Coutts Award Winner Announced

["Quinn, Brian" <brian.quinn@ttu.edu>]

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Charles Wilt

April 1, 2008
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
cwilt@ala.org

Jewell inaugural recipient of Coutts Award for Innovation in 
Electronic Resources Management

CHICAGO The Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS) 
of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 
(ALCTS) is pleased to announce Tim Jewell, director, information 
resources, collections, and scholarly communication at the 
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., as the winner of the 
first annual Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources 
Management.

The award recognizes significant and innovative contributions to 
electronic collections management and development practice. The 
recipient receives a $2,000 award generously donated by Coutts 
Information Services and a citation. The award will be presented 
on Sunday, June 29, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2008 
American Library Association (ALA) meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

Tim Jewell has a distinguished record of innovation in the field 
of electronic resources management and is a key figure in the 
development of initiatives and standards. His pioneering report, 
Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic 
Resources: Issues and Practices, shed light on the ways that 
libraries were integrating electronic resources into print 
collections.

Jewell was co-creator of the Web Hub for Developing 
Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resources Management, a 
Web site that served as a forum for electronic resources 
librarians to share information. He conceived and co-directed the 
Digital Library Federation Electronic Resource Management 
Initiative (ERMI), identifying the unique management needs of 
electronic resources that were not being addressed by traditional 
library management systems and encouraging the development of new 
systems for managing these resources. This work culminated in 
Electronic Resource Management: The Report of the DLF Initiative, 
an innovative report, which outlined functional requirements and 
a comprehensive model for managing electronic resources that is 
now used by most major automation vendors.

Jewell also played a pivotal role in the development of the 
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), 
which was subsequently approved as a NISO standard, and ONIX for 
Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL). He continues to play a critical 
role developing new initiatives, as evidenced in the recent 
publication of the DLF/ERMI White Paper on Interoperability 
between Acquisitions Modules of Integrated Library Systems and 
Electronic Resource Management Systems, inspiring vendors to 
standardize the automatic transfer of acquisitions information 
into an electronic resources management system from an integrated 
library system.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 
(ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who 
work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, 
cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing 
resources in digital and print formats.

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
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