[Asis-l] Donald Case wins ASIST's 2003 Best Information Science Book Award

[Glen Horton]

The Southern Ohio Chapter of ASIST would like to congratulate Professor 
Donald Case on winning ASIST's 2003 Best Information Science Book Award 
for his book: Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on 
Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior.

The purpose of the award is to recognize the outstanding book in 
information science published during the calendar year.  The award is 
given to the author(s) whose book is judged to have made the most 
outstanding contribution in the field of information science during the 
calendar year preceding the ASIST annual meeting.

About the Book:
Looking for Information presents examples of information seeking and 
reviews studies of the information-seeking behavior of both general and 
specific social and occupational groups: scientists, engineers, social 
scientists, humanists, policy experts, the aged, the poor, and "the 
public" in general.  It also discusses general research on information 
seeking, including basic research on human communication behavior as 
found in the literature of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and 
other disciplines.

About the Author:
Donald O. Case holds a PhD in Communications Research from Stanford
University. He has been a Professor at the University of Kentucky 
College of Communication and Information Studies since 1994, and between 
1983 and 1994 was a faculty member at the University of California, Los 
Angeles, teaching in the graduate Information Studies program and in the 
undergraduate Communication Studies program. Professor Case teaches 
courses in information seeking, research methodology and the social 
implications of information technologies. He conducts research on 
communication technologies and information-seeking. Case's articles have 
appeared in Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 
Library and Information Science Research, New Media and Society, 
Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, and the Journal of 
Communication, among other publications.

Congratulations, Donald!