[Asis-l] LACASIS Announcement: Results of the Margaret McKinley Memorial Student Scholarship Essay Competition

[Linda Salem]

The winner of the 12th annual McKinley Scholarship essay competition is
Joanne Orsatti, University of New South Wales, Australia. In addition two
runners up, Lisa Nguyen, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Weipang Yue, 
University
of New South Wales, Australia were selected from a pool of essays coming from
California, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia.

Ms. Orsatti has a bachelor degree with a double major in philosophy and
science and technology studies and is currently finishing a Masters by Research
in Information Science at School of Information Systems, Technology and
Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.  She is also
employed as a Research Associate and as an Associate Lecturer in areas spanning
Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management and Utilization, Business
Intelligence and Information Organization.

The Margaret McKinley Memorial Student Scholarship Essay Competition
The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology offers this annual Student Scholarship Essay Competition for
current library and information science graduate students. This Competition,
first established in 1992, and renamed in memory of the late Margaret
McKinley in 1993, is intended to encourage students in Librarianship and
Information Science Programs to consider the benefits of participation
in the activities of professional societies.  The winner receives reimbursement
funding up to US $1,000 for registration, airfare, and hotel expenses to
attend ASIST's Annual Meeting and a one-year membership in ASIST.
Two runners-up receive one-year memberships in ASIST.

Congratulations to our 2003 winners!