The annual meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology(ASIS&T), a top-level meeting on Library and Information Science, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA from October 30 to November 2, 2021. Associate Professor Lou Wen from the Department of Information Management, School of Business Administration of SEM was elected as the co-chair of the annual meeting. Associate Professor Lou Wen has long been engaged in research on information measurement and scientific communication and has served as a member of the organizing committee of top conferences such as ASIS&T, iConference, and ISSI. Among the co-chairs elected this time, only two are from China (the other is from Wuhan University), demonstrating the international influence of the library and information discipline of our school.
The annual meeting of ASIS&T is hosted by the American Association of Information Science and Technology. It is the top annual event in the field of international information science. The meeting has been held for 84 sessions since the association was first convened in 1937. ASIS&T gathers scholars and researchers from various fields such as library science, information science, computer science, and data science and, after more than 80 years of development, has become one of the most influential international academic organizations in the field of library and information science in the world. The association greatly promotes the development and application of global library and information science. The theme of this conference is “Information: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Justice, and Relevance.” With the joint efforts of researchers and practitioners, great progress has been made in information and technology. However, at the same time, hate speech, rumors, conspiracy theories, cyberbullying, racism, fake news, and privacy issues have also followed. The 2021 ASIS&T will be committed to solving these problems while continuing to promote the positive contributions of information and technology.
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