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This issue centers on the 2016 Annual Meeting held in October in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was our first Annual Meeting conducted outside North America, although we have held many IA Summits in Europe and co-sponsored many other events there. As President Lynn Silipigni Connaway reported in her President's Page in the December/January 2017 issue of the Bulletin, the meeting was well attended with 37 countries represented. In this issue we present reports on many aspects of the meeting – pre-conferences, plenaries and sessions – as well as reflections from four recent recipients of ASIS&T Awards. The most unusual such piece is by the top winner of the newly instituted Doctoral Student Research Video Competition, Olubukola Oduntan, about her research on the information needs of immigrants and how she made her winning entry.

In this issue's President's Page Lynn Connaway reports on a recent extensive trip to Taiwan and China, also the subject of articles in Inside ASIS&T. In addition to highlighting some exciting upcoming events, she brings us up-to-date on the search process for a new executive director to replace Dick Hill, who is retiring after more than 20 years of service to ASIS&T. We also regret to report that Dick suffered a stroke suffered in January, but we are pleased to report that he is recovering well. In his absence, ASIS&T is being managed by acting executive director, Jan Hatzakos, ASIS&T director of finance and administration and webmaster. I know ASIS&T is in capable hands with Jan and that all of us will support her in any way we can. We wish Dick a speedy recovery.

Finally, in her IA Column, Laura Creekmore, associate editor for information architecture, considers the importance of metaphor in communicating the essence of a website.