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21 August 2025 – The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T members resoundingly approved their Board’s proposal…
Read MoreCall for Submissions: SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards SIG-HLTH, ASIS&T’s Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, is pleased to open submissions for the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award, the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Short Paper Award, and the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Poster Award. We define health broadly to encompass research…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, and Alexander Magazinov, published in Volume 75, Issue12 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST), is the recipient of the…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Niels Windfeld Lund’s Introduction to Documentation Studies, published by Facet Publishing, is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2025. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in information science published during the preceding calendar year.…
Read MoreDescription: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes. Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999? Decision: Approved with comments Comments: This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation. However, the following revisions are suggested:
Read MoreDescription: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes: Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244? Vote: No comments.
Read MoreDescription: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices…
Read MoreDescription: ISO/TS 22943:2022, Information and documentation – Principles of identification, presents the foundational rationale behind the existence and use of identifiers. It provides a consistent framework for structuring and understanding identifiers in both trade and information management contexts. The standard outlines core expectations, characteristics, and the broader business case for identifiers, while also acknowledging that…
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 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…
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Voted YES on Approval of NISO 105-202x, CP/LD Content Profile Linking Document Description: The purpose of the Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD) standard is to define a flexible, extensible, standards-based format for combining content, data, and semantics intended as a machine-readable, self-describing markup that can be used to exchange data and content between systems, APIs, and…
Read Moreon Voted YES on NISO Z39.2022-202X,STS Standards Tag Suite Description: This voting pool is to approve the publication of the revised standard NISO Z39.102-202X, STS: Standards Tag Suite, as an American National Standard. The Standards Tag Suite (STS) provides a common XML format that developers, publishers, and distributors of standards, including national standards bodies, regional…
Read MoreVoted YES on NISO Z39.4-202x Criteria for Indexes Description: This vote is to approve the publication of the standard NISO Z39.4-202x, Criteria for Indexes, as an American National Standard. This standard provides guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of documents and parts of documents. It deals with the…
Read MoreVoted YES on ISO/NP (New Proposal) 24086, Digital Legacies Description: This standard will provide guidance on how to manage a person’s digital accounts and assets after death and provide clarity as to what consumers’ rights are in relation to their digital media.
Read MoreSIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Awards! SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper Award “What Is a Wave But 1000 Drops Working Together?”: The Role of Public Libraries…
Read MoreAt the ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting, Novotel London West, London, UK Friday, October 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (BST), London, UK Organized by SIG MET and SIG STI WORKSHOP PROGRAM Session Time Authors Title Opening 9:00 – 9:10 Hongshu Chen, Qianqian Jin and Xuefeng Wang How Embeddedness Affects the Evolution of Collaboration:The Role…
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Read MoreThe conference theme is “The Inheritance, Integration, and Innovation of Information Science in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Development”, which means that in the era of artificial intelligence, information research needs to discuss what is the core knowledge or foundation and how should we integrate with related disciplines and further develop the discipline to make…
Read MoreDear ASIS&T AP Chapter members, On behalf of the ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Chapter, I would like to announce the following officer positions for 2024: Chair: Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao, Nanjing University Chair-Elect: Zhenjia Fan, Nankai University Secretary: Shaobo Liang, Wuhan University Treasurer: Safirotu Khoir, Universitas Gadjah Mada Communications: Yuehua Zhao, Nanjing University Webmaster: Huichuan Xia, Peking University We thank you and look forward to…
Read MoreVoted YES To approve a proposed new work item to create a NISO Recommended Practice for ILS/LSP ecosystem interconnectivity encompassing technical needs, definitions of terms, and community transparency (Open ILS). Description: Libraries each have unique needs to uphold and sustain their mission. As a result, the potential combinations of software/systems evident across the library community…
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