I thought at one time ASIS&T had established a knowledge base that was to include documents to inform the organization of operating procedures, policies, etc. as well as the history of the organization. What happened to that?

In one organization I was a member of we had a designated Archivist who managed the archives with the history of the organization. Having a designated individual ensured a consist presence from year-to-year. The History Committee and SIG-KM could assist in the work the Archivist would do.

‘Publication’ on online conference proceedings usually precludes submission of more-or-less the same paper to a journal, so Jim’s recommendation makes sense from a publishing perspective.

Tactic 3.5.2 History of ASIS&T – since the description describes “operationalization of an appropriate records/document/knowledge management strategy”, perhaps the responsibility should split between History Committee and the SIG-KM ?

The Annual Meeting was once longer, with more extensive premeetings (at least my impression), and this made it more worthwhile to travel to.

Emphasize the truly global role of ASIS&T and adapt to the changed information ecology (particularly the growth of the I Schools).

Nice job all!

Recommend (ASIS&T Conference): As a goal of increasing attendance, give authors the option of submitting a full paper for ONLY presentation but NOT having the paper appear in the conference proceedings.

This, I believe, has several advantages, including:
(a) top conferences. such as ICWSM. do it in order to appeal to disciplines where conferences are not a big deal, So, these researchers want to save their work for this outlets that matter to them
(b) researchers may more willing to submit better work to the conference knowing that they can get reviews and then still publish the actual findings at a journal, another conference, etc.
(c) having a full paper accepted allows for most researchers to justify funding to the conference.

So, seems like a win all around. Possibly better research (certainly no worse). Attendance (at least) unaffected if not a better draw. Researchers have a choice.

I believe that this mode fits better with the ASIS&T Conference, which I (personally) view more as a networking conference rather than an outlet for top quality research. It also fits better with panels, which seem popular at the ASIS&T conference.