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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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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:…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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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ASIS&T යනු තොරතුරු විද්යා හා තාක්ෂණ සංගමය (Association for Information Science and Technology , ASIS&T) යනු තොරතුරු විද්යා භාවිතය සහ පර්යේෂණ අතර පරතරය පියවන එකම වෘත්තීය සංගමයයි. වසර 85 කට ආසන්න කාලයක සිට, ASIS&T තොරතුරු වෙත ප්රවේශය වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම සඳහා නව සහ වඩා හොඳ න්යායන්, ශිල්පීය ක්රම සහ තාක්ෂණයන් සෙවීමට නායකත්වය ලබා දෙයි. ලොව…
Read MoreDear ASIS&T members, It is time to elect our SIG-STI officers for 2021-2022. We are seeking candidates for the following positions: Chair-Elect Secretary/Treasurer You can nominate yourself or someone else. Please submit the name of your nomination and a brief bio, if you are interested in being a part of creating the future of SIG-STI.…
Read MoreASIS&T’s European Chapter warmly invites students, faculty & practitioners to meet with fellow ASIS&T members, talk about Information Science, and share what you would like to see from the European Chapter in the next year. Time: Friday, December 17th, 2021, 1-2pm UTC/GMT (see https://tinyurl.com/2p8fnj4e for other time zones) Place: Zoom, please see this iConnect post…
Read More● Melissa Ocepek, Chair. mgocepek@illinois.edu ● Annie Chen, Chair Elect, atchen@uw.edu ● Yan Zhang, Immediate Past Chair, yanz@utexas.edu ● Chiyoung Oh, Treasurer, coh@csu.edu ● Yuan Li, Secretary, yuanli@live.unc.edu ● Subaveerapandiyan, A., Communications Officer, subaveerapandiyan@gmail.com ● Tathagata Dhar, Webmaster, tdtathagata@gmail.com ● Nathan Davis, Recruitment/Membership Officer, nathandavis@utexas.edu 2021-2022 SIG-USE Awards Committee: ● Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, Co-Chair, xyuan@albany.edu …
Read MoreFlipped Panel on “Publishing Research in Reputed Venues” Date: Thursday, January 6, 2022 Time: 10 AM – 11 AM Eastern Time (ET) Venue: Online ASIS&T SIG-III is proud to announce a Flipped Panel on Publishing Research in Reputed Venues. This event will happen online on January 6, 2022, and will feature some of the most…
Read MoreFostering the Next Generation Authors & Helping People Stay Safe from COVID-19: International Online Workshop for School Librarians ASIS&T South Asia chapter in collaboration with the School Library Association, India is arranging this workshop to introduce an interesting and educational International Digital Story Writing Competition organized by ASIS&T South Asia Chapter, the University of Hong…
Read MoreNEASIST is sponsoring RDMLA Symposium 2022! Please join us for the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) Symposium! The event will be held online and in-person* at the Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday, April 22, 2022, 9:00 a.m. ET to 4:30 p.m. ET. The inaugural theme is “Data and Communities: Intersections of…
Read MoreASIS&T South Asia Chapter : Best Research Paper Award 2024-25 Nomination call for ASIS&T South Asia Chapter Best Research Paper Award 2024-2025 is open! Nature of the Award This award was established in 2022 by the South Asia Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). The award winner will receive a certificate…
Read MoreVoted APPROVE on ISO/DIS 23527, Research activity identifier information technology – Learning, education, training and research (RAiD) Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 23527? Description: This document defines the use and structure of the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) system. The Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) system includes a registry which supports the identification…
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