The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) held its annual meeting on October 25-29, 1998, in Pittsburgh. The Annual Meeting focused on contributed papers and SIG (Special Interest Group) Sessions that were scheduled over a period of three days. This newsletter brings you short reports on selected sessions, reviews of awards, and a little information from those long Board and Committee meetings that seemed to start early in the morning and ended rather late at night.

ASIS Awards
DVC Members Honored

Award of Merit. The awardee was Henry Small, Director, Contract Research, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The Award of Merit, which was established in 1964, is administered by the Awards and Honors Committee and is the Society' s highest honor.

Best ASIS Paper Award. This award was presented to Howard D. White and Katherine W. McCain for their article, "Visualizing a Discipline: An Author Co-Citation Analysis of Information Science." Both Howard and Kate are members of Faculty of Drexel University.

Joint DVC Corporate and ASIS Award

Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Citation Analysis Research Grant. The 1998 ASIS-ISI Citation Analysis Research Grant was presented to David Dubin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign for his proposal, "Evaluation of Document Clustering Tendency: Citation-Based Clusters for Validation Studies."

ASIS Board

ASIS President-Elect. Eugene Garfield, founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information, was elected to the ASIS Board of Directors.

ASIS Committees

Awards and Honors Committee. Jay Trolley, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), was appointed Chair of the Awards and Honors Committee. Helen Atkins, ISI, was appointed to the Chapter of the Year Jury.

-Jacqueline Trolley
Chair, ASIS/DVC

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