Below are minutes from the 2012 SIG-III business meeting in Baltimore last month. This was such a great meeting! They are pretty thorough and I think Shimelis did a remarkable job in capturing the spirit and content of the meeting as the recorder. But please let him know if we missed any significant details or misconstrued anything.

• The 2012 SIG-III Business Meeting Minutes

We are proud to announce the winners of the InfoShare membership award for 2012. This year we are able to support 9 professionals and 3 students from 7 different countries.

Professional Members:

1. Muhammad Sajid Mirza
2. Maqsood Shaheen
3. E. Ramesh
4. Amjid Khan
5. Ayman S. El-Dakroury
6. Dinesh Chandra
7. Kamani Perera
8. Ana María Talavera Ibarra
9. Najia  Abdallaoui Maan

Student Memberships

Image by Lulu_witch, used under the Creative Commons license.

Image by Adrianne Lacy, used under the Creative Commons license.

SIG-III is pleased to announce two winners for the 2009 International Paper Contest. The first place award goes to Muhammad Rafiq (pictured above), from Pakistan, who will be awarded a two-year membership to ASIS&T, as well as funding to travel to this year’s annual Meeting. His paper is titled “[The] LIS community’s perceptions towards open source software adoption in libraries.”