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Green Award reminder
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Mon Sep 15 20:00:34 2003
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Dear Colleagues,
There are just 6 days left to submit your virtual reference transcripts for
the Tutor.com Samuel Swett Green Award for Exemplary Virtual Reference
Service. The deadline is September 19, 2003, at 12:00 Midnight US Pacific
Time.
The Award is for $US500, and is named in honor of Samuel Swett Green, the
founder of reference services in the United States. The award is presented
quarterly to the librarian who submits the best virtual reference transcript
for the relevant calendar quarter; for this next award, any session
transcripts from June 1, 2003 to September 19, 2003 are eligible.
The award announcement will be made in mid-October.
Candidates may send only one transcript per award period. The competition
is open to all reference staff using any 'live' virtual reference software
that can produce an electronic transcript; in other words, it is not just
for librarians using Tutor.com Virtual Reference software.
Transcripts are judged by a panel of distinguished practitioners and
researchers including: Linda Berube (Co-East Ask a Librarian Service, UK),
Philippa Crosbie (University of Sydney), Anne Lipow (Library Solutions
Institute and Press), Jenny Marvin (University of Guelph), Marie Radford
(Pratt Institute), and Mary Ross (Seattle Public Library). John Richardson,
UCLA Professor of Information Studies and Associate Dean, Graduate Division
at UCLA, will chair this distinguished panel and will maintain the single
blind review status of the award.
Go to http://vrhome.virtualreference.net/greenaward.htm to use the
electronic submission form, to review the transcripts submitted by previous
winners, and to see the criteria that will be used by the selection panel of
practitioners and researchers.
Please be sure to include all information requested in the submission form
and to remove all personal information (both the user's and the librarian's)
from your transcript before you submit it.
Tutor.com will make the award-winning transcript available to the public on
the web site identified above and announce the name of the award-winning
librarian and the affiliated library or library group. However, Tutor.com
shall keep all submitted transcripts confidential and ensure that no
personal information that might identify the patron is made available, and
Tutor.com will handle all transcripts with the same care and confidentiality
as any other library patron records, whether required by law or American
Library Association ethical standards.
Tutor.com Reference Division (formerly LSSI) established the Samuel Swett
Green Award to recognize the efforts of individual librarians who have
provided exemplary virtual reference service and to help foster and
encourage the development of the highest standards of quality in live online
reference.
Cordially,
The Samuel Swett Green Award Panel
