[Sigiii-l] International Reception Announcement

[Bowen, Aaron]

International Reception Announcement

This year's International Reception will be held on Monday, November 9, 2009, at 8pm.  At the reception you will be able to meet and congratulate this year's International Paper Contest winner and mix with colleagues from all over the world.

This year's contest winner is Muhammad Rafiq, from Pakistan.  His paper is titled "[The] LIS community's perceptions towards open source software adoption in libraries," and is set to be published in the September, 2009 issue of the International Information and Library Review, edited by Toni Carbo.  Come meet with Muhammad Rafiq, and pick up one of the copies of IILR that Elsevier has generously donated to the event.

SIG-III will hold its annual InfoShare Silent Auction at the event.  If you have items you would like to donate to the Silent Auction, please contact InfoShare Officers Abebe Rorissa (arorissa at albany.edu) or Sarah Emmerson (saemmerson at yahoo.com), and bring your items to the conference with you.

We will also have our annual Raffle Ticket Sale at the Reception.  The prize in the Raffle is a gift basket put together by the local chapter of ASIS&T, with locally produced products and goodies. If you have something small and new that you could contribute for the basket, please contact Abebe or Sarah and bring it to the conference as well.

All proceeds from the Silent Auction and Raffle Ticket Sale will go to the SIG-III InfoShare Fund, which offers ASIS&T memberships to information professionals in developing countries for whom the cost of membership would otherwise be a financial burden.

Thank you for your support! Come enjoy yourself at the International Reception! International attire is encouraged!

Aaron Bowen
Chair, SIG-III


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