The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries Team
Call for Nominations for the Second Annual Karen Hunter Memorial
Award have been announced. The award recognizes demonstrated evidence of
the desire to encourage collaborations between librarians and
publishers or exemplar experience with advancing information
dissemination via technology. Awardees receive $5000 and travel support
to attend the Hunter Forum at the annual ALA Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
The Elsevier Karen Hunter Memorial Award was established in 2018 to
honor Karen’s legacy. In her four decades at Elsevier, Karen led
groundbreaking initiatives in scholarly communications in partnership
with the research community. You can read more about Karen and her
contributions
here.
”There is no better way to honor Karen’s Hunter’s legacy than to
issue an award to a librarian or ensemble of librarians who demonstrate
leadership in applying technology to scholarly communications, or who
have partnered with a publisher to advance the sharing of research
findings,” according to Jean Shipman, Vice President, Global Strategic
Networks, Elsevier.
The inaugural award
was presented to The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
team during the 2018 ALA Mid-Winter Meeting. A team of librarians
worked on applying APIs to provide full-text journal articles - both
version of record and author manuscripts - via its institutional
repository (IR) to highlight the over 8,000 publications per year of the
faculty of the University of Florida. The project saved faculty time
and helped them with meeting funder compliance requirements, as it
eliminated the need for them to individually contribute their
publications to the IR. The project also saved library staff time as
they did not have to solicit the articles from the faculty.
How to Submit Nominations and Notification Schedule
Demonstrated evidence can be a project, a product, a publication, a
program event, a testimony, or other form of collaboration between
librarians and publishers or a technological advancement. The
collaboration or technological development does not need to be related
to Elsevier.
The awardee is selected by Elsevier’s North American Library Advisory
Board (NALAB), and it is issued at the Hunter Forum, American Library
Association (ALA) Mid-Winter meeting. Award criteria include being:
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An accredited/degreed professional librarian or group of librarians
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Currently employed within the United States
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Any kind of librarian – e.g., academic, government, school, public, medical or special
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Able to attend Elsevier’s Hunter Forum to accept the award and participate in the Hunter Forum if requested.
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Willing to say a couple words of award acceptance at the Hunter Forum
Nominations are due midnight U.S. Pacific Time July 31, 2019. The nomination should be sent to
j.shipman@elsevier.com
and include a cover letter stating nomination justification and by
whom, nominee’s qualifications as they relate to the award criteria, the
nominee’s CV, and two to three letters of support from colleagues.
The awardee will receive notification of their selection no later
than the end of November 2019. This will provide the awardee time to
register and participate in the 2020 Hunter Forum, usually held at the
ALA Mid-Winter meeting.
Source: A message received from Elsevier Library Connect, dated 13/06/2019,
AND https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/second-annual-karen-hunter-memorial-award-call-nominations
