Dear Colleagues:

I am very proud to be able to tell you that yesterday Adam Chandler and 
Oliver Pesch, who co-chair the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting 
Initiative (http://www.niso.org/committees/SUSHI/SUSHI_comm.html) were 
notified that they have been chosen to receive the ALCTS Outstanding 
Collaboration Citation for 2008. As described on the website, SUSHI is "an 
automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic 
resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework that can replace the 
user-mediated collection of usage data reports," and recently was officially 
recognized as ANSI-NISO standard Z39.93-2007. SUSHI has been supported from 
its inception by the DLF as part of the ERMI 2 project.

In her message notifying them of the award, Citation Committee Chair 
Gracemary Smulewitz noted that "The jury unanimously feels that your work 
represents a collaborative effort between industry and academia and strongly 
represents the criteria for the Citation. Your leadership in the development 
of the protocol was exceptional and the results have a universal impact on 
usage statistic measurement. It is an honor to recognize your 
contributions."

The award is a new one, and was awarded for the first time last year to the 
CLOCKSS project. According the the ALCTS website the award ". . . recognizes 
and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of 
acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library 
materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services, or 
products that improve and benefit providing and managing library 
collections."

Tim Jewell
ERMI 2 Project Coordinator

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Tim Jewell ([log in to unmask])
Director, Information Resources, Collections
    and Scholarly Communication
University of Washington Libraries, Box 352900
Seattle, WA  98195-2900
phone: 206-543-3890  fax: 206-685-8727
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