Ulrich's Serials award

From: Keith Powell <kpowell_at_uci.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:58:10 -0800 To: acqnet-l <acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu>

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Date:  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:18:30 -0500
From:  Charles Wilt (ALCTS) <cwilt_at_ala.org>
Subject:  Ulrich's Serials award

For Immediate Release Contact: Charles Wilt

February 26, 2008 Executive Director, ALCTS

312-280-5030

cwilt_at_ala.org <mailto:cwilt_at_ala.org>

   /Vicky Reich receives Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award/

CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
(ALCTS) is pleased to announce that Vicky Reich, Highwire Press, is the
winner of the 2008 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. Reich’s
contributions have helped to create digital publishing, preservation and
archiving solutions for scholarly content. This award for distinguished
contributions to serials consists of a citation and $1,500 donated by
ProQuestCSA.

Before leading the development and implementation of LOCKSS and CLOCKSS,
Reich was deeply involved in the creation of Stanford University’s
HighWire Press, an organization which she served as assistant director
and digital librarian. HighWire helped a number of major scholarly
societies and publishers mount their journal content on the Internet
sooner and more successfully than they might have otherwise and provided
a way for these publishers to continue to self-publish.

LOCKSS – which stands for “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe” – uses
open-source software that provides librarians with an easy and
inexpensive way to electronically collect, store, preserve and ensure
perpetual access to their own local copy of authorized content. CLOCKSS
– “Controlled LOCKSS” – is a not-for-profit partnership that leverages
the contributions of key members of the scholarly communication
community by creating a distributed, validated, platform-neutral archive
that will ensure the long-term preservation of digitally published
scholarly materials.

Reich regularly takes her message of cooperation and preservation for
future generations of students and scholars to conferences and audiences
around the world, having delivered more than 60 presentations since
2000, one-third of them delivered outside the United States.

She has led the crusade for enduring efforts to preserve digital
collections for future generations. Members of ALCTS, ALA as a whole and
the global community of librarians, scholars and publishers all owe
Vicky Reich a great debt of gratitude.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is
the national association for information providers who work in
collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging,
collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital
and print formats.

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.

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