The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) hosted their annual meeting from November 6-10, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri. ILS faculty, doctoral students, and alumni were active contributors and participants. We are especially proud of our students and graduates who presented – and of the national Best Information Science Book Award presented to Dr. Ronald Day.
Interested in current issues in the field? Read abstracts and topics included in this year’s conference program and proceedings:
Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community
Examples of ILS contributions include:
November 7
- 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research – Dr. Pnina Fichman and Dr. Howard Rosenbaum were organizers.
- Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research – Dr. Ronald Day was a presenter.
- Metrics 2015: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research – Dr. Staša Milojević, SoIC colleague Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto, and current ILS doctoral students Brad Demarest, Timiothy Bowman, and Chaoqun Ni presented.
November 9
- Self-Presentation in Academia Today: From Peer-Reviewed Publications to Social Media – panelists included Staša Milojević and Timothy Bowman.
- Information Ethics and Policy – Dr. Howard Rosenbaum was the moderator.
- Standing Out in the Academic LIS Job Market: An Interactive Panel for Doctoral Students – Howard Rosenbaum was a panelist.
November 9 – From the President’s Reception Featuring Posters
- A Co-citation Analysis: Examining the Intellectual Structure of e-Learning from 1981 to 2014 – ILS doctoral student Chase McCoy was one of the contributors.
- Feature Selection on Heterogeneous Graph – Dr. Xiaozhong Liu and current ILS doctoral student Chun Guo presented.
- Query-Centric Scientific Topic Evolution Extraction – Xiaozhong Liu was one of the contributors.
November 10
- Education in the Cyberlearning Era: New Challenges, Opportunities, and Applications – Dr. Noriko Hara and Dr. Xiaozhong Liu were panelists.
- Authorship, Patents, Citations, Acknowledgments, Tweets, Reader Counts and the Multifaceted Reward System of Science – ILS doctoral students Timothy D. Bowman and Andrew Tsou were panelists.
- Doctoral Seminar in Research and Career Development – Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman were the organizers.