The award is presented to a library science student who has submitted an outstanding paper regarding the use of information technology. The award includes student membership in SLA for one year, a travel stipend to attend the SLA Annual Conference, and publication of their article in the Division’s bulletin, b/ITe.

Recipients

2012 - Wayne Pender, Metadata for Video: Too Much Content, Not Enough Information
2011 – Adrienne Smith, Metadata 2.0: Folksonomy Tagging for Online Resources
2010 – not awarded
2009 – Stephanie Buck, Emerging Technology: Libraries in the Cloud
2008 – Isreal Yáñez, Information Commons in Academic Libraries
2007 – Nancy Bronte Matheny, Forging Cultural Digital Collections Online: The Story of An American Tale
2006 – David W. Martin, The I WANT Digital Library
2005 – Kristin Yiotis, The Open Archives Initiative and Eprints Repositories
2004 – Zoe Friedlander, Digital Rights Management and For-Profit Libraries
2003 – Christine Wysocki, Creating Opportunities for Growth in Technology