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Opening remarks for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference

By Robin Rice

June 14, 2025

It is an IASSIST tradition for the President to give opening remarks at the first plenary of the annual conference. Below are Robin Rice“s opening remarks on 4th June in Bristol, England, for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference, as the outgoing President for 2025. Good morning and welcome to IASSIST 2025: Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future. A great theme for our 50th anniversary conference, and more prophetic than I would have guessed when the Programme Committee came up with it back in the autumn of 2024, but that’s a thought for another time.

IASSIST Celebrates 50 Years and 50 Conferences!

By Meryl Brodsky

June 2, 2025

At the IASSIST 2024 conference, the Organizational Archive Action Group was formed to commemorate IASSIST’s 50th anniversary conference: IASSIST 2025. Action Group members included: Margaret (Peggy) Adams, Meryl Brodsky, James Capobianco, Michele Hayslett, Thomas Lindsay, Christine Nieman Hislop (IASSIST Archivist & Action Group Coordinator), Zac Painter, Cindy Severt, and Wei Yin. Oral History Project The Action Group decided to take on two projects in preparation for the conference. One was to conduct oral history interviews with long-time IASSIST members.

From risk to rescue: Securing data for the future generations

By Bobray Bordelon

February 20, 2025

IASSIST members work to discover, curate, make available, and keep data available. At the beginning of February, IASSIST Secretary Lynda Kellam started an internal Google document for her university to keep track of USA federal data that was disappearing and data rescue efforts. While many were concerned and downloading data individually, efforts were often being duplicated while other data was disappearing and at risk of being lost. IASSIST members were inquiring as were members of sister organizations including RDAP and the Data Curation Network.

How Different Countries View Race

By Anti-Racism Resources Interest Group

March 11, 2023

The Black Lives Matter and indigenous rights movements, as well as international migration in recent years, have caused many organisations, including IASSIST, to re-examine their own understanding and knowledge, processes and practices. It also made IASSIST members feel compelled to collect materials that can help everyone recognise, acknowledge, and combat implicit racial bias. The goals of the Anti-Racism Resources Interest Group are to gather these resources and together with IASSIST’s Professional Development Committee organise webinars on related topics.

Racism, Data, and IASSIST

By IASSIST

September 13, 2020

Since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, race and racism have been in the headlines around the globe. The Black Lives Matter movement may have been born out of a uniquely American situation but the wrongs against which it protests exist in other parts of the world. If we learn nothing else from the current global focus on racism and its historical precedents, we learn that taking comfort in being ‘not racist’ is insufficient, bordering on complacent.

Opening remarks for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference

IASSIST Celebrates 50 Years and 50 Conferences!

From risk to rescue: Securing data for the future generations

How Different Countries View Race

Racism, Data, and IASSIST

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