ASIS&T Annual Meeting Coverage: Looking Back; Looking Ahead

As we now traditionally do each year, we will provide extensive coverage of the 2016 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the February/March 2017 issue of the Bulletin. At that time, we will include both photographic and substantive coverage of many of the events, the sessions, the parties and the fellowship.

But we'll whet your appetite in this issue with the complete list of 2016 ASIS&T Annual Award winners, as well as the acceptance speech given by Peter Ingwersen in accepting the prestigious ASIS&T Award of Merit. More details and photographs of the awards ceremony will be provided in the next issue.

When one Annual Meeting concludes, planning for the next is already well underway. In 2017, our Annual Meeting returns to the United States with plans to meet in suburban Washington, DC, and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of our Association. Committees are already hard at work seeking submissions for all aspects of the technical program, suggestions for pre- and post-conference undertakings and ideas for social events and new ways to engage attendees in networking and team-building activities. Mark your calendars for October 27-November 1, 2017, and plan to join us in Crystal City, Virginia.

The theme for the 2017 Annual Meeting is Diversity of Engagement: Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds, focusing on the diverse ways in which people from different backgrounds, cultures and disciplines forge connections with each other, discover and use information and engage with technology. We will address the opportunities and challenges of navigating through physical and digital/virtual realm with computers, tablets or smartphones to interact in work and everyday activities. Within this information environment, there also are those who choose to disengage, and those who have no access to or knowledge of technology, widening the digital divide. ASIS&T 2017 will provide an interactive platform for exploration of these complex and rapidly changing technological and socio-cultural developments.

As always, the conference committees welcome contributions from all areas of information science and technology. For more information about submission ideas, formats and deadlines, please visit the ASIS&T website at www.asist.org.