About the Award
The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting international achievements related to high performance networks and the creation and use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.
This award is offered jointly by the Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE. It was developed in honor of Paul Evan Peters, founding director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), who guided CNI until his untimely death in 1996 and who was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in 20th century librarianship in the American Libraries listing of December 1999. CNI was formed in 1990 by the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and Educom to promote the creation and use of networked information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity; in 1998 CAUSE and Educom consolidated to form EDUCAUSE.
Award winners are recommended by a committee comprising representatives of ARL, CNI, and EDUCAUSE, and selected by the chief executives of the three organizations.
This award program has been endowed by the Association of Research Libraries, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.
Paul Evan Peters Award Winners
Award Selection Guidelines
Awards will be made to individuals who have met at least one of the following four criteria:
- Demonstrated a positive and lasting impact on scholarly communications through the implementation and/or use of advanced telecommunications networks
- Addressed a specific problem fundamental to scholarship, research, and intellectual productivity and provided an innovative solution using high performance network technology
- Helped increase awareness of the role of scholarly information and communication through dissemination of effective techniques using computing and information technologies
- Made a career-long contribution to the advancement of scholarly information and communications through the implementation and/or use of high performance communications networks
Recognition
Recipients of this award will receive a commemorative award and will be asked to present a major address at one of the CNI membership meetings. The winner will receive travel and housing expenses for that meeting.
Nominations
The Paul Evan Peters Award was presented, most recently, to Christine Borgman at CNI’s Spring 2011 Membership Meeting in San Diego, CA. Call for nominations for the next award will be announced on the CNI Web site and on CNI-ANNOUNCE shortly.
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