Congratulations to the recipients of the 2014 NETSL Award for Excellence in
Technical Services!
The 2014 Award went to:
Amira Aaron, Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources, Northeastern University,
Boston, MA
and
Diane Baden, Head, Monographic Services, O'Neill Library, Boston College,
Boston, MA.
*Amira Aaron*
In addition to dedicating her professional life to the cause of effective
automation in the immediate service of technical services, Amira has most
recently made a profound and formative contribution in the wider service of
libraries and, most importantly, their users, by seeking to ensure that the
content we go to such lengths to obtain on their behalf is fully searchable
and discoverable as possible.
Over the past several years, Amira has become an outspoken proponent for
the "freeing" of content metadata from the competitiveness of the data
providers who are also discovery platform providers. Amira's belief that
the metadata needed to effectively utilize discovery platforms to deliver
ALL of the content we purchase on behalf of our users must be shared
equally with all discovery platforms. This sharing is necessary for us to
realize the full value of the content for which we pay so much money,
enabling us to provide more comprehensive and efficient delivery of content
to our users.
*Diane Baden*
Diane has been at Boston College since 2005, during which time she has
managed dramatic changes in the organization, workflow, and processing of
physical materials. One of her many significant achievements was her
leadership during the formation of the Theology and Ministry Library,
merging the bibliographic records from three separate libraries, as well as
converting one of those collections from Lynn Peterson to LC
Classification. Diane successfully oversaw this process, and also managed
the vendors hired to assist. Hired at BC as Head of Cataloging, Diane
fearlessly volunteered to assume responsibility for acquisitions and
financial management of the materials budget during a major
re-organizational effort in 2008, which resulted in her new title as Head
of Monographic Services.
In addition, Diane has worked as a key member of the Boston College Project
Team, which worked as a Development Partner with Ex Libris to design and
test the Alma system. She was a leading member of the internal Alma
Implementation team, helping to troubleshoot and fine-tune the system as
Boston College became the first organization worldwide to implement Alma in
2012.
More information about the Award
http://netsl.wordpress.com/award/
Eileen Chandler
NETSL Outreach Officer
Member Services Manager
CLAMS (Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Inc.)
Unit 4E, 270 Communication Way
Hyannis MA 02601
Received on Tue Apr 22 2014 - 15:20:08 EDT