CSA/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award for 2006

[Marilyn Geller <marilyn.geller@configuredinfo.com>]

Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Elsevier has been awarded 
the 2006 CSA/Ulrichs Serials Librarianship Award (formerly 
Bowker/Ulrich?s Serials Librarianship Award), recognizing her 
leadership in the collaborative development of the electronic 
delivery of scholarly information.

Ms. Hunter's colleagues in libraries and in publishing 
organizations describe her as a 'thought-leader' and 'innovator' 
with concerns that go "beyond any interests she may have as an 
employee of a single publishing company."  A dedicated explorer 
of the yields of electronic delivery, she has spearheaded many 
important research initiatives that influenced the thinking of an 
entire professional community. Two key collaborative projects 
were TULIP (The University Licensing Program) (1991 to 1995) 
which involved nine major research universities in the United 
States and other partners and its successor PEAK (Pricing 
Electronic Access to Knowledge), a collaboration with the 
University of Michigan and other partners.

She actively champions a range of projects addressing the 
challenge of archiving digital information and orchestrated 
Elsevier's project planning effort in its collaborative work with 
Yale University Library on the 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Grant, 
"Archiving Electronic Journals."  These projects were 
characterized by the open sharing of research findings. Ms. 
Hunter was an early supporter of the Coalition for Networked 
Information and CrossRef.  Her ability to represent the views of 
the library world to the publishing world and the views of 
publishers to librarians during her 30 year career continues to 
have a profound and positive influence within our industry.

Electronic journals as we know them today, and indeed, the 
electronic delivery of scholarly communication has been shaped by 
Ms Hunter's thoughts and deeds.  Ms Hunter has earned both the 
respect of librarian and publisher colleagues and the 2006 
CSA/Ulrichs Serials Librarian Award.

Ms. Hunter was a library assistant and librarian at the Cornell 
University Libraries before joining Elsevier in 1976.  Her 
undergraduate degree is from the College of Wooster and she 
earned graduate degrees in history, library science, and business 
administration from Cornell, Syracuse and Columbia universities 
respectively.

This award for distinguished contributions to serials consists of 
a citation and $1,500 donated by CSA.


Marilyn Geller
Chair, CSA/Ulrichs Serials Librarianship Award
Collection Management Librarian
Lesley University Library
30 Mellen Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: mgeller@lesley.edu
Phone: (617) 349-8859