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Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is a bi-monthly news magazine packed with developments and issues affecting the field, pragmatic management reports, opinion, and news of people and events in the information science community.

Bulletin Back Issues
Feb/Mar 2009
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Vol. 35, No. 3

Special Section

        ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting Coverage
  • A Look at ASIS&T 2008
    Photo Montage 
  • 2008 ASIS&T Award Winners
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  • Genevieve Bell Addresses the Future of the Internet as a Cultural Institution
    by Steve Hardin
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  • MacArthur Foundation's Connie Yowell Speaks about Children
    by Steve Hardin

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  • Report on the 4th Social Informatics SIG Research Symposium:  People, Information and Technology:  The Social Analysis of Computing
    by Kalpana Shankar and Howard Rosenbaum

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  • An Intellectual Playground
    by Elise Lewis

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Column

  • IA Growing Roots - Concerning the Journal of IA
    by Andres Resmini, Katrina Byström and Dorte Madsen

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Departments

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  • Editor's Desktop | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 70k)
  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 1mb)

Dec 2008/January2009
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Vol. 35, No. 2

Special Section

  • Introduction
    by Eric Lease Morgan, Special Section Guest Editor 
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  • Explaining Free and Open Source Software
    by Scot Colford
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  • The Thick of the Fray: Open Source Software in Libraries in the First Decade of this Century
    by K.G. Schneider
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  • The Viability of Open Source ILS
    by Marshall Breeding
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  • Evergreen in Context
    by Robert E. Molyneux
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  • The Development and Usage of the Greenstone Digital Library Software
    by Ian H. Witten
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  • From Open Source to Open Libraries
    by Thomas Krichel
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Columns

  • The Student Scene
    Students as Technology Leaders

    by Laura Krier
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  • What's New
    Selected Abstracts from JASIST

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Departments

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  • Editor's Desktop | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 93k)
  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 297k)
  • Don Kraft Named Editor Emeritus of JASIST
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October/November 2008
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Vol. 35, No. 1

Special Section

  • Introduction
    by Mark H. Needleman, Special Section Guest Editor
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  • Best Practice and Standardization Initiatives for Managing Electronic Resources
    by Rafal Kasprowski
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  • DCMI Metadata Schema Registry for Sharing Authoritative Information about Metadata Schemas 
    by Mitsuharu Nagamori and Shigeo Sugimoto
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  • Toward Interoperability: A Report from 11th Open Forum on Metadata Registries and Related Standards 
    by Gail Hodge
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  • ISO 2788 + ISO 5964 + Much Energy = ISO 25964 
    by Stella G. Dextre Clarke
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  • Integration and Implementation Sciences: A Framework for Thinking About Standards in Complex, Problem-Based Research 
    by Caryn Anderson
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Feature

  • Surfing the Wave or Taking a Road Less Traveled: The 2008 Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
    by Paul Thompson
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IA Column

  • IA Column: Redesigning the Library Experience
    by Michael Magoolaghan
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Other

  • ASIS&T Scholarly Communication Survey: Open Access Authors
    by Margeaux Johnson and Nancy K. Roderer
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Departments

  • President's Page | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 75k)
  • Editor's Desktop | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 118k)
  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 162k)

August/September 2008
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Vol. 34, No. 6

Special Section

  • Information Architecture Introduction: Taxarcana and Other Boons for Business
    by Stacy Surla, Guest Editors of Special Section
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  • Exploratory Search in Different Information Architectures
    by Tingting Jiang and Sherry Koshman
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 323k)
  • Tagging: Emerging Trends 
    by Gene Smith
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  • The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms 
    by Luke Wroblewski
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  • Audiences and Artifacts 
    by Nathan Curtis
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  • How to Be a User Experience Team of One 
    by Leah Buley
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Feature

  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Program - Library Science
    by Emil Levine
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Other

  • The Student Scene: Informatics Student Activities at UCLA
    by Sarah Buchanan
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  • ASIS&T Membership Survey 2008
    by Margeaux Johnson and Nancy K. Roderer
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Departments

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June/July 2008
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Vol. 34, No. 5

Special Section

  • Bringing Genre into Focus
    by Luanne Freund and Christoph Ringlstetter, Guest Editors of Special Section
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  • Why Information Has Shape
    by Andrew Dillon
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  • Stalking the Wild Web Genre 
    by Mark A. Rosso
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  • Situation Relevance Through Task-Genre Relationships 
    by Luanne Freund
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  • Practical Aspects of Automatic Genre Classification 
    by Christoph Ringlstetter and Andrea Stubbe
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  • LIS and Genre Between People, Texts, Activity and Situation 
    by Jack Andersen
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Feature

  • Research Interviews for Library and Information Professionals
    by Andrew P. Carlin
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IA Column

  • Information Advantage
    by Ted Sienknecht
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 67k)

Other

  • Designing a User-Centered Conference for User-Centered Information Professionals: The Story of InfoCamp Seattle
    by Aaron Louie
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  • ASIS&T Scholarly Communication Survey
    by Margeaux Johnson and Nancy K. Roderer
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 180k)

Departments

  • President's Page | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 91k)
  • Editor's Desktop | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 156k)
  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 331k)

 


April/May 2008
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Vol. 34, No. 4

Special Section

  • Digital Desires:  What Are Museums Up To?
    by Layna White, Editor of Special Section
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  • Doing the DAM:  Digital Asset Management at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    by Shyam Oberoi
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 430k)
  • Securing Digital Content
    by Sally Hubbard

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Annual Meeting Coverage

  • The Role of  Universites in the Preservation of Cultural Memory
    by Steve Hardin
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Features

  • Let Them Write English
    by Elise Longdon-Neuner
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 241k)
  • Defining an Agenda for Human-Centered Computing
    by Andrew Sears, Jonathan Lazar, Ant Ozok and
    Gabriele Meiselwitz
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IA Column

  • Exploring Exploratory Search
    by Mark Nolan

    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 140k)

Departments

  • President's Page | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 84k)
  • Editor's Desktop | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 86k)
  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 121k)

 


February/March 2008
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Vol. 34, No. 3

Annual Meeting Coverage

  • A Look at ASIS&T 2007
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  • 2007 ASIS&T Award Winners
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 658k)
  • ASIS&T Award of Merit to Donald H. Kraft
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 276k)
  • 2007 Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 229k)
  • Plenary Address: Stratigos Discusses the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Computing on Publishing and Related Activities
    by Steve Hardin
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Information Professionals in a a Globalized World
  • Introduction
    by Caryn L. Anderson
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  • Information Professionals in the South Asian Region: The Challenges Ahead
    by P.R. Goswami and P.K. Jain
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 87k)
  • Digital Inclusion Initiatives in Brazil: Improving Education and Information Seeking Behavior Through Government-Academic Partnerships
    by Maria José Vincentini Jorente
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  • Distance Learning/E-Learning for Iraq: Concept and Road Map
    by Ala'a Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi
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  • Kosova Libraries: Where Practical Steps are Most Needed
    by Besim J. Kokollari
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  • Information Professionals in Nigeria: Optimism and Innovation in the Face of Staggering Inadequacies
    by Ifeanyichukwu Faith Njoku
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  • Glancing at the Rearview Mirror, Focusing on the Road Ahead: Library and Information Professionals in Indonesia
    by Liauw Toong Tjiek (Aditya Nugraha)
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IA Column

  • IA Column
    It's Not What You Think, but How You Think
    by Eric Reiss
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Departments

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  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 1.28mb)

 


December/January 2008
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Vol. 34, No. 2

Virtual Reference Services

  • Introduction
    by Yungrang Laura Cheng, Guest Editor
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  • An Informal History (and Possible Future) of Digital Reference
    by Joseph Janes
    Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 75k)
  • Virtual Reference to Participatory Librarianship:  Expanding the Conversation
    by R. David Lankes
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  • Evaluation of Online Reference Services
    by Jeffrey Pomerantz
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  • Implementation of Professional and Ethical Standards
    by Pnina Shachaf
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  • On the Trail of the Elusive Non-User:  What Research in Virtual Reference Environments Reveals
    by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Marie L. Radford and Timothy J. Dickey
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  • On Scalable (Computer-Based) Information Systems
    by Ophir Frieder
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  • Selected Abstracts of Standards Under Review 2006-2007
    Notes from the ASIS&T Standards Committee (ASISUT-SC)

    by Marcia Zeng
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Columns

  • The Open Source Road to Web 2.0 for Nigeria:  A View of Two Worlds from the Outside
    by Olugbenga Ademodi
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  • Navigating the Long Tail
    by James Kalbach
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Departments

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  • Inside ASIS&T | Full Text:  HTML | PDF (Size: 190k)

 


October/November 2007
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Vol. 34, No. 1

Folksonomies

  • Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future?
    by Diane Neal, Guest Editor
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  • Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want Them To?
    by P. Jason Morrison

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  • Trouble in Paradise: Conflict Management and Resolution in Social Classification Environments
    by Chris Landbeck

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  • Image Indexing: How Can I Find a Nice Pair of Italian Shoes?
    by Elaine Ménard

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  • Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible
    by Joan Beaudoin

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  • Them! Google's Ambivalence Toward Library and Information Science
    by Shawne D. Miksa

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Columns

  • Some Thoughts on Information Science: A Vision from Brazil
    by Miriam Vieira da Cunha

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  • Information Architecture and Search Optimization: Beginning a Beautiful Friendship
    by Marianne Sweeny

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Departments

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August/September 2007
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Vol. 33, No. 6

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

  • Introduction
    by Yin Zhang
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  • Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments
    by Pat Riva

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  • Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe
    by Allison Carlyle and Lisa M. Fusco

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  • From a Conceptual Model to Application and System Development
    by Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang

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  • Understanding Support of FRBR's Four User Tasks in MARC-Encoded Bibliographic Records
    by Shawne D. Miksa

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  • FRBR: The End of the Road or a New Beginning
    by Maja Žumer

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  • Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice
    by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba

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  • Standards in Electronic Resource Management
    by Rafal Kasprowski

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  • Second Life, Serious Leisure and LIS
    by Richard Urban

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  • An Information Architecture Approach to Building a Much Better Digital Library
    by Stacy Merrill Surla

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June/July 2007
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Vol. 33, No. 5
First electronic only issue

Information Architecture

  • Getting Richer
    by Stacy Merrill Surla
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  • IA Research: The Future State of the Art
    by D. Grant Campbell
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  • Face Tag: Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System
    by Emanuele Quintarelli, Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati
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  • Evolutionary Psychology as a Basis for Ethical Design: Virtual Status and Ubiquitous Altruism
    by Olly Wright

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  • Data-Driven Design: Using Web Analytics to Validate Heuristics
    by Andrea Wiggins

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  • IA and RIAs - You Know More than you Think You Do
    by Adam Polansky

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  • Information Commons: Service to the Community Starts with Solid IA
    by Josh Knauer

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  • Reflections on the Development of the Model of the Information search Process (ISP): Excerpts from the Lazerow Lecture, University of Kentucky, April 2, 2007
    by Carol Collier Kuhlthau

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  • Desa Informasi: The Role of Digital Libraries in the Preservation and Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge
    by Liauw Toong Tjieka (Aditya Nugraha)
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April/May 2007
Vol. 33, No. 4 
Last print issue

February/March 2007
Vol. 33, No. 3

December 2006/January 2007
Vol. 33, No. 2

October/November 2006
Vol. 33, No. 1

August/September 2006
Vol. 32, No. 6

June/July 2006
Vol. 32, No. 5

April/May 2006
Vol. 32, No. 4

February/March 2006
Vol. 32, No. 3

December 2005/
January 2006
Vol. 32, No. 2

October/November 2005
Vol. 32, No. 1

August/September 2005
Vol. 31, No. 6

June/July 2005
Vol. 31, No. 5

April/May 2005
Vol. 31, No. 4

February/March 2005
Vol. 31, No. 3

December 2004/January 2005
Vol. 31, No. 2

October/November 2004
Vol. 31, No. 1

August/September 2004
Vol. 30, No. 6

June/July 2004
Vol. 30, No. 5

April/May 2004
Vol. 30, No. 4

February/March 2004
Vol. 30, No. 3

December 2003/January 2004
Vol. 30, No. 2
Biologital Informatics

October/November 2003
Vol. 30, No. 1
Biological Informatics and Neuroinformatics

August/September 2003
Vol. 29, No. 6
Information Science and Technology in Practice

June/July 2003
Vol. 29, No. 5
Legislative and Legal Developments in Records and Information Management

April/May 2003
Vol. 29, No. 4
The Semantic Web

February/March 2003
Vol. 29, No. 3
Annual Meeting Coverage, PDF Version

December 2002/January 2003
Vol. 29, No. 2
Metadata, Data Collection, Knowledge Network, PDF Version

October/November 2002
Vol. 29, No. 1
XML Today, Automac Indexing, Data Mining

August/September 2002
Vol. 28, No. 6
Knowledge Management

June/July 2002
Vol. 28, No. 5
IA Summit '02, Vocabulary Control & Design on the Web

April/May 2002
Vol. 28, No. 4
Indonesian Digital Library Network, Life in the E-Sphere

February/March 2002
Vol. 28, No. 3
Annual Meeting Coverage

December 2001/January 2002
Vol. 28, No. 2
Information and the War Against Terrorism, 3D Imaging, IA

October/November 2001
Vol. 28, No. 1
Content Management

August/September 2001
Vol. 27, No. 6
Exoinformation & Interface Design

June/July 2001
Vol. 27, No. 5
Wireless Technology

April/May 2001
Vol. 27, No. 4
Information Architects, Information Policy

February/March 2001
Vol. 27, No. 3
Annual Meeting Coverage: Part 2

December 2000/January 2001
Vol. 27, No. 2
Annual Meting Coverage, Part 1

October/November 2000
Vol. 27, No. 1
Knowledge Discovery in Databases

August/September 2000
Vol. 26, No. 6
Information Architecture Practice:

June/July 2000
Vol. 26, No. 5
ASIS Summit 2000

April/May 2000
Vol. 26, No. 4
Telemedicine

February/March 2000
Vol. 26, No. 3
Social Informatics

December 1999/January 2000
Vol. 26, No. 2
1999 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1999
Vol. 26, No. 1
The Digital Libraries Initiative

August/September 1999
Vol. 25, No. 6
Theory and Practice in the Organization of Images and Other Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval

June/July 1999
Vol. 25, No. 5
Globalization and Information Technologies:  New Emerging Partnerships

April/May 1999
Vol. 25, No. 4
1999 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting

February/March 1999
Vol. 25, No. 3
Information Seeking and Finding

December 1998/January 1999
Vol. 25, No. 2
1998 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1998
Vol. 25, No. 1
Emerging Information Standards

August/September 1998
Vol. 24, No. 6
1998 Annual Meeting Preview

June/July 1998
Vol. 24, No. 5
Networking the Developing World

April / May 1998:
Vol. 24, No. 4
From "Storage and Retrieval Sytems" to "Search Engines" in Evolution

February/March 1998
Vol. 24, No. 3
The New Information Professional

December 1997/January 1998
Vol. 24, No. 2
1997 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1997
Vol. 24, No. 2
Organizing Internet resources: Metadata and the Web

August/September 1997
Vol. 23, No. 6
1997 ASIS Annual Meeting

June/July 1997
Vol. 23, No. 5
Electronic Systems and Records Management in the Information Age

April/May 1997
Vol. 23, No. 4
A Look at the '97 ASIS Mid-Year

February/March 1997
Vol. 23, No. 3
Mid-Year Preview

December 1996/January 1997
Vol. 23, No. 3
1996 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1996
Vol. 23, No. 1
Competitive Intelligence

August/September 1996
Vol. 22, No. 6
Evolving Information
June/July 1996
Vol. 22, No. 5
1996 Annual Meeting

April/May 1996
Vol. 22, No. 4
Reinventing Information Services

February/March 1996
Vol. 22, No. 3
1996 Mid-Year Meeting

December 1995/January 1996
Vol. 22, No. 2
Highlights of the 1995 Annual Meeting

October/November 1995
Vol. 22, No. 1
Electronic Libraries

August/September 1995
Vol. 21, No. 6
ASIS Heads to Chicago

June/July 1995
Vol. 21, No. 5
Chinese Information Market

April/May 1995
Vol. 21, No. 4
Environmental Information

February/March 1995
Vol. 21, No. 3
Information Brokering

December 1994/January 1995
Vol. 21, No. 2
Economics of Information

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