From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Wed Jul 5 10:52:58 2017 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:52:58 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] ASIS&T SIG III InfoShare Membership Award Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2017 we will be able to sponsor another group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive). We are soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award. The award will be given to LIS professionals. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae and a one-page description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks and build relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the 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: I. Sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues II. Promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues III. 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 IV. Having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and V. Sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T Nominators can mentor the award recipients for the above activities. We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, especially from countries that have never been ASIS&T members or have limited ASIS&T membership. Women, minority, and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Please feel free to circulate the Call in your professional networks (e.g., your alma mater listservs, professional contacts at IFLA, OCLC, international organizations, practitioner groups, academic institutions, etc.). Please send your nominations of deserving candidates to Selenay Aytac (selenay.aytac at liu.edu). The deadline for submitting nominations is July 15, 2017. Thank you! Dr. Selenay Aytac Associate Professor LIU Post B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library 720 Northern Blvd Brookville NY 11548 516 299 3443 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Thu Jul 13 10:36:51 2017 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:36:51 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] ASIS&T SIG III InfoShare Membership Award Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2017 we will be able to sponsor another group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive). We are soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award. The award will be given to LIS professionals. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae and a one-page description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks and build relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the 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: I. Sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues II. Promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues III. 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 IV. Having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and V. Sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T Nominators can mentor the award recipients for the above activities. We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, especially from countries that have never been ASIS&T members or have limited ASIS&T membership. Women, minority, and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Please feel free to circulate the Call in your professional networks (e.g., your alma mater listservs, professional contacts at IFLA, OCLC, international organizations, practitioner groups, academic institutions, etc.). Please send your nominations of deserving candidates to Selenay Aytac (selenay.aytac at liu.edu). The deadline for submitting nominations is July 15, 2017. Thank you! Dr. Selenay Aytac Associate Professor LIU Post B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library 720 Northern Blvd Brookville NY 11548 516 299 3443 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kathryn.labarre at gmail.com Thu Jul 20 13:27:18 2017 From: kathryn.labarre at gmail.com (Kathryn La Barre) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:27:18 -0500 Subject: [Sigiii-l] ASIST 80th Anniversary - request for your assistance! Message-ID: Greetings, I'm writing to you, in my capacity as Chair of the ASIST 80th Anniversary Advisory Group. This group is advising Wiley (the JASIST publisher) on their project to identify key and high impact papers in JASIST. For their part Wiley conducted a bibliometric study of highly cited papers, ranked by decade. As part of this initiative the 80thAG is soliciting nominations of JASIST papers that have been central to your own work, or to that of your SIG. Wiley realizes that articles can be quite useful without attracting citations, so we are reaching out to SIG members! In early September, all ASIST members will have a chance to vote on the most significant JASIST paper for each decade. The papers span the years 1956-2017. The outcome of this initiative will be a Wiley-hosted website that features access to select papers. ASIST members will be able to add comments and images. This website will launch during the upcoming annual meeting in Washington, DC. Please send your paper nominations (in the form of a citation) by August 15th to klabarre [at] illinois.edu -- Kathryn La Barre Director at Large, Association for Information Science and Technology Chair ASIST Anniversary Advisory Group Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Kathryn La Barre -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arorissa at albany.edu Thu Jul 27 13:54:44 2017 From: arorissa at albany.edu (Rorissa, Abebe) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:54:44 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] 2017 ASIS&T Elections Message-ID: Dear SIGIII Members, The 2017 ASIS&T election ballots were sent out a few weeks ago and voting closes on August 11th, 2017. If you have already voted, thank you! If not, please vote before August 11th. As an ASIS&T member, voting is one of the responsibilities and privileges. If you have not received an email ballot, please email the ASIS&T Office at lmiddleton at asist.org. You can review the candidates' profiles and position statements on the ASIS&T Website (https://www.asist.org/about/2017-elections/). While you are on the Website, please consider registering for the 2017 ASIS&T Annual Meeting as well (https://www.asist.org/am17/) which will be held in Washington, DC, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City from October 27 to November 1. Thank you. 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