Library Information Network) and OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries). Together, these consortia provide the Mount Carmel community…
Read MorePosted on March 21, 2013 by ASIS&T Staff CHAPEL HILL – Dr. Diane Kelly, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected to receive the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) Karen Spärck-Jones Award 2012. The…
Read MoreCall for papers for CSCW 2014, the ACM’s conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Submissions are due May 31st, 2013; conference will be held in Baltimore, MD from February 15th – 18th, 2014. More details of the call follow (via the original source), or you can see the complete CSCW 2014 CFP and contact the papers chairs at papers2014@cscw.acm.org.…
Read MoreA call for applications has been posted for the 2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute, a joint effort of the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) and the Summer Social Webshop. This year’s Summer Institute will be held July 28th – August 1st, 2013 at the University of Maryland, College Park. MOOCs, Education and learning; personal…
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