CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006
From: Marilyn Geller (Lesley College) <mgeller_at_lesley.edu>
Subject: CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award

Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Elsevier has been awarded the 2006 
CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award (formerly Bowker/Ulrich's 
Serials Librarianship Award), recognizing her leadership in the 
collaborative development of the electronic delivery of scholarly 
information.  

Ms. Hunter's colleagues in libraries and in publishing organizations 
describe her as a "thought-leader" and "innovator" with concerns that 
go "beyond any interests she may have as an employee of a single 
publishing company."  A dedicated explorer of the yields of electronic 
delivery, she has spearheaded many important research initiatives that 
influenced the thinking of an entire professional community. Two key 
collaborative projects were TULIP (The University Licensing Program) 
(1991 to 1995) which involved nine major research universities in the 
United States and other partners and its successor PEAK (Pricing 
Electronic Access to Knowledge), a collaboration with the University 
of Michigan and other partners.  She actively champions a range of 
projects addressing the challenge of archiving digital information and 
orchestrated Elsevier's  project planning effort in its collaborative 
work with Yale University Library on the 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Grant, 
"Archiving Electronic Journals".  These projects were characterized by 
the open sharing of research findings. Ms. Hunter was an early 
supporter of the Coalition for Networked Information and CrossRef.  Her 
ability to represent the views of the library world to the publishing 
world and the views of publishers to librarians during her 30 year 
career continues to have a profound and positive influence within our 
industry.  

Electronic journals as we know them today, and indeed, the electronic 
delivery of scholarly communication has been shaped by Ms Hunter's 
thoughts and deeds.  Ms Hunter has earned both the respect of librarian 
and publisher colleagues and the 2006 CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarian 
Award. 

Ms. Hunter was a library assistant and librarian at the Cornell 
University Libraries before joining Elsevier in 1976.  Her undergraduate

degree is from the College of Wooster and she earned graduate degrees in

history, library science, and business administration from Cornell, 
Syracuse and Columbia universities respectively.

This award for distinguished contributions to serials consists of a 
citation and $1,500 donated by CSA.

Marilyn Geller
Chair, CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award
Collection Management Librarian
Lesley University Library
30 Mellen Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: mgeller_at_lesley.edu
Phone: (617) 349-8859

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