[Siguse-l] Announcing Sig-USE Award for Outstanding Contribution to IB

[Jacek Gwizdka]

Congratulations Sanda!  Very highly deserved!

Best
- Jacek


Jacek Gwizdka, PhD  http://jsg.tel
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin

*Make it simple, if not simpler*
<http://jsg.tel/>

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Given, Lisa <lgiven at csu.edu.au> wrote:

> Dear ASIS&T and SIG USE Colleagues,
>
> It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Sanda Erdelez has been chosen
> as the 2015 ASIS&T SIG USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to
> Information Behavior Research. Dr. Erdelez's work on opportunistic
> discovery of information has had an ongoing and significant impact in the
> field of information behaviour research. Her Information Encountering Model
> is highly cited and has changed how we think about incidental information
> acquisition. Her contributions to the SIG USE Symposium on theoretical
> frameworks, followed by her role as co-editor (with Karen Fisher and Lynne
> McKechnie) of the book Theories of Information Behavior, has had a
> remarkable influence on information behavior research. The founding
> Director of the Information Experience Lab at the School of Information
> Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri, Dr. Erdelez is
> now Chair of the Library and Information Science Program. Dr. Erdelez has
> worked on research projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health,
> National Science Foundation, Dell Corporation and Southwest Bell.
>
> We are pleased to honor Dr. Erdelez with the 2015 ASIS&T SIG USE
> Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award. As a
> recipient of this Award, Dr. Erdelez will also be inducted into the ASIS&T
> SIG USE Academy of Fellows.
>
> Dr. Erdelez will be accepting the Award at the upcoming SIG USE Symposium,
> which will be held on Saturday November 7 1:30-6:30pm (see
> https://siguse.wordpress.com/). Please join me in congratulating Dr.
> Erdelez on this significant achievement!
>
> Cheers, Lisa
> SIG USE Chair
>
> Lisa M. Given, PhD
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