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

[Fatih Oguz]

*** Please excuse cross posting ***

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. Self-nominations are also accepted from candidates
who feel they are qualified for the 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 by January 20, 2012.  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:

- sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of
ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues
- promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues
- 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
-having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and
the national/regional organizations
- 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) or Devendra Potnis (dpotnis at utk.edu) or Fatih
Oguz (F_oguz at uncg.edu).

Deadline for all nominations is January 6, 2012.

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)