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In support of the Nankai University Business School's efforts to promote its influence in the Asia Pacific area, ASIS&T president Lynn Silipigni Connaway visited the school's department of information resources management on November 29, 2016 and met there with faculty members and students.

This one-day event involved four sessions: Lynn's research talk, the Young Scholar Forum, an introduction to ASIS&T and the Asia Pacific (AP) Chapter, and a doctoral student forum. The participants of the event included faculty members, students, librarians and journal editors. In addition to the participants from Nankai University, other universities represented included Peking University, Peking Normal University, Sun Yet-sen University, Tianjin University, Hebei University, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin University of Science and Technology. Lin Peng, editor of the Journal of Data and Information Science, also attended. In total, more than 100 people joined the event.

At the first morning session, Lynn spoke on the OCLC study “Visitors and Residents: The Hows and Whys of Engagement with Technology.” She presented the research and the process used to collect data from different countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Hong Kong. She talked about the process used to analyze the data in detail and shared interesting results on the behavioral characteristics of the two types of users (hows and whys). After her report, during the Q&A, the participants asked questions and she gave further elaboration about the study. The discussion was active and thoughtful.

In the second session, several young faculty members from Nankai University, Peking University and Hebei University presented their research on different topics, such as “Stay or Move: Double Backup System Dilemma in China” by Wenlin Bai, “ICT as Empowerment for Rural Entrepreneurs in China: A Capability Approach” by Zhenjia Fan, “Time as a Context of Information Search Behaviors” by Chang Liu, “Development and Practice of Monograph Open Access” by Rui Wei and “Data Driven Health Care Decision Making” by Man Xu and her students. Lynn Connaway commented on each study during this session.

In the afternoon, Lynn Connaway and Yuelin Li introduced ASIS&T and AP Chapter, respectively. The presentation introduced ASIS&T and the AP Chapter's history, missions and visions, and events and activities as well as the benefits of participating in ASIS&T and the AP Chapter. After the presentations, AP chair-elect Miguel Nunes, dean of the school of information management at Sun Yet-sen University, gave a short talk and encouraged the faculty members and students to join ASIS&T and the AP Chapter. He emphasized that the LIS community in China is one of the biggest research groups in the world and is very active. He said th

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.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, ASIS&T president and senior research scientist and director of user research at OCLC Research, visited Taiwan in December 2016. To welcome Dr. Connaway and to foster interactions among LIS young scholars and junior faculty in Taiwan, the ASIS&T Taipei Chapter held a research forum and reception on December 7, 2016, at National Taiwan University Library.

The ASIS&T Taipei Chapter was established in 1982. It is one of the earliest regional chapters outside North America. In the subsequent year, the Taipei Student Chapter was also established, composed mainly of graduate students from National Taiwan University and National Taiwan Normal University. It won the Best Student Chapter Award in 1988. Pioneers in information science in Taiwan, including Harris B. H. Seng, Lucy Tee-Chu Lee, James S. C. Hu and Margaret Fung, have been and are still playing crucial roles in facilitating local participation in the global community. Today, the Taipei Chapter has grown to be one of the strongest library and information science professional associations in Taiwan. It continues its mission to promote Taiwan in collaborating and networking with leading intellectuals around the world. In 2016, ASIS&T Taipei was under the guidance of Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu, chair; Tien-I Tsai, vice chair; and Wei-Chung Cheng, secretary.

Faculty members and graduate students from five different LIS schools in Taiwan participated in the research forum and reception. Twelve LIS faculty and young scholars in Taiwan shared their research on various topics through a series of five-minute madness presentations. The presenters included Suyu Lin (assistant professor, Tamkang University), Hui-Yun Sung (assistant professor, National Chung Hsing University), Tien-I Tsai (assistant professor, National Taiwan University), Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu (associate professor, National Taiwan Normal University), post-doctoral researcher Cheng-Ching Chang and seven doctoral students from National Taiwan University (NTU), National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and National Chengchi University (NCCU). The topics ranged from library user services and user behavior, scholarly communication and scientific collaboration, information behavior and user experience, to health informatics, bibliometrics and information repositories. In addition to the presentations, there was a social refreshment session for attendees to exchange research ideas. At the end of the event, Connaway mentored the participants on the art of five-minute madness and speaking in academic contexts and also shared tips for junior faculty and recent Ph.D. graduates on preparing for academic careers.

Prior to her visit to Taiwan, Connaway also visited China and Hong Kong. Researchers from the three areas organized a collaborative event, Symposium on Research Design, Paper Writing & Publishin