[Asis-l] ASIS&T SIG-III InfoShare Membership Award - Call for Nominations

[Potnis, Devendra Dilip]

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Dear Colleagues,

The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2012 we will be able to sponsor another group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive).

We are soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award.

Please include a Curriculum Vitae and a brief description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks and build relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the SIG-III officers at the end of 2011.  All Curriculum Vitae will be kept private, viewable only by SIG-III officers.

Each membership award will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the new member proves to be a strong advocate for ASIS&T in their home country during the course of the year. Awardees will be asked to submit a report on their activities by next year's Annual Meeting, which may include, but are not limited to:
a. sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues
b. promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues
c. serving as a contact/coordinator for ASIS&T members traveling to their area who may be able to speak about ASIS&T and information science
d. having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and
e. sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T

We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, especially from countries that have never been ASIS&T members or have limited ASIS&T membership, with your help.  Please start thinking about candidates among your networks and send your nominations of deserving candidates to Abebe Rorissa (arorissa at albany.edu<mailto:arorissa at albany.edu>) or Devendra Potnis (dpotnis at utk.edu<mailto:dpotnis at utk.edu>) or Fatih Oguz (F_oguz at uncg.edu<mailto:F_oguz at uncg.edu>).

Deadline for all nominations is December 23, 2011.

Thank you and best wishes for the upcoming months and we hope to see you in Baltimore, Maryland in October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of ASIS&T!

Abebe Rorissa
Devendra Potnis
Fatih Oguz
InfoShare Program
SIG-III
ASIS&T

InfoShare page: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm

ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting (Baltimore, Maryland: October 26-31, 2012): http://www.asis.org/conferences.html (conferences page)
Devendra Dilip Potnis, PhD, MPA, MS
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Suite 442 Communications Bldg., 1345 Circle Park
Knoxville, TN - 37996
https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis
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