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ASIS&T and SLA Members Vote in Favor of Merger

August 21, 2025

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…

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SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards

August 20, 2025

Call 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…

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“Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts” Chosen for 2025 Best JASIST Paper Award

August 13, 2025

    The 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, Issue 12 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST), is the recipient of…

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Introduction to Documentation Studies Wins Best Information Science Book Award

August 13, 2025

The 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.…

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ISO/DIS 999 – Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes

August 12, 2025

Description: 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:

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ISO/CD 25244 – Archives Performance Indicators

August 8, 2025

Description: 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.

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Systematic Review – ISO 30300:2020, Records Management – Core Concepts and Vocabulary

August 6, 2025

Description: 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…

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ISO/TS 22943:2022 – Principles of Identification for Trade and Information Management

August 6, 2025

Description: 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…

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SLA Merger Information

July 26, 2025

ASIS&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…

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ISO/DIS 25964-1, Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval; management and use

July 26, 2025

Description: 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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SIG-Infolearn Events

Draft Strategic Plan – Member Input Requested

May 28, 2020

Download Strategic Plan as PDF Executive Summary This document outlines and describes the strategic plan for the Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the years 2020 to 2025. Development of the plan was led by a Strategic Planning Task Force formed shortly after the Annual Meeting in Melbourne in October 2019. A variety…

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NEASIS&T Support for ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting

May 22, 2020

The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIS&T) is pleased to announce two conference support awards for participation in the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually this year.  Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing new voices to the chapter. There is one student award…

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2020 Board Elections

May 22, 2020

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 June…

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2020 ASIS&T Constitution and Bylaws Amendments

May 22, 2020

In early 2020 the ASIS&T Governance Committee was tasked with reviewing the ASIS&T Constitution & Bylaws and proposing amendments that would address to concerns. The first concern was that the Chapter Assembly Director and SIG Cabinet Director were each elected by their respective bodies yet held seats on the Board of Directors, the rest of…

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Dan Wu

May 22, 2020

  Candidate for Director-at-Large Biography Expand Dan Wu is a Full Professor of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China. She is the Director of the Human-Computer Interaction and User Behavior Center, and the Deputy Director of the Planning Office for Development and Discipline Construction at Wuhan University. She earned her Ph.D. from Peking…

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Joan Bartlett

May 22, 2020

Biography Expand Position Statement Expand Return to Election Homepage

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Heidi Julien

May 22, 2020

Candidate for President-Elect Biography Expand Heidi Julien has been a proud and engaged ASIS&T member since 1994, when she joined as a doctoral student. Since then, she has served in multiple roles in the organization, including membership on the Award of Merit Jury, the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award Jury, SIGUSE Award Juries, the Student Chapter…

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Naresh Agarwal

May 22, 2020

Candidate for President-Elect Biography Expand Naresh Agarwal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Information Science & Technology Concentration at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, Boston. He earned his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Department of Information Systems, School of Computing. Naresh’s research area is information…

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ISO/DIS 24083, International archives statistics

May 21, 2020

Voted APPROVE on ISO/DIS 24083, International archives statistics Question: Do you approve of the technical content of ISO/DIS 24083? Description: This International Standard specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for strategic planning, internal management of archives, and other statistical uses.

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SO/DIS 690, Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources

May 3, 2020

Voted DISAPPROVE onSO/DIS 690, Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 690? Description: This document provides guidelines for the preparation of bibliographic references. It also gives guidelines for the preparation of citations in works that are not themselves primarily bibliographical. Comments: Members of the…

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