We are pleased to announce
the ALISE 2012 Award Winners!
The ALISE Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2012 ALISE Award Winners.
These individuals exemplify the excellence that ALISE encourages and represents in the LIS community.
We hope that each of you joins us in Dallas as we celebrate their accomplishments. The ALISE Awards Reception will be held, Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel.
Congratulations to all of our Award Winners!
ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education
Eileen G. Abels, Drexel University
ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the field of Library and Information Science Education
Sandra Hughes-Hassell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ALISE Service Award
Linda C. Smith, University of Illinois - Champaign/Urbana
ALISE/Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award
Sponsored by Pratt Institute
Leanne Bowler, University of Pittsburgh
ALISE/Norman Horrocks Leadership Award
Renate Chancellor, Catholic University
ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition
“Improvisation, Tactics, and Wandering: Urban Information Practices of Migrational Individuals”
Jessica F. Lingel, Rutgers University
ALISE Research Grant
“Teaching in the Age of Facebook and other Social Media: LIS Faculty and Students ‘Friending’ and ‘Poking’ in the Social Sphere”
Carolyn Hank, McGill University; Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University; and Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition
“The Nature and Impact of Information Problem Solving in the Middle School Classroom”
Eric Matthew Meyers, University of Washington
ALISE/Dialog Methodology Paper Competition
“Is There a Role for Physiological Methods in the Evaluation of Human-Information Interaction?”
Mahria Lebow and Heather L. O’Brien, University of British Columbia
ALISE/LMC Paper Award
Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited/Linworth, imprint of ABC-CLIO
"The Group6: Toward the Development of an Information Problem Solving"
Eric M. Meyers, University of British Columbia
ALISE 2011 Best Conference Paper Award
"Are We There Yet? Results of a Gap Analysis to Measure LIS Students’ Prior Knowledge and Actual Learning of Cultural Competence Concepts"
Kafi Kumasi, Wayne State University, and Renee Franklin Hill, Syracuse University
"What is the Value of LIS Education? A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Tennessee’s Rural Librarians"
Bharat Mehra, Kimberly Black, Vandana Singh and Jenna Nolt, University of Tennessee
Faculty Responses to Library Service Innovations: A Case Study
Susan E. Searing, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and Alison M. Greenlee, McFarlin Library
Hands on from a Distance: The Community-Embedded Learning Model Contextualizes Online Student
Linda R. Most, Valdosta State University
OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Competition
“A New Unsupervised Approach to Automatic Topical Indexing of Scientific Documents According to Library Controlled Vocabularies”
Abdulhussain Mahdi, and Arash Joorabchi, University of Limerick, Ireland
“Reference Competencies from the Practitioner’s Perspective: An International Comparison”
Laura Saunders, and Mary Wilkins Jordan, Simmons College
“The Biblioblogosphere: A Comparison of Communication and Preservation Perceptions and Practices between Blogging LIS Scholar-Practitioners and LIS Scholar-Researchers”
Carolyn Hank, McGill University, and Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University – Bloomington
ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition
Sponsored by University of Western Ontario
1st Place: Lysanne Lessard, University of Toronto
2nd Place: Peter A. Hook, Indiana University
3rd Place: Shannon M. Oltmann, Indiana University
Honorable Mention: Nouf Khashman, McGill University
ALISE/University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award
Robin Fogle Kurz, University of South Carolina
Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant
Sponsored by Libraries Unlimited/Linworth, imprint of ABC-CLIO
Jackie Brodsky, University of Alabama
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