SIG-Infolearn Events
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…
Read MoreDescription: Part 1 of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval, applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, management and use applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources, irrespective of the…
Read MoreApplication Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025 Notification of Award Winners: late August or September 2025 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: 14-18 November, 2025, Washington, DC Application: NEASIST 2025 Conference Support Award application NEASIS&T Conference Support Award The Northeast Chapter of ASIS&T is offering up to 4 conference support awards to support participation in the ASIS&T 2025…
Read MoreNEASIS&T has planned an exciting summer webinar, presented by Jon Ippolito, exploring how libraries and digital collections are grappling with a surge in AI-generated submissions. When: August 7, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EDT) Where: Virtual Cost: Free for ASIS&T members; $25 for non-members Register for the event (ASIS&T members should log in before…
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The Australian band Crowded House had a famous song, ‘Always Take the Weather With You’. To be honest, I wish they would take the weather as it’s raining again in Glasgow. So many news stories now are around weather: floods, droughts, heat waves, and loss of natural habitats. Climate action is one of the Grand…
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ASIS&T Executive Director, Lydia Middleton has recorded a video sharing updates about the organization. Captions are available by clicking “cc”. Please note that these captions are auto-generated so may not be 100% accurate. Back to Inside ASIS&T, July 2025
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Over the past six weeks, ASIS&T has been collecting and responding to member feedback on the possibility of merger with the Special Libraries Association. On June 29 the associations held a joint Town Hall where many member questions were answered. The details of the proposed merger along with links to the questions and responses as…
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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…
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In the 2025 ASIS&T Membership Survey, we asked you how we could improve your member experience. Our dedicated Membership Committee took time to analyze your feedback, and created a summary for the Board to use as a foundational document to guide the Strategic Planning process. Here are some of the items we wanted to highlight…
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Meet New Colleagues. Grow Your Engagement. Give Back To Your Professional Community. Volunteer with ASIS&T. Volunteers are the life-blood of ASIS&T and provide the intellectual capital and human resources to power all we do! Don’t miss this opportunity to give back to your profession while enhancing your professional network and your CV! ASIS&T is seeking…
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22 june 2012, within the LIDA conference in Zadar Croatia Location: Aula Magna, University of Zadar As a part of the 75th Anniversary of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), the European Chapter of the ASIST organized a 1-day workshop in conjunction with the LIDA conference on June 22, 2012 in Zadar,…
Read MoreSIG HLTH now has both a Facebook page and a group. For distinguishing them from each other, see this post. Please check them out and get involved! You can also tweet or follow us at https://twitter.com/#!/sighlth.
Read MoreWe are very pleased to announce a Doctoral Forum, specialising in quantitative research in Information Science to be held on 12-13 April 2012 in England at the University of Wolverhampton. This Doctoral Forum will begin with short introductory presentations by Prof Mike Thelwall and Dr Jonathan Levitt on the application of quantitative methods to Information…
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Read MoreMark your calendar! Event is free to the public! Join us on Wednesday evening, November 9th, 2011 for our CO-ASIS&T Program: We will take a look at how one library is using CollectionHQ, an evidence based stock management tool, to help make collection management easier and more efficient. Collection HQ uses historical and current information about…
Read MoreGather with colleagues for a happy-hour discussion on intellectual property. When: Thursday, December 1, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Where: Uno’s Pizzeria (lower level) 22 JFK Street (Harv. Square) Cambridge, MA What: Copyright, trademark and patents are not new concepts. Our founding fathers resolved the tension between commonwealth and monopoly though a civic republican model…
Read MoreEAD and the Evolution of Archival Description WHEN: Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Refreshments, Sign-In & Networking 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Q & A WHERE: OCLC’s Kilgour auditorium on the OCLC Campus, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. at* 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017 PRESENTER Jackie Dooley is an internationally recognized…
Read MoreSIG USE Research Symposium participant white papers discussing the intersections of information seeking and use with domains outside of information science: Information Behavior and Medical/Health Domains – Jeanette de Richemond (Rutgers University) Intersecting Constructs in an Online Community – Ellen Rubenstein (Oklahoma University) Bring it on home!: Information use in games studies – Natascha Karlova…
Read MoreTuesday, November 1, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Are you a lover of TED Talks? Or maybe you’re wondering just who this Ted person is that everyone keeps talking about? Either way, join us for an evening of TED Talks, pizza, and sparkling conversation. TED Talks are “inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and…
Read MoreCome join in a lively (and informal) gathering to celebrate a few of our successes this year! When: Monday, September 26, starting at 5:30 to 7:30 Come and go at your leisure! NEASIST will be with a Wonder Woman image on a stick! Where: Meadhall 4 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 http://themeadhall.com/ The gathering is…
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