{"title":"2015 ASIS&T Award Winners","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2016.1720420304","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the highlights of each year's ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the presentation of the prestigious ASIS&T Annual Awards.</p><p><b>Michael E.D. Koenig</b>, professor at Long Island University, is the 2015 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by ASIS&T. The award goes to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the field of information science, including the expression of new ideas, the creation of new devices, the development of better techniques and outstanding service to the profession. The jury noted enthusiastically how fully and successfully Mike fits all the criteria outlined for this prestigious award.</p><p>Mike's breadth of experience in educational, social and political processes has affected many facets of the information science profession. His experience is in the academic, international, technical, commercial and theoretical realms of the profession. Few people have touched as many lives or mentored as many people as has Mike. In his gentle and unassuming way he has made the profession a better place to practice. He has bridged the cultural gap between distinct areas of computer and information, between commercial and academic sectors. He has proven that the theories he has taught can work in the real world. His productivity in the field is impressive. He represents the best in information science research, teaching and practice.</p><p>For these reasons and more, <b>Michael E.D. Koenig</b> receives the 2015 Award of Merit.</p><p>ASIS&T's Watson Davis Award recognizes the contributions of someone who has shown continuous dedicated service to the ASIS&T membership through active participation in and support of programs, chapters, SIGs, committees and publications. In 2015, the person who most effectively lives up to that ideal is <b>Michael Leach</b>.</p><p>During his 20 years of active service to ASIS&T, Michael has led student chapter activities at Simmons College and regional chapter activities in the New England Chapter; he has served on committees and juries at the local and national levels; and he has demonstrated association-wide leadership working on strategic plans for ASIS&T and serving as ASIS&T president. Currently, Michael is Chapter Assembly director; member of both the leadership and membership committees; and leader of the Strategic Planning Task Force.</p><p>In his many roles, Michael's service to ASIS&T has been selfless, consistent and effective. He has assumed diverse leadership responsibilities and consistently done them well, providing the voice of the information professional while including other views.</p><p>For these and many other reasons, Michael Leach is the honorable and worthy recipient of the 2015 Watson Davis Award.</p><p>The 2015 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award goes to <b>Denise Agosto</b>, Drexel University. Dr. Agosto has an impressive record of teaching excellence. She has received awards for her teaching at both the institutional and the national levels. She has published and presented widely on pedagogy, and her record demonstrates extended engagement with questions of LIS teaching practice. Dr. Agosto engages students in her research, providing them with publishing and presenting opportunities. In sum, Dr. Agosto is an outstanding information science teacher who is constantly interweaving teaching and research and involves her students in research, writing and publishing, and for these reasons, among others, ASIS&T is pleased to name <b>Denise Agosto</b> the 2015 Outstanding Information Science Teacher.</p><p><b>Karen A. Miller</b>, a student at the University of South Carolina, is the recipient of the 2015 James Cretsos Leadership Award honoring a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities.</p><p>Karen has been an active and enthusiastic member of ASIS&T for the past five years, during which she has contributed significantly to SIGs, chapters and the ASIS&T oral history program. She served as vice chair of ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Education for Information Science (SIG/ED) in 2014–2015 following a couple of years as the SIG's program coordinator. Her work on behalf of SIGs earned her the SIG Member-of-the-Year Award. Additionally, her service was recognized by her selection into the New Leaders program in 2014. Her service responsibility with the New Leaders program allowed her to leverage her experience with the South Carolina student chapter to help represent the 40 current student chapters to Chapter Assembly. Her enthusiasm for ASIS&T is notable: reviewers remarked on her dedication, maturity and curiosity. They also noted the high level of her research, both within her academic program and as presented at ASIS&T meetings. In this way, Karen represents the future of our society – someone who is both deeply embedded in the research and service aspects of our professional society and integrates these in a meaningful way.</p><p>For all of these reasons and more, each of which exemplifies leadership on behalf of ASIS&T and its members, Karen Miller is the 2015 James Cretsos Leadership Award winner.</p><p>The 2015 Best <i>JASIST</i> Paper Award goes to <b>Frans van der Sluis</b>, <b>Egon L. van den Broek</b>, <b>Richard J. Glassey</b>, <b>Elisabeth M. A. G. van Dijk</b> and <b>Franciska M. G. de Jong</b> for their paper, “When Complexity Becomes Interesting” (volume 65, issue 7).</p><p>This paper addresses significant issues with regard to information interactions between users and systems. The study focuses on users' emotion of interest, examining its relationship with the level of complexity of the information presented by information systems. To investigate this area of research, the authors hypothesized that information items comprising both novelty and optimal complexity will yield higher levels of interest. As a result, a psycho-linguistic complexity model with a combination of both traditional and deep psychological features, reflecting a user-centered notion of processing difficulty, was developed. The newly constructed model was validated by testing the relation between the objective variable (textual complexity) and subjective variables (appraised complexity, appraised comprehensibility, and interest), confirming the hypothesis.</p><p>A key strength of this paper lies within its well-structured and constructed methodological approach. A classifier system was built upon established theories and techniques in order to construct the resulting model and test for validity. The model was validated through analysis of a multi-level appraisal process, including novelty-complexity and comprehensibility, by employing structural equation modeling, demonstrating strong predictability to measure the trade-off between complexity and interest, yet generalizable enough to be applicable for other purposes. The findings of this paper will lead to further ways to operationalize users' perceptions with measurable dimensions, which will provide useful insights for the design and development of information systems with strong potential to provide positive information experiences (IX). This article provides an exciting, original and well argued, logical, interesting-to-read study that proposes and tests a new measurement indicator for information system performance.</p><p><i>INDEXING IT ALL: The [Subject] in the Age of Documentation, Information and Data</i> by <b>Ronald E. Day</b> is the winner of the 2015 Best Information Science Book Award. In this book published by The MIT Press, Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning) and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data.</p><p>The 2015 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship goes to <b>Matthew Willis</b>, Syracuse University, for his proposal entitled, <i>Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management</i>.</p><p>Matthew's research will use a distributed cognition conceptual framework, combined with a sociotechnical assemblage perspective on issues in personal health information management (PHIM). A longstanding personal health record developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (My HealtheVet, MHV) is the central IT artifact of the planned study. This research will be conducted as a case study incorporating descriptive multiple-case, cross-case analysis; each case will begin with a particular patient/veteran, including both heavy users and non-users of MHV, and will branch out to include their caretakers, family members and primary care providers, as appropriate. Data will be collected via participant observation and interviews. The study will address questions related to the PHIM practices of veterans, the distribution of those practices across other people and artifacts in the relevant context, the key assemblages that emerge from this distributed work and the key functions of those assemblages. The results are expected to inform further use and design of personal health records systems.</p><p>As noted by his dissertation advisor, Dr. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Matthew's research has the potential to fill a major gap in the research on the adoption of personal health records and other health information practices by veterans. The jury agreed that Matthew's research is highly significant and urgent for the medical field, especially given the widespread mandate for computerized health information records. In the proposal, the research questions are clearly stated and are achievable, based on the methodology and the strategy for recruitment and data collection.</p><p>The 2015 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented to <b>Chris Cunningham</b>, University of South Carolina, for his dissertation entitled, <i>Government Structure, Social Inclusion and the Digital Divide: A Discourse on the Affinity Between the Effects of Freedom and Access to Online Information Resources</i>.</p><p>This study examines the relationship between democracy and access to online information. Democracy was operationalized using the ratings of political rights and civil liberties available from Freedom House (https://freedomhouse.org/) and additional data from a prior published study, as well as two economic variables (using data from the World Bank): Gross Domestic Product and Foreign Direct Investment. Access to online information was operationalized as the number of internet users per capita (using data from the United Nations). An OLS regression model was used to test the null hypothesis that the level of democracy within a country does not affect level of access to online resources. The model (level of democracy) explained ∼57% of the variation in the number of people using the internet per capita (p=0.019). In addition, the civil liberties ranking of a country was determined to have a statistically significant relationship to the number of internet users while the political rights of a country did not.</p><p>Chris' advisor, Dr. Kendra Albright, noted that, “The particular strength of this dissertation is that much of the research on the digital divide looks at the changes over time in general access (e.g., the information rich vs. the information poor), rather than on the impacts of the digital divide caused by other aspects; in this case, the effects of democracy on information access. It raises important new questions and reveals new data that can contribute to policymaking for future digital divide issues.” The jury agreed, noting that “the analysis of elements related/contributing to the digital divide remains a vitally important topic and, to the author's credit, this is a strong effort at applying quantitative examination to a serious issue.”</p><p>For 2015, Student Chapter-of-the-Year honors go to the student chapter at <b>San Jose State University</b> (<b>SJSU ASIS&T</b>) in recognition of chapter's membership, activities, communications, financial and administrative management and overall contributions to both ASIS&T and the broader information science community. Operating as an online, virtual chapter, SJSU held a total of 15 meetings and 18 events with 29 speakers, including eight cooperative ventures with other ASIS&T and iSchool organizations (out of 14 eligible events). A 35% increase in membership, increased event attendance and community engagement were driven through social media, SJSU YouTube and the new ScholarWorks repositories. Administratively, new bylaws and enhancements to chapter management helped drive growth. SJSU members actively supported the Association through SIG leadership, social media contributions and task force support. As of June 2015, SJSU reported the highest number of current ASIS&T student members in the chapter's four-year history, including three ASIS&T New Leader Award winners in the past two years. SJSU developed the #HUGASIG campaign that was distributed around ASIS&T this year; now we can return the gift with a congratulatory hug to SJSU ASIS&T!</p><p>For all these reasons and others, the student chapter of <b>San Jose State University</b> is the 2015 Student Chapter-of-the-Year.</p><p>The ASIS&T 2015 SIG-of-the-Year Award is presented to <b>SIG/Arts & Humanities</b> (<b>SIG/AH</b>) in recognition of its enthusiasm and concerted efforts to increase membership and outreach, innovative and collaborative programs and for assiduous use of social media and other channels, such as an enhanced website and newsletters, to reach out to all SIG/AH members. Their generative work with SIGs/VIS & DL will continue to bear fruit for years to come. This SIG has embarked on several commendable special projects such as the virtual symposium, the student paper competition and the archive project. SIG/AH enriches the ASIS&T experience, not just for its own members, but also for the association as a whole. We will all look forward to and benefit from the SIG's plans for the coming year.</p><p>For all these reasons, <b>SIG/Arts & Humanities</b> (<b>SIG/AH</b>) is the 2015 ASIS&T SIG-of-the-Year.</p><p>In recognition of significant efforts on behalf of ASIS&T SIGs, the 2015 SIG-of-the-Year Award goes to two members: <b>Gary Burnett</b> and <b>Jeremy McLaughlin</b>.</p><p><b>Gary Burnett</b> has been extremely active in SIG/Information Needs, Seeking and Use (SIG/USE) for nearly a decade. His passion and dedication to the SIG have been evident throughout his activities, which range from active participation in the SIG's business meetings to service on committees and projects undertaken by the SIG. He has served on the SIG/USE Awards Committee continuously for the past five years. He has chaired it for the last three, during which time he created a new award – the SIG/USE Innovation Award honoring individuals whose work may not fit within more traditional models of scholarly research. Gary presented a very moving bio/remembrance of Elfreda Chatman on the occasion of her nomination as a Fellow of the Academy of SIG/USE. He co-authored (with Sanda Erdelez) an article in the <i>Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology</i> that was rewarded with the 2010 SIG Publication-of-the-Year Award. Currently, Gary is SIG/USE chair-elect, preparing to lead the group in 2015/2016. SIG/USE has benefited enormously from Gary's generosity with his time, his devotion and his invaluable expertise.</p><p><b>Jeremy McLaughlin</b> has demonstrated exceptional leadership this year as chair of SIG/Arts & Humanities (SIG/AH). Elected to the position at the 2014 Annual Meeting, Jeremy carried out an ambitious set of activities centered around member engagement. First, Jeremy successfully planned and executed collaboratively with SIG/Visualization, Images & Sound (SIG/VIS) a virtual symposium on information and technology in the arts and humanities, held online in April. In conjunction with the virtual symposium, Jeremy coordinated a Student Research Paper Award that honored two winners selected to present their works at the symposium. The symposium also featured six professional speakers. Jeremy's achievement was a landmark springtime event that purposefully energized SIG/AH's membership between Annual Meetings. Second, Jeremy jump-started member engagement by giving SIG/AH an active social media presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for the entire year. By utilizing these ubiquitous communications media, he brought new members to ASIS&T resulting in a significant boost in SIG/AH membership as well. Jeremy also enthusiastically promoted ASIS&T special interest groups (specifically SIG/AH) on the ASIS&T blog. In addition to his SIG/AH work throughout the year, he also served as a 2014–2016 ASIS&T New Leader and as a student chapter chair. Jeremy has proven himself to be both a skillful leader and a model ASIS&T member whose involvement in multiple groups redefines student contributions to ASIS&T.</p><p><b>Rob Capra</b>, assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his research for the next five years on a project titled “Knowledge Representation and Re-Use for Exploratory and Collaborative Search.” Capra will develop and evaluate new techniques for capturing, saving and re-using search information, enabling individuals and collaborators to more efficiently conduct exploratory searches and providing valuable search assistance to future users.</p><p>It's time to start planning for your participation in the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, our first ever outside of North America. Come October 14–18, 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, will be information central for the 79th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. 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Feedback on complete draft papers will be provided on a first come, first served basis as long as resources permit. Papers must be submitted to the mentoring service before the paper submission deadline. 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One of the highlights of each year's ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the presentation of the prestigious ASIS&T Annual Awards.
Michael E.D. Koenig, professor at Long Island University, is the 2015 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by ASIS&T. The award goes to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the field of information science, including the expression of new ideas, the creation of new devices, the development of better techniques and outstanding service to the profession. The jury noted enthusiastically how fully and successfully Mike fits all the criteria outlined for this prestigious award.
Mike's breadth of experience in educational, social and political processes has affected many facets of the information science profession. His experience is in the academic, international, technical, commercial and theoretical realms of the profession. Few people have touched as many lives or mentored as many people as has Mike. In his gentle and unassuming way he has made the profession a better place to practice. He has bridged the cultural gap between distinct areas of computer and information, between commercial and academic sectors. He has proven that the theories he has taught can work in the real world. His productivity in the field is impressive. He represents the best in information science research, teaching and practice.
For these reasons and more, Michael E.D. Koenig receives the 2015 Award of Merit.
ASIS&T's Watson Davis Award recognizes the contributions of someone who has shown continuous dedicated service to the ASIS&T membership through active participation in and support of programs, chapters, SIGs, committees and publications. In 2015, the person who most effectively lives up to that ideal is Michael Leach.
During his 20 years of active service to ASIS&T, Michael has led student chapter activities at Simmons College and regional chapter activities in the New England Chapter; he has served on committees and juries at the local and national levels; and he has demonstrated association-wide leadership working on strategic plans for ASIS&T and serving as ASIS&T president. Currently, Michael is Chapter Assembly director; member of both the leadership and membership committees; and leader of the Strategic Planning Task Force.
In his many roles, Michael's service to ASIS&T has been selfless, consistent and effective. He has assumed diverse leadership responsibilities and consistently done them well, providing the voice of the information professional while including other views.
For these and many other reasons, Michael Leach is the honorable and worthy recipient of the 2015 Watson Davis Award.
The 2015 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award goes to Denise Agosto, Drexel University. Dr. Agosto has an impressive record of teaching excellence. She has received awards for her teaching at both the institutional and the national levels. She has published and presented widely on pedagogy, and her record demonstrates extended engagement with questions of LIS teaching practice. Dr. Agosto engages students in her research, providing them with publishing and presenting opportunities. In sum, Dr. Agosto is an outstanding information science teacher who is constantly interweaving teaching and research and involves her students in research, writing and publishing, and for these reasons, among others, ASIS&T is pleased to name Denise Agosto the 2015 Outstanding Information Science Teacher.
Karen A. Miller, a student at the University of South Carolina, is the recipient of the 2015 James Cretsos Leadership Award honoring a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities.
Karen has been an active and enthusiastic member of ASIS&T for the past five years, during which she has contributed significantly to SIGs, chapters and the ASIS&T oral history program. She served as vice chair of ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Education for Information Science (SIG/ED) in 2014–2015 following a couple of years as the SIG's program coordinator. Her work on behalf of SIGs earned her the SIG Member-of-the-Year Award. Additionally, her service was recognized by her selection into the New Leaders program in 2014. Her service responsibility with the New Leaders program allowed her to leverage her experience with the South Carolina student chapter to help represent the 40 current student chapters to Chapter Assembly. Her enthusiasm for ASIS&T is notable: reviewers remarked on her dedication, maturity and curiosity. They also noted the high level of her research, both within her academic program and as presented at ASIS&T meetings. In this way, Karen represents the future of our society – someone who is both deeply embedded in the research and service aspects of our professional society and integrates these in a meaningful way.
For all of these reasons and more, each of which exemplifies leadership on behalf of ASIS&T and its members, Karen Miller is the 2015 James Cretsos Leadership Award winner.
The 2015 Best JASIST Paper Award goes to Frans van der Sluis, Egon L. van den Broek, Richard J. Glassey, Elisabeth M. A. G. van Dijk and Franciska M. G. de Jong for their paper, “When Complexity Becomes Interesting” (volume 65, issue 7).
This paper addresses significant issues with regard to information interactions between users and systems. The study focuses on users' emotion of interest, examining its relationship with the level of complexity of the information presented by information systems. To investigate this area of research, the authors hypothesized that information items comprising both novelty and optimal complexity will yield higher levels of interest. As a result, a psycho-linguistic complexity model with a combination of both traditional and deep psychological features, reflecting a user-centered notion of processing difficulty, was developed. The newly constructed model was validated by testing the relation between the objective variable (textual complexity) and subjective variables (appraised complexity, appraised comprehensibility, and interest), confirming the hypothesis.
A key strength of this paper lies within its well-structured and constructed methodological approach. A classifier system was built upon established theories and techniques in order to construct the resulting model and test for validity. The model was validated through analysis of a multi-level appraisal process, including novelty-complexity and comprehensibility, by employing structural equation modeling, demonstrating strong predictability to measure the trade-off between complexity and interest, yet generalizable enough to be applicable for other purposes. The findings of this paper will lead to further ways to operationalize users' perceptions with measurable dimensions, which will provide useful insights for the design and development of information systems with strong potential to provide positive information experiences (IX). This article provides an exciting, original and well argued, logical, interesting-to-read study that proposes and tests a new measurement indicator for information system performance.
INDEXING IT ALL: The [Subject] in the Age of Documentation, Information and Data by Ronald E. Day is the winner of the 2015 Best Information Science Book Award. In this book published by The MIT Press, Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning) and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data.
The 2015 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship goes to Matthew Willis, Syracuse University, for his proposal entitled, Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management.
Matthew's research will use a distributed cognition conceptual framework, combined with a sociotechnical assemblage perspective on issues in personal health information management (PHIM). A longstanding personal health record developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (My HealtheVet, MHV) is the central IT artifact of the planned study. This research will be conducted as a case study incorporating descriptive multiple-case, cross-case analysis; each case will begin with a particular patient/veteran, including both heavy users and non-users of MHV, and will branch out to include their caretakers, family members and primary care providers, as appropriate. Data will be collected via participant observation and interviews. The study will address questions related to the PHIM practices of veterans, the distribution of those practices across other people and artifacts in the relevant context, the key assemblages that emerge from this distributed work and the key functions of those assemblages. The results are expected to inform further use and design of personal health records systems.
As noted by his dissertation advisor, Dr. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Matthew's research has the potential to fill a major gap in the research on the adoption of personal health records and other health information practices by veterans. The jury agreed that Matthew's research is highly significant and urgent for the medical field, especially given the widespread mandate for computerized health information records. In the proposal, the research questions are clearly stated and are achievable, based on the methodology and the strategy for recruitment and data collection.
The 2015 ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented to Chris Cunningham, University of South Carolina, for his dissertation entitled, Government Structure, Social Inclusion and the Digital Divide: A Discourse on the Affinity Between the Effects of Freedom and Access to Online Information Resources.
This study examines the relationship between democracy and access to online information. Democracy was operationalized using the ratings of political rights and civil liberties available from Freedom House (https://freedomhouse.org/) and additional data from a prior published study, as well as two economic variables (using data from the World Bank): Gross Domestic Product and Foreign Direct Investment. Access to online information was operationalized as the number of internet users per capita (using data from the United Nations). An OLS regression model was used to test the null hypothesis that the level of democracy within a country does not affect level of access to online resources. The model (level of democracy) explained ∼57% of the variation in the number of people using the internet per capita (p=0.019). In addition, the civil liberties ranking of a country was determined to have a statistically significant relationship to the number of internet users while the political rights of a country did not.
Chris' advisor, Dr. Kendra Albright, noted that, “The particular strength of this dissertation is that much of the research on the digital divide looks at the changes over time in general access (e.g., the information rich vs. the information poor), rather than on the impacts of the digital divide caused by other aspects; in this case, the effects of democracy on information access. It raises important new questions and reveals new data that can contribute to policymaking for future digital divide issues.” The jury agreed, noting that “the analysis of elements related/contributing to the digital divide remains a vitally important topic and, to the author's credit, this is a strong effort at applying quantitative examination to a serious issue.”
For 2015, Student Chapter-of-the-Year honors go to the student chapter at San Jose State University (SJSU ASIS&T) in recognition of chapter's membership, activities, communications, financial and administrative management and overall contributions to both ASIS&T and the broader information science community. Operating as an online, virtual chapter, SJSU held a total of 15 meetings and 18 events with 29 speakers, including eight cooperative ventures with other ASIS&T and iSchool organizations (out of 14 eligible events). A 35% increase in membership, increased event attendance and community engagement were driven through social media, SJSU YouTube and the new ScholarWorks repositories. Administratively, new bylaws and enhancements to chapter management helped drive growth. SJSU members actively supported the Association through SIG leadership, social media contributions and task force support. As of June 2015, SJSU reported the highest number of current ASIS&T student members in the chapter's four-year history, including three ASIS&T New Leader Award winners in the past two years. SJSU developed the #HUGASIG campaign that was distributed around ASIS&T this year; now we can return the gift with a congratulatory hug to SJSU ASIS&T!
For all these reasons and others, the student chapter of San Jose State University is the 2015 Student Chapter-of-the-Year.
The ASIS&T 2015 SIG-of-the-Year Award is presented to SIG/Arts & Humanities (SIG/AH) in recognition of its enthusiasm and concerted efforts to increase membership and outreach, innovative and collaborative programs and for assiduous use of social media and other channels, such as an enhanced website and newsletters, to reach out to all SIG/AH members. Their generative work with SIGs/VIS & DL will continue to bear fruit for years to come. This SIG has embarked on several commendable special projects such as the virtual symposium, the student paper competition and the archive project. SIG/AH enriches the ASIS&T experience, not just for its own members, but also for the association as a whole. We will all look forward to and benefit from the SIG's plans for the coming year.
For all these reasons, SIG/Arts & Humanities (SIG/AH) is the 2015 ASIS&T SIG-of-the-Year.
In recognition of significant efforts on behalf of ASIS&T SIGs, the 2015 SIG-of-the-Year Award goes to two members: Gary Burnett and Jeremy McLaughlin.
Gary Burnett has been extremely active in SIG/Information Needs, Seeking and Use (SIG/USE) for nearly a decade. His passion and dedication to the SIG have been evident throughout his activities, which range from active participation in the SIG's business meetings to service on committees and projects undertaken by the SIG. He has served on the SIG/USE Awards Committee continuously for the past five years. He has chaired it for the last three, during which time he created a new award – the SIG/USE Innovation Award honoring individuals whose work may not fit within more traditional models of scholarly research. Gary presented a very moving bio/remembrance of Elfreda Chatman on the occasion of her nomination as a Fellow of the Academy of SIG/USE. He co-authored (with Sanda Erdelez) an article in the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology that was rewarded with the 2010 SIG Publication-of-the-Year Award. Currently, Gary is SIG/USE chair-elect, preparing to lead the group in 2015/2016. SIG/USE has benefited enormously from Gary's generosity with his time, his devotion and his invaluable expertise.
Jeremy McLaughlin has demonstrated exceptional leadership this year as chair of SIG/Arts & Humanities (SIG/AH). Elected to the position at the 2014 Annual Meeting, Jeremy carried out an ambitious set of activities centered around member engagement. First, Jeremy successfully planned and executed collaboratively with SIG/Visualization, Images & Sound (SIG/VIS) a virtual symposium on information and technology in the arts and humanities, held online in April. In conjunction with the virtual symposium, Jeremy coordinated a Student Research Paper Award that honored two winners selected to present their works at the symposium. The symposium also featured six professional speakers. Jeremy's achievement was a landmark springtime event that purposefully energized SIG/AH's membership between Annual Meetings. Second, Jeremy jump-started member engagement by giving SIG/AH an active social media presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for the entire year. By utilizing these ubiquitous communications media, he brought new members to ASIS&T resulting in a significant boost in SIG/AH membership as well. Jeremy also enthusiastically promoted ASIS&T special interest groups (specifically SIG/AH) on the ASIS&T blog. In addition to his SIG/AH work throughout the year, he also served as a 2014–2016 ASIS&T New Leader and as a student chapter chair. Jeremy has proven himself to be both a skillful leader and a model ASIS&T member whose involvement in multiple groups redefines student contributions to ASIS&T.
Rob Capra, assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his research for the next five years on a project titled “Knowledge Representation and Re-Use for Exploratory and Collaborative Search.” Capra will develop and evaluate new techniques for capturing, saving and re-using search information, enabling individuals and collaborators to more efficiently conduct exploratory searches and providing valuable search assistance to future users.
It's time to start planning for your participation in the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, our first ever outside of North America. Come October 14–18, 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, will be information central for the 79th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. And it's not too early to begin considering the papers, panels and tutorials that you might like to present to the organizing committee.
This year's meeting, Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives Through Information and Technology, is an opportunity for scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and how the knowledge created impacts and enhances lives.
Submissions of various types that focus on production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, manipulation, dissemination, use and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome.
A new feature at the upcoming Annual Meeting is a mentoring service for students and other researchers who have not yet presented academic papers at ASIS&T Annual Meetings. Feedback on complete draft papers will be provided on a first come, first served basis as long as resources permit. Papers must be submitted to the mentoring service before the paper submission deadline. In addition, there will be a “revise and resubmit” opportunity for papers that reviewers judge to have publication potential but require additional work.
每年ASIS&T年会的亮点之一是颁发久负盛名的ASIS&T年度大奖。长岛大学教授Michael E.D. Koenig是2015年ASIS&T优异奖的获得者,这是ASIS&T颁发的最高荣誉。该奖项颁发给对信息科学领域做出突出贡献的个人,包括表达新思想、创造新设备、开发更好的技术和为专业提供杰出服务。评审团热情地注意到迈克是如何完全和成功地符合这个著名奖项的所有标准。Mike在教育、社会和政治过程方面的广泛经验影响了信息科学专业的许多方面。他的经验是在学术,国际,技术,商业和理论领域的专业。很少有人能像迈克那样影响这么多人,指导这么多人。他以温和而谦逊的方式,使这个行业成为一个更好的执业场所。他在计算机和信息不同领域、商业和学术领域之间架起了一座文化鸿沟的桥梁。他已经证明了他所教授的理论可以在现实世界中发挥作用。他在这一领域的生产力令人印象深刻。他在信息科学研究、教学和实践方面都是最优秀的代表。由于这些以及更多的原因,Michael E.D. Koenig获得了2015年asis&t的沃森·戴维斯奖,以表彰那些通过积极参与和支持asis&t的项目、分会、小组、委员会和出版物,为asis&t会员提供持续奉献服务的人。2015年,最有效地实现这一理想的人是迈克尔·利奇。在他为ASIS&T积极服务的20年里,Michael领导了Simmons College的学生分会活动和新英格兰分会的区域分会活动;他曾在地方和国家各级的委员会和陪审团任职;他在为asis&t制定战略计划和担任asis&t主席方面表现出了全协会的领导能力。目前,迈克尔是分会理事;领导委员会委员和会员委员会委员;策略规划专责小组的负责人。在他的许多角色中,迈克尔对asist的服务是无私的,一致的和有效的。他承担了不同的领导职责,并一直做得很好,提供了信息专业人士的声音,同时也包括了其他观点。由于这些和许多其他原因,迈克尔·里奇是2015年沃森·戴维斯奖的光荣和当之无愧的获得者。2015年汤森路透杰出信息科学教师奖授予德雷塞尔大学的丹尼斯·阿戈斯托。阿戈斯托博士有着令人印象深刻的卓越教学记录。她的教学获得了机构和国家两级的奖项。她在教育学方面发表了广泛的文章和演讲,她的记录表明了她对LIS教学实践问题的广泛参与。Agosto博士让学生参与她的研究,为他们提供出版和演讲的机会。总之,Dr. Agosto是一位杰出的信息科学教师,她不断地将教学与研究相结合,并让她的学生参与研究,写作和出版,因此,asis&; T很高兴地将Denise Agosto命名为2015年杰出信息科学教师。Karen a . Miller是南卡罗来纳大学的一名学生,她是2015年James Cretsos领导奖的获得者,该奖项旨在表彰在专业的ASIS&活动中表现出杰出领导品质的ASIS&T新成员。在过去的五年中,Karen一直是asist积极而热情的成员,在此期间,她为社团、分会和asist口述历史项目做出了重大贡献。2014年至2015年,她担任asis&&t特殊兴趣小组/信息科学教育(SIG/ED)的副主席,此前几年担任SIG的项目协调员。她代表SIG的工作为她赢得了SIG年度成员奖。此外,她的服务在2014年被选入新领袖计划。她在新领袖项目中的服务责任使她能够利用她在南卡罗来纳州学生分会的经验,帮助代表40个现有的学生分会参加分会大会。她对asis&; T的热情是值得注意的:评论家们评价她的敬业、成熟和好奇心。他们还注意到她的研究水平很高,无论是在她的学术课程中,还是在ASIS&T会议上。在这种情况下,凯伦代表了我们社会的未来——她既深深植根于我们专业社会的研究和服务方面,又以一种有意义的方式将这些结合起来。 由于所有这些以及更多的原因,每一个都代表了ASIS&T及其成员的领导力,Karen Miller是2015年James Cretsos领导力奖的获得者。2015年最佳JASIST论文奖授予Frans van der Sluis, Egon L. van den Broek, Richard J. Glassey, Elisabeth M. A. G. van Dijk和Franciska M. G. de Jong,他们的论文“当复杂性变得有趣”(第65卷,第7期)。这篇论文解决了关于用户和系统之间信息交互的重要问题。该研究侧重于用户的兴趣情绪,考察其与信息系统所呈现信息的复杂程度的关系。为了调查这一研究领域,作者假设包含新颖性和最优复杂性的信息项目将产生更高的兴趣水平。在此基础上,建立了一个结合传统心理特征和深层心理特征的心理语言复杂性模型,反映了以用户为中心的加工难度概念。通过测试客观变量(文本复杂性)与主观变量(评价复杂性、评价可理解性和兴趣)之间的关系来验证新构建的模型,证实了假设。本文的一个关键优势在于其结构良好和构建的方法方法。在已有的理论和技术基础上建立分类器系统,以构建结果模型并检验有效性。通过采用结构方程模型,对包括新颖性-复杂性和可理解性在内的多层次评估过程进行分析,验证了该模型的有效性。该模型显示出很强的可预测性,可以衡量复杂性和兴趣之间的权衡,但又足够一般化,可以适用于其他目的。本文的研究结果将引导进一步的方法,以可测量的维度来操作用户的感知,这将为信息系统的设计和开发提供有用的见解,这些信息系统具有提供积极信息体验的强大潜力(IX)。这篇文章提供了一个令人兴奋的、原创的、充分论证的、逻辑的、有趣的研究,提出并测试了一个新的信息系统性能测量指标。罗纳德·e·戴(Ronald E. Day)的《索引一切:文档、信息和数据时代的主题》获得了2015年最佳信息科学图书奖。在这本由麻省理工学院出版社出版的书中,戴提供了现代文献传统的批判性历史。以纪录片索引(被理解为一种社会定位模式)为重点,借鉴法国纪实性作家苏珊娜·布里特的作品,戴探讨了对索引性的理解和使用。他考察了索引从作为明确的专业结构来调解用户和文档到作为日常信息和通信行为中使用的隐性基础设施设备的转变。在此过程中,他还追溯了个人和群体表现的三个认知时代,首先是以文件的形式,然后是信息,然后是数据。2015年汤森路透博士论文提案奖学金授予雪城大学的马修·威利斯,他的论文题目是《患者社会技术组合:健康信息管理的分布式认知》。马修的研究将使用分布式认知概念框架,结合个人健康信息管理(PHIM)问题的社会技术组合视角。退伍军人事务部(My HealtheVet, MHV)开发的长期个人健康记录是计划研究的核心IT工件。本研究将以个案研究的形式进行,包括描述性多个案、跨个案分析;每个病例将从一个特定的患者/退伍军人开始,包括重度MHV使用者和非使用者,并酌情扩大到包括其看护人、家庭成员和初级保健提供者。数据将通过参与观察和访谈收集。该研究将解决与退伍军人的PHIM实践相关的问题,这些实践在相关环境中在其他人和工件之间的分布,从这种分布式工作中出现的关键组合以及这些组合的关键功能。研究结果有望为个人健康记录系统的进一步使用和设计提供参考。正如他的论文导师Jennifer Stromer-Galley博士所指出的那样,马修的研究有可能填补退伍军人采用个人健康记录和其他健康信息实践研究中的一个主要空白。陪审团一致认为,马修的研究对医疗领域非常重要和紧迫,特别是考虑到计算机化健康信息记录的广泛授权。