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2022 ASIS&T SIG-USE Award Winners

2022 ASIS&T SIG-USE Award Winners Congratulations to all 2022 ASIS&T SIG-USE Award winners! Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award Recipient: Jenna Hartel Affiliation: University of Toronto Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award Title: From Communities of Practice to Smart and Connected Communities: Information Sharing Practices Among Social Service Providers, Authors: Stephen C. Slota, Ishan…

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2022-2023 SIG-USE Officers and Chairs

2022-2023 SIG-USE Officers and Chairs Annie T. Chen, Chair,  atchen@uw.edu Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, Chair Elect, xyuan@albany.edu Melissa Ocepek, Immediate Past Chair, mgocepek@illinois.edu Chiyoung Oh, Treasurer, coh@csu.edu Ophelia Morey, Secretary, otmorey@buffalo.edu Lo Lee,  Communications Officer, lololee@umich.edu Xiaofeng Li, Webmaster, xli@pennwest.edu Nathan Davis, Recruitment/Membership Officer, nathandavis@utexas.edu 2022-2023 SIG-USE Awards Committee: Saira Hanif Soroya, saira.im@pu.edu.pk Md. Anwarul Islam,…

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2021-2022 SIG-USE Officers and Chairs :

●  Melissa Ocepek, Chair.  mgocepek@illinois.edu  ●  Annie Chen, Chair Elect, atchen@uw.edu  ●  Yan Zhang, Immediate Past Chair, yanz@utexas.edu  ●  Chiyoung Oh, Treasurer, coh@csu.edu  ●  Yuan Li, Secretary, yuanli@live.unc.edu  ●  Subaveerapandiyan, A., Communications Officer, subaveerapandiyan@gmail.com  ●  Tathagata Dhar, Webmaster, tdtathagata@gmail.com  ●  Nathan Davis, Recruitment/Membership Officer, nathandavis@utexas.edu  2021-2022 SIG-USE Awards Committee: ●  Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, Co-Chair, xyuan@albany.edu …

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SIG USE Early Career Best Paper Award

SIG USE Early Career Best Paper Award The SIG USE Early Career Best Paper Award was established in 2020 and is administered by the SIG USE Awards Committee. It is sponsored by SIG USE. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of a Certificate for the winning author (and each co-author) and a…

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2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Award Winners

2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Award Winners Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award Soo Young Rieh (University of Texas at Austin) Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award Leslie Thomson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Amy Vanscoy (University of Buffalo), & Jenna Hartel (University of Toronto) “Information and the Lens of Leisure: Needs, Practices, and…

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2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium

2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium 2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Re-envisioning the Impact and Engagement of Information Behavior Research Date: October 19, 2019 (Saturday) Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: M10 (Level 1), Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia About the 2019 SIG-USE Symposium The 19th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium focuses on the impact and engagement of information behavior…

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Recent Awards and Honors

Recent Awards and Honors Members of SIG USE have received numerous honors from ASIS&T over the years. At the 2018 Annual Meeting, Sarah Polkinghorne (Swinburne University of Technology) won the Clarivate Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship and received a New Leader award. Additionally, Crystal Fulton (University College Dublin) received the Clarivate Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, and Devon Greyson (University of British…

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2018 ASIS&T SIGUSE Awards Winners

2018 ASIS&T SIGUSE Awards Winners Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award Recipient: Caroline Mniszak, Heather O’Brien, Cathy Chabot, and Jean Shoveller Affiliation: University of British Columbia Title: Role of information resources in young parents parenting experiences Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award Recipients: Jia Tina Du and Jelina Haines Affiliation: University of South Australia, Australia Title: Working with…

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