[Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 21, Issue 1

Sat Oct 20 06:44:22 EDT 2012

Great news!
Judit

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>    1. SIG of the year award (Stasa Milojevic)
>    2. Re: SIG of the year award (Cassidy Sugimoto)
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> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:41:10 -0400
> From: Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
> Subject: [Sigmet-officers] SIG of the year award
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> 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-sponsorofDoctoral 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./
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>
> Thank you all for making this happen! We should celebrate in Baltimore.
>
> Best,
> Stasa
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> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:46:06 -0400
> From: Cassidy Sugimoto <cassidysugimoto at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] SIG of the year award
> To: Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu>
> Cc: SIG/MET <sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org>
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> Fantastic! Great work, everyone! Let's win twice in a row!
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> 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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Judit Bar-Ilan
Department of Information Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027
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