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Fwd: Announcement of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest for Developing Countries
by Shamprasad Pujar 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Dear Members, Seasons greetings. FYI. Please see the forwarded mail for details. Regards, Dr S.M. Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai ================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shaheen <shaheenma(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:41 AM Subject: [cas] Announcement of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest for Developing Countries To: Asian Chapter <cas(a)sla.lyris.net> Excuse me for cross-posting. *Announcement of the 2012 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest for Developing Countries* The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce its twelfth competition for papers to be submitted for the 2012 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-31, 2012. (http://asist.org/asist2012/) Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this year’s paper contest is: *"Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present, and Creating the Future"*. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific aspects of the theme from a global and/or international perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: 1. Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the ethical challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production, storage, and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions of the global development and implementation of information systems, infrastructures, and policies. 2. Information Behavior: Information needs, information seeking, information gaps and sensemaking in various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups. 3. Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert, userbased, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture. 4. Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization. 5. Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge. Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Information Management. 6. Information Use: How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends, colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries) to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and learn. 7. Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues: Copyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of information; computerization movements; social informatics. *Selection Criteria* There will be up to three winners who will be selected by a panel of judges including: Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy Islamabad), Alma Rivera (Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México), and, Fatih Oguz (University of North Carolina at Greensboro). The judging criteria will be based on: 1. Originality of paper in the developing world and global information ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.) 2. Relevance to the paper contest theme 3. Quality of argument, presentation and organization *Eligibility & Information for authors* * * *Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a developing country are eligible*. Winners in the 2008-2011 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information. *Award* The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, Louisiana, October 26-31, 2012.. *Style* The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors. Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authori… *Publishing opportunities* Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the *International* *Information and Library Review*, subject to the usual peer refereeing process, for that journal. *ASIS&T Copyright Policy* ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights remaining with the author. *Deadline for submission of full papers:* Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2012, to Maqsood Shaheen at ShaheenMA(a)gmail.com, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article
by ksgimahesh 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Dear Professionals, One of our friend needful of below article, if any one have access to this please send me the same. Chaos Theory and Its Implications for Social Science Research http://hum.sagepub.com/content/46/7/777.full.pdf+html -- *With Regards* ** * Mahesh. Y Assistant Librarian, K.S.School of Engineering & Management, K.S.Group of Institutions, Bangalore-62. * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Application for Assistant Professor ( Library and Information Science) in University of Burdwan
by Subhodip Bid 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

*Dear Professional * * * *Application are invited for Assistant Professor ( Library and Information Science) in University of Burdwan * * * *Library & Information Science: One post (Reserved for S.C), Specialization: Open* *Scale of Pay: For post: (1) As prescribed by the U.G.C. (Revised) and approved by the State Government.* *For more details:* http://www.buruniv.ac.in/Notices/UBUR_2011244_NOT_WEBPAGE.pdf -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Information Professional National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr. Francis Jayakanth won the first international EPT annual award - Congratulations!
by Madhan, M (ICRISAT-IN) 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Dr Francis: We are all so proud of you. Congratulations! The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made to individuals working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access (OA) and the free exchange of research findings. We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on four continents, naming individuals who have worked hard to promote OA and who have achieved substantial progress. The selection of a single winner was extremely difficult as we received nominations for so many individuals who have made impressive strides by any or all of the following means: * establishing OA institutional repositories; * setting up or encouraging conversion to OA journals; * achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring research to be OA on publication, or other policy developments; * advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos; * training others in the technology of setting up IRs; * preparing and establishing e-learning projects; * working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing arrangements for research publications; * developing software for use in OA practices. Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to name a single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals who were very close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and the winner will receive in addition an engraved plaque in the next few weeks. We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is Dr. Francis Jayakanth of the National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Dr Jayakanth played a significant role in the establishment of India's first institutional repository (IR) (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in<http://crm.cis-india.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/exter…>). He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in India. He has been the key resource person at many events to train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, and the benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely used. The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute in India and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making the century-old institute's research far more globally visible than before. The University Grants Commission in India has been impressed by the IISC's IR and has directed all universities in India to replicate this effort. Dr. Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA 'renaissance man', an advocate and technical expert in all aspect of OA development and an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level. The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr. Jayakanth as our first Award winner. We believe this Award and the example of our first winner will inspire many others and lead to similarly impressive nominations in 2012. The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order): * Ina Smith, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; * Tatyan Zayseva, Khazar University, Azerbaijan; * Xiaolin Zhang, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The EPT wishes to congratulate them and all who have been proposed, since without exception they have made a significant personal contribution to the sharing of research findings across the world. We will be sharing some of their stories and successes on our blog over the next few weeks. -- Madhan, M Manager, Library and Information Services International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Patancheru, Hyderabad India www.icrisat.org<http://www.icrisat.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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