Special Interest Groups
SIG Resources
Volunteer Opportunities
ASIS&T has many different leadership volunteer positions available and we encourage you to take advantage and get involved! Get involved & become a leader!
2012 SIG Award Winners
Karen Miller
SIG Member of the Year
Education (ED)
SIG of the Year
Metrics (MET)
SIG of the Year
SIG AH & SIG MET
SIG Publication of the Year
Apr/May
2012 Bulletin
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are chartered by the Board of Directors to give members with similar professional specialties the opportunity to exchange ideas and keep themselves informed about current and discrete developments in their fields. The activities of the SIGs, planned by their members and elected officers, provide clear indication of the diverse interests and needs of ASIS&T members. Through participation in SIGs, you can help design what, in essence, are small professional organizations within the broader national society. Only ASIS&T members can belong to SIGs, though each member can belong to as many SIGs as desired. Current SIGs and their chairs and a brief description of each SIG's activities are listed below. You can join SIGS by going to the membership section of this Web site. For more information about a particular SIG, contact the SIG's chair.
Each SIG has it's own e-mail list (online discussion group). Click here for E-Mail List instructions!
The SIG Cabinet Steering Committee, which assists the SIG Cabinet Director in conducting Cabinet business, includes:
Chris Landbeck, SIG Cabinet
Director, 2013-2015
Kathryn La Barre, Deputy SIG
Cabinet Director 2013-2015
Sarah Buchanan, Advisor,
2013-2015
Cassidy Sugimoto, Advisor,
2013-2015
Lynn Westbrook, Advisor,
2013-2015
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
- Arts & Humanities (AH)
- Bioinformatics (BIO) (Virtual)
- Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts (BWP) (virtual)
- Classification Research (CR)
- Critical Issues (CRIT) (virtual)
- Digital Libraries (DL)

- Education for Information Sci. (ED)

- Health Informatics (HLTH) (formerly Medical
Informatics MED)
- History & Foundations of Information Science (HFIS)
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI) (virtual)
- Information Architecture (IA) (virtual)

- Information Needs, Seeking and Use (USE)

- Information Policy (IFP)
- International Information Issues (III)

- Knowledge Management (KM)

- Library Technologies (LT) (virtual)
- Management (MGT)

- Metrics (MET)
- Scientific & Technical Information (STI)
- Social Informatics (SI)
- Visualization, Images & Sound (VIS)
