Just a reminder to students in New England, Upstate New
York, and Eastern
Canada - send your papers in for the Neasist Student Travel
Award
competition - deadline approaching!
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neasist
STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD AVAILABLE (Deadline: Friday, May 25,
2007)
The American Society for Information Science &
Technology, New England
Chapter (NEASIST) is pleased to announce the availability of
two awards of
up to $750 each to reimburse expenses for attendance at the
ASIST Annual
Meeting (Oct. 18-25, 2007). Applications must be received
by Friday, May
25. The winner(s) will be notified by Tuesday, June 19.
Up to two awards for the best paper(s) in information
science will be
offered to student members of ASIST* in the New England,
Upstate New York
or Eastern Canada regions. Students must be enrolled in an
information
science** master's or doctoral program. The award(s) are
made based upon
submission of a paper written during the 2006/2007 academic
year on any
topic in the field of information science. The paper may be
one already
submitted or one that will be submitted for course credit
during this
academic year. In order to be reimbursed, the award winner
will submit
receipts substantiating travel and conference related
expenses, such as
costs for registration, airfare, food, and lodging. The
award winner will
also be expected to meet with a NEASIST representative at
the conference.
Additional criteria:
* Papers must be written in English.
* Papers should be 15-20 pages long (250-300 words per
page)
* Student must be sole author.
* More than one paper submission is allowed.
* Paper may also have been submitted to a conference,
award
competition, or to a journal for publication, as long as it
was written
during the 2006/07 academic year.
The coversheet should include the following information:
* Applicant's name
* Address
* Phone number
* E-mail address
* School affiliation / information science program
* Student ID number
* Proof of ASIST membership (e.g. ASIST member
number, photocopy of
ASIST application, or photocopy of check canceled by ASIST
Headquarters)
PLEASE NOTE:
The ASIST Annual meeting is one of the most highly regarded
meetings in
the information science field. It covers the breadth of
activities and
endeavors of the information community with technical
sessions addressing
specialties of the information professional. The 2007
Annual Meeting,
"Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and
Information Science"
takes place October 18-25, 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Papers should be submitted as attachments and sent by email
to:
beata_panagopoulos harvard.edu
*You may join ASIST via the web at http://www.asist
.org/membership.html
**Terms describing information science programs are varied:
they may be
called: Library and Information Studies, Information Science
and Policy,
Information and Library Science, Information Studies, etc.
Questions? Contact Beata at (617) 496-1775, e-mail:
beata_panagopoulosharvard.edu
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