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From: Premila Gamage
Date: Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:41 PM
Subject: [IFLA-L] Fwd: FW: 17th International Paper Contest for LIS
Professionals in Developing countries
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From: Afuh, Awasom
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 5:08 PM
To: ASIS&T Membership
Subject: 17th International Paper Contest for LIS Professionals in
Developing countries
Dear All,
The Special Interest Group on International Information
Issues (SIG-III) of the Association for Information Science &
Technology (ASIS&T) hereby announces the opening of its 17th
International Paper Contest for LIS Professionals in Developing
countries, for the 2017 Annual Meeting, which will take place in
Washington DC (Crystal City, Virginia) from October 27- November1,
2017. https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2017/.
The theme of the Annual Meeting is: “Diversity of Engagement:
Connecting People and Information in the Physical and Virtual Worlds.”
This theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers
– including academics practitioners, to discuss the impact of their
research on industry, government, local/national/global community
groups, individuals, information systems, libraries/museums/galleries,
and on other practice contexts. It highlights the focus on Applied
Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science
is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice
contexts. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on
specific aspects of the theme from a local and/or international
perspective.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following core areas:
• Impact on Individuals: information behavior, information
retrieval, human-computer interaction, social media use, information
literacy, etc.
• Impact on Society: digital citizenship, cultural
engagement, archival preservation, policy development, copyright,
intellectual property, infometrics, information access, etc.
• Impact on Organizations: information architecture,
knowledge management, competitive intelligence, linked data and big
data, digital curation, records and archives management, etc.
• Impact on Systems & Technology: cloud computing, digital
libraries, automatic indexing, social tagging, classification,
semantic web, database design, web usability, etc.
• Impact on Information Contexts: health, education, law;
environment, agriculture, business, etc.
A panel of judges will select three winners. The panel is composed of
Innocent Awasom (Texas Tech University, USA), Shimelis Assefa
(University of Denver, USA), Premila Gamage (Institute of Policy
Studies of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka), Devendra Dilip Potnis (University of
Tennessee at Knoxville, USA) and Fatih Oguz (UNC Greensboro, USA)
Judging criteria:
The papers will be judged on the following:-
- Originality of paper in the developing world and
global information ecosystem
- Relevance to the paper contest theme and
- 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 of the 2010-2016 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 first-place winner will receive a minimum of $1,000 towards
offsetting the costs of attending the 2017 ASIS&T Annual Conference in
Washington DC. In addition, all three winners will receive a two-year
individual membership in ASIS&T. In case of multiple authors, the
principal author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership.
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.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ulbr20&page=instructions#.VOw5ZUex4k0
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 31st, 2017 via email to awasom.afuh@ttu.edu,
[awasomdotafuh@ttudotedu] preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF
attachment.
Thanks and we look forward to receiving your papers. Please distribute
wisely to LIS professionals in Developing Economies.
International Paper contest Team
Innocent Awasom
Shimelis Assefa
Premila Gamage
Devendra Dilip Potnis
Faith Oguz
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