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

[Fatih Oguz]

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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 a group of deserving information science PhD and Masters
students who STUDY and RESIDE in developing countries for
complimentary ASIS&T memberships.

We are soliciting nominations of student candidates for the InfoShare
Student Membership Award.  Please include a Curriculum Vitae (or
equivalent) and a brief description of why this person is deserving of
membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their
networks. 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, with your help.  Please start thinking about student candidates
among your networks and send recommendations of deserving students 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.

Best wishes,
Abebe Rorissa
Devendra Potnis
Fatih Oguz

SIG-III Web site: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm
InfoShare page: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm