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Sanfilippo to Receive Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

June 23, 2026

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…

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Wagner to Receive 2026 James M. Cretsos Award for Leadership

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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Knight to Receive 2026 Pratt Severn Student Paper Award

June 23, 2026

The 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:…

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Connaway to Receive the 2026 Award of Merit

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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Soroya to Receive 2026 Lois Lunin Award

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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Kirasur to Receive the 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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McDowell to Receive 2026 ASIS&T Research Impact Award

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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Johnson to Receive 2026 Bob Williams History Fund Research Grant

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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Dodson to Receive Bob Williams History Fund Best Paper Award

June 23, 2026

The 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…

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The Patina of Distrust: What People Do with Misinformation Wins Best Information Science Book Award

June 23, 2026

The 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, María 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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SIG-Infolearn Events

Metrics 2022: ASIS&T Virtual Workshop on Informetrics and Scientometrics Research sponsored by Elsevier’s International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR)

June 14, 2022

Virtual 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…

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2022 Board Elections

June 13, 2022

In 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…

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Opportunity for free student memberships of ASIS&T!

June 9, 2022

Are 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…

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IST ’22 programme announced (Jun 15-17, Online)

June 9, 2022

Join 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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Yejun Wu

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dr. Yejun Wu is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the Louisiana state University. He received his Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before coming to the United States, he worked at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information…

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Camille Mathieu

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Camille Mathieu is a results-driven information professional and independent consultant with over 10 years of experience in a variety of library and information science functions. She currently works as the Knowledge Management Program Manager for the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Previously, she…

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Aylin Imeri

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dr. Aylin Imeri is a research associate at the Department of Information Science at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. She investigated in her dissertation different aspects such as gamification, data privacy, health information behavior regarding activity tracking technologies and users’ interaction with those devices. She has been part…

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Lisa Hussey

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dr. Lisa Hussey is an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. Her research interests include EDI in LIS, professional identity, and mentoring and her teaching includes Information Services, Information Ethics, International & Comparative LIS, and Social Informatics. She received a Ph.D. in Library…

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Helen Partridge

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Treasurer Biography Expand Dr. Helen Partridge is Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning at Deakin University, Australia. Prior to this she was the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Southern Queensland where she had oversight of the University Library Services, Office for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, and the Open…

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Ina Fourie

June 9, 2022

Candidate for Treasurer Biography Expand Dr. Ina Fourie is a full professor, Head of Department of Information Science and Chair of the School of Information Technology, University of Pretoria. She is a rated South African researcher with international acknowledgement of her work. Her main research focus is on information behaviour, current awareness services, information literacy…

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