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Nominations Announced for 4th Annual WebFeat President’s Awards for Innovation
30 Libraries Honored for Innovation in Federated Search System
Old Brookville, NY, December 19, 2006 — WebFeat President Todd Miller announced today the nominations for the 4th Annual WebFeat President’s Awards for Innovation. The awards recognize innovation in design and function in WebFeat clients’ state-of-the-art information systems. Winners will be announced at the annual President’s Awards Dinner ceremony to be held Saturday, January 20th, during the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
The WebFeat President’s Awards are presented to the libraries with the most innovative federated search systems in each of three categories—Academic Libraries, Public Libraries, and Statewide/Multi-library networks. This year’s nominees are:
Allegany County Library System
Bethel University
Bowdoin College
Brigham Young University
Brooklyn Public Library
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Cornell University
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Dartmouth College
Drake University
Gwinnett County Public Library
Hawaii State Public Library System
Illinois State University
INSPIRE (Indiana’s Online Research Library)
King County Library System
Las Vegas Clark County Library District
LINC (Library Integrated Network Consortium – Illinois)
LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
Louisiana State University
Northern Arizona University
Northumbria University
Phoenix Public Library
Pima County Public Library
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Queens Library
SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network)
State University of New York, New Paltz
Tacoma Public Library
University of Edinburgh
University of Southern California
The invitation-only festivities will take place with a private affair at Cascadia Restaurant – recently recognized by Bon Appetit Magazine, Esquire Magazine, Gourmet Magazine, the New York Times, Town & Country Magazine and Seattle Magazine as one of the top restaurants in Seattle. Award nominees represent the top innovators among the more than 5,000 leading academic, public, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers that use WebFeat.
Past award recipients include: Boston Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Denver Public Library, GALILEO, King County Library System, OPLIN (the Ohio Public Library Information Network), Princeton University, San Francisco Public Library, SEFLIN, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Pittsburgh. Read more about the 2006 WebFeat President’s Awards and view photos at http://webfeat.org/releases/4Jan06_Awards06.htm.
Todd Miller, President of WebFeat, commented, "In partnership with WebFeat, all of the libraries nominated have crafted cutting-edge information systems to meet the specific needs of the communities they serve. Despite the diversity of institutions represented by this year’s group of nominees, they all embrace innovation in the course of creating information systems to serve their users."
About WebFeat
WebFeat (U.S. patent #6,807,539) is the developer of the WebFeat Search Prism, used by over 5,000 leading public, academic, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers—including over half of the 20 largest U.S. public libraries, 12 statewide library systems, and one out of every 10 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions .
WebFeat offers next-generation federated search tools to meet the needs of any library. Products include: The WebFeat Custom and WebFeat Express search prisms, WebFeat Enterprise Edition for multi-library networks and SMART™, WebFeat’s COUNTER-compliant usage tracker. The WebFeat Express International Edition supports 8 languages, enabling users to dynamically change language displays. Originally founded in 1992 as an information technology consultancy, WebFeat has earned industry recognition from leading organizations such as Library Journal and the Gartner Group. Learn more about WebFeat at http://www.webfeat.org.
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