[Asis-l] News re: ASIS&T Monographs

[Richard Hill]

At http://www.infotoday.com/pressreleases/default.shtml there are 5 press
releases (in pdf) of interest to the ASIST membership. These include:

1. Sam Hastings named monograph series editor
Samantha Hastings has been named editor of the ASIS&T Monograph Series, with
responsibilities for acquisition and review.

2. Covert & Overt is published
Covert and Overt explores the historical relationships between covert
intelligence work and information/computer science. Skillfully edited by
Robert V. Williams and Ben-Ami Lipetz, the book features contributions by
intelligence professionals and technologists from a range of U.S. and
British agencies and armed services.

The book begins by examining the pivotal strides to utilize technology in
the gathering and dissemination of government/military intelligence during
World War II. Next, it traces the evolution of the relationship between
spymasters, computers, and systems developers through the years of the Cold
War-a period notable for the parallel development of high-tech spyware and
powerful new systems for encoding, decoding, storing, and manipulating
intelligence data.

3. ARIST turns 40
With the publication of Volume 40, premiered at the Annual Meeting, Blaise
Cronin and Debora Shaw (Eds) lead ARIST into its 4th decade.

4. Theories of Information Behavior is published
This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual
frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use
information in different contexts. A practical and readable reference to
both well established and newly proposed theories of information behavior,
the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from 10 countries. Each
theory description covers origins, propositions, methodological
implications, usage, links to related conceptual frameworks, and listings of
authoritative primary and secondary references. The introductory chapters
explain key concepts, theory-method connections, and the process of theory
development.

5. ASIST Thesaurus, 3rd edition, is published
Edited by Alice Redmond-Neal and Marjorie M. K. Hlava
	Recognized as the authoritative reference to the terminology of
information science, technology, and librarianship, the updated and expanded
third edition of the ASIST Thesaurus is an essential resource for indexers,
researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners in the field. An optional
CD-ROM includes the complete contents of the print thesaurus along with Data
Harmony's Thesaurus Master software. In addition to powerful search and
display features, the CD-ROM allows users to add, change, and delete terms,
and to learn the fundamentals of thesaurus construction while exploring the
professional vocabulary of library and information science and technology.

Dick Hill
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Richard B. Hill
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American Society for Information Science and Technology
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