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John Carlo Bertot (Editor in Chief), John Shuler (Assistant Editor) and Paul Jaeger (board member) have received a $770,943 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This three year grant is designed to expand graduate education regarding the e-government policy environment, e-government service provision, and the digital government information context. The grant will provide graduate scholarships for 20 students to enroll in the University of Maryland’s master’s program e-government concentration and bring that program online. A key component of the program for students is the development e-government and information policy research skills through involvement with Government Information Quarterly. More information regarding the grant and program is available at http://www.liicenter.org
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International Telecommunications Society
The International Telecommunications Society are hosting three conferences throughout the rest of 2009
While patent and non-patent literature are both of vital importance to science and R&D based organisations worldwide, it is often the case that the full value of both kinds of information is not always taken into account. An important new article in World Patent Information* addresses this problem from a patent information professional's perspective. It explains how full-text prior art and chemical structure searching in e-journals and on the internet can and should be accessed as part of many searches related to patents.
* Annies M. Full-text prior art and chemical structure searching in e-journals and on the internet - a patent information professional's perspective. World Patent Informat (2009), doi:10-1016/j.wpi.2009.05.006
Government Information Quarterly - New Affiliation
We are delighted to announce that from 2009 Government Information Quarterly will be affiliated with the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA).
Government Information Quarterly is a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal that covers information and telecommunications policy, information management, information technology planning and management, and e-government practices, policies and issues relevant to all levels of government within the United States and abroad. Individual issues contain an editorial, articles, and reviews.
For more information about the journal please visit the homepage.
We are proud to announce that Journal of Informetrics (JOI) is the winner of the 2008 ALPSP Best New Journal award. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers award is open to journals launched within the previous 3 years and considers a range of attributes including high quality peer reviewed articles.
Edited by Leo Egghe, JOI is in its second year of publication and has already published a wide range of high quality articles from high calibre authors across all fields of information science. JOI will receive its first impact factor in 2009.
For the 2nd year in a row, the Senior Scholars of AMCIS have selected a paper from Information and Organization as one of the top five articles in the field of information organization. For her winning 2007 paper, the author Wai Fong Boh received this recognition in December 2008. The Editor and Publisher extend their congratulations to Wai Fong Boh for the paper `Mechanisms for sharing knowledge in project-based organizations? (17/1, pp. 27-58) and are pleased to offer free access to the article here for a period of 12 months. Please click here
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Engineering Library Head Thomas Conkling and Science Librarian John Meier won an award recently for their article "Google Scholar’s Coverage of the Engineering Literature: An Empirical Study," published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 2008. The article was selected as the winner of the American Society for Engineering Education/Engineering Library Division (ASEE ELD) Best Publication Award for 2009. In announcing the award, Awards Committee Chair Alice Trussell, who is associate professor and director of Fiedler Engineering Library, Kansas State University, said there was a consensus among all members of the committee that the paper was highly deserving of the award. "The competition was tough-there were several fine articles published of value in the area of engineering librarianship," she added.
The award presentation will be made at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Austin, Texas, in June.
New LIRT recognition for JAL
Selected and reviewed by the LIRT (Library Instruction round Table News) Top 20 Committee of experts, three JAL articles form part of the Top 20 selection of library instruction and information literacy papers for 2008:
The Editors and the Publisher of Library & Information Science Research are very pleased to announce that the 2008 Jesse H. Shera Award for Excellence in Published Research has been awarded to the Library & Information Science Research article “Studying the Everyday Information Behavior of Tweens: Notes from the Field,” by Eric M. Meyers, Karen E. Fisher, and Elizabeth L. Marcoux
Congratulations to Peter Hernon , professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information science at Simmons College, on his award of the 2008 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Peter Hernon is widely recognised for his extensive body of research in areas including customer service quality, library leadership, assessment, and government information issues, along with his distinguished service to the profession. Peter is also Co-Editor of the leading international LIS journal, Library & Information Science Research, alongside Professor Candy Schwarz (also of Simmons College).
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