InfoShare Recipients

2006 Recipients

The following are the winners of the Infoshare Membership Award for 2006

Ifeanyichukwu (Ify) Njoku (Nigeria)

Ifeanyichukwu Njoku is the College Librarian of the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos, Nigeria. She holds Master degrees in Library and Information Science and in Public Administration. She is an active member of the IT section of the Nigerian Library Association. She is currently carrying out some studies on the information behaviour of fishermen. She is particularly interested on the influence ICT on information behaviour in developing countries.

Ify was the International Paper Contest winner for 2003 and is currently the Co-Chair Elect for SIG-III. Ify was officially nominated by Sue O'Neill Johnson, who notes that Ify has been a tireless advocate for ASIST for the past two years.

Dr. P. R. Goswami (India)

Nominated by Sue O'Neill Johnson, Sue says, "He has been to three ASIST meetings ... and has been extremely valuable in getting participation from Delhi in our International Paper Contest."

In addition, Dr. Goswami was the Conference Secretariat and key organizer of the IT in Special Libraries conference held in New Delhi on 9 December 2005 (sponsored by SLA - Asian chapter).

J.K. Vijayakumar (Antigua, Indian national)

J. K. Vijayakumar (Vijay) is the Assistant Director of Library at American University of Antigua, College of Medicine in West Indies. He was a Scientist at Government of India?s National Library Network, called INFLIBNET, for seven years and contributed towards its various innovative programs aimed at modernizing Indian academic libraries. He secured Masters in Library and Information Science with First Rank from Annamalai University during 1996 and finished Ph.D. in Library
Science from Bhundelkhand University during 2002-2005. He was named as "IFLA/OCLC Fellow" in 2002, and was an associate of the Mortenson Centre for International Library Programs at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, USA.

He has received multiple membership awards and travel grants from ASIST, IFLA and the Special Libraries Association in recent years and is a standing committee member in IFLA-UN Section. He co-edited International CALIBER-2004 proceedings and widely published 30 technical papers and reports at the international and national level.
He has organized and actively participated in several International and Indian conferences and programs and is an active volunteer for the International Calendar of Information Science Conferences, contributing events regularly. He is also serving on the judging committee for ASIST SIG-III International Paper contest for 2006.

Website: http://www.angelfire.com/in/vijayakumarjk/vijbio.htm

Ms. Lkhagvasuren Ariunaa (Mongolia)

Nominated by Kate Johnson, Lkhagvasuren Ariunaa is the chief executive of InTec Co Ltd, an IT consulting company based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She is also the team leader of the ICT for Innovating Rural Education of Mongolia project supported by ADB, JFICT and MOECS. Prior to starting her own company, she was the Director of Information and Civil Society Programmes in 2001 - 2004 at the Mongolian Foundation for Open Society funded by the Soros Foundation.She was the network administrator of UNDP's Mongolia office and afterwards project coordinator of the UNDP and Government of Mongolia project in 1997 - 1999. Lkhagvasuren has a Master of Business Systems from Monash University, Australia, and an MBA from the International Management Centre, Hungary, and Case Western Reserve University, USA.

Past Recipients

Ozy Orji won a two-year ASIST membership for 2005-2007

Ozy Orji is an established Nigerian librarian and a previous winner of the InfoShare Award. Some of Ozy's recent accomplishments include:

• Winning the SLA Global 2000 Fellowship.
• Being elected as a councilor in the Nigeria Library Association in June, 2004. This is a Board member position which is the highest decision making body of the National Association. At the age of 39, she is the youngest ever elected to such a position in the history of the Nigerian Library Association.
• Winning a scholarship grant to attend the Women International Networking Conference in October 7th-9th, in Geneva, 2004.

In December 2004, at the invitation of the ASIST Los Angles Chapter Chair Rachel Clemens and help of Sue O'Neill Johnson, Ozy Orji visited California State in early December to meet with ASIST librarians and others.

Ozy Orji can be reached at ozyorji@hotmail.com.

Subbiah Arunachalam (Arun) won one-year ASIST membership for 2005-2006

Professor Subbiah Arunachalam is an information scientist and scientometricist. Before joining the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation as a volunteer in April 1996, he was with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for about three decades, first as a laboratory scientist and then as an editor of scientific journals and teacher of information science. In between, he did research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, served as editor of journals and the secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for two years, 1996-1998. His research interests include ICT for development, science on the periphery, improving access to information, mapping scientific research, and science communication. He has delivered more than twenty-five invited talks at international conferences in North America and Europe. He is on the editorial boards of half a dozen international journals including Scientometrics, Current Science and Journal of Information Science, and an advisor to the Information in Practice Science Writers Associations. He has published over 50 research papers and more than a hundred popular science articles. His work has been quoted both in scholarly journals and in the mass media. He is the only Indian to have been elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists (UK), which was rechristened CILIP upon merging with the Library Association. He is also a life member of IASLIC.

Professor Arunachalam can be reached at arun@mssrf.res.in

J K Vijayakumar won one-year ASIST membership for 2003-2004

J K Vijayakumar is the winner of ASIST InfoShare Membership award for the year 2003. He is with American University of Antigua, West Indies as Assistant Director of Library. He was with Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) established by UGC, Government of India in Ahmedabad. His major contributions include:

• Development of an online national database of Indian Ph D Theses contains around 1,60,000 records from more than 200 Indian Universities, freely available from INFLIBNET Website.
• Active involvement in development, testing and training of the library management software developed by INFLIBNET, called SOUL, which is being used in more than 600 Libraries in India.
• Course coordinator for World Bank supported seven training programs for Agriculture librarians in India called IT@AGRILIBNET-2003. Active involvement in number of training programs organized by INFLIBNET and Universities in India.
• Completed Doctoral research for the title "Importance of Ph D Theses in furthering research and a model digital Library proposal". Result awaiting.
• 26 Articles published in international and national conferences and journals.
• Recognitions received: 1. IFLA-OCLC Fellowship-2002 (Attended one month training program at OCLC, USA)
  2. Associate to Mortenson International Centre for Libraries, Illinois, USA 2002.
  3. ASIST SIG-III Info-Share Award-2003
  4. IFLA International Travel Grant-2004 (Attended IFLA-2004 in Argentina and IFLA M&M in Brazil)
  5. Nominated as Standing Committee Member for IFLA UN Section 2005-2007.
  6. Organized Amrita Colloquium on Digital Libraries in India. See report in D-Lib magazine http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march05/03inbrief.html
  7. IATUL Travel Grant -2005 to attend IATUL Conference in Canada. (Could not take up).
  8. Acted as Editor, Reviewer, and Organizing Committee for several national and International conferences.
  

J K Vijayakumar can be reached at vijay@auamed.net. His website URL: http://www.angelfire.com/in/vijayakumarjk

Syed Abidi

Professor Syed Abidi is the Director of the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS), a regional training center for library and information professionals in eastern Africa. Established in 1963 by the governments of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, EASLIS is located at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. EASLIS has its own building (see another one: Professor Abidi and his students in front of EASLIS Building) adjacent to the University Library and houses the offices of the Director and administrative staff, a library with 10,000 books and journals, a computer unit, a media technology unit, a seminar room, and a lecture hall. The following academic programs are offered by EASLIS: (1) a two-year Master of Science in Information Science degree (2) a three-year Bachelor of Library and Information Science degree, and (3) a one-year Certificate in Library and Information Studies. EASLIS welcomes scholars and students from abroad for joint research and professional collaboration. Please contact:

Mr. Syed A.H. Abidi
Director
East African School of Library and Information Science
Makerere University
P.O. Box 7062
Kampala, Uganda
easlis@healthnet.or.ug

ASIS/PVC (Potomac Valley Chapter) has sponsored INFOSHARE membership for Professor Abidi since 1993.