[Siguse-l] Congratulations to SIGUSE 2014 Award Winners

[O'Brien, Heather]

SIG-USE wishes to announce its 2014 Award Winners, who will be presented with their prizes at the SIG-USE symposium to be held Saturday, November 1 at the upcoming ASIST Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. 

Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 
Diane Sonnenwald, University of Copenhagen
For: "Towards a Theory of Human-Rare Book Information Behaviour"

Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 
"Online search stopping behaviours: An investigation of query abandonment and task stopping"
By Wang-ching Wu and Dr. Diane Kelly, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 
"When PIM Goes Public: A Case Study of OrganizedLikeJen"
By Leslie Thomson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award Certificate of Merit
"Implications and Potential Impacts of Information Behavior Research"
By Drs. Kyungwon Koh, Ellen Rubenstein, and Kelvin White, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma 

Student Travel Award 
Recipient: Rebekah Wilson, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Interdisciplinary Travel Award 
Recipient: Dr. Eric Meyers, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (iSchool), University of British Columbia

Congratulations to all award winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted an application.

Sincerely, Awards Co-Chairs Heather O'Brien and Gary Burnett


Dr. Heather O'Brien
Assistant Professor
The iSchool, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
h.obrien at ubc.ca
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/