First ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation Awarded to CLOCKSS

[Lauren Corbett <lcorbet@emory.edu>]

First ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation Awarded to CLOCKSS

ALCTS is proud to announce the CLOCKSS initiative as the 
inaugural winner of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation. 
CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS), a not-for-profit partnership, 
leverages the contributions of key members of the scholarly 
communications community. Building on the widely-used LOCKSS 
system and working outside the limitations of business models or 
current technology, CLOCKSS is creating a distributed, validated, 
platform-neutral archive to ensure the long-term preservation of 
digitally published scholarly materials. CLOCKSS benefits 
everyone regardless of their ability to pay. By working together 
to develop and govern the archive, CLOCKSS is a shared solution 
to one of the most significant challenges 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 citation will be presented to Victoria Reich at the ALCTS 
Awards Ceremony on Sunday, June 24 at 4:00PM at the American 
Library Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

Lauren Corbett
Head of Acquisitions
Emory University -- Woodruff Library
ph: 404 712 1818
fax: 404 727 0408
email: lcorbet@emory.edu