ASIST SIG III Announces Winners of 2003 International Paper Contest

The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), International Information Issues Special Interest

Group (SIG III), is pleased to announce top six winners of its fourth International Paper Contest:

1. Ifeanyichukwu F. Njoku

Librarian, Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology

Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA

Paper title: The information needs and information seeking behaviour of fishermen in Lagos State, Nigeria

2. Wathmanel Seneviratne

Senior Assistant Librarian, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paper title: Local information upload strategy in building up rural community information pages on the

Internet: An approach to attend

information needs of rural Sri Lanka

3. Tariq Ashraf, Ph.D.

Librarian, Institute For Integrated

Learning In Management [IILM]

Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110003. INDIA

Paper title: Information Technology And Public Policy: A Socio-Human Profile of Indian Digital Revolution

4. Partha Bhattacharya

Executive Consultant( Information & Documentation)

FITT, IIT Delhi

Hauz Khas

New Delhi-110 016

INDIA

Paper title: Advances in digital library initiatives: A developing country perspective

There are two winners in the 5th place:

5. Albert Arko-Cobbah

Vista University, P.O. Box 380, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa

Paper title: The role of libraries in student-centred learning: The case of students from the disadvantaged

communities in South Africa

5. Joseph Kaduda

Network Manager

Centre of Geographical Medicine Research

KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Labs

Kilifi, Kenya

Paper title: A Digital Library In A Rural Malaria Research Centre In Africa; The Kenyan Experience

The theme of this year’s paper contest is "Humanizing Information Technology - From Ideas to Bits and Back:

The developing world perspective." The six winning papers were selected from 51 papers received for this

year’s competition. Each winner will be awarded a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In addition,

thanks to generous support from Elsevier Publishers, the first and second place winners of the competition

will also receive a travel grant to attend the 2003 ASIST Annual Conference in Long Beach, California.

These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be considered for publication

by the ASIST Bulletin and Elsevier's International Information and Library Review.

Congratulations to the winners! We would like to take this opportunity to thank the ASIST Chapters and

SIGs who contributed to funding the competition. Thanks also go to the Contest Committee for its hard

work for this year's competition. The Committee this year was composed of Sue O'Neill Johnson, Chair,

SIG III; Yunfei Du, ASIST International Paper Contest Chair; Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh;

Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario; Suzie Allard,

University of Tennessee; Gretchen Whitney, University of Tennessee; and Nathalie Leroy, United Nations.

More information about the paper competition is available from the SIG III website under Paper Contest.