[Sigmet-officers] SIG of the year award

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

Fantastic! Great work, everyone! Let's win twice in a row!

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> I have great news regarding our SIG! I've just received an email from Dick
> Hill regarding the ASIST awards luncheon where I found out that SIG MET is
> jointly awarded (with SIG ED) this year's SIG of the year award. Here's the
> description:
>
>  SIG/MET is recognized for its transformation into an active and
> productive traditional SIG from a virtual SIG only two years ago. In the
> past year it has been successful in growing its membership, expanding its
> outreach through a wide variety of electronic and social media; offered a
> successful and well-attended webinar on Information Visualization from the
> perspective of researchers interested in incorporating visualizations into
> a research project within the fields of Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis,
> Scientometrics, Informetrics, and Webometrics; was the a co-sponsor  of  Doctoral
> Forum 2012 “Quantitative Research in Information Science” held at the
> University of Wolverhampton UK; held a successful student paper contest for
> original research, with the prize winners presenting at a workshop at the
> ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting; had two panels accepted for inclusion at the
> ASIS&T 2012 annual meeting; sponsored a panel at the iConference; and, in
> honor of the 75th anniversary of ASIS&T’s founding, produced a special
> section on metrics for the August/September 2012 issue of the *Bulletin
> of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.* ****
>
> Thank you all for making this happen! We should celebrate in Baltimore.
>
> Best,
> Stasa
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto
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