Call for Nominations – ABC-Clio Online History Award
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*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS*
The ABC-CLIO Online History Award Committee is seeking
nominations for the $3,000 biennial award donated by ABC-CLIO,
publisher of reference materials in the field of history. The
award, administered by the History Section of the Reference and
User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American
Library Association, is made to a person or group of people
producing (1) a freely available online historical collection or
collections, or (2) an online tool or tools tailored for the
purpose of finding historical materials, or (3) an online
teaching aid or aids stimulating creative historical scholarship.
Nominee(s) must be employed by a library or educational
institution during the year prior to nomination for the award;
institutions do not qualify. Deadline for submissions is
December 15, 2008; these should be sent to Shelley Arlen,
shelarl_at_uflib.ufl.edu .
Nominee
The nominee(s) must be employed by a library or educational
institution during the year prior to nomination for the award;
institutions do not qualify. There is no restriction on the
nominating individual.
Eligible Projects
The award seeks to encourage the development of freely available,
sustainable online history resources by singling out innovative
projects and the individuals who created them. Projects shall
have been completed (or, in the case of a regularly updated
database, well established) in the two years prior to nomination
and serve as a model for broader emulation. Examples can include:
· Primary sources digitized from the collections of more
than one repository
· Guides to research on an historical subject that span
multiple formats and repositories
· Databases incorporating citations, annotations, text,
multimedia, and/or hyperlinks
· Presentations of an historical theme stimulating new
approaches to its teaching
Submissions
Candidates may nominate themselves or someone else. Nominations
should be no more than three pages in length, and must be
submitted via e-mail attachment to the chair of the committee
noted below. Please include:
· The name and contact information of the nominator
· The title and URL of the resource
· The name, title, and place of employment of its creator
· The date of the project’s initiation and completion
· The material’s chronological, geographical, and thematic
parameters
· Some measurement of the quantity of information presented
in the resource
· A statement about what is innovative and unique in the
resource
For additional information, please see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/archive/rusaawards/abcclioaward.cfm
Thank you,
Shelley Arlen
Chair, Humanities/Social Sciences Branch Library West
Box 117022
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7022
Telephone: 352-273-2629
Fax: 352-392-8118
shelarl_at_uflib.ufl.edu
Received on Tue Nov 04 2008 - 02:19:18 EST