[Sig-l] Congratulations to the SIG award winners

[Kathryn La Barre]

Three SIG awards were presented during the annual meeting. Special thanks
to those of you who served on the SIG award juries. I'm forwarding the
citations, which were written by each jury chair, so that you can share
them with your membership.

Congratulations to SIG DL for winning the SIG of the Year award, to SIG SI
for winning the publication of the year award, and to Abebe Rorissa, for
winning the SIG Member of the Year award!


*SIG of the Year award – SIG DL*For consistent internally-focused effort at
recognizing group leadership;

For targeted outreach that solicited feedback from group members on SIG
membership;

For expanding participation through its targeted and conscientious
social media presence and the launch of a new electronic newsletter;

For sponsoring both poster and lightning talk sessions at the 2013
annual meeting, providing a dedicated venue for undergraduates,
masters candidates and recent library and information science
graduates to present their research to an audience of peers and
information professionals, and the subsequent YouTube access to the
videotaped proceedings of these sessions;

For outstanding educational outreach to members and practitioners –
including three webinars providing direct educational opportunities to
the larger community of practice;

For providing support for the 2014 Research Data Access and
Preservation summit poster session and to live tweeted the
proceedings, providing accessible real-time updates on sessions;

And for the resulting level of engagement that has resulted in active
participation and planning of the SIG-DL sponsored educational and
professional development activities that benefit the ASIS&T
organization in specific and the field of information science and
technology in general;


*SIG member of the year*
Dr. Abebe Rorissa is this year's SIG Member of the Year award.  He has been
an active leader in ASIST for the past 12 years. Among his many activities
are:
member of the ASIS&T Bulletin Advisory Board (2006 – Present); Guest editor
of the ASIS&T Bulletin (February/March 2007 & June/July 2014
issues);Assistant editor of the Proceedings of the ASIS&T Annual Meetings
(2007 & 2008); Manuscript reviewer for JASIS&T and ASIS&T Annual Meetings
(2007 – Present); InfoShare Officer at SIG III (2008 – 2012). Member of the
ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award Jury (2011 & 2012);
and has been anactive member of SIG VIS &  SIG USE (2002-Present).

He is honored here for his leadership role with SIG III in 2012 and 2013.
Under his careful stewardship, he oversaw an increase of the
SIG’s membership, the  celebration of SIG III’s 30th Anniversary and
publication of the "SIG III 30th Anniversary Commemorative Publication" --
which won the 2013 ASIS&T SIG Publication of the Year Award. Over the past
year he coordinated SIG III's first webinar, attended by 100 members, and
downloaded by another 130 members within the first two weeks. During the
current year, he has advised the SIG on a variety of projects and
activities, including  the InfoShare Program and International Paper
Contest, has helped negotiate a long-term agreement with the
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group to support the International Paper Contest
and the publication of  winning papers in the International Information &
Library Review. Most recently he and Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, co-edited the
June/July 2014 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin on "International Information
Issues and ASIS&T" Thanks for your service to SIG III and to ASIST.


*SIG Publication of the Year award goes to SIG SI*

For the book:

Fichman, P. and Rosenbaum H. (eds) (2014). Social Informatics: Past,
Present and Future. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge Scholarly Publishers. 225
pages; also found at URL: https://iu.box.com/s/nrhxmynaspz3yi7dgo5x


Since 2005, SI researchers have gathered every fall at the Annual Social
Informatics Research Symposium, organized by the Special Interest Group in
Social Informatics (SIG-SI) of the Association for Information Science and
Technology (ASIS&T). The Symposium, which has been held in conjunction with
the ASIS&T annual meetings, is now a meeting place for people interested in
exploring the social aspects of computerization. Over the years, it has
attracted a vibrant mix of established scholars, newcomers to SI and,
importantly for the future of this field, many doctoral students from a
broad range of disciplines.

This book grew out of the 8th Social Informatics Symposium, which was held
in Baltimore in the Fall of 2012. A series of very interesting papers were
presented that focused on the past, present, and future of social
informatics, exploring a wide range of topics relevant to the field.
Cambridge Scholarly Publishers approached the Symposium organizers, Pnina
Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, to develop the Symposium theme into what has
become this edited volume. Seven of the papers presented at the 2012
Symposium have been expanded into full length chapters and are included in
this book along with five papers that were solicited by the editors from
presenters at previous SI symposiums. The result is a volume with 12
chapters that provides a look backward to the origin of SI, several
examples of current research by SI scholars and several chapters that offer
different visions of the future of SI.
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