Reflections on Receiving the ASIS&T 2016 Award of Merit: Reflections on receiving the ASIS&T 2016 award of merit

and gentlemen! It was a nice and highly appreciated surprise to me to have the honor to be presented with the prestigious ASIS&T Award of Merit, given in recognition of my contributions to our field of information science. And then here in Copenhagen, my home town, at the first ASIS&T Annual Meeting outside the United States. We are very proud and thankful to Diane Sonnenwald and ASIS&T for this choice. Also, I wish to thank the jury that selected me and the nominators Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Virginia Ortiz-Repiso Jiménez, president of the European Chapter, who created the two nomination packages. I have now had the opportunity to look into the two nomination texts and the many supporting letters from outstanding IS researchers worldwide. I am very grateful for their acknowledgements of my contributions to the field over four decades of research. As with citations received to your work, you obtain a range of new perspectives on your research and activities. It seems that I have had much stronger roles as mentor as well as initiator of research than I perceived. I really appreciate the recognition of that achievement. Looking back, it is interesting to note two phenomena in association with my lines of research: Peter Ingwersen, ASIS&T 2016 Award of Merit recipient, is professor emeritus from the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS), Copenhagen, Denmark. He can be reached at peter.ingwersen<at>hum.ku.dk. Reflections on Receiving the ASIS&T 2016 Award of Merit by Peter Ingwersen 2016 ASIS&T Awards Coverage