Dear Colleagues :
I take this opportunity on behalf of Dr. P.R.Goswami and Ashish Sharma, also winners of the contest, to forward the following information about an International Paper Contest, by ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology), for 2005.
Best wishes and hope the Society receives a huge chunk of participant papers from the Indian subcontinent.
Smita--
Smita Chandra
Librarian
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
New Mumbai
INDIA
Yin Zhang wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:37:28 -0400
From: "Yin Zhang"
Subject: To International Paper Contest Winners
To: International Paper Contest Winners
Dear International Paper Contest Winners,
Please help promote the International Paper
Contest by forwarding this year's
announcement to listservs and newsgroups that
reach potential participants.
Also, as the previous winners of this paper contest.....
Thanks!
Yin
Yin Zhang, Ph.D.
SIG III Chair
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242 USA
email: yinzhang@slis.kent.edu
phone: 330-672-0010
fax: 330-672-7965
---------------------
2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST
on International Digital Libraries and Information
Science & Technology Advances in Developing
Countries
More information is available from the Paper
Contest page at
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm
The American Society for Information Science
& Technology (ASIST), International Information
Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is
pleased to announce its sixth competition for
papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual
Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte,
North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005.
The theme of the paper is:
"Bringing Research and Practice Together - the
Developing World Perspective."
The paper topic may address either the country
or regional level issues. Papers could discuss
issues, policies and case studies on specific
aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited
to, the following:
. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic
and cultural issues: issues related to the role of
information in society, such as information
policy, access, security, privacy, and
intellectual property, as well as the social uses
and abuses of information technologies such as
the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or
separating diverse communities.
. Information organization, management,
access, and retrieval.
. Information seeking and use: the role of
information in professional and daily lives, use
of various types of information technology, and
social contexts of information seeking.
. Information technology, social equity and
development: IT and governance, IT & and the
new economy, including the future of work and
implications of technological hardware and
software developments; the role of ICTs in
conflict management, etc.
There will be six winners. Winners will be
selected by a panel of judges including Liwen
Vaughan (chair), Yunfei Du, Yin Zhang, Duncan
Omole, Merlyna Lim, Julian Warner, and
Nathalie Leroy.
The prize for each winner is a two-year
individual membership in ASIST. In the case of
multiple authors, the principal author will be
awarded the ASIST membership. In addition,
depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the
first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of
$1,000 toward travel, conference registration,
and accommodations while attending the
ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North
Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005.
Publishing opportunities
Submitted papers will be considered for posting
on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In
addition, they will also be considered for
inclusion in a special issue of the International
Information and Library Review, subject to the
usual peer refereeing process.
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 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The
papers should be original, unpublished, and 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.
ASIST Copyright Policy
ASIST 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 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to
Duncan Omole at domole@worldbank.org.
Please check the SIG III website
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more
information about the SIG III International Paper
Contest, including Frequently Asked
Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and
winning papers, and success stories from
previous winners.
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Dear Colleagues :
�
I take this opportunity on behalf of�Dr.�P.R.Goswami and Ashish Sharma, also winners of the contest, to forward the following information about an International Paper Contest, by ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology), for 2005.
�
Best wishes and hope the Society receives a huge chunk of participant papers from the Indian subcontinent.
�
Smita--
Smita Chandra
Librarian
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
New Mumbai
INDIA
Yin Zhang
wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:37:28 -0400
From: "Yin Zhang"
Subject: To International Paper Contest Winners
To: International Paper Contest Winners
Dear International Paper Contest Winners,
Please help promote the International Paper
Contest by forwarding this year's
announcement to listservs and newsgroups that
reach potential participants.
Also, as the previous winners of this paper contest.....
Thanks!
Yin
Yin Zhang, Ph.D.
SIG III Chair
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242 USA
email: yinzhang@slis.kent.edu
phone: 330-672-0010
fax: 330-672-7965
---------------------
2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST
on International Digital Libraries and Information
Science & Technology Advances in Developing
Countries
More information is available from the Paper
Contest page at
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm
The American Society for Information Science
& Technology (ASIST), International Information
Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is
pleased to announce its sixth competition for
papers to be submitted for the 2005 Annual
Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte,
North Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005.
The theme of the paper is:
"Bringing Research and Practice Together - the
Developing World Perspective."
The paper topic may address either the country
or regional level issues. Papers could discuss
issues, policies and case studies on specific
aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited
to, the following:
. Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic
and cultural issues: issues related to the role of
information in society, such as information
policy, access, security, privacy, and
intellectual property, as well as the social uses
and abuses of information technologies such as
the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or
separating diverse communities.
. Information organization, management,
access, and retrieval.
. Information seeking and use: the role of
information in professional and daily lives, use
of various types of information technology, and
social contexts of information seeking.
. Information technology, social equity and
development: IT and governance, IT & and the
new economy, including the future of work and
implications of technological hardware and
software developments; the role of ICTs in
conflict management, etc.
There will be six winners. Winners will be
selected by a panel of judges including Liwen
Vaughan (chair), Yunfei Du, Yin Zhang, Duncan
Omole, Merlyna Lim, Julian Warner, and
Nathalie Leroy.
The prize for each winner is a two-year
individual membership in ASIST. In the case of
multiple authors, the principal author will be
awarded the ASIST membership. In addition,
depending on SIG III fundraising this year, the
first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of
$1,000 toward travel, conference registration,
and accommodations while attending the
ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North
Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005.
Publishing opportunities
Submitted papers will be considered for posting
on the SIG III web site as pre-publications. In
addition, they will also be considered for
inclusion in a special issue of the International
Information and Library Review, subject to the
usual peer refereeing process.
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 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003 or 2004 contests are not eligible. The
papers should be original, unpublished, and 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.
ASIST Copyright Policy
ASIST 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 5000 words, by June 30, 2005, to
Duncan Omole at domole@worldbank.org.
Please check the SIG III website
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for more
information about the SIG III International Paper
Contest, including Frequently Asked
Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and
winning papers, and success stories from
previous winners.
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