[Sigiii-l] ASIST SIG III Announces Winners of 2003 International Paper Contest

[Yin Zhang]

The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST),
International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG III), is
pleased to announce top six winners of its fourth International Paper
Contest: 

1.  Ifeanyichukwu F. Njoku
Librarian, Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology
Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA

Paper title: The information needs and information seeking behaviour
of fishermen in Lagos State, Nigeria


2. Wathmanel Seneviratne
Senior Assistant Librarian, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paper title: Local information upload strategy in building up rural
community information pages on the Internet: An approach to attend
information needs of rural Sri Lanka


3. Tariq Ashraf, Ph.D.
Librarian, Institute For Integrated
Learning In Management [IILM]
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110003. INDIA

Paper title: Information Technology And Public Policy: A Socio-Human
Profile of Indian Digital Revolution


4. Partha Bhattacharya
Executive Consultant( Information & Documentation)
FITT, IIT Delhi
Hauz Khas
New Delhi-110 016
INDIA

Paper title: Advances in digital library initiatives: A developing
country perspective


There are two winners in the 5th place: 

5. Albert Arko-Cobbah

Vista University, P.O. Box 380, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa

Paper title: The role of libraries in student-centred learning: The
case of students from the disadvantaged communities in South Africa

5. Joseph Kaduda
Network Manager
Centre of Geographical Medicine Research
KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Labs
Kilifi, Kenya

Paper title: A Digital Library In A Rural Malaria Research Centre In
Africa; The Kenyan Experience


The theme of this year’s paper contest is "Humanizing Information
Technology - From Ideas to Bits and Back: The developing world
perspective." The six winning papers were selected from 51 papers
received for this year’s competition. Each winner will be awarded a
two-year individual membership in ASIST. In addition, thanks to
generous support from Elsevier Publishers, the first and second place
winners of the competition will also receive a travel grant to attend
the 2003 ASIST Annual Conference in Long Beach, California. These
winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be
considered for publication by the ASIST Bulletin and Elsevier's
International Information and Library Review.

Congratulations to the winners!  We would like to take this 
opportunity to thank the ASIST Chapters and SIGs who contributed to
funding the competition. Thanks also go to the Contest Committee for
its hard work for this year's competition. The Committee this year 
was composed of Sue O'Neill Johnson, Chair, SIG III; Yunfei Du, ASIST
International Paper Contest Chair; Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh;
Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Liwen Vaughan, University of
Western Ontario; Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Gretchen
Whitney, University of Tennessee; and Nathalie Leroy, United Nations.

More information about the paper competition is available from the 
SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) under Paper 
Contest. 


Yin Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University    Kent, OH 44242
Phone: (330) 672-0010;   Fax: (330) 672-7965
Email: yinzhang at slis.kent.edu