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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IS link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>In conjunction with the conference, we are providing a paper mentoring service this year that perhaps some students might be interested in participating in. More information about the paper mentoring service can be found at the conference website (see url below.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Diane</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><br>2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology<br>Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016<br><br><a href="https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/%5C" target="_blank">https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/\</a><br><br>Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><br>Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. Paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome.<br>The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&T’s many special interest groups (SIGs).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><br>Important Dates: (all deadlines are midnight, Greenwich Mean Time)<br><br>Paper Mentoring Service<br>Submission of complete draft papers to the mentor service due: 10 March 2016<br>Mentors’ feedback on drafts: 4 April 2016<br><br>Papers<br>Submission of papers due: 17 April 2016<br>Notification regarding submitted papers: 23 May 2016<br>Submission of “revise & re-submit” papers due: 3 June 2016<br>Notification regarding “revise & re-submit” papers: 23 June 2016<br>Camera-ready accepted papers due: 25 July 2016<br><br>Panels and Workshops<br>Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016<br>Notifications regarding submitted panels and workshops: 15 June 2016<br>Camera-ready accepted panels and workshop descriptions are due: 25 July 2016<br><br>Posters<br>Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016<br>Notifications regarding submitted posters: 30 July 2016<br>Camera-ready accepted posters are due: 10 August 2016<br>Submission site: <a href="https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/" target="_blank">https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/</a><br>Final versions of accepted workshops and tutorials must be formatted according to guidelines provided at: <a href="https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf</a><br><br>.<br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Diane H. Sonnenwald</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Visiting Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Distinguished Chair, Global Networking Talent Program</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>National Taiwan Normal University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Taipei, Taiwan</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>