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President’s Column March 2022

President’s Column March 2022 Hi everyone, It’s beginning to get warmer here in Boston. Hope you take the time to enjoy the Spring or Fall (depending on where you are) weather and the outdoors, even as we tackle our many roles and responsibilities. Our world continues to face challenges, including falling and rising COVID cases,…

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JASIST Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Conceptual Models of the Sociotechnical”

JASIST Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Conceptual Models of the Sociotechnical” Overview Information Science has long worked at the intersection of technology development and the critical study of technologies in particular places, serving particular people, at particular points in time. Conceptual models—the abstract and formal representations of how systems work, and of the information…

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Upcoming Webinars

Upcoming Webinars Meet the Authors Series – The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work and Play Now Sponsored by ASIS&T Presenters: Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein January 27, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST Additional Information and Registration   Natural History Data Curation: Maintaining Infrastructures and Turning Documents Into Datasets (DCMI) Sponsored by…

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January 2022 Affiliated Organization News

January 2022 Affiliated Organization News Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI) The Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI) invites submissions for its 50th Annual Conference, June 7 – 10, 2022. As in 2020 and 2021, the 2022 conference will be free and open to…

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January 2022 SIG News

January 2022 SIG News SIG International Information Issues (SIG-III)  Join us with your favorite drink for the first SIG-III International Cafe Meet on 20th January 2022 from 7:30pm to 8:10 pm IST (Timezone Converter: dateful.com/time-zone-converter) SIG-III International Cafe is an initiative of SIG-III to provide an informal space for all its members – practitioners, faculty…

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January 2022 Chapter News

January 2022 Chapter News European Chapter Please join the European Chapter for Coffee with the Editors! We will welcome Koraljka Golub & Ying-Hsang Liu, who will discuss Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives. Prof. Golub and Dr. Liu will briefly provide an overview of the book and reflections on its goals and…

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January 2022 ASIS&T Member Spotlight

January 2022 ASIS&T Member Spotlight In each issue of Inside ASIS&T, we ask a different member questions about their perspectives, advice, and experiences in the field of information science and technology. If you’d like to be a featured member, send an email to Pamela Yonker at pyonker@asist.org. Devendra Potnis, PhD (He/Him/His) Associate Professor School of Information…

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New From JASIST

New From JASIST JASIST Volume 73, Issue 2, February 2022 Special Issue: SPECIAL ISSUE ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES (DH) Full Issue GUEST EDITORIAL JASIST special issue on digital humanities (DH) Marcia Lei Zeng, Chris Alen Sula, Karen F. Gracy, Eero Hyvönen, Vânia Mara Alves Lima   RESEARCH ARTICLES A. LANDSCAPES OF DH Digital humanities—A discipline in its…

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Annual Meeting News

Annual Meeting News 2021 Annual Meeting Recap ASIS&T wants to thank everyone who attended or presented either in person or virtually at the 2021 Annual Meeting held in October. This year because travel restrictions for many were still in place and there were ongoing health concerns with COVID-19, we decided to offer a virtual option…

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