From yolande at asis.org Thu Dec 8 12:46:38 2016 From: yolande at asis.org (Yolande Nanayakkara) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:46:38 -0500 Subject: [NJ ASIST] ASIS&T Secured Search Firm for Executive Director Position Message-ID: <000001d2517b$08ee2de0$1aca89a0$@asist.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Silver Spring, MD, December 8, 2016 ASIS&T Secured Search Firm, Isaacson Miller for Executive Director Position The ASIS&T Board of Directors has hired the executive search firm, Isaacson, Miller to identify qualified candidates for its next Executive Director of the organization. After 27 years, the current Executive Director is retiring and a wide scale search is being conducted to fill this important position. Isaacson Miller has over 30 years of experience with three locations in Boston (headquarters), San Francisco and Washington, D.C. They seek exceptional leaders from important civic institutions, with a commitment to diversity and the mission of the organization. Interested candidates should contact Jacqueline P. Mildner, Principal at jmildner at imsearch.com , or 202.682.1504. Founded at the beginning of the information age in 1937, ASIS&T has promoted the development and understanding of information science and documentation. Through its 80 decades it has reflected a rapidly changing landscape, embracing and promoting new advances in technology to improve all aspects of information collection, management, storage, use and communications. ASIS&T members are at the forefront of research and practice within Information Science. Leading discoveries on how we organize, relate, learn, and access information, our members are changing the face of information utilization. >From fine arts to health informatics, ASIS&T is a synergistic organization that allows the exchange of ideas to flourish for the benefit of the whole international field. Yolande Nanayakkara Communications Officer ASIS&T The Association for the Information Age W: 301.495.0900 8555 16th Street; Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anthi at asmda.com Sun Dec 18 13:28:02 2016 From: anthi at asmda.com (Anthi Katsirikou) Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 20:28:02 +0200 Subject: [NJ ASIST] QQML2017 Invitation In-Reply-To: <5c8201d21016$31ade2d0$9509a870$@isast.de> References: <5c8201d21016$31ade2d0$9509a870$@isast.de> Message-ID: <06f101d2595c$7a6be3c0$6f43ab40$@asmda.com> Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, With pleasure we invite you in Limerick, Ireland ((23-26 May 2017) for the 9th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2017, http://www.isast.org ) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). This is the ninth year of the conference which brings together different disciplines on library and information science; it is a multi-disciplinary conference that covers the Library and Information Science topics in conjunction to other disciplines (e.g. big data, open data and open source, innovation and technological transfer, management and marketing, statistics and data analysis, information technology, human resources, museums, archives, special librarianship, etc). The conference invites special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters. Target Group The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al. Main topics The emphasis is given to the models and the initiatives focus on the Data. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Data Mining, content analysis, taxonomies, ontologies 2. Open Data, Open Access, Analysis and Applications 3. Big Data and its Management 4. Information Ethics 5. Information and Knowledge Management 6. Synergies, Organizational Models and Information Systems 7. Multimedia Systems and Applications 8. Computer Networks and Social Networks, 9. Health Reference and Informatics 10. Information Technologies in Education 11. Decision making in service innovation 12. STM information development Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretar at isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/. The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2017 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org Important dates: 2nd Call of abstracts Deadline: 20 January 2017 Reviewer's response: in 3 weeks after submission Early registration: 30th of March 2017 Paper and Presentation Slides: 1st of May 2017 Conference dates: 23-26 May 2017 Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org Looking forward to welcoming you in Limerick, With our best regards, On behalf of the Conference Committee Anthi Katsirikou, PhD Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi at asmda.com If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2017 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: