Federal libraries and staff throughout the United States and abroad competed in three award categories. The winners are listed below.
+ 2008 Federal Library/Information Center of the Year: Large Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 11 or more federal and/or contract employees)
Information Services Division / National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Research Library, Gaithersburg, Md., is recognized for its Lab Liaison Program and expanded collection of leadership and management podcasts which include two highly visible NIST products, NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and the NIST X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Database for NIST scientists. Its award-winning responsive, adaptive and innovative customer service efforts responded to more than 1,500 requests for digital versions of its collection.
+ 2008 Federal Library/Information Center of the Year: Small Library/Information Center Category (with a staff of 10 or fewer federal and/or contract employees)
Hurlburt Field Library, U.S. Air Force, Hurlburt Field, Fla., is recognized for its unique and trendsetting programs to meet the lifestyles of its users, implementing hundreds of morale-boosting programs. Hurlburt Field Library continues to support the military mission and improve the quality of life at its base communities. In 2008, the library delivered a number of information services through its commercially-hosted website; administered 1,100 books specific to field-unit missions and simplified access for almost 7,500 active-duty personnel via the library’s information portal.
+ 2008 Federal Librarian of the Year
Dr. Verlene Herrington, Chief, U.S. Army Military Intelligence Library, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., is recognized for her skills in marketing, developing and promoting library services. In 2008, Herrington obtained program funding, assisted in the design, and oversaw the multi-million dollar renovation project of the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Library. Due to her innovative, non-traditional and enthusiastic approach to library services, the new state-of-the-art library averages 700 onsite visitors daily, increasing attendance more than 1,500 percent.
+ 2008 Federal Library Technician of the Year
Lawana Gladney, Library Technician, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., is recognized for her commitment to service in support of the Department of Justice legislative digital initiative. In addition to demonstrating her many on-the-job library skills, in 2008, Gladney worked diligently to convert internal print legislative histories into a digital format, making them available on the Legislative History Digital Database.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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