[Asis-l] CAIS/ACSI 2016 - Award papers announced AND Reminder to register for conference

[Angela Michel Pollak]

Dear Colleagues,

The CAIS/ACSI 2016 conference co-chairs are pleased to announce the winners of our student, practitioner and best paper award competitions, as follows:

Student-to-CAIS
Deborah Hicks (UAlberta)
Person or Place: The Rhetorical Construction of Librarian and Library by the Information Profession Community.

Best Practitioner Paper
Lynne Bowker (UOttawa) and César Villamizar (UOttawa)
The Embedded Records Manager: A pilot study emphasizing the importance of community as a key to success.

Best Overall Conference Paper
Bharat Mehra (UTennessee), Bradley Wade Bishop (UTennessee) and Robert P. Partee (UTennessee)
Information Science Professionals as Community Action Researchers to Further the Role of Rural Public Libraries in Small Business Economic Development: A Case Study of
Tennessee.

Authors will be presenting their papers at the CAIS/ACSI Conference that will take place as part of the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta from June 1-3, 2016. Registration is still available online through the Congress website (http://congress2016.ca/register). We encourage you to register soon to attend all of the fine presentations scheduled during this event. A preliminary program is available at (http://congress2016.ca/program/events/68-cais).

For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI 2016 Conference Co-chairs.

David H. Michels                                                                         Angela Pollak
Conference Co-Chair                                                                  Conference Co-Chair
Public Services Librarian                                                            Faculty of Information and Media Studies
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