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The 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 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 Katherine Knight has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award. The purpose of the award is to encourage student research and writing in the field of information science. Knight’s paper entitled, “Librarians, not lawyers:…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Lynn 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 award…
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 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 Kate McDowell will receive the 2026 ASIS&T Research Impact Award sponsored by Rutgers University. The award makes more visible the dimensions of the societal contribution of Information Science and provides role models and examples for new scholars wishing to translate research into…
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 Samuel Dodson has been awarded a 2026 Bob Williams History Fund Award for his research paper titled “The paper behind the program: a documentary history of FORTRAN.” The Bob Williams History Fund was created for the purpose of supporting and encouraging research…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that he Patina of Distrust: What People Do with Misinformation, written by Eugenia Mitchelstein, Pablo J. Boczkowski, MarÃa Celeste Wagner, and Facundo Suenzo, and published by MIT Press, is one of two recipients of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2026.…
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Content Management Systems for Dummies (or busy smarties looking for fast, simple solutions) Co-Sponsored by the Simmons Student Chapter of ASIS&T PODCASTS FROM THIS MARCH 9, 2011 EVENT NOW AVAILABLE: Part 1 Theresa Maturevich (Head of Reference, Bedford Free Public Library) speaks about WordPress Michael Witwicki (Principal, Booyant) speaks about ExpressionEngine Part 2 Steve Sanzo (Director…
Read MoreWhen: Tuesday, July 19, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Where: Cambridge Brewing Co. 1 Kendall Square, Bldg 100 Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.cambrew.com/ What: Summer installment of the NEASIST Meet-up! Gather with friends and colleagues for a happy-hour discussion on “Things Researchers Want.” The Research Information Network recently released a report with detailed analysis of how…
Read MoreWhen it comes to job hunting, never before have there been so many options! The tech revolution has brought unprecedented change that impacts American job seekers of all ages, and Ohio Library staff need the most current skills and strategies to meet the challenge. Whether it’s for yourself, your friends, family or customers, you’ll find…
Read MoreThe 2011 NEASIST Student Travel Award goes to: Adrienne Smith adrienne.smith2 at mail.mcgill.ca McGill University School of Information Studies (Knowledge Management stream) for her essay addressing the questions: * Why she wishes to attend the 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting * How she believes she will be able to use the conference experience to further her…
Read MoreThe NEASIST Awards Dinner was a lovely affair! See photos from the dinner on Flickr. Congratulations to our very deserving awardees: Remlee Green, NEASIST 2011 Chapter Member of the Year Jordan Sly, NEASIST 2011 Chapter Student Member of the Year If you missed the dinner, the presentation slides of our speaker, Ryan Evans, are now…
Read MoreHave you ever been to a boring awards dinner? This ain’t it! Come to the NEASIST Awards Dinner and experience a lively speaker, great food, and an opportunity to catch up with your colleagues. We will also announce and congratulate the Chapter Member of the Year, the Student Member of the Year, and the Student…
Read MoreBig News! On Monday April 11, 2011, a special lecture is being co-sponsored by the newest American Society for Information Science & Technology chapter: the Ohio River Valley Chapter. In conjunction with the University of Kentucky, the new Ohio Valley Chapter is sponsoring a visit with Dr. Sherrilynne Fuller, Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics…
Read MoreThe Dryad Repository: A New Path for Data Publication in Scholarly Communication “Dryad is an international repository for data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Many datasets collected by academic researchers are not shared with the wider community even after findings based upon them are reported in the literature. Dryad is addressing…
Read MoreThe first ASIS&T European Workshop will be held at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland on the 1st and 2nd of June 2011. Organized by the European Chapter of ASIS&T, it is an ideal cross-disciplinary forum to present and encounter work by research students in the fields of information, library and computer science. The workshop will…
Read MoreIn the wake of a very recent French court decision regarding Google’s privacy protections in Europe, it seems an even larger defeat was just dealt to the Google Books Search. Judge Danny Chin (for the last time in his court?) rejected the settlement between Google Books and the various parties that had been suing. If you’d like…
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