[Siguse-l] SIG USE: Congratulations to Nick Belkin,

[Agosto,Denise]

Dear SIG USE members:

As outgoing SIG USE chair, I am pleased to announce that Nick Belkin is the winner of the 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Award.  The purpose of this award is to promote scholars who have, over a period of time, contributed in an outstanding way to the development of the information behavior research field.  SIG USE members who receive the Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award also join the SIG USE Academy of Fellows.  The award is accompanied by a check for $500.  

In giving him this award, SIG USE recognizes that Nick Belkin is a pioneering researcher who has introduced the concept of "information seeking behavior" to the of field information retrieval and has informed researchers outside the field of information behavior about our field and how information behavior research can have important implications for designing and developing information retrieval systems.  Please join me in congratulating Dr. Belkin on his many years of important contributions to the study of human information behavior and on receiving the 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Award.
 
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Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The College of Computing & Informatics
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA  19104