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Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is a bi-monthly news magazine packed with developments and issues affecting the field, pragmatic management reports, opinion, and news of people and events in the information science community.

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August/September 2008 Full Text: PDF (Size: 2mb) Vol. 34, No. 6	Special Section Information Architecture Introduction: Taxarcana and Other Boons for Business by Stacy Surla, Guest Editors of Special Section Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 47k) Exploratory Search in Different Information Architectures by Tingting Jiang and Sherry Koshman Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 323k) Tagging: Emerging Trends by Gene Smith Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 276k) The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms by Luke Wroblewski Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 171k) Audiences and Artifacts by Nathan Curtis Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 249k) How to Be a User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 423k) Feature Fulbright Senior Specialist Program - Library Science by Emil Levine Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 88k) Other The Student Scene: Informatics Student Activities at UCLA by Sarah Buchanan Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 238k) ASIS&T Membership Survey 2008 by Margeaux Johnson and Nancy K. Roderer Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 171k)

June/July 2008 Full Text: PDF (Size: 1mb) Vol. 34, No. 5	Special Section Bringing Genre into Focus by Luanne Freund and Christoph Ringlstetter, Guest Editors of Special Section Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 60k) Why Information Has Shape by Andrew Dillon Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 229k) Stalking the Wild Web Genre by Mark A. Rosso Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 165k) Situation Relevance Through Task-Genre Relationships by Luanne Freund Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 152k) Practical Aspects of Automatic Genre Classification by Christoph Ringlstetter and Andrea Stubbe Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 154k) LIS and Genre Between People, Texts, Activity and Situation by Jack Andersen Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 133k) Feature Research Interviews for Library and Information Professionals by Andrew P. Carlin Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 133k) IA Column Information Advantage by Ted Sienknecht Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 67k)

April/May 2008 Full Text: PDF (Size: 3mb) Vol. 34, No. 4	Special Section Digital Desires: What Are Museums Up To? by Layna White, Editor of Special Section Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 316k) Doing the DAM: Digital Asset Management at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Shyam Oberoi Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 430k) Securing Digital Content by Sally Hubbard Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 201k) Annual Meeting Coverage The Role of Universites in the Preservation of Cultural Memory by Steve Hardin Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 55k) Features Let Them Write English by Elise Longdon-Neuner Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 241k) Defining an Agenda for Human-Centered Computing by Andrew Sears, Jonathan Lazar, Ant Ozok and Gabriele Meiselwitz Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 91k) IA Column Exploring Exploratory Search by Mark Nolan Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 140k)

February/March 2008 Full Text: PDF (Size: 2mb) Vol. 34, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage A Look at ASIS&T 2007 Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 658k) 2007 ASIS&T Award Winners Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 658k) ASIS&T Award of Merit to Donald H. Kraft Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 276k) 2007 Award of Merit Acceptance Speech Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 229k) Plenary Address: Stratigos Discusses the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Computing on Publishing and Related Activities by Steve Hardin Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 100k) Information Professionals in a a Globalized World Introduction by Caryn L. Anderson Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 107k) Information Professionals in the South Asian Region: The Challenges Ahead by P.R. Goswami and P.K. Jain Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 87k) Digital Inclusion Initiatives in Brazil: Improving Education and Information Seeking Behavior Through Government-Academic Partnerships by Maria José Vincentini Jorente Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 83k) Distance Learning/E-Learning for Iraq: Concept and Road Map by Ala'a Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 84k) Kosova Libraries: Where Practical Steps are Most Needed by Besim J. Kokollari Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 59k) Information Professionals in Nigeria: Optimism and Innovation in the Face of Staggering Inadequacies by Ifeanyichukwu Faith Njoku Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 74k) Glancing at the Rearview Mirror, Focusing on the Road Ahead: Library and Information Professionals in Indonesia by Liauw Toong Tjiek (Aditya Nugraha) Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 59k)

December/January 2008 Full Text: PDF (Size: 2mb) Vol. 34, No. 2	Virtual Reference Services Introduction by Yungrang Laura Cheng, Guest Editor Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 63k) An Informal History (and Possible Future) of Digital Reference by Joseph Janes Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 75k) Virtual Reference to Participatory Librarianship: Expanding the Conversation by R. David Lankes Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 333k) Evaluation of Online Reference Services by Jeffrey Pomerantz Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 98k) Implementation of Professional and Ethical Standards by Pnina Shachaf Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 245k) On the Trail of the Elusive Non-User: What Research in Virtual Reference Environments Reveals by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Marie L. Radford and Timothy J. Dickey Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 222k) On Scalable (Computer-Based) Information Systems by Ophir Frieder Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 86k) Selected Abstracts of Standards Under Review 2006-2007 Notes from the ASIS&T Standards Committee (ASISUT-SC) by Marcia Zeng Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 73k) The Open Source Road to Web 2.0 for Nigeria: A View of Two Worlds from the Outside by Olugbenga Ademodi Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 370k) Navigating the Long Tail by James Kalbach Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 338k)

October/November 2007 Full Text: PDF (Size: 1mb) Vol. 34, No. 1	Folksonomies Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future? by Diane Neal, Guest Editor Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 520k) Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want Them To? by P. Jason Morrison Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 96k) Trouble in Paradise: Conflict Management and Resolution in Social Classification Environments by Chris Landbeck Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 95k) Image Indexing: How Can I Find a Nice Pair of Italian Shoes? by Elaine Ménard Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 1091k) Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible by Joan Beaudoin Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 82k) Them! Google's Ambivalence Toward Library and Information Science by Shawne D. Miksa Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 89k) Some Thoughts on Information Science: A Vision from Brazil by Miriam Vieira da Cunha Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 49k) Information Architecture and Search Optimization: Beginning a Beautiful Friendship by Marianne Sweeny Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 58k)

August/September 2007 Full Text: PDF (Size: 2mb) Vol. 33, No. 6	Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Introduction by Yin Zhang Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 138k) *Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records* and Related IFLA Developments** by Pat Riva Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 424k) Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe by Allison Carlyle and Lisa M. Fusco Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 375k) From a Conceptual Model to Application and System Development by Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 471k) Understanding Support of FRBR's Four User Tasks in MARC-Encoded Bibliographic Records by Shawne D. Miksa Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 250k) FRBR: The End of the Road or a New Beginning by Maja Žumer Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 213k) Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 79k) Standards in Electronic Resource Management by Rafal Kasprowski Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 291k) Second Life, Serious Leisure and LIS by Richard Urban Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 178k) An Information Architecture Approach to Building a Much Better Digital Library by Stacy Merrill Surla Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 73k)

June/July 2007 Full Text: PDF (Size: 283mb) Vol. 33, No. 5 First electronic only issue	Information Architecture Getting Richer by Stacy Merrill Surla Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 68k) IA Research: The Future State of the Art by D. Grant Campbell Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 74k) Face Tag: Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System by Emanuele Quintarelli, Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 1352k) Evolutionary Psychology as a Basis for Ethical Design: Virtual Status and Ubiquitous Altruism by Olly Wright Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 101k) Data-Driven Design: Using Web Analytics to Validate Heuristics by Andrea Wiggins Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 197k) IA and RIAs - You Know More than you Think You Do by Adam Polansky Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 345k) Information Commons: Service to the Community Starts with Solid IA by Josh Knauer Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 229k) Reflections on the Development of the Model of the Information search Process (ISP): Excerpts from the Lazerow Lecture, University of Kentucky, April 2, 2007 by Carol Collier Kuhlthau Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 164k) Desa Informasi: The Role of Digital Libraries in the Preservation and Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge by Liauw Toong Tjieka (Aditya Nugraha) Full Text: HTML \| PDF (Size: 388k)

April/May 2007 Vol. 33, No. 4 Last print issue	Managing in the Digital Environment: Guidelines for Corporations, Government and Academia Leadership in the Information Age: A Culture of Continual Change The Case of myhamilton.ca Managing Teamwork in a University Library Digital Environment: Issues to Consider In Memoriam: Lee S. Strickland: Breaking Developments in Domestic Intelligence Humor: The Patron Academic Life of Information Scholars: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of the United States and England Digital Libraries on the MUVE: A Virtual Adventure

February/March 2007 Vol. 33, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage Award Winners An Evening of Merrymaking, Surprises and Doing Good Award of Merit to Blaise Cronin The Architecture of Complexity: Albert-László Benchmarking Visual Information Indexing and Retrieval Large-Scale Evaluation of Cross-Language Image Retrieval Systems TRECV-d-Video Evaluation Image Retrieval in Medicine: The ImageCLEF Medical Image Retrieval Evaluation Taxonomy Out of the Box

December 2006/January 2007 Vol. 33, No. 2	European LIS Curriculum Project Developing an E-book as an Integrated Process Among 100 Academic Colleagues Content, Reflections and Curricular Questions Suzanne Briet: An Appreciation 2006 Cretsos Award Winners Leadership is a Chain Reaction Reflections A Reflection on Progress Building IA Means Building Local Groups

October/November 2006 Vol. 33, No. 1	An Ecological Approach to the Design of Information Systems We Don't Do That Here: Using Cognitive Work Analysis to Learn About Organizational Culture Information Sharing of an Informatics Student Design Team Using CWA to Frame an Investigation into the Use of Corporate Body Publications Contextual Analysis for the Design of Controlled Vocabularies Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects on Libraries and Information Policy Changing Approaches to Metadata at bbc.co.uk: From Chaos to Control and Then Letting Go Again Visibility of Student Member Involvement in ASIS&T Leadership Roles

August/September 2006 Vol. 32, No. 6	Inquiry and Application An Academic's View The IA of Potentiality: Toward a Grounded Theory of Information Architecture Philosophy, Theory and Research Metadata: Practical, Painless, Profitable Selling Information Architecture: Getting Executives to Say "Yes" We Live Here: Games, Third Places and the Information Architecture of the Future The Language of Interaction: Rich Interfaces, Networks and Design Patterns Designing for Developing Contexts Recent Developments in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries

June/July 2006 Vol. 32, No. 5	Toward Terminology Services: Experiences with a Pilot Web Service Thesaurus Browser Web Services for Controlled Vocabularies Versioning Concept Schemes for Persistent Retrieval Growing Vocabularies for Plant Identification and Scientific Learning Toward Human-Computer Information Retrieval Toward an Enriched (and Revitalized) Sense of Help: Summary of an ASIS&T 2005 Panel Session IA Column: The Confluence of Research and Practice in Information Architecture

April/May 2006 Vol. 32, No. 4	The First I-Conference of the I-School Communities The I-Conference: Gathering of the Clans of Information Identity in the I-School Movement The I-Conference and the Transformation Ahead The I-Conference in Retrospect Passing the Taxi-Driver Test From Game Studies to Bibliographic Gaming: Libraries Tap into the Video Game Culture IA Column: Information Architecture Success Story: The Development of www.plainlanguage.gov

February/March 2006 Vol. 32, No. 3	A Look at ASIS&T 2005 The 2005 ASIS&T Awards Plenary Session I-The Open Source Movement Gains Ground Plenary Session II-Just-in-Time Information: Is It In Your Future? Re-Inventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI The Legal Landscape After MGM v. Grokster, Part 2: Understanding the Impact on Innovation Should Libraries Acquire Books That are Widely Held Elsewhere? A Brief Investigation with Implications for Consortial Book Selection IA Column: A Garden of Forking Paths

December 2005/ January 2006 Vol. 32, No. 2	Paid Search as an Information Seeking Paradigm Clicking Instead of Walking: Consumers Searching for Information in the Electronic Marketplace Sponsored Search: A Brief History The Power of Understanding: Switching Paradigms with Your Target Customer in Search Marketing Repeat Search Behavior: Implications for Advertisers The Flip Side of Fear: Marketing to the Empowered Consumer Click Fraud The Value Implications of the Practice of Paid Search IA Column: The End is Nigh

October/November 2005 Vol. 32, No. 1	The Legal Landscape After MGM v. Grokster: Is it the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Part 1: Understanding the Context Reactions to the Enclosure of the Information Commons: 2000-2004 TREC: Improving Information Access through Evaluation OWL Exports from a Full Thesaurus The Athens of the North: Changing Conceptions of Democracy

August/September 2005 Vol. 31, No. 6	Community Informatics: Integrating Action, Research and Learning Using Software to Teach Thesaurus Development and Indexing in Graduate Programs Modernizing Waternet: From Print Publishing to the Digital Frontier Funding Opportunities for Research in Human Information Behavior Programming Languages for Library and Textual Processing

June/July 2005 Vol. 31, No. 5	Social Informatics Overview, Principles and Opportunities Beyond Emergence Social Informatics in Practice: A Guide for the Perplexed Chasing Down the Social Meaning of DeCSS: Investigating the INternet Posting of DVD Circumvention Software Opinion: The USA Patriot Act Redux: Should We Reauthorize or Repudiate the Post-9/11 Authorities? IA Column: Informania at Summit '05

April/May 2005 Vol. 31, No. 4	Global Information Village Plaza Celebrating Global Plaza and SIG III Global Plaza in the Classroom The Historical Development of Information Infrastructures and the Dissemination of Knowledge: A Personal Reflection Bella and Yakov and Tillie's Panties: What I Learned in "Construction and Maintenance of Indexing Languages and Thesauri" IA Column: Thin Slicing in Information Space Selected Abstracts from JASIS&T

February/March 2005 Vol. 31, No. 3	JC Herz Plenary Tim Berners-Lee Plenary Information Science Fiction Best Practices for Digital Government Lessons Learned in Michigan: Best Practices for Local E-Government Introducing User-Centered Design to an E-Government Software Development Company Being Good and Doing Well: Organizational Openness and Government Effectiveness on the World Wide Web

December 2004/January 2005 Vol. 31, No. 2	Architectures for Digital Government Michigan: A Recipe for E-Government Development Constructing a State Web Portal Through Design Alternatives, Measurement and Iterative Refinement The Next Wave of E-Government: The Challenges of Data Structure The Role of Resource Center in National Development: The Namibian Context Recent Developments in International Relations IA Column: Pace Timing and Rhythm in Information Architecture

October/November 2004 Vol. 31, No. 1	Portals in Libraries Portal Vision An Environmental Landscape Library Technology and Planning for Change MyUB: UB's Personalized Intranet Portal The Scholars Portal Project: A June 2004 Update, The USC Perspective Assessments and Outcomes Portal Implementation Issues and Challenges Symposium Summary Involving Journalists in Innovative Information Dissemination Strategies: The POPLINE Contest for Journalists in Senegal IA Column: Scary Messages and Content Creep: It's All in a Daily Digest

August/September 2004 Vol. 30, No. 6	Analytic Myopia, Data Disintegration and Homeland Security Emerging Content Requirements for New Products Highlights of a Career in Information Science Come One! Come All! Science Journalism What You Missed at the Daser Summit A Student Perspective of the DASER Summit Selected Abstracts from JASIS&T

June/July 2004 Vol. 30, No. 5	Collections, People, Access, Use Becoming Digital Beyond the Gallery Walls: Tools and Methods for Leading End-Users to Collection Information The Evolving Roles of Information Professionals in Museums Museum Information Professionals as Providers and Users of Online Resources Student Perspective, Student Transformation IA Column: Out with the New! The IA Summit at Five Years

April/May 2004 Vol. 30, No. 4	Membership Survey JASIS&T Survey The Porto Alegre Experience: Toward Digital and Social Inclusion Statistical Approaches to Automatic Text Summarization

February/March 2004 Vol. 30, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage Anthropological Approaches to Information Systems and Behavior Domain Analysis: A Socio-Cognitive Orientation for Information Science Research Humanizing Information Technology: New Directions in Information Science Practice The Future in Person: A Student Member's View of ASIS&T 2003

December 2003/January 2004 Vol. 30, No. 2	Biologital Informatics

October/November 2003 Vol. 30, No. 1	Biological Informatics and Neuroinformatics

August/September 2003 Vol. 29, No. 6	Information Science and Technology in Practice

June/July 2003 Vol. 29, No. 5	Legislative and Legal Developments in Records and Information Management

April/May 2003 Vol. 29, No. 4	The Semantic Web

February/March 2003 Vol. 29, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage, PDF Version

December 2002/January 2003 Vol. 29, No. 2	Metadata, Data Collection, Knowledge Network, PDF Version

October/November 2002 Vol. 29, No. 1	XML Today, Automac Indexing, Data Mining

August/September 2002 Vol. 28, No. 6	Knowledge Management

June/July 2002 Vol. 28, No. 5	IA Summit '02, Vocabulary Control & Design on the Web

April/May 2002 Vol. 28, No. 4	Indonesian Digital Library Network, Life in the E-Sphere

February/March 2002 Vol. 28, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage

December 2001/January 2002 Vol. 28, No. 2	Information and the War Against Terrorism, 3D Imaging, IA

October/November 2001 Vol. 28, No. 1	Content Management

August/September 2001 Vol. 27, No. 6	Exoinformation & Interface Design

June/July 2001 Vol. 27, No. 5	Wireless Technology

April/May 2001 Vol. 27, No. 4	Information Architects, Information Policy

February/March 2001 Vol. 27, No. 3	Annual Meeting Coverage: Part 2

December 2000/January 2001 Vol. 27, No. 2	Annual Meting Coverage, Part 1

October/November 2000 Vol. 27, No. 1	Knowledge Discovery in Databases

August/September 2000 Vol. 26, No. 6	Information Architecture Practice:

June/July 2000 Vol. 26, No. 5	ASIS Summit 2000

April/May 2000 Vol. 26, No. 4	Telemedicine

February/March 2000 Vol. 26, No. 3	Social Informatics

December 1999/January 2000 Vol. 26, No. 2	1999 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1999 Vol. 26, No. 1	The Digital Libraries Initiative

August/September 1999 Vol. 25, No. 6	Theory and Practice in the Organization of Images and Other Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval

June/July 1999 Vol. 25, No. 5	Globalization and Information Technologies: New Emerging Partnerships

April/May 1999 Vol. 25, No. 4	1999 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting

February/March 1999 Vol. 25, No. 3	Information Seeking and Finding

December 1998/January 1999 Vol. 25, No. 2	1998 Annual Meeting Coverage

October/November 1998 Vol. 25, No. 1	Emerging Information Standards

August/September 1998 Vol. 24, No. 6	1998 Annual Meet

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