I am delighted to share this call for nominations for the Paul Evan
Peters Award. The Committee would welcome your nominations, which do
not need to be elaborate. Details below.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award
DEADLINE: MARCH 3, 2017

The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting
international achievements related to information technology and the
creation and use of information resources and services that advance
scholarship and intellectual productivity. Past recipients have been
Donald A.B. Lindberg (2014), director of the National Library of
Medicine; Christine L. Borgman (2011), professor and Presidential Chair
in Information Studies, UCLA; Daniel E. Atkins (2008), inaugural
director of the National Science Foundation's Office of
Cyberinfrastructure; 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 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 (ARL), the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE, and selected by the chief executives
of the three organizations. Guidelines for submitting a nomination are
detailed below.

GUIDELINES

Awards will be made to individuals who have made a career-long
contribution to the advancement of scholarly information and
communications and who meet at least one and preferably more of the
following criteria:

1. Demonstrate a positive and lasting impact on scholarly
communications through the implementation and/or use of information
technology and networks, as evidenced by publication, the development
of environments for the dissemination of information, contributions in
the area of data stewardship, or other similar endeavors.
2. Address a specific problem fundamental to scholarship, research, and
intellectual productivity and provide an innovative solution using
information technology.
3. Help increase awareness of the role of scholarly information and
communication through dissemination of effective techniques using
computing and information technologies.

Send a ONE-TO-TWO-PAGE LETTERS OF NOMINATION, addressing how the
nominee meets one or more of the qualifications above, AND a bio of the
nominee (or URL pointer to biographical information) to:

PEP-Award@cni.org

DEADLINE: MARCH 3, 2017

Recipients of this award will receive a commemorative award and will be
asked to present a major address at a CNI membership meeting. This
award is offered jointly by ARL, CNI, and EDUCAUSE. It honors Paul Evan
Peters, founding director of the CNI, who guided the organization 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.

More information is at www.cni.org/go/pep-award/.