SIG-USE Awards
Awards Overview and Past Winners
Available awards, application criteria and reviewer evaluation criteria:
- Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Award (deadline: Sunday, July 21, 2024)
- Early Career Best Paper Award (deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2024)
- Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award (deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2024)
- Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award (deadline: Sunday, July 14, 2024)
- Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award (deadline: Sunday, July 21, 2024)
- Innovation Award (no separate submission required)
- Information Behavior Diversity Award (deadline: Sunday, July 14, 2024)
- Student Conference Travel Award 2024 (deadline: Friday, August 16, 2024)
SIG-USE Academy of Fellows Inductees
- 2023, Chirag Shah
- 2022, Jenna Hartel
- 2021, Lisa Given
- 2020, Heidi Julien
- 2019, Soo Young Rieh
- 2018, Denise Agosto
- 2017, Dania Bilal
- 2016, Karen Fisher
- 2015, Sanda Erdelez
- 2014, Gary Marchionini
- 2013, Nick Belkin
- 2012, Pertti Vakkari
- 2011, Donald Case
- 2010, Barbara Wildemuth
- 2009, Elfreda Chatman, Raya Fidel, Karen Fisher, Catherine Ross, Tom WiIson, and Robert Taylor
- 2008, Reijo Savolainen
- 2007, Brenda Dervin
- 2006, Carol Kuhlthau
- 2005, Marcia Bates
Visit the SIG-USE Academy of Fellows page for more information.
Past Award Winners
2023
- Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award: Characterizing and Early Predicting User Performance for Adaptive Search Path Recommendation by Ben Wang and Jiqun Liu, The University of Oklahoma, USA
- Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award: Triangulation of Information About Cannabis Consumption During Pregnancy and Lactation Amidst a Shifting Policy Environment by Devon Greyson, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Early Career Best Paper Award: The Convivial Capabilities Checklist: Translating Makerspace Research into Practice by Shannon Crawford Barniskis, University of Kentucky, USA
- Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award: Understanding Information Practices in the Context of Rising Food Insecurity by Sarah Polkinghorne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
- Diversity Award: 'Get our feet wet and hands dirty”: Black Community- Based Librarianship and the Fight Against Information Poverty, 1940-1975 by Alex Poole, Drexel University, USA
- Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award: Chirag Shah, University of Washington, USA
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