If they survive West's current incarnation, there are also the West
librarianship awards. West might also be persuaded to recognize
Excellence in Electronic Librarianship: In the democratic spirit of the
Internet, nominations could be electronically solicited. "Matches'" could
be collected; this would do away with the organized institutional
nomination that generally prevails.
>>> Lyonette Louis-Jacques <llou@stone.lib.uchicago.edu> 05/29/96
08:19am >>>
I might be misremembering, but I think the AALL Awards Committee can
give awards for electronic resources, so there could be recognition of
authors of great Internet resources such as web sites, as with books -
a really well-conceived home page for instance can look in print like a
wonderful research guide.
And in terms of recognition of service to the profession that would
include helpfulness on Internet mailing lists/listservs, I think Chapters,
SISes,
AALL have these types of awards in place - law librarianship, technical
services, etc. awards - and general helpfulness I think is taken into
account in attaining leadership positions in our profession. Hmm, special
Internet service awards? Chapters have started having Internet
committees - wonder if any have considered granting such awards?
Cheers,
Lyo
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Lyonette "Lyo" Louis-Jacques llou@midway.uchicago.edu
Foreign and International Law phone: 312-702-9612; fax:
312-702-2889
Librarian and Lecturer in Law D'Angelo Law Library
University of Chicago Law School "What is this? Propaganda?" - Mae
West
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