ASIS&T - The Information Society for the Information Age

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EURO IA Summit
September 23-25, 2010
Paris, France

DC-2010
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
October 20-22, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting
October 22-27, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

ICKM 2010
October 22-23, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Danielle Cossarini wins the 2010 NEASIST Student Travel Award for Best Paper in Information Science

Dr. Jane Greenberg Wins 2010 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research

Denise Bedford Named Goodyear Professor at Kent State

Professor Amanda Spink Joins Loughborough University

Dr. Gary Marchionini Awarded for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring

José-Marie Griffiths appointed Vice President for academic affairs at Bryant University

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ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting:
Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem
October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA

New conference, new format, new experience.

The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. This year’s conference is stepping away from tradition and re-inventing our premier conference in the guise of an innovative “ASIST 2.0.” 

Europe's 6th Information Architecture Summit
September 23-25, 2010, Paris, France


 
Join us in Paris, France, September 23-25, 2010, for three incredible days of workshops, presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Europe and around the world. 

JASIST (August 2010)  The fields of information searching and information retrieval both focus on the interaction between people and content in information systems. These two fields share common.... [more] 

Bulletin (June/July 2010)  The new media, including the 24/7 cable news networks, leave us all uncomfortably aware of the many disasters, .. [more]

The Public Domain, by James Doyle, ASIS&T 2009 Book of the Year Winner.  In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age-today’s heated battles over intellectual property.  Boyle argues that...[more]

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Special Interest Groups

Regional Chapters

Student Chapters

Central Ohio Chapter
Demonstrating Value to Stakeholders
August 3, 2010
Columbus, OH

Northern Ohio Chapter
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Tour
November 1, 2010
Cleveland, OH

Pacific Northwest Chapter
Infocamp
October 2-3, 2010
Seattle WA

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