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A very belated Meet the 2025-2026 NEASIS&T Executive Committee post! We are deeply grateful to these leaders for volunteering their time and energy to support the chapter’s mission and goals and engage the information science community in professional development. This year has been especially significant as we welcome our new Special Libraries Association colleagues to…
Read MoreAttendees: Prof. Shaobo Liang (Chair), Prof. Yuehua Zhao (Chair-Elect), Prof. Xiaoyu Chen (Webmaster), Prof. Shijie Song (Communications Officer), Prof. Huichuan Xia (Secretary) Time: 11:00 am — 11:30 am (EST), 12/06/2025 Location: Online/Zoom Meeting Theme: First all-hands meeting for the newly-elected ASIS&T-Asia Chapter members Topics: See the minute below Chair: Shaobo Liang, Wuhan University Chair-Elect: Yuehua…
Read MoreCandidate for President-Elect 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 MoreNEASIS&T enjoyed connecting with attendees and sharing information about our chapter at ISS/SLC26 in Albuquerque this past weekend. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table during the breaks to learn more about us and to get candy. And thank you to our chair-elect, Michele Costello, for organizing our presence at the conference. We had…
Read MoreThe standards committee has voted APPROVE on ISO/DIS 233-1, Transliteration of Perso-Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 1: Arabic language This document establishes a system for the transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters used to write the Arabic language. This modification of the stringent rules established by ISO 233:1984 is especially intended to facilitate…
Read MoreThe standards committee has voted to APPROVE TC 46 /SC 4 Ballot – ISO/NP 26730-1 as a working draft This document describes the components of a data paper, as well as the presentation requirements for its writing and arrangement. This document is applicable to data papers in all forms of dissemination, including print, microform, and…
Read MorePart 1 This document describes the components of a data paper, as well as the presentation requirements for its writing and arrangement. This document is applicable to data papers in all forms of dissemination, including print, microform, and electronic versions. Part 2 This document describes the metadata for data papers, focusing on format and elements.…
Read MoreThe ASIS&T European Chapter is delighted to share the conference programme for Information Science Trends 2026, to be held at the Facultat d’Informació i Mitjans Audiovisuals (Universitat de Barcelona) in Barcelona on June 25-26, 2026. The exciting on-site programme includes a keynote from Carlos Aguilar (UB), presentation sessions, a conference dinner, and various opportunities to…
Read MoreCandidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Shannon M. Oltmann is the Associate Dean and Director of the School of Information Sciences at Wayne State University, where she is also a full professor. She obtained her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Oltmann’s research interests include intellectual freedom, censorship, information precarity, and qualitative research methods. She wrote the book…
Read MoreCandidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Anne N. Barker is a Senior Information Specialist in the Legal Department at Genentech, a biotechnology company in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she specializes in patent, litigation, and pharmaceutical pipeline research and analysis. Anne completed her MLIS from San Jose State University in 2005 and received her B.A. from Illinois…
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Presenter: Mayor Moira Were August 12, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT – Note time Website link: https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webinars/local-government-closest-to-which-people-gender-power-and-polarisation-in-2024/
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Michael Buckland, Lisa Given, Gary Marchionini and Diane Sonnenwald will be awarded the ASIS&T Fellowship in 2024. The Fellowship recognizes individuals who have made substantial and sustained contributions to ASIS&T…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Devon Greyson of the University of British Columbia and Dana McKay of RMIT will both receive the 2024 Lois Lunin Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to the practice of Information Science and Technology through leadership, mentoring, and…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Saguna Shankar, PhD is the 2024 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award for their dissertation titled, “Caring for Newcomer Communities and their Data: An Inquiry into Interdependence in Information Practices.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Marcia Zeng is the recipient of the 2024 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 Dr. Chirag Shah is the recipient of the 2024 Research in Information Science Award. The award recognizes an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution to information science research. The award is for a systematic “program of research” in a…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Joann Cattlin is the recipient of the 2024 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 Saira Hanif Soroya, PhD is the recipient of the 2024 James A. 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. Dr. Soroya is working as Associate…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Dr. Naresh Agarwal is the recipient of the 2024 Watson Davis Award for Service. The award recognizes an individual member of the Association who has shown continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T and made substantial and lasting contributions to ASIS&T…
Read More3RD HUMANS OF THE LIBRARY WITH ASIS&T PAST PRESIDENTS Dear all, Would you like to meet and talk to “Human Books”? Are you interested in listening to the stories of your ASIS&T Past Presidents? Then join us the 3rd Humans of the Library Monday, 8th July at 10:00 AM EDT (Time zone Converter: dateful.com/time-zone-converter ) Register here.…
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