From rhill at asis.org Tue May 10 14:57:49 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:57:49 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] Voting, Awards Deadlines Message-ID: <5ac401d1aaed$d9fe5570$8dfb0050$@asis.org> ELECTION Wednesday, May 11, we will be sending to members eligible to vote instructions on accessing the voting system, with a SPECIAL LOGIN USERNAME and PASSWORD. Your normal username and password will not work. Votes must be received by June 15, 2016. Positions for which your vote is sought are (the order was chosen by lot): President-elect for the 2017 ASIS&T administrative year (elect one): Candidates are Lisa Given and Diane Rasmussen Pennington. Treasurer for the 2017-2019 administrative years (elect one): Candidates are June Abbas and Michael Luesebrink. Director-at-Large for 2017-2019 administrative years (elect two): Candidates are Dania Bilal, Naresh Agarwal, Heather O'Brien, and Hazel Hall. Information on the candidates are available at https://www.asist.org/elections/ AWARDS DEADLINES Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book Award July 1 Best Research in Information Science Award June 15 History Fund: Research Paper Award June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award August 1 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award July 1 Watson Davis Award July 15 Chapter Awards Nomination Deadline Chapter of the Year August 15 Chapter Member of the Year August 15 Chapter Event of the Year August 15 Chapter Publication of the Year August 15 Chapter Innovation of the Year August 15 Student Chapter of the Year July 1 Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards Nomination Deadline SIG of the Year August 15 SIG Member of the Year August 15 SIG Publication of the Year July 15 Richard B. 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Positions for which your vote is sought are (the order was chosen by lot): President-elect for the 2017 ASIS&T administrative year (elect one): Candidates are Lisa Given and Diane Rasmussen Pennington. Treasurer for the 2017-2019 administrative years (elect one): Candidates are June Abbas and Michael Luesebrink. Director-at-Large for 2017-2019 administrative years (elect two): Candidates are Dania Bilal, Naresh Agarwal, Heather O?Brien, and Hazel Hall. Information on the candidates are available at https://www.asist.org/elections/ AWARDS DEADLINES Descriptions at https://www.asist.org/about/awards/ Award of Merit? July 1 Best Information Science Book Award?? July 1 Best Research in Information Science Award? June 15 History Fund: Research Paper Award??? June 20 James M. Cretsos Leadership Award???? August 1 New Leaders Award May 15 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award?? June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award? June 15 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship? July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award???? July 1 Watson Davis Award??? July 15 Chapter Awards Nomination Deadline Chapter of the Year?? August 15 Chapter Member of the Year August 15 Chapter Event of the Year? August 15 Chapter Publication of the Year? August 15 Chapter Innovation of the Year?? August 15 Student Chapter of the Year????? July 1 Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards Nomination Deadline SIG of the Year August 15 SIG Member of the Year???? August 15 SIG Publication of the Year????? July 15 Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From rhill at asis.org Wed May 18 09:55:02 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:55:02 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] ASIS&T Seeks Comm. Officer; Publicize PhD Research with Video Message-ID: <176c01d1b10c$e0a700a0$a1f501e0$@asis.org> ASIS&T Seeks Communications Officer (Please forward as appropriate) The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) seeks a Communications Officer to assist in the promotion and presentation of a consistent image of ASIS&T as a major association of international caliber at the service of its community. This includes the development and implementation of communication strategies consistent with the Association's mission and objectives; developing the provision of internal and external communications regarding the Association?s actions, membership affairs and services; building strong relationships with members, Special Interest Groups, Chapters, external organizations and communities of interest; and conducting campaigns to increase the membership of the Association. It also includes the development and implementation of marketing strategies; the preparation of proposals, solicitations and memoranda of agreement to address membership needs and create new business opportunities; the development and implementation of strategies to maximize membership drive success and increase membership involvement with the Association; and the creation and selling of value-added solutions to maintain and increase high quality products/relationships. Education/Experience: A Master's degree in one (or more) of these fields: Communications & Media studies, Public Relations, Marketing & Advertising, Education, Library and Information Science, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Information Systems, Information Science, or Computer Science, or other related fields are appropriate. Other Qualifying Skills and/or Abilities: Experience with Web content management, social media, knowledge management, information architecture, user experience, digital asset management, graphic design and media software. Ability to prioritize and manage several projects at once, and to work well autonomously and as part of a team.? Strong web design skills. Strong attention to detail. ?Excellent oral and written communication skills. Full Position description at https://www.asist.org/communications-officer/ Salary commensurate with experience.?To apply, please send cover letter, resume/CV, references, and samples or links of work to?rhill at asist.org. - - - - - - PUBLICIZE YOUR DOCTORAL RESERCH WITH VIDEO If you are a doctoral student in the writing stage or close to defending? We would like to showcase your research! ASIS&T invites you to submit a short video (5 mins or less) that introduces the world to the exciting and engaging research you are doing. We are extending an invitation to those doctoral students who have: a) completed their coursework, qualifying examinations (or equivalent) and defended their proposals, and b) are in the process of analyzing/writing, or ready to defend their dissertations. In addition to the great visibility that your research receives, the best 20 submissions will win a free one-year ASIS&T membership (or free renewal). All vetted submissions will be featured on the ASIS&T website . SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2016 Complete information at https://www.asist.org/asist-featuring-doctoral-student-research/ PRIZES: All submitted videos will be reviewed by a committee. All approved videos will be featured on the ASIS&T website for a determined period of time. 20 videos featured on the website will receive a free one-year ASIS&T membership (for new members) or a free one-year renewal (for current members) based on a selection process spearheaded by the committee. This initiative is co-sponsored by the ASIS&T membership committee, ASIS&T Education and Professional Advancement committee, and ASIS&T Outreach and Engagement task force. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Iris Xie - hiris at uwm.edu Good luck, everyone! Iris Xie, Ph.D. Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 From rhill at asis.org Tue May 31 11:15:05 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:15:05 -0400 Subject: [Asist-announce] Election, Awards Deadlines, Student Videos, Hill to retire, JASIST TOC Message-ID: <274701d1bb4f$42ce4580$c86ad080$@asis.org> ELECTION: Voting closes on June 15, 2016. All members should have received voting instructions (including single use username and password) in mid-May. If you have a problem, contact rhill at asis.org. Candidate information is at https://www.asist.org/2016-elections/ - - - - - AWARDS DEADLINES Coming: https://www.asist.org/about/awards/ Best Research in Information Science Award June 15 Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award June 15 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award June 15 History Fund: Research Grant June 20 History Fund: Research Paper Award June 20 Award of Merit July 1 Best Information Science Book Award July 1 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship July 1 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award July 1 Watson Davis Award July 15 - - - - - STUDENT VIDEOS on Research Deadline: We are extending an invitation to the cohort of doctoral students who have completed their coursework, passed exams, and are in the process of writing or defending dissertations, for this initiative. Submission Deadline: July 1, 2016 https://www.asist.org/asist-featuring-doctoral-student-research/ - - - - - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HILL TO RETIRE: After 27 years as ASIS&T Executive Director, Dick Hill has informed the Board he will retire when a replacement is identified. https://www.asist.org/for-immediate-release-dick-hill-set-to-retire/ ----- JOURNAL of the Association for Information Science and Technology C ASIS&T https://www.asist.org/publications/jasist/ June 2016, Volume 67, Issue 6 Pages C1-C1, 1279-1520 The conditions of peak empiricism in big data and interaction design (pages 1279-1288) Michael Marcinkowski and Fred Fonseca Tweet-biased summarization (pages 1289-1300) Evi Yulianti, Sharin Huspi and Mark Sanderson Users' music information needs and behaviors: Design implications for music information retrieval systems (pages 1301-1330) Jin Ha Lee, Hyerim Cho and Yea-Seul Kim Understanding collaborative search for places of interest (pages 1331-1344) Misfer Aldosari, Mark Sanderson, Audrey Tam and Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd Assessment of learning to rank methods for query expansion (pages 1345-1357) Bo Xu, Hongfei Lin and Yuan Lin What motivates people to review articles? The case of the human-computer interaction community (pages 1358-1371) Syavash Nobarany, Kellogg S. Booth and Gary Hsieh The decision to submit to a journal: Another example of a valence-consistent Shift? (pages 1372-1383) Guido Pepermans and Sandra Rousseau The boundaries between: Parental involvement in a teen's online world (pages 1384-1403) Lee B. Erickson, Pamela Wisniewski, Heng Xu, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson and Daniel F. Perkins Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse (pages 1404-1416) Ixchel M. Faniel, Adam Kriesberg and Elizabeth Yakel Investment decision paths in the information age: The effect of online journalism (pages 1417-1429) Michal Gaziel Yablowitz and Daphne R. Raban The development and validation of a one-bit comparison for evaluating the maturity of tag distributions in a Web 2.0 environment (pages 1430-1445) Kuo-Hao Tang, Li-Chen Tsai and Sheue-Ling Hwang Distortive effects of initial-based name disambiguation on measurements of large-scale coauthorship networks (pages 1446-1461) Jinseok Kim and Jana Diesner Estimating the probability of an authorship attribution (pages 1462-1472) Jacques Savoy Science communication and dissemination in different cultures: An analysis of the audience for TED videos in China and abroad (pages 1473-1486) Xuelian Pan, Erjia Yan and Weina Hua Disciplinary, national, and departmental contributions to the literature of library and information science, 2007-2012 (pages 1487-1506) William H. Walters and Esther Isabelle Wilder Accessibility of graphics in STEM research articles: Analysis and proposals for improvement (pages 1507-1520)Bruno Splendiani and Mireia Ribera Richard B. 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