>From Julia Gelfand <jgelfand_at_uci.edu>
Call for Nominations - 2015 Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in
Reference and Adult Library Services
Please share widely with colleagues! Deadline is December 14, 2014.
**Call for Nominations**
2015 Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library
Services
The Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library
Services is given to a library
or library system for developing an imaginative and unique resource to meet
patrons' reference needs
since 2012 to the present. The resource can be a bibliography, a guide to the
literature of a specific subject,
a directory, a database, or any other project that has helped the library meet
adult or children's reference needs.
Tools, guides, or databases that have been developed for reader's advisory or
adult service questions and needs
are also eligible for the award. Stressing excellent content, creativity,
ingenuity, technological finesse, usability,
relevance, and overall innovation is what the jury will seek as it reviews all
nominations. (Established 1990).
*SPONSOR:* The award is sponsored by Gale Cengage
Learning<http://www.gale.cengage.com/>, and administered by RUSA.
*FORM OF AWARD:* $3,000 and a citation. Award will be presented at the American
Library Association Annual
Meeting in June 2015 in San Francisco
*SUBMITTING NOMINATIONS:* Nominations are to be made in writing, stating in
detail how the resource has
contributed to meeting patrons' reference needs. All nominations should include
the following:
* description of the resource
* description of the format, e.g., card file, database, etc.
* list of sources used to compile the resource
* target audience
* criteria used in selecting material for inclusion. (If the resource or
service is inclusive, please state so clearly.)
* breadth of coverage, i.e., time and subject
* explanation of what makes the resource imaginative or unique
A sample of the resource or service (or entry, descriptive pages, printout,
etc.) must accompany the nomination.
Additional information, including previous recipients is available on the
committee's web site at:
http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/referenceadultservices or
the RUSA Blog athttp://rusa.ala.org/blog/category/awards/
The award has been given annually since 1991. The last recipient was the
Northville District Library (Mich.) for
"Northville Historic Records." Other recent previous recipients include, Palo
Alto (CA) College Library's
"Library a la Carte," Richland County (SC)Public Library Job Center, for
"NCPedia," J.Y.Joyner Library
Digital Collections Department at East Carolina University for "Seeds of Change:
The Daily Reflector Image Collection,"
University of Kentucky for its "Notable Kentucky African Americans Database,"
Springfield-Greene County Library,
Springfield (Mo.) , New Orleans Public Library, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential
Center Library,
University Library/ University of Nebraska at Omaha, Richmond (British Columbia)
Public Library, North Carolina
State University Libraries, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Orange County
Library System, Orlando (Fla.)
Please send us your letter of nomination and relevant documentation to the
Committee Chair, Julia Gelfand
(information noted below), by **December 14, 2014** The receipt of all
nominations will be acknowledged.
Materials can be sent via eMail as pdfs, attachments, or through the postal service.
Please do not hesitate to call or email me with any questions you might have
about the award or the
nomination process. The Committee members and I look forward to hearing from you!
On behalf of the Committee,
Julia Gelfand
Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian
University of California, Irvine Libraries
Science Library 228
Irvine, CA 92623-9556
jgelfand_at_uci.edu
FAX: 949-559-5424
VOICE: 949-824-4971
Received on Wed Nov 26 2014 - 03:02:47 EST