[Asist-announce] Pres. Message, JASIST and Bulletin TOCs

[Richard Hill]

Since the last President’s Page, you have submitted your votes and new board
members have been elected. Please join me in welcoming president-elect Lisa
Given, Charles Sturt University, Australia; new treasurer June Abbas,
University of Oklahoma; and new directors-at-large Dania Bilal, University
of Tennessee, and Heather O’Brien, University of British Columbia, Canada.
The Board looks forward to their leadership and ideas. Our thanks go to all
those who ran for the various positions, as well as to those who have been
contributing steadily and generously to ASIS&T for all these years, with a
special note to Vicki Gregory who retires as our trusted treasurer after a
long tenure. ASIS&T depends on the work of the many volunteer members who
dedicate their time and energy to sit on, or chair, committees, jury the
various awards, review conference submissions, design and implement new
initiatives and generally keep the ASIS&T boat going. We are grateful for
all the work you do.

As I mentioned in my May column, the Board has been actively engaged on
various fronts including the hiring of a communications officer as well as
succession planning and the search for a new executive director to replace
Dick Hill. Our call for applicants for the communications officer position
has elicited some excellent applicants, and we are in the process of
interviewing qualified candidates who can develop and sustain a robust and
comprehensive communication strategy for ASIS&T. The search for Dick Hill’s
successor will be a major item on the agenda of our upcoming Board retreat
in July.

As part of this process, I thought it would be helpful for ASIS&T members to
be (re-)introduced to the good folks working at ASIS&T headquarters in
Silver Spring, Maryland, and running the organization behind the scene. In
addition to executive director Dick Hill, the two pillars of ASIS&T
headquarters are Vanessa Foss and Jan Hatzakos. Vanessa, director,
membership services and meetings, has been with ASIS&T since 1988, and Jan,
director of finance and administration and webmaster, since 1990. Along with
Dick Hill, they are the institutional memory and the ones that make things
happen. They are assisted by Carline Haynes, accounting, and Stephan Addo,
membership. Completing the team is Sandra Holder who serves as the first
point of contact for members, visitors and vendors and provides office
support. Together, they are the ASIS&T team. Make sure to introduce yourself
to them at the next Annual Meeting, regional meeting or other event. We are
grateful to them for their hard work, as ASIS&T continues on the path of
renewal and change to meet the evolving needs of our members.

In related news, ASIS&T continues its engagement with our members’ world as
well as the world around us. We have been receiving short videos from
doctoral students from around the globe who speak passionately about their
research. Look for these videos on our website, where they will be featured
soon. A new Meet the Authors series has been inaugurated this month. Its
purpose is to stretch the boundaries of the information field and get us to
engage with one another as well as with folks in related fields. The first
speaker to address the ASIS&T community was psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein,
who spoke on July 21, about his idea of the search engine manipulation
effect (SEME). The event was bound to send a shockwave of reactions within
the information science community and did not fail to do so. Stay tuned for
the next Meet the Author installment.

ASIS&T publications are still defining the trends in our field. A new
version of the Google Scholar metrics has just been released, and despite
the usual reluctance toward relying solely on the H index, it was heartening
to see that two of ASIS&T publications are in the top 20, with JASIST
topping the list of LIS Journal Rankings and the ASIS&T Proceedings listed
at number 20. (Source:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_library
informationscience)

Despite the world events plaguing our newsfeeds, this fall will be a busy
time for intellectual engagement in Europe. If you are planning on coming to
Copenhagen for the Annual Meeting, consider coming early to catch the Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications (DCMA) meeting (also in Copenhagen, October
13-16). The European Conference on Information Literacy will be meeting in
Prague around that time as well (October 10-13). The Association for
Internet Researchers will also hold its annual meeting in Berlin, Oct. 5-8.

Regarding the Annual Meeting, the program should be up soon on our website.
In addition to the paper sessions and panels, do not miss the workshop
offerings and several special sessions. The first Diversity and Inclusion
Luncheon is intended as a social engagement platform to celebrate diversity,
discuss challenges and collaborate on strategies to bolster diversity and
inclusion in ASIS&T. Attendees will also be able to meet several editors
from different journals at the Meet the Editors session. Representatives
from ALA, ALISE and the iCaucus will join us for a conversation on all
matters accreditation at the Joint ALISE/ASIS&T Presidential Session on
Accreditation. Finally, I look forward to keynote speaker Greg Walsh’s
address dealing with the issue of technological human surrogates in his talk
on Bridging the Telepresence Valley. Last but not least, remember that this
will be Dick Hill’s (potentially) last Annual Meeting, so bring your best
stories or photos and use this chance to say “thank you” to Dick and his
staff.

I wish you all a wonderful summer!
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JASIST   AUGUST 2016
Vol. 67, No. 8

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Social media and problematic everyday life information-seeking outcomes:
Differences across use frequency, gender, and problem-solving styles (pages
1793–1807) Sei-Ching Joanna Sin

A content analysis of Twitter hyperlinks and their application in web
resource indexing (pages 1808–1821) Kwan Yi, Namjoo Choi and Yung Soo Kim

Reducing digital divide effects through student engagement in coordinated
game design, online resource use, and social computing activities in school
(pages 1822–1835) Rebecca Reynolds and Ming Ming Chiu

Understanding scientific collaboration in the research life cycle: Bio- and
nanoscientists’ motivations, information-sharing and communication
practices, and barriers to collaboration (pages 1836–1848)  EunKyung Chung,
Nahyun Kwon and Jungyeoun Lee

Not all international collaboration is beneficial: The Mendeley readership
and citation impact of biochemical research collaboration (pages 1849–1857)
Pardeep Sud and Mike Thelwall

Text representation strategies: An example with the State of the union
addresses (pages 1858–1870) Jacques Savoy

Why experience matters to privacy: How context-based experience moderates
consumer privacy expectations for mobile applications (pages 1871–1882)
Kirsten Martin and Katie Shilton

Academics’ responses to encountered information: Context matters (pages
1883–1903) Sheila Pontis, Genovefa Kefalidou, Ann Blandford, Jamie Forth,
Stephann Makri, Sarah Sharples, Geraint Wiggins and Mel Woods

Using the wayback machine to mine websites in the social sciences: A
methodological resource (pages 1904–1915) Sanjay K. Arora, Yin Li, Jan
Youtie and Philip Shapira

Web mining for navigation problem detection and diagnosis in Discapnet: A
website aimed at disabled people (pages 1916–1927) Olatz Arbelaitz, Aizea
Lojo, Javier Muguerza and Iñigo Perona

Information flows as bases for archeology-specific geodata infrastructures:
An exploratory study in flanders (pages 1928–1942)
Berdien De Roo, Philippe De Maeyer and Jean Bourgeois

Using path-based approaches to examine the dynamic structure of
discipline-level citation networks: 1997–2011 (pages 1943–1955)
Erjia Yan and Qi Yu

Wikipedia, collective memory, and the Vietnam war (pages 1956–1961)
Brendan Luyt

Mendeley readership altmetrics for medical articles: An analysis of 45
fields (pages 1962–1972) Mike Thelwall and Paul Wilson

Author credit-assignment schemas: A comparison and analysis (pages
1973–1989) Jian Xu, Ying Ding, Min Song and Tamy Chambers

Research synthesis methods and library and information science: Shared
problems, limited diffusion (pages 1990–2008) Laura Sheble

Spamming in scholarly publishing: A case study (pages 2009–2015)
Marcin Kozak, Olesia Iefremova and James Hartley

Constructing conceptual trajectory maps to trace the development of research
fields (pages 2016–2031) Yi-Ning Tu and Shu-Lan Hsu

A mixture model of global internet capacity distributions (pages 2032–2044)
Hyunjin Seo and Stuart Thorson
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BULLETIN August/September 2016
Volume 42, No. 6 (Size: 5.7mb)

Features
Herbert Haviland Field (1868-1921): Bibliographer of Zoology
by Colin B. Burke and Michael K. Buckland

Precise Zoological Information: The Concilium Bibliographicum, 1895-1940
by Michael K. Buckland and Colin B. Burke

RDAP Review
Data and Copyright by Cindy Kristof

Departments
Editor’s Desktop by Irene Travis

President’s Page by Nadia Caidi

Inside ASIS&T

East Meets West – Joint Meeting of European and Asian Pacific Chapters at
LIDA Conference by Emil Levine and Maja Krtalic


Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
ASIS&T
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