[Sigiii-l] Fw: [Asis-l] 2007 SIG of the Year Awards: SIG III and SIG DL

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Please join us and all the officers in raising a toast to SIG III! Thanks
everyone for your engagement.

Duncan Omole, Chair SIG III
Yunfei Du, Chair-Elect SIG III
On Behalf of SIG III Board

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Colleagues,

On behalf of the 2007 SIG of the Year jury, I am extremely pleased to
award SIG of the Year to two exemplary ASIS&T SIGs, SIG International
Information Issues (III) and SIG Digital Libraries (DL).  Please join me
in congratulating their officers and members on the service and
involvement that each of these SIGs provides their membership, worthy
examples of thriving, active, engaged SIG communities with ASIS&T.

SIG International Information Issues continues to set the bar for
everything that an ASIS&T SIG can and should be: deep involvement and
participation with the membership, extensive outreach beyond the annual
meeting, the annual InfoShare project which opens the world of ASIS&T to
LIS researchers globally, and many more very excellent activities. Every
SIG should be this connected to its membership! SIG III's outreach to
the Society's international members, particularly in developing
countries is very impressive. Their use of emerging technologies to
extend ASIST to members virtually and to tease out potential topics for
its annual Global Information Village Plaza Symposiums not only
demonstrates creativity but a strong commitment to international
scholarship and perspectives.

SIG Digital Libraries demonstrated an exciting scope of innovative
initiatives over the past year befitting such a tech-saavy SIG such as
theirs:  they used a wiki for both SIG and 2007 program planning; their
communication with the membership is also superior; they conducted a
usability study on their website in collaboration with students at SUNY
Buffalo, have been leaders in exploring open access models of
scholarship within our field, have consistently been very strong
contributors to the Annual Meeting technical program, and demonstrated
excellent planning for activities between annual meetings.

Congratulations to both of these SIGs, who have both demonstrated a year
of activities very deserving of the 2007 SIG of the Year Award.  Both
SIGs should be seen as models to emulate for all ASIS&T SIGs.

  Very best regards,

    - pascal

2007 SIG of the Year Award Jury:
Pascal Calarco, Deputy Director, SIG Cabinet
Beatrice Pulliam, Chair, SIG Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting (BWP)
Vicki Gregory, Direcor, SIG Cabinet

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Pascal V. Calarco, MLIS
Head, Library Systems
University Libraries of Notre Dame/
Michiana Academic Library Consortium
Notre Dame, IN USA 46556-5629
http://www.library.nd.edu/
tel.: 574-631-3409  fax: 574-631-6772
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2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory firm)
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/

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