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The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) has announced that Dr Kanwal Ameen is a 2019 recipient of the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership Award.

The award’s purpose is to recognise a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities.

The award is named in honor of James M. Cretsos, long-time member and leader in ASIS&T. Cretsos served as President of ASIS&T in 1997 and was also an active leader and contributor to the Southern Ohio Chapter, SIG-CON, SIG-MED, and the Awards & Honors Committee. He is perhaps best remembered for the role he played in mentoring emerging leaders in the field of information science. Candidates are assessed based on the following four criteria: participation in ASIS&T annual meeting as organiser, moderator, speaker, discussant, etc.; participation in programs and activities of SIGs, chapters and/or student chapters; services on ASIS&T committees; and recruitment of new ASIS&T members and/or retention of existing members.

Prof. Kanwal Ameen has joined Home Economics Women University in Lahore as its first Vice Chancellor after 34 years of her service in the field of Library and Information Science.as a professional, academician, researcher and administrator. She served as Chairperson, Dept. of Information Management for nine years (May 2009- May 2018); and Chair of Doctoral Program Coordination Committee of the University of the Punjab, Lahore for 4 years. She has also served as Director, External Linkages of the same university. She is Founding Chair of South Asia Chapter, ASIST and served as Cochair Visual Presentations, AM 2017. She has made commendable efforts in raising the number of ASIS&T memberships in Pakistan.

Prof. Kanwal has got a number of international and national awards/scholarships such as Research Fellowship as Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan (2013), Fulbright Post-Doc, University of Missouri, Columbia (2009-2010) Fulbright Pre-Doc, University of Texas, Austin, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan’s Best Teacher Award and Best Paper Award in Social Sciences, Pakistan Library Association’s Life Time Achievements Award, and Asian Library Leaders “Award for Professional Excellence – 2013”, India to name a few.

She has authored more than 150 publications which include scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. She is the Chief-Editor of Pakistan Journal of Information Management & Libraries and on editorial advisory boards of international journals. She serves on organising committees of well reputed international conferences, has chaired their sessions, and presented many papers.

Over the years she has developed special interest in the soft skills, emotional intelligence skills, workplace communication skills and leadership.

Dr Ameen will receive her award at the 2019 meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) which will be held in Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2019.