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Dear members of ASIST, Upon reading Blaise Cronin's editorial in the most recent published version of JASIST, vol. 61, no. 4, I was shocked (shocked!) to discover that the ASIST board has decided to cease publication of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, after the 2010 edition. I then went to the ASIST home page, where I saw, under ASIS&T People and News, a link entitled "ARIST to Cease Publication". There is no indication of when this link was posted, but I do not recall any email notification from ASIS&T of either the board's discussion of this issue, or of the board's decision. It certainly was made after the copy deadline date for the February-March 2010 number of the Bulletin, as there is no announcement there of this decision. I find it quite remarkable that the ASIST board took, solely upon itself, this very serious decision to cease publication of one of the most significant activities of the Society. Would they also have taken a decision to cease publication of JASIST without consulting the members of the Society in general? I hope not, but this one example does not make my feel confident in that hope. I also find pretty remarkable the way that this announcement has been made to the membership. ARIST has been, since its inception, a vital research, teaching and professional enhancement tool, used by a wide spectrum of Society members. Its replacement by an occasional series called Advances in Information Science in JASIST is quite unlikely to maintain the same level of regularity and coverage that ARIST was able to achieve, despite the obvious talents of Jonathon Furner of UCLA, who will be editor of that series. I think that the way in which this decision was made is quite improper, and hereby ask the ASIST board to put a hold on its implementation, until after a more detailed description of why this issue even came up is given to the Membership, and until after an adequate period and venue for discussion on this issue is given the Membership for input. Nick Belkin -- Nicholas J. Belkin Professor (II) of Information Science Department of Library and Information Science School of Communication and Information Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071, USA Phone +1 732 932 7500 x8271 Fax +1 732 6916 Email [email protected] http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l
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