Month: April 2014

CHICAGO — Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has been named the 2014 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Kenney will receive a cash award and citation during the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Named in honor of one of the pioneers of library automation, the Atkinson Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library services or research. “The nomination for Anne R. Kenney presented the committee with an extraordinary tour of innovative achievements and service to the profession,” said Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award committee chair and director at Design Think Do. “Anne’s leadership on significant projects, such as 2CUL, arXiv, Project Euclid and Making of America; her influential work on large-scale digitization and digital preservation standards and her global…

CHICAGO — Brighid Mooney Gonzales, MLIS degree candidate at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, has been named the winner of the 2014 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award, sponsored by Ex Libris Group and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Gonzales’s paper, titled “Linking Libraries to the Web: Linked Data and the Future of the Bibliographic Record,” describes the potential use of linked data to make library catalogs and online resources interoperable with other data across the Web. “The members of the LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award Committee are pleased to acknowledge and honor with this award Brighid Mooney Gonzales’s thought-provoking manuscript, which addresses the benefits and challenges of linked data to libraries and library users,” said Regina Koury, chair of the committee.  “Ms. Gonzales’s manuscript elucidates the complex topic, making a strong case for libraries to…

CHICAGO — The Library & Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced Michael Buckland as the 2014 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The award, which is jointly sponsored by OCLC, is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work that shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, or the processes by which information and data is manipulated and managed. The awardee receives $2,000, a citation and travel expenses to attend the award ceremony at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, where the award will be presented on June 29, 2014. In 2014 Dr. Michael Buckland is recognized for his outstanding educational leadership and research in Library and Information Science.  As professor of the School of…

CHICAGO — Victoria Reich and David S. H. Rosenthal have been named the winners of the 2014 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) sponsor the award that recognizes outstanding individuals or institutions for their long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. Reich and Rosenthal are being recognized for their collaboration to ensure the preservation of digital content through their creation and development of the LOCKSS Program. Originated in 1999, it is an “open-source, library-led digital preservation system built on the principle that ‘lots of copies keep stuff safe’.” It is the first and only system developed that allows institutions to take custody and preserve access to both purchased electronic content and locally created digital content, thus providing a mechanism to safeguard a library’s digital assets….

A LITA guide to responsive web design Related “Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide” “Streamlining Information Services Using Chatbots” “The Comparative Guide to WordPress in Libraries: A LITA Guide” For Immediate Release Fri, 04/11/2014 Contact: Valerie Edmonds-Merritt Program Coordinator LITA Division 312-280-4269 vedmonds@ala.org CHICAGO — Tablets, desktops, smartphones, laptops, minis: we live in a world of screens, all of different sizes. Library websites need to work on all of them, but maintaining separate sites or content management systems is resource intensive and still unlikely to address all the variations. By using responsive Web design, libraries can build one site for all devices—now and in the future. In “Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide,” published by ALA TechSource, experienced responsive Web developer Matthew Reidsma, named “a web librarian to watch” by ACRL’s TechConnect blog, shares proven methods for delivering the same content to all users using HTML…