Congratulations to the winners. Dr. J K Vijayakumar

From: Judy Jeng Subject: [Asis-l] 2008 ASIS&T SIG III International Paper Contest winner announcement Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 8:04 PM

WINNERS OF THE 2008 ASIS&T SIG III INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST   The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III) is pleased to announce the following winners of its 9th International Paper Contest:   First Place Winner: Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen. Use of social networks and information seeking behavior of students during political crises in Pakistan . ( Pakistan )   Second Place Winner: Neela J. Deshpande & S K Pathak. Use of electronic journals in astronomy and astrophysics libraries and information centres in India : A users’ perspective. ( India )   Third Place Winner: Manjunatha K. Technology and customer expectation in academic libraries: A special reference to technical/management libraries in Karnataka. ( India )   Fourth Place Winner: S. M. Pujar, R. K. Kamat, S. Y. Bansode, R. R. Kamat, & S. H. Katigennavar. Identifying and exploiting human needs for people centric evolving knowledge society: A case study of Indian ICT emergence. ( India )   Fifth Place Winner: Tariq Ashraf. Empowering people through information: A case study of India ’s right to information act. ( India )   Sixth Place Winner: Pramila Dangwal. Information: By the people, for the people, for development. ( India )     The jurors for the 2008 competition included Judy Jeng (Chair), Jonathan Levitt (Co-Chair), Aaron Bowen, Yunfei Du, Julian Warner, and Yin Zhang.   The principal authors of each of the six winning papers will be awarded a two-year individual membership to ASIS&T. In addition, the first place winner will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Columbus , Ohio , October 24-29, 2008.   Those winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be considered for publication by Elsevier’s International Information and Library Review.   We thank the jury members for their hard work and our donors for their compassion which makes it possible to develop and sustain this international network of scholars in developing countries.   Judy Jeng Chair, 2008 ASIS&T International Paper Contest jjeng@njcu.edu

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