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Bonn elected president-elect of ASIS&T

2022 Maria Bonn
Maria Bonn, Associate Professor

Maria Bonn, associate professor and director of the MSLIS and CAS programs, has been elected president-elect of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). She will begin her one-year term immediately following the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, which will be held from October 25-29 in Calgary, Canada, and will assume the presidency in fall 2025.

ASIS&T is an international, professional organization that seeks to discover new theories, practices, and tools to improve information access. Publications of the association include the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), and Information Matters.

Bonn has served as a member of the ASIS&T Board of Directors since 2021 and previously chaired the Publications Committee. She shepherded the relaunch of ARIST and helped develop Information Matters

"I'm excited to take on a leadership role in an organization that approaches the theory and practice of information science with so much intellectual diversity and rigor," said Bonn. "I look forward to nurturing its rich, interdisciplinary community."

Bonn's research focuses on scholarly communication and publishing, especially on what means and methods of scholarly communication best serve scholars in achieving their goals. Her latest work focuses on how scholars and the librarians that support them are responding to shifts toward openness in data, publishing, the conduct of science, and education. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in American literature from SUNY Buffalo and a master's in information and library science from the University of Michigan.

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