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IT Awards 2004

The three division awards were presented at the Business Meeting and Awards Tea on June 8, 2004 at the Annual Conference in Nashville, TN. The division received a number of nominations to the awards program this year, and we appreciate all of the excellent submissions we received. We hope to see such an interest in the awards program in the future. Congratulations to all of our winners.

Grieg Aspnes Outstanding Member Award

This award is given to an individual who has greatly contributed to the profession, the association, and particularly the division. This is the first year for the award to be presented as the Grieg Aspnes Outstanding Member Award.

The recipient, Hope Tillman, has served in numerous roles in SLA, including chair of the Information Technology division, President of the Boston Chapter, and of course, as President of SLA. She has published a number of articles and books on the Internet, particularly on its role in special libraries as it evolved throughout the 1990s. She is Director of Libraries at Babson College, and she is currently serving our division as Archivist.

Joe Ann Clifton Student Award

The Joe Ann Clifton Student Award is presented to a library science student who has submitted an outstanding paper regarding the use of information technology. The award includes student membership in SLA for one year, expenses to attend the SLA Annual Conference, and publication in b/ITe.

The 2004 winner, Zoe Friedlander, wrote a paper titled, "Digital Rights Management and For-Profit Libraries." Zoe Friedlander graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a BA in English literature and worked as a technical writer and then a freelance graphic designer, before embarking on a new career path by enrolling in UCLA's Masters in Library and Information Science program. At UCLA, her studies have focused on Informatics, or the use of technology to organize, store and retrieve information. She is particularly interested in special libraries, and is currently interning at the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where she is considering the question of how to normalize the data in their myriad databases. Zoe graduates from UCLA in June of 2004.

Outstanding Chapter Technology Programming Award

The Outstanding Chapter Technology Programming Award is given to the chapter which has put together an exceptional technology-related program-current, relevant programming which has greatly impacted the chapter membership. The purpose of the award is to encourage chapters to continue striving for the most useful, cutting-edge technology programming. Programming of such caliber is what keeps us renewing our SLA memberships.

We realize that such programming involves a great deal of time and requires much support. The IT division provides this award not only to recognize the chapter across the entire association, but also to provide a financial gift of $500 to encourage future programs within the chapter.

This year we had to choose a number of distinguished programs which made our decision difficult. All were programs that we certainly would have wanted to attend if we had the opportunity.

Our winner, the Maryland Chapter, put together a full-day conference, "Technology Day 2003." The aim of the conference was to demonstrate how experts are leveraging virtual technologies to deliver reference service and content to their constituents while organizing internal content for maximum retrievability. The conference included a number of well-known speakers on timely and highly relevant topics such as virtual reference, RSS, open URL, taxonomies, digital libraries, the semantic web, just to name a few.

We recognize that the Maryland chapter collaborated with other groups in the area as well as vendors in order to put together what was clearly an engaging program for SLA members. (Groups who supported the conference included the District of Columbia Library Association, Law Librarians Association of Maryland, Maryland Library Association, Medical and Health Science Librarians of Maryland, and the SLA Washington DC Chapter.) And I should mention that for non-SLA members, they offered a non-member registration fee which included one year of SLA membership. We are delighted to recognize such a program.