President - Linda C. Smith
 Linda
C. Smith, is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; master’s degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology (information and computer science) and the University of Illinois (library science); and a B.S. in mathematics and physics from Allegheny College. She has spent sabbatical leaves at Linköping University in Sweden and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, she has worked with colleagues to enhance curricular offerings in digital libraries and data curation and to build a collaborative distance education model through initiatives of the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) consortium. She has mentored numerous doctoral students as advisor and dissertation committee member. She received the ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 1987 and has served ASIS&T in many capacities since joining in 1972: SIG officer, award jury member and chair, conference program committee member and chair, student chapter advisor, member of various standing committees,
JASIS editorial board member, and ARIST bibliographic editor and advisory committee member.
Statement
The future of ASIS&T depends on recruitment, retention, and engagement of members. A special strength of ASIS&T is the openness to contributions by its newest members. In my own case, I presented my first conference paper as a doctoral student and served on my first committee (at the encouragement of Jim Cretsos) as a junior faculty member. In that spirit, the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award now acknowledges the importance of recognizing newer members for service to the organization. Retention depends on ensuring that members judge benefits of ASIS&T membership to be of continuing value over the course of their careers. In this regard the interdisciplinary character and connections among research, education, and practice are valuable attributes of ASIS&T.
If elected, my priorities would be to work with members of the Board and others in ASIS&T to:
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expand participation by more members in the volunteer opportunities provided by committees, awards juries, chapters, and
SIGs;
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encourage more members to present at conferences and contribute to publications;
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explore forms of online participation, extending the virtual SIG model to other activities such as access to continuing education opportunities;
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pursue mutually beneficial collaborations with other organizations, including internationally.
Director at Large -
Prudence Dalrymple
 Prudence
Dalrymple, PhD., M.S. (Informatics) is on the faculty of the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University where she also directs the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a joint venture IST of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, the College of Medicine and the School of Public Health. She received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and most recently, a master’s degree in health sciences informatics from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has also been on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was the Director of Accreditation at the American Library Association and served as Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University.
Pru attended her first ASIS&T meeting in 1976 as a student and has been an active participant in conferences, committees and SIG FIS, chairing it in 1991-92. She served on the juries for the
JASIST Best Paper Award (1992, 2008); the ISI Dissertation Award (1994); and the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award (2007). She has served on the Education and Research Committees, chairing the Education Committee for the past two years. She is a member of the ASIST Task Force on the Information Professional where she is a key participant in the task force’s activities
(http://www.asis.org/news.html).
Statement
I view the Association from a vantage point that sees and values its role as an essential node in a spectrum of related organizations. I believe that this view can help
ASIS&T extend its reach by articulating its vision and character to appeal to a wide audience of potential members and stakeholders.
My career as an educator has given me opportunities to see information science education from a variety of perspectives—as a faculty member, an academic administrator, an association president, an accreditation program executive, and quite recently, a post-doctoral fellow. Each of these experiences has enriched my understanding of the information professions and their unique contribution to society. Even as a graduate student in the 1970s, I recognized information science as the intellectual foundation for what we now call the information professions—and I began attending
ASIS&T meetings to meet the people who were the thought leaders in the field. This is a central role and responsibility for
ASIS&T and as a Board member; I will work to provide good stewardship of that role. Because of my commitment to education for the information professions, I will strive to advance the Association’s position as a key player in the recognition and quality assurance of educational programs that prepare the information professionals of the future. I am honored to stand for election as a Board Member at Large and I am committed to maintaining and enhancing the capacity of
ASIS&T as an organization that serves the needs of its members while contributing to society as a whole.
Director at Large - Karen
Fisher
 Karen
Fisher is a Professor in the University of Washington Information School and Chair of The Information & Society Center (ISC). She teaches and conducts research on how people experience information as part of everyday life, with emphasis on the role of informal social settings in information flow, as well as the broad impacts of information and communication technologies. Co-author of the forthcoming monograph
Digital Inclusion: Communicating Impact through Practice and Research, and the (2005) monograph
Theories of Information Behavior, with M. Crandall she is currently studying the benefits of free access to computers and the Internet in public libraries—a mixed methods, nation-wide study supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her past funders include the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, the United Way of America, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recipient of the 2005 and 2008 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research from the American Library Association, Karen has also been recognized for her research by the American Society for Information Science & Technology, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education. An alum of the University of Western Ontario (PhD & MLIS) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA), she held a postdoc at the University of Michigan, chaired the UW iSchool’s Master of Library and Information Science program (2004-08); and was a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a NORSLIS Visiting Professor at Oslo University College, Norway. In 2005-06 Karen was chair of ASIST SIG USE and has since served as treasurer—receiving the ASIST SIG Member of the Year Award in 2008. She also served on the search committee for the new editor of
JASIST (2007-08) and on the program committees for the 2009 and 2004 Annual Meetings. Other service include the international program committees for
ISIC: The Information Behavior Conference and i3: Information: Interactions and
Impact; as well as information behavior track chair for IIiX 2010 Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, co-program chair of the 2010 iSchool Conference and program chair of the 2011 iSchool Conference.
Statement
With a gong, opportunity is calling for innovation around all aspects of information in research, design and practice. Every
ASIS&T subfield, every SIG, every Chapter has unprecedented opportunity to create new synergy and partnerships, both internally and externally to
ASIS&T. Most every item one hears about today abuts with information and information technology—society’s needs for, obsession with, and drowning in information. Every tweet, every post is a call for help that
ASIS&T can provide. Opportunity to innovate in how we approach research, design and practice, which in turn lead to new synergies and collaborations, will also increase our capacity to affect positive change in society, to make a difference, have impact—the ultimate aim of why we do what we do.
If elected as your Board member, I pledge to optimize opportunities for all to innovate together and with new partnerships. I will seek opportunities to grow
ASIS&T, especially through membership, relationships with other groups/events, and adding features that promote community.
ASIS&T’s positions in the iSchool movement and in information science education are two urgent calls for attention where we have opportunity to affect strong impact.
In 1993 I attended the Annual Meeting as a first-year PhD student, carpooling from Ontario to Ohio, sleeping in a $20 night motel for the honor of working as a door monitor in exchange for free registration. The Conference changed my life as I was embraced by an intellectual community with heart, one that I am more ardent with every year, despite other associations and conferences. My
ASIS&T home was firmly established in 1999 when ASIS&T approved the formation of SIG USE and began supporting its many growth requests, including the annual symposium and research and student travel awards. At the 2009 AM SIG USE celebrates its 10th Anniversary and will be inducting ten researchers into the SIG USE Academy; monographs three and four—all published by Information Today with royalties going to SIG USE—are underway. This passion for SIG USE, magnified, is what I will bring to
ASIS&T as your Board member, synergizing with my roles on international conference program committees as well as the 2010 and 2011 iSchool Conferences.
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