[Asis-l] SIG III of ASIS&T Announces the Winners of 2012 International Paper Contest

[Shaheen Maqsood]

Excuse me for cross-posting.

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 13th International Paper Contest:



*First Place Winner: *

Muhammad Sajid Mirza AND Dr. Khalid Mahmood. Electronic resources and
services in Pakistani university libraries: A survey of users'
satisfaction. (Pakistan)



*Second Place Winner*:

Yahya Ibrahim Harnade. Authorship Patterns in Engineering Education.
(Nigeria)



*Third Place Winner: *

Lallaisangzuali. Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Social Science
Post-Graduate Students and Research Scholars of Mizoram University: A Case
Study. (India)



*Fourth Place Winner (1)*:

Ibrahim Usman Alhaji AND Yahya Ibrahim Harnade. Basic Literature of
Diabetes: A Bibliometrics Analysis of Three Countries in Different World
Regions. (Nigeria)



*Fourth Place Winner (2)*:

Irene Onyancha. Addressing Institutional Dementia in Africa: The case of
the ECA Institutional Repository - A knowledge base on African
socio-economic development. (Ethiopia)



The jurors for the 2012 competition included Maqsood Shaheen (Chair), Alma
Rivera (Member), Fatih Oguz (Member), Xiao Hu (Member) and members of the
SIG III Board.



The principal authors of each of all 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 $2,000 to attend the ASIS&T Annual
Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-30, 2012.



Those winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be
considered for publication by Elsevier’s *International Information and
Library Review*<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authorinstructions>.




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.





*SIG III International Paper Contest Committee:*



Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen

Committee Chair

ShaheenMA at gmail.com



Alma Rivera, Committee Member

alma.rivera at uia.mx



Fatih Oguz, Committee Member

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

f_oguz at incg.edu



Xiao Hu, Committee Member

University of Denver

Xiao.hu at du.edu

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ASIS&T 75TH Annual Meeting

"Information, Interaction, Innovation:  Celebrating the Past, Constructing
the Present and Creating the Future"

Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-30, 2012
http://www.asis.org/
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