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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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Deadline for submission: 23rd July 2023 [anywhere on Earth time]Acceptance decision: 8th August 2023 Please submit your abstract as a PDF to the submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metsti2023 Last updated: 10th July 2023 METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET and SIG STI ASIS&T 2023 Annual MeetingFriday,…
Read MoreAre you a student (Bachelor, Master or Doctoral) of Information Science or a related field, based in Asia Pacific Region? Read on! Thanks to donors to ASIS&T, Asia Pacific Chapter can give away free annual student memberships for ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://www.asist.org/). Submit your application by 25 June 2023 (only…
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The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance,” written by Karen Levy and published by Princeton University Press is the recipient of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for 2023. The award’s purpose is to recognize the outstanding book in…
Read MoreThe last date for submission is June 15, 2023. Overview The ASIS&T Information and Learning Sciences SIG invites students, emerging, and established scholars to participate in the SIG’s first ever paper competition. The SIG provides these awards to support scholarship and practice, encourage participation, and bring new perspectives and voices to the SIG. Three awards…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Md. Anwarul Islam of the University of Dhaka, Dhaka Bangladesh is the 2023 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. Dr.…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Helena Häußler is the 2023 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award. Helena Häußler, M.A., is a research assistant at the Department of Information at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She is working on her doctoral research project “Trust…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Aira Huttunen is the 2023 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award for their dissertation proposal titled, “Friction and Bodily Discomfort: Transgender Experiences of Embodied Knowledge and Information Practices.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding recent doctoral candidates whose research contributes…
Read MoreCandidate for Member-At-Large Biography Expand Dr. Luanne Sinnamon (she/her), is an Associate Professor and former Director (2015-2020) at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, situated on unceded land of the Musqueam people. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and an MLS degree from…
Read MoreCandidate for Member-At-Large Biography Expand Professor Yuelin Li earned her Ph.D. degree from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University in the USA, and Master and Bachelor degree from Nankai University in China. She is currently a Full-professor in the Department of Information Resources Management in Business School at Nankai University. She is…
Read MoreCandidate for Member-At-Large Biography Expand Dr. Timothy J. Dickey is an Adult Services Librarian with the Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library, and a library science educator with Kent State University, San José State University, and ALA’s eLearning division. His research and teaching span library reference, service to diverse communities, emerging technologies, data mining, history of the…
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