[Sigiii-l] ASIS&T SIG-III InfoShare STUDENT Membership Award - Call for Nominations

[Potnis, Devendra Dilip]

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Dear Colleagues,

The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2012 we will be able to sponsor a group of deserving information science PhD and Masters students who STUDY and RESIDE in developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships.

We are soliciting nominations of student candidates for the InfoShare Student Membership Award.  Please include a Curriculum Vitae (or equivalent) and a brief description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the SIG-III officers at the end of 2011.  All Curriculum Vitae will be kept private, viewable only by SIG-III officers.

Each membership award will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the new member proves to be a strong advocate for ASIS&T in their home country during the course of the year. Awardees will be asked to submit a report on their activities by next year's Annual Meeting, which may include, but are not limited to:
a. sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues
b. promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues
c. serving as a contact/coordinator for ASIS&T members traveling to their area who may be able to speak about ASIS&T and information science
d. having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and
e. sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T

We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, with your help.  Please start thinking about student candidates among your networks and send recommendations of deserving students to Abebe Rorissa (arorissa at albany.edu<mailto:arorissa at albany.edu>) or Devendra Potnis (dpotnis at utk.edu<mailto:dpotnis at utk.edu>) or Fatih Oguz (F_oguz at uncg.edu<mailto:F_oguz at uncg.edu>).

Deadline for all nominations is December 23, 2011.

Best wishes,
Abebe Rorissa
Devendra Potnis
Fatih Oguz

SIG-III Web site: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm
InfoShare page: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/index.htm

Devendra Dilip Potnis, PhD, MPA, MS
Assistant Professor
School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Suite 442 Communications Bldg., 1345 Circle Park
Knoxville, TN - 37996
https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis

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