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April 3-7, 2013
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April 4-5, 2013
Baltimore, MD
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Call for Papers
November 1-6, 2013
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Call for Papers
November 1-2, 2013
Le Centre Sheraton
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ASIS&T People & News
Information science pioneer, Don R. Swanson, passes
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Carol Tenopir Selected for SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Former ASIS&T President, Harold Borko, Passes at Age 90
Dean Johannes Britz named UW-Milwaukee's Provost and Vice Chancellor
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The IA Summit
IA
Summit 2013
April 3-7, 2013, Baltimore, MD
The IA Summit is the premiere, community-curated, and volunteer-run gathering on the ever-evolving disciplines of information architecture and experience design. It provides students, practitioners, and anyone interested with great tactical skills, amazing inspiring ideas, and an opportunity to collaborate and celebrate the great things happening in our communities of practice. And that's just the beginning.
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RDAP13
RDAP Summit 2013
April 4-5, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland
RDAP13, the fourth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, takes place April 4-5, 2013 in Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. RDAP13 is a two day Summit featuring expert panel presentations curated by our RDAP planning committee, an interactive poster session, and lightning talks. Themes include Institutional Repositories, Data Citation and altmetrics, Data Infrastructure, Linked Data and Metadata, and Data Use and Reuse.
Hosted by ASIS&T, RDAP13 is held in cooperation and co-location with the Information Architecture Summit. There are opportunities for knowledge sharing at evening events.
New & Current Publications
JASIST
(January 2013) Research on bias in peer review examines scholarly communication and funding processes to assess the epistemic and social legitimacy of the mechanisms by which knowledge communities vet and self-regulate their...
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Bulletin (December 2012/January 2013) Taxonomies are the focus of this issue and, in particular, the practical problems associated with creating, integrating... [more]
From Documentation to Information Science / The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute-American Society for Information Science, by Irene Farkas-Conn, ASIS&T There are many people to thank for our being able to make this work available digitally. First... [more]
2012
ASIS&T Book of the Year:
Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier
Ribeiro-Neto. Comprehensive guide to information retrieval by leading international experts including web retrievel, web crawling, open source search engines and user...
New:
Introduction
to Information Science and Technology This guide to information science and technology
- the product of a unique scholarly collaboration - presents a clear, concise, and
approachable...
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