Journal article
VISIBLE COLLEGES - THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CO-MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE OF ASIS
Proceedings of the ASIS annual meeting, Vol.30, pp.172-177
01 Jan 1993
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Abstract
ASIS currently (1992) charters twenty Special Interest Groups (SIGs) The SIGS are intended to ''give members with similar professional specialties the opportunity to exchange ideas and keep themselves informed about current and discrete [sic] developments in their fields. The activities ... provide clear indication of the diverse interests and needs of ASIS members.'' [1, P. 17]. Membership in one SIG is included in the basic dues; additional SIGs can be added for increased dues payments. Patterns of association among SIGs, based on choices made by those members selecting two or more SIGs (at some cost to the individual), were studied and the underlying ''intellectual structure'' of ASIS illuminated using the multivariate techniques commonly associated with author cocitaiton analysis. Nine hundred forty-one of the approximately 3800 members included in the 1992 ASIS Directory are listed as members of 2 or more SIGs. A mapping and clustering of SIG co-membership data based on these 941 members (measured as the ''joint conditional probability'''of membership overlap) produced a two-dimensional map with the central area occupied by two clusters jointly representing the central focus of ASIS member interests-information systems implemented in organizations-with peripheral placement of those SIGs linking to the out-of-ASIS disciplinary communities of researchers and users. The dimensions themselves demonstrate the two major organizing principles -- a broad subject orientation (''hard'' to ''soft'' disciplinary SIGs) and a grounding in more ''formal'' theoretical research (SIG/ALP, SIG/CR) versus human concerns (SIG/MED, SIG/BSS).
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- Title
- VISIBLE COLLEGES - THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CO-MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE OF ASIS
- Creators
- K W Mccain
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the ASIS annual meeting, Vol.30, pp.172-177
- Publisher
- Information Today Inc
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 991019184058604721
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