On November 1st, the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held general election. Lu An, Professor at our School, was elected as SIG Cabinet Director. The SIG Cabinet Director is responsible for managing the 18 special interest groups of ASIS&T.

Lu An is a core member of the Information Resources Management Innovation Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is engaged in research in the fields of network data analysis and knowledge organization, and devoted herself to applying information science theories and methods such as network data analysis and knowledge organization to the research and practice of management science issues to meet the major needs of society. Lu An serves as director of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Executive Board, deputy editor-in-chief of Knowledge Organization, co-chairwoman of the Eighteenth International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2024), co-chairwoman of ASIS&T SIG-KM Research Symposium, co-chairwoman of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Student Forum, as well as deputy director of Special Interest Group of Information Science Theory, Method and Education of the Society of Science and Technology Information of China, director of the China Information Economics Society, director of Information Society of Hubei Province, member of the editorial board of Journal of Information Resources Management (in Chinese), member of the editorial board of Library And Information Service (in Chinese), and deputy director of the Ethics Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences of Wuhan University.

The ASIS&T was established in the United States in 1937. After more than 80 years of development, it has gathered scholars and researchers from many fields such as library science, information science, computer science and data science around the world, and is one of the most influential international academic organizations in the field of library and information science.