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This issue is dedicated to the many ASIS&T members who have devoted their time and energy to the development, promotion and implementation of information standards. Standards in our field have played a vital role in allowing the collaborative creation, automation and wider exploitation of information resources, particularly bibliographic data and knowledge organization tools. Now there is also a focus on linked data standards that may allow these resources to be used in other contexts.

At an official level, the ASIS&T standards effort is spearheaded by the ASIS&T Standards Committee and its dedicated co-chairs Timothy Dickey and Mark Needleman. The committee is our representative to the national and international standards organizations and serves as liaison to us. Timothy Dickey is the guest editor of our special section on standards, which is special not only in being a focused treatment, but also in its approach. Instead of being a dry recitation of what the standards are, it presents case studies of the implementation of several important standards, including those for description, information management, record-keeping and technical interoperability, with the issues and opportunities accompanying these innovative efforts.

While our major coverage of the Annual Meeting will appear in the next issue, we are pleased to present Peter Ingwersen's acceptance speech for the ASIS&T Award of Merit, our highest honor, as well as greetings and an update from 2017 ASIS&T president, Lynn Silipigni Connaway. I would also like to call your attention to our interview with ASIS&T communications officer, Yolande Nanayakkara. Communications officer is a new position, and Yolande is the first person to fill it. Her energy and imagination are already making a difference at the Bulletin.

We also welcome a new RDAP associate editor to the Bulletin. Amelia Kallaher is scholarly resources librarian at the Jane Bancroft Cook Library, New College of Florida, USF Sarasota-Manatee. If you have ideas or suggestions about RDAP coverage, she can be reached at [email protected]. The RDAP Review in this issue reports on the recently created Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Finally, IA associate editor Laura Creekmore reflects in the IA Column on how vital information architecture is in airports and other situations where we are trying to find our way when we don't speak the language.

The Future of Information Environments, Thinking and Building with ASIS&T began with introductions by Marta Aymerich, vice-president of research and strategic planning of the UOC; Jordi Sánchez-Navarro, director of the studies of information and communication sciences of the UOC; Lynn Silipigni Connaway, president of ASIS&T and senior research scientist and director of user research at OCLC Research (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.) and Agustí Canals, director of the UOC's KIMO group.

Next, the introduction of Virginia Ortiz-Repiso, professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid and chair of the European chapter of ASIS&T, gave an overview of the trends in innovation in digital information environments, highlighting different facets of the open concept (open data, open learning, open innovation, etc.), in a context that is a challenge for the design of information products and services and for innovation in the training offered to this area of knowledge. A key source for this trend briefing is an extensive study of undergraduate and postgraduate education provided by the International Academic Network Information Schools, which includes the Carlos III University and the UOC.

Then, regarding a more specific initiative, Lynn Silipigni Connaway explained her current project – Digital visitors and residents: how people engage with technology. The project aims to identify how people relate to technologies to acquire information and to communicate with others. How do they access information? How do they communicate in the digital environment? Why do they make the decisions they make when using a technology or a social network?

The theoretical framework of visitors and digital residents (V&R) postulates that the way a person relates and uses technology does not depend so much on the age or generation of the individual, but more on the individual's current situation and context. Thus, a digital visitor is characterized by making a functional use of technology, usually linked to a formal need and accustomed to having a fairly passive presence in social networks. In contrast, a resident has a fairly significant online presence and a high level of collaborative activity; his contributions in the digital environment usually leave a certain trace (uploading videos, photos, commenting on networks, etc.). The V&R typology is not a dichotomy, but rather has to be seen as the two extremes of a continuum. In addition, each of us can behave in different ways in different digital spaces, whether it is the intranet of our organization or Facebook, Twitter, etc. The project has been conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, including UC3M and UOC.

The application of the Digital Visitors & Residents project in the UOC is especially relevant in order to compare the forms of interaction with the technology of students and teachers in a

In the fall of each year, information science researchers, practitioners and academics await news of the winners of the prestigious ASIS&T awards, among the oldest and most respected awards in the burgeoning and still-changing fields of information science and technology. Following extensive nomination and jurying processes, winners are generally announced just prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. They are then formally presented at the meeting during the annual awards luncheon.

In this special year, in which the Annual Meeting will be held outside of North America for the first time, we take this pre-meeting opportunity to announce winners and details of their nominations and awards for those that were available by the publication deadline for this issue of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology. As always, a photo display of winners accepting their awards at the Copenhagen Annual Meeting will appear with full meeting coverage in the February/March 2017 issue of the Bulletin.

Peter Ingwersen, professor emeritus at the Royal School of Library and Information Science at the University of Copenhagen, is the 2016 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the organization's highest award recognizing individuals who have made sustained and noteworthy contributions to the field of information science.

Peter Ingwersen first joined the faculty at the Royal School in 1973; he became research professor in 2001 and full professor in information retrieval in January 2006. In addition, he is affiliate professor (docent) at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and the recipient of multiple honorary degrees and international awards. He is one of the most widely published and cited researchers in the field in his domains of interest: information retrieval and bibliometrics, especially webometrics. Additionally, he has been and continues to be active in organizing international conferences, serving on multiple editorial boards and teaching and mentoring new generations of researchers in information science all over the world.

Because of Professor Ingwersen's extraordinary range of contributions to scholarship, teaching and service, we are delighted to award him our highest honor – the 2016 ASIS&T Award of Merit.

ASIS&T's Watson Davis Award recognizes the contributions of members who have shown continuous dedicated service to the ASIS&T membership through active participation in and support of programs, chapters, SIGs, committees and publications. For 2016, two distinguished long-time members of ASIS&T are honored: Donald O. Case and Diane Sonnenwald.

Donald O. Case is a distinguished scholar whose long-standing and broad service to ASIS&T exemplifies his commitment to excellence and leadership in the development of information science and its related professions. His research impact is evidenced by the over 4,300 Google Scholar

If you haven't yet received the promised benefits of electronic health records, one reason is incompatibility and lack of interoperability in medical systems. In our first feature article, “Achieving Data Liquidity Across Health Care Requires a Technical Architecture,” Kerry McDermott, vice president for public policy and communications at the Center for Medical Interoperability, discusses these challenges and the need for a new architecture to support medical system and device interaction.

System integration is also a theme in our second feature article as Koraljka Golub shares “Some Thoughts on Preserving Functions of Library Catalogs in Networked Environment,” concentrating on the subject catalog. In this case, however, it is not hardware and software that are the problem but differing vocabularies and differing sources of indexing input such as professional indexing; automated indexing suggestions; keywords, author indexing and end-user tagging. The ideal mix may be partly determined by the exigency of the search: is it a matter of finding the answer to a question of passing curiosity or of finding THE document that can save a life. Other factors may include subject field, economics and developments in automated indexing technology and effective use of crowd sourcing.

In the IA Column, Laura Creekmore also has retrieval in mind when she points out the well-developed features for tagging and foldering documents in email systems compared to the relatively undeveloped or completely missing facilities in other popular forms of communication, such as texting – however much she may depend them.

In the RDAP Review, Amanda Rinehart discusses “Finding the Connection: Research Data Management and the Office of Research.” She details the benefits she, as a data management librarian, has gained by working closely with the offices of research on the various campuses where she has served. The results of these contacts have ranged from opportunities to lecture or lead workshops to a demonstration project in research data management.

Completing this issue, in her last President's Page, outgoing ASIS&T president Nadia Caidi discusses the task force established to find a replacement for retiring executive director Dick Hill, reviews the general state of the Association and notes some of this year's award winners.

On another note, as we start the new ASIS&T fiscal year, I also want to take this opportunity to speak a bit about the Bulletin. We are beginning our 43^rd year of publication with this issue. Originally, of course, the Bulletin was in hardcopy, published as a free benefit to members, although also available in subscribing libraries. As a tangible member benefit, it was positioned to be a publication targeted to practitioners as well as a newsletter for the association as a whole. By the time I took over the editorship in 1997, we were already putting the Bulletin up on the ASIS&a