[Asis-l] 2008 ASIS&T SIG III International Paper Contest winner announcement

[Judy Jeng]

WINNERS OF THE 2008 ASIS&T SIG III INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST

 

The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Special
Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III) is pleased to
announce the following winners of its 9th International Paper Contest:

 

First Place Winner:

Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen. Use of social networks and information seeking
behavior of students during political crises in Pakistan. (Pakistan)

 

Second Place Winner:

Neela J. Deshpande & S K Pathak. Use of electronic journals in astronomy and
astrophysics libraries and information centres in India: A users'
perspective. (India)

 

Third Place Winner:

Manjunatha K. Technology and customer expectation in academic libraries: A
special reference to technical/management libraries in Karnataka. (India)

 

Fourth Place Winner:

S. M. Pujar, R. K. Kamat, S. Y. Bansode, R. R. Kamat, & S. H. Katigennavar.
Identifying and exploiting human needs for people centric evolving knowledge
society: A case study of Indian ICT emergence. (India)

 

Fifth Place Winner:

Tariq Ashraf. Empowering people through information: A case study of India's
right to information act. (India)

 

Sixth Place Winner:

Pramila Dangwal. Information: By the people, for the people, for
development. (India)

 

 

The jurors for the 2008 competition included Judy Jeng (Chair), Jonathan
Levitt (Co-Chair), Aaron Bowen, Yunfei Du, Julian Warner, and Yin Zhang.

 

The principal authors of each of the six winning papers will be awarded a
two-year individual membership to ASIS&T. In addition, the first place
winner will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the ASIS&T Annual
Conference in Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008.

 

Those winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be
considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and
Library Review.

 

We thank the jury members for their hard work and our donors for their
compassion which makes it possible to develop and sustain this international
network of scholars in developing countries.

 

Judy Jeng

Chair, 2008 ASIS&T International Paper Contest

jjeng at njcu.edu

 

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