J.J. Keller Innovations in Technology Award (Will not be awarded in 2010)
Granted to an SLA member for innovative use and application of technology in a special library setting to facilitate knowledge sharing. Recipients of this award receive a cash award in the amount of US$ 1000.
Criteria:
- Must be an innovative project (Innovation definition: "a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation").
- Must be led by or heavily involving a SLA member.
- Should be an example of how librarians/information professionals effectively and efficiently serve as the human connection between technology, the information, and the user experience.
- Should be a model of applying Section D "Applying Information Tools & Technologies" to Sections B "Managing Information Resources" and/or Section C "Managing Information Services" of the SLA Professional Competencies.
To submit your nomination for an outstanding candidate, please use this form or e-mail the completed form with supporting materials directly to cara@sla.org. Incomplete nominations will not be considered.
2009 Recipient of the Innovations in Technology Award
Diane Brenes & the Boeing Library Services Team
The Boeing Company
Huntington Beach, California & Seattle
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Please visit SLA's online video network, SLA-TV, to watch a brief video about the Boeing Library Services Team and their innovative project "Building Communities Through Content."
About the Building Communities Through Content Project
The 12 person Boeing Library Services team responsible for implementing this program includes librarians from the Huntington Beach, Calif. and the Seattle offices of the Boeing Company. Diane Brenes is the project lead and her team includes Sue Brewsaugh, Eric Bryan, Margaret Deeds, Joan Dubis, Angela Gillis, Blair Hinz, Robert McAllister, Martha Mori, Karen Robertson, Josh Walters, and Mary Whittaker.
According to Brenes, one of the key initiatives of the Boeing Library Services team in 2009 is to connect the various communities and departments at Boeing through shared content. This was accomplished through the use of departmental collections within Boeing's Millennium catalog that are linked to Gateway web pages which gather and filter content for particular groups or departments. The Boeing team based on their successful integration of several technologies--some off-the-shelf and some home-grown--to develop a cutting-edge, cross-connected, customized enterprise library service.
The project gives all Boeing employees a gateway to the entire information landscape which includes access to a wealth of filtered internal and external resources, including databases, subscriptions, podcasts, and special collections of papers authored by the company's top technical experts.
Of particular note, is the Boeing team's work with retiring engineers in an effort to capture their valuable institutional knowledge prior to their departure. The Boeing team seeks out and works directly with the engineers to catalog their papers, give them the opportunity to annotate their papers or provide commentary podcasts to accompany their work.
About Diane Brenes
Diane Brenes has worked in Boeing's Library & Learning Center Services since 1988. She currently works in the Huntington Beach library location. Areas of expertise include business and engineering information research, vocabulary management, and collection development. Diane also serves on the Electronic Subscription Team which works on building the Library's virtual collection. She has over 20 years of experience working in corporate libraries, holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Simmons College and wrote the Web Reviews section for the official quarterly bulletin SciTech News of the SLA from 2006-2007.
Past Recipients of the Innovations in Technology Award
Dianne Francis (1992)
Roxanna Frost (1992)
Karen Bleakey (1993)
George Schlukbier (1996)
Laurie E. Stackpole (1997)
Andrew Breeding (1998)
Deborah Kegel (2000)
Katherine Whitley (2000)
Susan Fifer Canby (2001)
Gary Price (2002)
Nina L. Platt and Faegre & Benson Library Services (2003)
Brandy King (2005)
Defense Technical Information Center (2005)
R. James King (2006)
Karen Huffman (2007)
Sabrina I. Pacifici (2008)
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