The ASIS&T-GSLIS Connection by Linda Smith

The University of Illinois American Society for Information Science Student Chapter began in the fall of 1977 at the initiative of GSLIS M.S. student Barbara Rapp and with Linda C. Smith serving as its first advisor. The Student Chapter is a registered student organization at UIUC and has been active since 1977 in sponsoring programs--lectures, field trips, projects--to supplement coursework offered at UIUC in information science. The student chapter was selected in 1987 as the winner of the first Student Chapter-of-the-Year Award, established by ASIST to recognize outstanding Student Chapters for their participation in, and contributions to, the Society and the advancement of information science. The student chapter was recognized with this award again in 2006.

Many GSLIS faculty have served ASIST as officers and committee members. They include

Three ASIST Presidents:

• Pauline Atherton Cochrane (1971)
• Charles H. Davis (1982-83)
• Martha E. Williams (1988)

Martha E. Williams served as editor of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology for twenty-five years.

GSLIS faculty and students have been recipients of numerous ASIST awards. Three have been recognized with the Award of Merit, the Society's highest honor:

• F. W. Lancaster (1980)
• Pauline Atherton Cochrane (1981)
• Linda C. Smith (1987)

F. W. Lancaster received the Best JASIS Paper Award in 1969 and four of his books have been recognized with the Best Information Science Book Award (1970, 1974, 1978, 1992).

Student awards have included the

Best Student Paper Award:

• Dudee Chiang (1987): Application of Bradford Distribution to Online Search Results: An Online Bibliographic Study
• Mark Spasser (1996): The Enacted Fate of Undiscovered Knowledge

Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Award to Ph.D. students

• Susan Bonzi (1982)
• Carol Tenopir(1983)
• Danny Wallace (1984)
• Gail Thornburg (1985).

Tomas A. Lipinski received the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award for his completed dissertation in 1998.

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