"The winner for the ASIS&T best Information Science book published in 2010 is Katy Börner's Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT).

The international jury consisted of scholars who represented diverse views from across the field of information science. We are unanimous in our evaluation of this book as an extraordinary achievement of scholarship. We think that it not only meets but exceeds all the criteria we have for this award. We consider it to be a spectacular achievement not only because it is the result of a prodigious amount of scholarly work of the highest quality, and because its subject matter is absolutely central to the interests of ASIS&T and its community, but also because of the work's visual qualities and high production value, which will ensure that it will be widely read beyond the IS field.

In the Atlas of Science, Katy Börner has generalized a key component of information science, drawing on all the relevant work in many fields, and brought it into the broader world of science in a particularly thorough and beautiful way. Börner's fundamental interest is in informetrics, one of the three basic branches of information science, and the “atlas” is a series of representations of science through bibliometric means. She ranges across efforts made in many fields, but all from a scientometric perspective, and she gives full recognition to major scholars in information science who have contributed to that development. Börner has brought scientometrics fully into the spotlight of the 21st-century world of multimedia visualization. This is the sort of representation of informetrics that will get the attention of the wider world for information science. The author’s own agenda for visualization in the introduction and in the overall organization of the book makes it unique and distinct among comparable efforts. The Atlas is impressively designed and produced - a triumph of scholarship and a reader’s delight."

2010 ASIS&T best IS book of the year Jury
Marcia Bates
Marija Dalbello (2011 Chair)
Jonathan Furner
Elena Maceviciute
Peiling Wang