Samuel Swett Green Award Competition Announcement

[Louise Stewart]

Friends, colleagues and fellow librarians,


A reminder to the growing number of virtual reference librarians around the
world, that the deadline for the next LSSI / Samuel Swett Green Award for
Exemplary Virtual Reference Service is coming right up. Transcripts must be
submitted by January 3rd, 2003, 12:00 Midnight US Pacific Time to be
considered for the January Award.


Janette Shaffer of the University of Nebraska’s Medical Center Library is
the winter of the November’s award, and you can see her transcript at
http://vrhome.virtualreference.net/greenaward.htm


LSSI established the Samuel Swett Green Award to recognize the efforts of
individual librarians who have provided exemplary virtual reference service
and to help foster and encourage the development of the highest standards of
quality in live online reference.


The Award is for $500 US, and is named in honor of Samuel Swett Green, the
founder of reference services in the United States.  It is presented
quarterly to the librarian who submits the best virtual reference transcript
for that period.


Transcripts are judged by panel of distinguished practitioners and
researchers and chaired by Dr. John Richardson, UCLA Professor of
Information Studies and Associate Dean, Graduate Division at UCLA.


In selecting the best electronic transcript of a chat or live and real time
transaction (but not an email transaction), the panel considers relevant
quality factors such as accuracy of the answer, user as well as librarian
satisfaction, and utility of the answer to the user.  Submitters should
review the panel's checklist at http://purl.org/net/checklist and then
submit their transcript online using our electronic submission form at
http://vrhome.virtualreference.net/greenaward.htm. Please be sure to include
all information requested in the checklist and to remove all personal
information (both the patron's and the librarian's) from your transcript
before you submit it.


Candidates may send only one transcript per award period.  The competition
is open to all reference staff using any 'live' virtual reference software
that can produce an electronic transcript; in other words, it is not just
for librarians using LSSI Virtual Reference software.


Sincerely,
The Samuel Swett Green Award Team







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