[Sig-l] Congratuations to the 2009 ASIS&T SIG Award Winners!

[KT Vaughan]

I am pleased to announce the 2009 ASIS&T SIG Award winners (see 
citations below)!  The awards for Member and Publication of the Year 
will be given at the SIG Cabinet meeting, and the SIG of the Year will 
be given at the awards luncheon at this fall's annual meeting in 
November.  Please join me in congratulating these very deserving members 
and SIGs for their accomplishments, as well as in thanking the 
nominators and juries for their hard work.

*SIG Member of the Year: Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (SIG ED)*

The 2009 SIG Member of the Year is Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Chair of SIG ED.  
Central to Ingrid's success as a SIG leader is her open and constant 
communication with members via Wiki, listserv, and most recently, 
through a survey.  She successfully shepherded nine of twelve proposals 
to acceptance for the 2009 Annual Meeting.  Two of these were organized 
by Ingrid, and she will be presenting in a third.  Another mark of 
Ingrid's leadership is collaboration among the SIGs.  Of particular 
value to SIG ED has been Ingrid's focus on diversity through her 
outreach to the international, biomedical, and archives and museum 
communities.  As ASIS&T moves forward to integrate the important 
perspective of our international members, SIG ED, through Ingrid's 
efforts, is playing an important role in realizing that goal.  Her 
nominator concluded, "Ingrid's the best!", and the jury agreed. 
Congratulations to Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, the 2009 SIG Member of the Year.

 

*SIG Publication of the Year: June/July 2009 ASIS&T Bulletin: "Visual 
Representation, Search, and Retrieval: Ways of Seeing" (SIG VIS)***

The 2009 SIG Publication of the Year is awarded to the special issue of 
the ASIS&T Bulletin, "Visual Representation, Search, and Retrieval: Ways 
of Seeing."  A jury member commented, "This special issue of the ASIST 
Bulletin, compiled by SIG/VIS, is a varied, high-quality synopsis of 
major issues in the field of visualization. The number of authors 
enlisted to contribute pieces for this issue obviously required a great 
deal of effort on the part of the SIG leaders, and the resulting product 
is valuable for SIG members, members of the society, and practicing 
professionals." Another wrote, "This is incredibly useful as a primer. 
Now there is a document to which everyone can refer when discussing 
these issues."  All jury members were impressed with the variety of 
topics and general quality of the papers. Congratulations to SIG/VIS, 
and in particular to Dr. Diane Neal, guest editor, for publishing the 
2009 SIG Publication of the Year.

 
*SIG of the Year: SIG International Information Issues (SIG III)*

The 2009 SIG of the Year is SIG International Information Issues (SIG 
III).  One of the jury members summed up the appeal of SIG III very 
well: "SIG-III has a well-established pattern of service to the 
international community as well as to the Society. Their membership 
makes up in enthusiasm what it may lack in size, and they have a large 
and very task-oriented executive committee. They communicate effectively 
with their membership through a bi-monthly newsletter, alternating with 
one to the executive committee. They bring new members into the 
association through their InfoShare program, and their paper competition 
is an excellent mechanism for bringing scholars to the conference who 
would be otherwise unable to attend. Their international reception is 
one of the highlights of the annual conference, and they make good use 
of the event as a venue for fundraising for their many awards. As a SIG, 
they have very high visibility and as a consequence they make all 
members, not just their own SIG, aware of ASIS&T's potential role in 
international scholarship." Unlike many other SIGs, III recognizes that 
the work of this society is not solely accomplished at this annual 
meeting, but consists of small activities throughout time and space and 
across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.  Congratulations 
to SIG III, and particularly to Aaron Bowen, chair, and all the other 
officers of SIG III, for being this year's ASIS&T SIG of the Year.  

(Apologies for duplication of this message)

KT Vaughan
ASIS&T SIG Cabinet Director, 2007-2009

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KTL Vaughan, MSLS, AHIP
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