SLIS Faculty News

"The challenge is to maintain a balance between the known and the novel, the canonical and the emergent; the goal is to enlarge the journal's footprint, prudently and selectively, by connecting more tightly with cognate academic communities where the study of information is also a central intellectual concern." [Blaise Cronin]

Blaise Cronin has been selected to be the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), effective January 1, 2009, the 60th year of its publication. Dr. Cronin is Rudy Professor of Information Science and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University and has been Editor of ASIS&T's Annual Review of Information Science and Technology since 2001.

Commenting on his appointment, Dr. Cronin said, "JASIST is the preeminent journal of its kind in the world, and the enduring record of our field's intellectual focus and evolution. Under Don Kraft's editorship JASIST has flourished, growing in terms of size, number of annual issues and breadth of subject coverage. The institutional, geographic and disciplinary affiliations of contributing authors are more varied than ever, reflecting the internationalizing of interest in information science and also the perceived attractiveness of JASIST as a publication outlet of first, not last, resort. In short, the maturation of our field, both scholastically and professionally, is mirrored in the pages of the journal. The challenge is to maintain a balance between the known and the novel, the canonical and the emergent; the goal is to enlarge the journal's footprint, prudently and selectively, by connecting more tightly with cognate academic communities where the study of information is also a central intellectual concern."

JASIST is the flagship publication of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Posted June 19, 2008