期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2008
卷号：35
期号：2
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Having served on the ASIS&T Board for several years
before becoming president, I know that a continuing concern
has been the erosion of our membership base over the last two
decades. Of course we are far from alone in facing this problem.
We live in an era of declining support for voluntary
organizations. Certainly many societies and associations of
various stripes ¨C professional, scholarly and scientific ¨C have
experienced membership declines in recent years. I have
examined some of the statements made by officers of these
groups. The reasons typically given for membership declines
implicate factors such as the rise of the Internet and computermediated
communication, competition from similar
organizations and a more general decrease in group
participation across society.
