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From: Diane Goldenberg-Hart <diane@cni.org>
Subject: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PAUL EVAN PETERS AWARD

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:
THE PAUL EVAN PETERS AWARD

DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2007

The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting 
international achievements related to high performance networks and the 
creation and use of information resources and services that advance 
scholarship and intellectual productivity. Past winners have been Paul 
Ginsparg (2006), founder of , arXiv, an e-print archive for articles in 
the sciences, Brewster Kahle (2004), founder and chairman of the board 
of the Internet Archive, "father of the Internet" Vinton Cerf (2002), 
and Tim Berners-Lee (2000), inventor of the World Wide Web.  All four 
recipients embody the rare combination of strategic vision, technical 
innovation, and humanitarian outlook that the award seeks to promote.

Award winners are recommended by a committee of representatives of the 
Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked 
Information, and EDUCAUSE, and selected by the chief executives of the 
three organizations.  Guidelines for submitting a nomination are 
detailed below.

GUIDELINES:

Nominees for the award should meet one or more of the following 
qualifications.

He or she has:

1. Demonstrated a positive and lasting impact on scholarly 
communications through the implementation and/or use of advanced 
telecommunications networks.
2. Addressed a specific problem fundamental to scholarship, research, 
and intellectual productivity and provided an innovative solution using 
high performance network technology.
3. Helped increase awareness of the role of scholarly information and 
communication through dissemination of effective techniques using 
computing and information technologies.
4. Made a career-long contribution to the advancement of scholarly 
information and communications through the implementation and/or use of 
high performance communications networks.

ONE-TO-TWO-PAGE LETTERS OF NOMINATION SHOULD BE SENT VIA EMAIL TO:
Joan K. Lippincott
joan@cni.org

OR

Paul Evan Peters Award Nomination
c/o Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036-1109
fax: 202-982-0884

DEADLINE : MARCH 30, 2007

Recipients of this award will receive a commemorative award and will be 
asked to present a major address at a CNI Task Force meeting.  This 
award is offered jointly by the Association of Research Libraries, the 
Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE.  It honors Paul Evan 
Peters, founding director of the Coalition for Networked Information 
(CNI), who guided CNI until his untimely death in 1996 and who was 
recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in 20th century 
librarianship in the American Libraries listing of December 1999.  The 
award program has been endowed by the Association of Research 
Libraries, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.

For more information see the award website at:
http://www.educause.edu/PaulEvanPetersAward/852

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart
Communications Coordinator
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
202-296-5098
202-872-0884 (Fax)
diane@cni.org