Inside ASIS&T

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Dec 2004/Jan 2005

ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting Coverage

As this issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology goes to press, members of ASIS&T are finalizing their plans for attendance at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Complete coverage of the meeting will be included in the February/March 2005 issue of the Bulletin. But to the whet the appetite for meeting coverage for those who didn't attend, here are the winners of the 2004 ASIS&T Awards:

Award of Merit - Howard White

Watson Davis Award - Joseph Busch

Research in Information Science Award - W. Boyd Rayward

Information Science Book Award - A History of Online Information Services 1963-1976 by Charles P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn

Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award - Don Cleveland

John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award - Cecelia Brown for "The Role of Electronic Preprints in Chemical Communication: Analysis of Citation, Usage, and Acceptance in the Journal Literature"

Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Citation Analysis Research Grant - David Hubbard

Thomson ISI/ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship - Meng Yang

ProQuest/ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award - Lennart Björneborn

Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award - Tori Orr

James M. Cretsos Leadership Award - Stacy Surla and Tom Terrell

Chapter-of-the-Year - LACASIS and SOASIST

Student Chapter-of-the-Year - University of Washington Student Chapter

Chapter Member-of-the-Year - Nicole McNeeley Kallas

Chapter Event-of-the-Year - Database-Driven Technology (LACASIS Fall Workshop) and Taxonomy and Metadata Strategies for Effective Content Management (Potomac Valley Chapter)

Chapter Electronic Publication-of-the-Year - OASIS, newsletter of the Los Angeles Chapter of ASIS&T, and website of the Southern Ohio Chapter of ASIS&T (SOASIST)

SIG-of-the-Year - SIG/STI

New Officers and Directors Join ASIS&T Board

A new ASIS&T administrative year got underway during the 2004 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, bringing new faces to the Board of Directors. Four new members were welcomed to the Board at the conclusion of the meeting, while four retiring members were thanked for their service.

Each of the new members will serve the society for three years. Those elected to the Board during the summer balloting are Michael Leach, president-elect; June Lester, treasurer; and Donald Case and Marianne Afifi, directors-at-large.

As the new members took their seats, Nick Belkin, elected last year as president-elect, assumed the presidency from Samantha Hastings, who now serves as past president for one year. Former president Trudi Bellardo Hahn, treasurer Cecilia Preston, and directors-at-large Abby Goodrum and Andrew Dillon completed their terms of service on the Board.

Nick Belkin is chair and director of the MLIS Program at Rutgers University, where he has been professor of information science in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies since 1985. Prior to his Rutgers service, he was senior lecturer in information science at The City University, London. Nick holds the Ph.D. in information studies from the University of London, and the MLS and BA from the University of Washington. He is a recipient of the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award (1990) and the ASIS&T Research Award (1997).

Michael Leach is the director of the Physics Research and Kummel Libraries at Harvard University, where he earned his BA degree. He holds the MLIS from the University of Rhode Island. A member of ASIS&T since 1995, Michael has chaired the New England chapter's program committee, publications committee and the chapter, and has served as newsletter editor. Among his SIG activities is service as chair of SIG/Management and on the SIG Steering Committee. He has also served on the Leadership Development Committee. He is the recipient of the ASIS&T Cretsos Leadership Award and of the NEASIST Member-of-the-Year Award.

June Lester is professor, University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, and previously served as the school's director. Prior positions include associate dean, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas; and director, Office for Accreditation, American Library Association. She teaches courses in information use and user behavior, foundations of information studies and the information environment. Primary areas of interest include information policy and information studies education. She received her doctorate from Columbia University and bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Emory University.

Marianne Afifi is the director of electronic resources and special projects development at the Information Services Division of the University of Southern California (USC). She manages electronic information resources access, delivery and development and is an active participant in digital library projects. She holds an MBA from USC and an MLS in information systems design from the University of California, Los Angeles. Marianne was the first winner of the Los Angeles chapter's Margaret McKinley Scholarship and also served the chapter in virtually all positions on its board and currently as an Advisory Board Member. Nationally, Marianne has served as chair and member of the Awards & Honors Committee.