{"title":"President's Page","authors":"Lynn Silipigni Connaway 2017 ASIS&T President","doi":"10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n <p>EDITOR'S SUMMARY</p>\n <p>ASIS&T president Lynn Silipigni Connaway attended the ASIS&T Regional Meeting at OCLC on March 3, 2017. Special Interest Group/Information and Learning Sciences (SIG/ILS) has launched and will have a presence at the 2017 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from October 27 to November 1. In order to facilitate international attendees at the meeting, ASIS&T will be offering visa support documents by request. A conference put together by the Asia Pacific, Taiwan and Europe chapters titled “ASIS&T Presentation: Professional Organizations in Career Development” took place at the iConference in Wuhan, China, on March 24. The Board of Directors has approved a new marketing policy. The search for a new ASIS&T executive director continues. Finally, a respected pioneer in the information science field, Dr. Eugene Garfield, passed away in February. A memorial and account of his life can be found in Inside ASIS&T Reminders and on the ASIS&T website.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":100205,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"43 4","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bul2.2017.1720430402","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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EDITOR'S SUMMARY
ASIS&T president Lynn Silipigni Connaway attended the ASIS&T Regional Meeting at OCLC on March 3, 2017. Special Interest Group/Information and Learning Sciences (SIG/ILS) has launched and will have a presence at the 2017 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, from October 27 to November 1. In order to facilitate international attendees at the meeting, ASIS&T will be offering visa support documents by request. A conference put together by the Asia Pacific, Taiwan and Europe chapters titled “ASIS&T Presentation: Professional Organizations in Career Development” took place at the iConference in Wuhan, China, on March 24. The Board of Directors has approved a new marketing policy. The search for a new ASIS&T executive director continues. Finally, a respected pioneer in the information science field, Dr. Eugene Garfield, passed away in February. A memorial and account of his life can be found in Inside ASIS&T Reminders and on the ASIS&T website.