Subject: Coutts Award Winner
From: "Quinn, Brian" <brian.quinn_at_ttu.edu>
Please excuse any cross-posting:
For Immediate Release
Tim Jewell, inaugural recipient of Coutts Award for Innovation in
Electronic Resources Management
CHICAGO—The Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS) of
the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
is pleased to announce Tim Jewell, director, information resources,
collections, and scholarly communication at the University of
Washington, Seattle, Wash., as the winner of the first annual Coutts
Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management.
The award recognizes significant and innovative contributions to
electronic collections management and development practice. The
recipient receives a $2,000 award generously donated by Coutts
Information Services and a citation. The award will be presented on
Sunday, June 29, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2008 American
Library Association (ALA) meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
Tim Jewell has a distinguished record of innovation in the field of
electronic resources management and is a key figure in the development
of initiatives and standards. His pioneering report, “Selection and
Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues
and Practices,” shed light on the ways that libraries were integrating
electronic resources into print collections.
Jewell was co-creator of the Web Hub for Developing Administrative
Metadata for Electronic Resources Management, a Web site that served
as a forum for electronic resources librarians to share information.
He conceived and co-directed the Digital Library Federation Electronic
Resource Management Initiative (ERMI), identifying the unique
management needs of electronic resources that were not being addressed
by traditional library management systems and encouraging the
development of new systems for managing these resources. This work
culminated in ” Electronic Resource Management: The Report of the DLF
Initiative,” an innovative report, which outlined functional
requirements and a comprehensive model for managing electronic
resources that is now used by most major automation vendors.
Jewell also played a pivotal role in the development of the
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), which was
subsequently approved as a NISO standard, and ONIX for Publications
Licenses (ONIX-PL). He continues to play a critical role developing
new initiatives, as evidenced in the recent publication of the
DLF/ERMI “White Paper on Interoperability between Acquisitions Modules
of Integrated Library Systems and Electronic Resource Management
Systems,” inspiring vendors to standardize the automatic transfer of
acquisitions information into an electronic resources management
system from an integrated library system.
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.
Received on Sat Apr 05 2008 - 01:50:38 EDT