Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together.

The article reports that the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2005 Annual Meeting, zeroing in on Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, is scheduled for October 28-November 2, 2005, in Charlotte, North Carolina. ASIS&T 2005 will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moderated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme. Based on the suggestions received as of the deadline, conference planners anticipate an exciting schedule of contributed papers, posters and panels on many topics such as information retrieval, social informatics, human information behavior, information technology, bibliometrics, systems design and others. The ASIS&T 2005 Annual Meeting is being planned under the direction of co-chairs Michael Crandall and Barbara Wildemuth.