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 [email protected] FAX: 949-559-5424 VOICE: 949-824-4971
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