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Nominations sought for the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award

The LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Thomson Gale is awarded annually to recognize a librarian or library who demonstrates exemplary entrepreneurship by providing an innovative product(s) or service, designed to meet the needs of the library world through the skillful and practical application of information technology. The award was given out for the first time in 2004.

Deadline for nominations is December 1, 2004.

Candidates for the award will be selected based on the following criteria:

• effectiveness and adequate detail in the written application/nomination, including relevance and usefulness of the product/service to libraries,
• appropriate and creative use of information technology in its development, and
• significance of its contribution to the functioning of libraries and/or librarians.

Applications should evidence timeliness in product/service development, originality of ideas, persuasiveness of arguments, quality of writing, and clarity of presentation. Applications will include references with knowledge of the product/service who may be consulted by the Committee and potential sites which may be visited or queried.

The winner will receive $5,000 and a certificate. The winner may submit a descriptive summary of the entrepreneurial achievement for publication in a featured area of the LITA website.

Send nominations to Russ Bailey, the current chairperson of the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award Committee:

Russ Bailey - rbailey@email.uncc.edu
Associate University Librarian for Information Commons
J. Murrey Atkins Library
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001