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This is part 5 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. Uhjin had already recently…
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The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Board is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the Association of Information Science & Technology, the official journal of the ASIS&T, who has the expertise to drive the journal forward. The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research…
Read MoreThe SIG-BIZ board will be meeting this Thursday, Feb. 12, at 2pm CST. This as an open meeting all SIG-BIZ members are invited. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://oklahoma.zoom.us/j/95884595380?pwd=4ajiDfzuErAjSa07HuarpdbyVgTZSD.1 Meeting ID: 958 8459 5380Passcode: Price102
Read MoreThis is part 4 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. Attending the Association for…
Read MoreThis is part 3 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. In 2025, I marked…
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Hello good info-folk. I am writing to you for the first time in my term as ASIS&T president. As a member of the board of directors and as president-elect, I have worked with several presidents, and admired their collaborative leadership styles, incisive intelligence and good humor. I hope I can fill those big shoes! (Metaphorically…
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Greetings colleagues, As we move into a new year of activity and opportunity for ASIS&T, I am pleased to reflect on a period marked by momentum, resilience, and forward-looking collaboration across our community. First, I want to celebrate the tremendous success of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City. Nearly 600 colleagues joined us…
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The Board of Directors met on November 15, 2025 in person in Crystal City, Virginia and via Zoom. In attendance were; Ian Ruthven (President) (zoom); Maria Bonn (President-Elect); Chris Cunningham, PhD, (Treasurer); Lu An (Zoom), Anne Barker (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Timothy Dickey, Bhakti Gala; Lisa Hussey; Aylin Imeri; Heather Kotula (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Luanne Sinnamon,…
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Vicki Gregory ASIS&T was saddened to learn of the passing of long-time member Vicki Gregory on January 4. Vicki joined ASIS&T in 1983 and, during her membership tenure, served in the leadership of several SIGs and Chapters, served as Treasurer of ASIS&T from 2008 to 2015, and was awarded the Watson Davis Award for Service…
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ASIS&T will be launching the search for a new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) in February of 2026. Steve Sawyer, the current Editor-in-Chief, will be retiring from his position in July of 2026. A search committee, chaired by Isto Huvila of Uppsala University, Sweden will be issuing…
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A call for paper proposals is now available for the 2014 edition of the Theorizing the Webconference, to be held in Brooklyn, NY April 25-26, 2014. Abstracts of proposals are due by January 19th, 2014. We invite you to propose a presentation for the fourth annual Theorizing the Web, which—by popular demand—is now a two-day event. Theorizing the Web is both…
Read MoreA call for paper proposals has been issued for a special issue of New Media and Society on the topic of “The Democratization of Hacking and Making.” Abstract proposals are due by May 1, 2014. The issue will explore and question the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions…
Read MoreA call for position papers has been posted for a workshop on Values and Design in HCI Education, to be held April 27th, 2014 at CHI in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Position papers are due January 17th; they should be 2-4 pages in length and describe prospective participants’ interests in and experiences with values and design in educational environments. The…
Read MoreThe New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2014 winter event on the topic of Big Data! Big Data is rapidly changing the way researchers, scientists and businesses learn, compete and adapt in digital data-driven environments. The…
Read MoreThe SIG-USE Annual Business Meeting was well attended on November 4, 2013. Below is a link to the meeting notes. SIGUSEBusinessMeetingNotes_2013
Read MoreMicrosoft Research New England is looking for PhD candidates to become interns in their Social Media Collective—focusing on sociotechnical research questions—for Summer 2014. Internships will last 12 weeks, on-site in Cambridge, MA. Fields of interest include communication, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, science and technology studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines. Focus areas of interest include: The ethics and…
Read MoreSUMMARY: Please join us at 6:30pm at OCLC in Dublin for social/ networking time, and at 7pm for a presentation on this exciting and emerging topic in how libraries of all kinds can extend their interaction with the Web! PRESENTER: Jeffrey A. Young is a Software Architect at OCLC Research. He has a B.S. in…
Read MoreA call for papers has been posted for the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), taking place June 23-26, 2014 in Bloomington, IN. A separate call for workshop and tutorial proposals has also been posted. The deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is January 17th, 2014, while full and short paper submissions are due February 23rd, 2014. Posters can be submitted until March 23rd, 2014. The Web Science…
Read MorePosted on November 7, 2013 by ASIS&T Staff The iSchool is delighted to recognize alumna Christine L. Borgman with the University of Pittsburgh’s 225th Anniversary Medallion. In a special dinner in Los Angeles, Dean Ronald Larsen presented Dr. Borgman (MLS ‘74) with the medallion, which commemorates the University of Pittsburgh’s 225th Anniversary by recognizing alumni…
Read MoreThe proceedings for Digital Liaisons: Shifting Borders in Interdisciplinary Collaboration, the SIG-DL session for ASIS&T 2012, is now online. Proceedings for Digital Liaisons 2013 will be posted in January 2014.
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