Samuel Swett Green Award Submission Deadline

[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 October 18th at 12:00 Midnight US Pacific Time to be considered
for the November Award.

Elizabeth J. Cronin of the Ocean County (NJ) Toms River Branch is the winner
of August’s award, and you can see her transcript at
http://vrhome.virtualreference.net/greenaward.htm
<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 including:  Marie Radford (Pratt Institute), Marianne Sweet
(SJRLC), James Rettig (University of Richmond), Tracy Strobel (Clevenet),
Ilene Rockman(Editor, Reference Services Review), Barbara Quint (Editor,
Searcher Magazine), Amy VanScoy (NCSU) and Steve Coffman (LSSI).  John
Richardson, UCLA Professor of Information Studies and Associate Dean,
Graduate Division at UCLA, will chair this distinguished panel and will
maintain the single blind review status of the award.

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
<http://purl.org/net/checklist>  and then submit their transcript online
using our electronic submission form at
http://vrhome.virtualreference.net/greenaward.htm
<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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