Candidate for President
 Harry Bruce is a professor and the Dean of The Information School of the University of Washington. Before coming to the University of Washington in 1998, Harry was a faculty member in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Technology in Sydney. Harry is a recipient of the ASIS&T UMI Doctoral Dissertation award. He has served as a member of the
JASIST editorial board for the past eleven years. He is a passionate and effective leader and advocate for the discipline of information science and the information professions. His research and scholarship focus on the study of human information behavior. The purpose of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of how people need, seek and use information in their professional and everyday lives. The new knowledge generated by this research is used to inform the development or enhancement of resources, services and
technologies that facilitate information access and use. Harry's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Washington State Library, and the Australian Department of Employment Education and Training.
Statement
I am deeply committed to a philosophy of leadership through service. I center my efforts and actions on
the needs of others; I find out how I can facilitate or support, and insert my influence or expertise where it will provide the greatest value and serve the needs of my peers, collaborators, profession and discipline. I will follow this practice of leadership through service should I be elected as President of ASIST. There are several issues that I would emphasize:
(1) The value of ASIS&T membership must be clearly stated, and easily and widely understood. Existing, new, and prospective members must be convinced by the ASIS&T value proposition—the benefits of participation in annual meetings, the quality of ASIS&T publications, services, etc.
(2) ASIS&T must become an international association in membership and focus. We have members from many countries around the world, but we still cannot claim to be an international society. Why is this so important? The most compelling professional and scientific challenges for the information field are now global. ASIS&T must draw its membership from the best and brightest practitioners and scholars from around the world, but it must also actively celebrate and promote global practices in information provision, and the ethical and culturally sensitive design of secure information services and systems.
(3) We must continue to develop ASIS&T as an intellectual and professional community representing
a broad range of disciplines, fields and subfields, and facilitate deeper levels of engagement by ASIS&T members. The information professions are extremely diverse and growing. ASIS&T must invest in tracking and supporting the multiple career opportunities that are available to qualified information professionals, thereby expanding the professional base of our society and promoting our strengths in team building, problem solving, project management, collaboration and
interdisciplinary research.
(4) ASIS&T must be more strategic, agile and visible in its response to emerging trends, challenges and opportunities affecting the information disciplines and professions. We must be professionally and scientifically engaged with e-science for example, and with the resulting new paradigms for scientific inquiry and the demands of data-centric science for new practices in data management, curation and preservation. We must be involved with topics such as cloud computing, social networking, information assurance and cybersecurity, virtual worlds, information entrepreneurship and business building, online learning, ethics and information technology, assistive technologies, and so on. I am passionate about growing and strengthening
ASIS&T. I look forward to working with you.
Candidate for President
 Gary Marchionini, is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Information Science in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was previously professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland (1983-1998). He teaches classes in human-information interaction, HCI, and digital libraries. He has served on the ASIS&T Board of Directors, on a variety of standing and ad hoc committees, and on the editorial board of
JASIST. Along with Vic Rosenberg and Lou Rosenfeld, he co-chaired the first ASIS&T IA Summit. He has been honored with the ASIS&T Research Award and have twice won the
JASIST Best Paper Award.
Statement
I came to my first ASIS&T meeting 25 years ago as a newcomer to information science and was struck by how welcoming were the people I met and how diverse were the ideas discussed at the conference. I knew immediately I had found an intellectual and social home and am prepared to help ASIS&T extend its role as home to a new generation of information professionals. ASIS&T has been at the forefront of advances in new information techniques and theories and must develop strategies to attract and sustain new members who will carry the society through the 21st century. I believe that growing membership is the key challenge for our future and if elected, I will work with the ASIS&T Board of Directors to develop strategies to grow the society. One way to do this is to develop new special topic summits in areas such as social computing. Encouraging chapters and SIGs to recruit and retain members is also important for such growth. As a long-time leader in the digital library research community, I will also work with sponsors of the main international digital library conferences and the increasing number of workshops and conferences in digital curation to make ASIS&T a stronger partner in meetings devoted to digital libraries and digital preservation. ASIS&T has made strong moves to serve the needs of members and the information professions by leveraging web technologies and we can continue to improve such services. Ultimately, however, professional societies flourish because of personal connections that are made and reinforced in meeting venues. Thus, we must have successful ASIS&T meetings and strong electronic support tools between meetings to grow and sustain the society. I look forward to working with ASIS&T leaders and members to make ASIS&T a home for information professionals in the decades ahead.
Candidate for Director at Large
 Victor Rosenberg is a professor in the School of Information at the the University of Michigan. Before coming to The University of Michigan, he was a Professor of Library Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He also served for one year as a Professor of Library Science at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Dr. Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in Library Science from the University of Chicago, a Master's degree in Information Science and a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Lehigh University where he studied under Robert Taylor.
His research interests are broad and include electronic commerce, information retrieval, information policy, and entrepreneurship. His current work is a project using games to teach undergraduates to do effective online research. For fourteen years Dr. Rosenberg was the founder and CEO of Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., the developer of ProCite and BiblioLink software products.
Statement
I am currently serving out a one year term on the Board as an appointed member and would like to continue my work, especially an attempt to bring new younger members into the Society.
With experience as an academic researcher and as a successful entrepreneur, I hope to take the Society to new heights both in terms of service to the research community and in terms of financial stability. I have been a member of ASIS&T since 1963, a chair of the Education Committee, and a faculty advisor to a student chapter.
During my previous term on the Society’s Board of Directors I helped create the Information Architecture Summit as a replacement for ASIS&T Midyear Meeting. The Summit elevated the Society’s standing in the research community, introduced and recruited a new practitioner discipline to ASIS&T, and brought much needed revenue to the Society for the ongoing activities of the organization.
I also serve on the Editorial Board of JASIST and have maintained an interest in both the intellectual stature of the Journal and the financial health of the publication.
I hope to continue along this path of creating new activities that will contribute to the Society’s research agenda while providing new revenue from activities relevant to members. I want to continue my efforts to bring new members to the Society. I hope that this combination of attention to the academic mission of the Society and pursuit of a strong business model will create a new, stronger
ASIS&T.
Candidate for Director at Large
 Jens-Erik Mai, Vice Dean and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, joined the Society as a student sometime in the early 1990s. He is past chair of the Classification Research SIG (SIG-CR), has chaired the Annual SIG-CR Workshop, been a member of the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee, served on the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting, and been a jury member for the Book of the Year Award.
His research interests lie in the intersection between classification, information, and human activities; especially in the networked society and for context specific goals; he has published on conceptual and methodological issues in the organization and representation of information. Previously Jens-Erik was on the faculty of the Information School of the University of Washington where he also co-directed the Center for Human-Information Interaction; prior to that he was a faculty member at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark. Jens-Erik earned his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar and his Master and Bachelor degrees from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark.
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jemai
Statement
These are exciting times for the field of information. We see a growing interest in information; more popular books are been written about information and information related issues. The field is broadening; becoming deeper and more inclusive at the same time. ASIS&T needs to catch on to this change; we need to broaden the mission of the Society to reflect the entire scope of the information field. I believe we want this Society to be the premiere and preferred community for the entire information field; and we need to play a role in defining and setting the agenda for the field. We need to expand our reach and our membership; we need to become relevant for all our colleagues, for the entire field. The Society has experienced some difficulties lately and I believe the best way forward is to expand the membership and become more active and relevant; we could rethink the Annual Meeting and the specialized summit, whom to partner with for various events, the mission of the Journal, the SIG and chapter structure, the membership structure, the Society’s mission and vision, etc.
While I do not have comprehensive and set plans for how to bring the Society forward, I am committed to working for a healthier and more inclusive Society.
Candidate for Director at Large
 Deborah Barreau is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park in 1997 and taught at Catholic University in Washington, DC before coming to UNC. Her research interests include personal information management, organizational behavior, and changing roles for information professionals. She teaches courses in human information interaction and organizational behavior at UNC, and enjoys interacting with students at all levels. She won the ASIST/ISI Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2002.
Deborah has been a member of the association since 1988, joining while she was a systems analyst with Aspen Systems Corporation, and was active in the Potomac Valley Chapter. She is past-chair of SIG-DL and of the Leadership Committee. She has served on juries for the Cretsos Award, the Doctoral Dissertation Award, and chaired the jury for the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2007. She has reviewed papers and panels, and helped to organize panels, for ASIS&T annual meetings for more than ten years.
Statement
ASIST has had a profound effect upon my professional development. This association is where I found my professional mentors, role models, and many friends. When I first joined ASIS&T, I was attracted by the balance between research and practice, by the quality of the programs, and by the friendliness of the members. I encourage my students, as I was encouraged when I was a student, to join professional associations, particularly those where they can network with like-minded professionals and find support to achieve their goals and address the important issues facing the field.
The continued good health of ASIS&T depends upon bringing in new members who become and remain active participants in the organization’s programs and governance. I would like to see ASIS&T become the association of choice for more of our students, both while they are students and afterwards. This means thinking creatively about how to integrate student chapters effectively into the life of the association at all levels so that they can see firsthand the benefits of active membership. It means embracing their concerns and offering more programs geared to their interests. It also means addressing the composition and turnover of our committees to ensure diversity of ideas and guarantee opportunities for new members while preserving the traditions that have served us so well. These issues – increasing membership and engaging more members in the life of the association – would be my priorities for the Board.
Candidate for Director at Large
 Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founder of the information architecture field. His best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (co-authored with Louis Rosenfeld) has sold over 120,000 copies and was named “Best Internet Book of 1998” by Amazon. Peter’s latest book, Ambient Findability explores search, wayfinding, literacy, authority, and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet.
As Chief Executive Officer of Argus Associates (1994-2001), Peter helped build one of the world’s most respected information architecture firms, serving clients such as AT&T, California Digital Library, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Vanguard and the Weather Channel. As President of Semantic Studios, Peter continues to consult with corporations, libraries, universities, and nonprofits to improve the information architecture of their systems.
Peter is a founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a professional association serving 1400 members in 80 countries. Peter has served on several advisory boards including the group charged with revising the ANSI/NISO Z39.19 standard for monolingual controlled vocabularies. In 2007, Peter was honored by AIIP with the Roger Summit Award for inspiring work in the information industry.
Since 1994, he has delivered over 150 seminars and keynotes at conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, and has lectured at leading institutions including Harvard Business School and Denmark’s Royal School of Library and Information Science. Peter’s work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter holds a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Michigan’s School of Information.
Statement
If elected to serve on the Board, I intend to work towards development of a strong, enduring relationship between ASIS&T and the information architecture community. I hope to build upon the success of the IA Summits by reinforcing valuable connections between research and practice, and by exploring new services and strategies that inspire summit attendees to grow into active members and volunteers.
I first became involved with ASIS&T as a student. The 1993 Annual in Columbus was my first-ever experience as a conference attendee. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to learn from the Society’s publications, participate in many events, and develop relationships with fellow members and community leaders. In short, ASIS&T has played an important role in my career, and I hope to repay that gift through service on the Board.
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