ALCTS announces new award recipients for 2007
Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
cwilt@ala.org
For Immediate Release
February 27, 2007
ALCTS announces new award recipients for 2007
CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is pleased to announce the recipients of two new ALCTS awards for 2007. These two new awards, the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award and the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation, will be presented on Sunday, June 24, 2007, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2007 American Library Association (ALA) meeting in Washington, DC.
Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award to Brian E. C. Schottlaender
Brian Schottlaender, university librarian at the University of California, San Diego Libraries, is the recipient of the 2007 Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award. This new award is sponsored by EBSCO Information Services and honors the recipient with $3,000 and a citation.
The Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award honors the memory of Ross Atkinson, a distinguished library leader, author, and scholar whose extraordinary service to ALCTS and the library community at-large serves as a model for those in the field.
Schottlaender’s contributions to the profession and to ALCTS consist of a wide variety of leadership roles including president of ALCTS and the Association of Research Libraries. He led both organizations through a strategic planning process that positioned them for a stronger future. He has contributed to the advancement of cataloging through his role in the formation of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and through his dedication and leadership; he has played a critical role in moving the cataloging code into the 21st century. His contributions have been recognized by the Margaret Mann Citation and the Best of Cataloging & Classification award.
Schottlaender’s professional career began after he completed a master’s of library science at Indiana University in 1980. That year he joined the cataloging staff of Indiana University moving to a position in the Cataloging Department at the University of Arizona in 1981. He moved to California in 1984 and until 1999, held several positions at the University of California, Los Angeles including assistant head of the Cataloging Division and associate university librarian Collections and Technical Services. In 1999, he left UCLA to become the university librarian at the University of California, San Diego. Over the more than 20 years he has held posts at UCLA and UC San Diego, he has established himself and the University of California as leaders in cooperative collections projects.
As a writer and thinker, Schottlaender’s publications range from the management and administration of libraries, to library collections and cataloging theory. His professional interests are broad, far ranging and often provocative. His work on the future of the catalog, including his edited volume, “The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Proceedings of the AACR 2000 Pre-conference,” is valued by the cataloging community. Cooperative collection development has been significantly shaped by his work, from “The Development of National Principles to Guide Librarians in Licensing Electronic Resources” in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory to notably “You Say You Want an Evolution… The Emerging UC Libraries Shared Collection Concept” in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services. Schottlaender’s work combines the practical with ideas that challenge conventional thinking in a way that is transformative.
First ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation Given to CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS, or Controlled LOCKSS, is the inaugural recipient of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation. The citation will be presented to Victoria Reich, director of the LOCKSS Program at Stanford University Libraries.
The mission of CLOCKSS, a non-profit partnership between publishers and libraries, is to develop "a distributed, validated, comprehensive archive that preserves and ensures continuing access to electronic scholarly content." CLOCKSS is based on the technology of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) Program. CLOCKSS will act as an “insurance policy” to preserve long-term access to digital content, allowing libraries to continue their role as stewards of the scholarly record without limitations of changing business models or advances in technology. The shared development and governance by major research libraries and key society and commercial publishers is a remarkable collaborative achievement that creates a solution to the most significant challenge of the digital era.
The ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services, or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections. The citation may be presented to two or more individuals or groups who have participated jointly in an appropriate achievement. Accomplishments that expose problems may be as valuable as successes. The citation will be presented in a year when an achievement of merit has occurred. Recognized forms of collaboration must be between library personnel and other individuals or groups such as: publishers, vendors, cultural organizations, government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and the like. Results of a collaborative effort must demonstrate advancement in collection management or technical services working environments.
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services. Areas of concentration of ALCTS members include acquisition, cataloging, collection development, preservation, and archiving of all library materials in all formats as well as serial collection management.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
