[Asis-l] Invitation to ASIS&T Publications Committee Paper Presentation

[Rong Tang]

Dear all,

As you may recall, back in February and March of this year, the ASIS&T
Publications Committee conducted an online survey about ASIS&T publication
users' perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications. The
Committee wishes to thank those of you who participated in the survey. In
total there were 210 respondents who started the survey, with 190
identified as ASIS&T publications users.

We are pleased to tell you that our paper entitled “Needs Assessment of
ASIS&T Publications: Bridging Information Research and Practice” was
accepted to be presented at the upcoming ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The
Committee would like to invite you to attend our paper presentation on
Sunday (October 16, 2016) at 15:30pm (
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/program/information-and-scholarly-association-papers
/).

After presenting key results of the study, the Committee plans to have an
interactive period with the audience to collect feedback about your
thoughts on future directions of ASIS&T publications. The audience will be
asked to fill out a brief survey, either in a paper form or online at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/asistpubspaper.

This coming year, in addition to continuing with its needs assessment
project by conducting follow-up interviews during ASIS&T or after ASIS&T,
the Publication Committee's 2016-2017 goals are:

(1) Explore ASIS&T publications users' thoughts on reviving *ARIST*, and
develop specific plans for reviving *ARIST*
(2) Discuss possible ways to make* the Bulletin* serving as a bridge
between researchers and professionals/practitioners
(3)     Expand the impact of ASIS&T publications to geographical areas
beyond North America
(4)     Conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric and altmetric counts
of publications occurring in recent JASIST and Proceedings volumes/issues

We know that you care about and have a lot of thoughts about ASIS&T
publications. Your feedback is very important to the Committee. Please come
to our paper presentation session at ASIS&T AM if you are able to, or
contact us during or after the conference if you wish to share your
thoughts.

We appreciate your valuable input and look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

ASIS&T Publications Committee 2016-2017



Rong Tang (Co-Chair) (rong.tang at simmons.edu)

Yuelin Li (Co-Chair) (yuelinli at nankai.edu.cn)

Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) (jamshid.beheshti at mcgill.ca)

John Budd (BuddJ at missouri.edu)

Samuel Chu (samchu at hku.hk)

Alyson Gamble (agamble at ncf.edu)

Lorri Mon  (lmon at fsu.edu)

Chaoqun Ni (chaoqun.ni at simmons.edu)

Danielle Pollock (dpolloc2 at vols.utk.edu)

Deborah Turner (dat49 at drexel.edu)

Lu Xiao (luxiaoist at gmail.com)

-- 
Rong Tang, PhD.
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Director, Simmons Usability Lab
Simmons College
rong.tang at simmons.edu
1-617-521-2880