{"id":732,"date":"2012-12-10T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/?p=732"},"modified":"2012-12-10T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:33:11","slug":"member-vote-in-favor-of-name-change-to-association-for-information-science-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2012\/12\/10\/member-vote-in-favor-of-name-change-to-association-for-information-science-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Member vote in favor of name change to Association for Information Science &#038; Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Dear All,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">The voting process regarding the proposed name change of our association has now concluded, with 89.7% in favor of the change to\u00a0<strong>Association for Information Science &amp; Technology (ASIS&amp;T).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">The Board will now work with Headquarters to implement the change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Thanks to all members who voted! We look forward to continuing to work with you and on your behalf as we begin this new era for our association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Best regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Diane Sonnenwald, Immediate Past President<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Andrew Dillon, President<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Harry Bruce, Incoming President<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">Linda A. Smith, President 2010-2011<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Dear All, The voting process regarding the proposed name change of our association has now concluded, with 89.7% in favor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}