期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2014
卷号：40
期号：5
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：The recent global initiatives undertaken by ASIS&T are in many ways a continuation of past activities and efforts by many members over the years. For example, at the 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information co-sponsored by the American Documentation Institute (the predecessor of ASIS&T) 50% of the papers had authors from outside the United States [ 1 ]. Discussions regarding omitting the word American from the name of the association began in the late 1970s [ 1 ]. In 1982 ASIS and the Institute of Information Scientists (which is now the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals or CILIP) held a joint conference in Dublin, Ireland. Toni Carbo, who currently serves on the SIG/III Advisory Board, was a member of the conference organizing committee (see Figure 1). In 1982 the Taipei Chapter was the first chapter established outside North America [ 2 ]. And as discussed elsewhere in this issue, SIG/III was established in 1982. Thus, if the recent global initiatives within ASIS&T have gone a little further it is because there has been an excellent foundation on which to build. In addition to selecting a more global name for our association, recent global initiatives include membership fees linked to a country’s status on the UN Human Development Index; decision to hold an Annual Meeting outside North America; review of social media and awards for national biases; and formation of a new chapter located in the Asia-Pacific region. This article recaps and comments on those initiatives and invites members to propose additional initiatives.
