SIG-Infolearn Events
This is part 4 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. Attending the Association for…
Read MoreThis is part 3 of the blog series where we share reflections from our 2025 NEASIS&T Conference Support Award recipients, offering a glimpse into the value and impact of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Through their experiences, we aim to highlight the learning, networking, and growth that make this event so impactful. In 2025, I marked…
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Hello good info-folk. I am writing to you for the first time in my term as ASIS&T president. As a member of the board of directors and as president-elect, I have worked with several presidents, and admired their collaborative leadership styles, incisive intelligence and good humor. I hope I can fill those big shoes! (Metaphorically…
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Greetings colleagues, As we move into a new year of activity and opportunity for ASIS&T, I am pleased to reflect on a period marked by momentum, resilience, and forward-looking collaboration across our community. First, I want to celebrate the tremendous success of the 2025 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Crystal City. Nearly 600 colleagues joined us…
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The Board of Directors met on November 15, 2025 in person in Crystal City, Virginia and via Zoom. In attendance were; Ian Ruthven (President) (zoom); Maria Bonn (President-Elect); Chris Cunningham, PhD, (Treasurer); Lu An (Zoom), Anne Barker (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Timothy Dickey, Bhakti Gala; Lisa Hussey; Aylin Imeri; Heather Kotula (SLA Appointee) (zoom), Luanne Sinnamon,…
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Vicki Gregory ASIS&T was saddened to learn of the passing of long-time member Vicki Gregory on January 4. Vicki joined ASIS&T in 1983 and, during her membership tenure, served in the leadership of several SIGs and Chapters, served as Treasurer of ASIS&T from 2008 to 2015, and was awarded the Watson Davis Award for Service…
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ASIS&T will be launching the search for a new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) in February of 2026. Steve Sawyer, the current Editor-in-Chief, will be retiring from his position in July of 2026. A search committee, chaired by Isto Huvila of Uppsala University, Sweden will be issuing…
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We are excited to announce the new dates for the ASIS&T 2026 Annual Meeting taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from November 6-10. Every effort was made to secure a venue and date that did not create challenges for members wishing to attend both the ASIS&T and ALISE Annual Meetings in 2026. We recognize the proximity…
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Register Today and Reserve Your Hotel! We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Information Science Summit & Special Libraries Conference (ISS/SLC26) taking place in June in Albuquerque, NM | USA! Carrying on the tradition of the very successful SLA Annual Conference, this conference will explore new frontiers of information science and librarianship…
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We are pleased to announce that the Exhibitor and Sponsor Prospectus for the ASIS&T Information Science Summit and Special Libraries Conference (ISSS/SLC26) is now available, and exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are officially open. Carrying on the tradition of the very successful SLA Annual Conference, this meeting will bring together a highly engaged, international audience of…
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The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is very pleased to announce that Kathleen (Kate) McDowell, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the 2022 recipient of the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. The award’s purpose is to recognize the unique teaching contribution of an individual as a teacher…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce that Heather O’Brien, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia iSchool, is the recipient of the 2022 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award. This award recognizes an individual or team who has made an outstanding contribution to information science research. The award is for…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Jelina Haines is the 2022 recipient of the ASIS&T ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation proposal titled, “Researching the knowledge journey practices of Indigenous Elders relevant to the younger generation: A community-based participatory study.” The award’s purpose is to recognize outstanding…
Read MoreThe Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that Nilavra Bhattacharya is the 2022 recipient of the ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award for his dissertation proposal titled, “A Longitudinal Study to Understand University Students’ Searching as a Learning Process.” Bhattacharya is a PhD candidate at the School of Information, University…
Read More“Open is Not Forever: A Study of Vanished Open Access Journals” Selected for 2022 JASIST Best Paper Award The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Open is Not Forever: A Study of Vanished Open Access Journals” written by Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, and Najko Jahn published in Volume 72,…
Read MoreBREAK INTO NETWORK SCIENCE Workshop on Network Science for Beginners 09.30 – 12.30 Indian Standard Time (IST) – 3 hours on Saturday, 9th July 2022 Networks are everywhere: friends’ networks, transportation networks, and the World Wide Web for example. Neurons in our brains and proteins within our bodies also form networks that determine our intelligence…
Read MoreVirtual workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET ASIS&T 2022 Annual Meeting Part I: Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT Part II: Sunday, October 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2022 workshop, which will be…
Read MoreIn accordance with the ASIS&T Bylaws, each Professional, Retired, Student and Institutional Member shall be entitled to one vote on the Board of Directors Ballot. Should you prefer to vote by mail, please send an email to lmiddleton@asist.org to request a paper ballot. Paper ballots must be returned to the ASIS&T office not later than…
Read MoreAre you a student (Bachelor, Master or Doctoral) of Information Science or a related field, based in Europe? Do you want to expand your network, and gain experience for your CV and development plans? Read on! Thanks to an anonymous donor we can give away up to 11 free annual student memberships of ASIS&T (the…
Read MoreJoin us online on Wednesday 15th – Friday 17th June 2022, at 14.00-17.00 (BST/Dublin time; see https://tinyurl.com/bdetwf8x for your time zone) for a festival of information science, organised by ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology) European Chapter! This conference is free to ASIS&T members (but registration is required – remember to login into the…
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