[Asis-l] ASIST Member Cal Lee Named First Winner of Paul Evan Peters Fellowship

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded from the Coalition for Networked Information.  Dick Hill]

Cal Lee Named First Winner of Paul Evan Peters Fellowship

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the 
selection of Christopher A. (Cal) Lee as the first recipient of the Paul 
Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or 
librarianship.  Mr. Lee is currently in the doctoral program at the 
University of Michigan's School of Information, having completed his 
master's degree at Michigan in 1999. The fellowship, which was established 
to honor the memory of CNI founding Executive Director, Paul Evan Peters, 
recognizes not only outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, but 
also civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination.

Mr. Lee, whose area of interest is electronic record keeping and 
preservation, has already made important contributions to the field of 
digital preservation as a research assistant for the CAMiLEON Project, a 
joint effort of the University of Michigan and Leeds University in England. 
He has applied his expertise in a variety of contexts, including developing 
an electronic records management program for the Kansas State Historical 
Society and acting as a consultant for the National Historical Publications 
and Records Commission (NHPRC).

In keeping with the fellowship's emphasis on civic responsibility and 
democratic values, Mr. Lee's contribution to the preservation and 
accessibility of records at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, South 
Africa, is especially noteworthy. The University of Fort Hare, which is the 
oldest black university in South Africa and was an important site of 
resistance to apartheid, has become the official repository for the records 
of the African National Congress and other key political organizations. Mr. 
Lee served as web master and technical advisor for the university in 1998, 
helping to preserve and make available irreplaceable historical records. 
His devotion to public service is also evident in his work as an AmeriCorps 
and VISTA volunteer in Puerto Rico in 1996-1997.

University of Michigan professor Margaret Hedstrom praises Mr. Lee's 
scholarship and the fact that he "is deeply concerned about the relevance 
of research to practitioners. " According to Dr. Hedstrom, Mr. Lee "shares 
his ideas and insights freely, and imagines many creative alternatives to 
technological and bureaucratic impediments." She emphasizes that his 
"humor, vision, humanity, and imagination" match those of Paul Evan Peters, 
in whose memory the fellowship was established.

A five-member committee selected Mr. Lee from a field of more than 130 
applicants. The committee included Wendy Pradt Lougee of the University of 
Minnesota, George Brett of Internet2,  DeEtta Jones of the Association of 
Research Libraries, and Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott of the Coalition 
for Networked Information. Lynch commented, "We had a fabulous pool of 
developing leaders among the applicants for the award; Cal Lee is an 
outstanding choice as first recipient of the fellowship. I know that Paul 
Peters would have been very pleased both by the pool and by Cal's selection."

About the Fellowship
The Paul Evan Peters Fellowship was established to honor and perpetuate the 
memory of the founding executive director of the Coalition for Networked 
Information. Funded by donations from Peters's colleagues, friends, and 
family, the fellowship provides a two-year award of $2,500 per year to a 
student who demonstrates intellectual and personal qualities consistent 
with those of Peters, including:


 A commitment to the use of networked information and advanced technology 
to enhance scholarship, intellectual productivity and public life;


 An interest in the civic responsibilities of networked information 
professionals, and a commitment to democratic values and government 
accountability;


 A positive and creative approach to overcoming personal, technological, 
and bureaucratic challenges; and


 Humor, vision, humanity, and imagination.

The fellowship will be awarded next in August 2004, and applications will 
be available on the web site of the Coalition for Networked Information in 
the spring of 2004.

CNI is a coalition of some 200 institutions dedicated to supporting the 
transformative promise of networked information technology for the 
advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual 
productivity. The Coalition, which is sponsored by the Association of 
Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, is headquartered in Washington, DC.

For more information about the fellowship, please see the Coalition's web 
site at http://www.cni.org/pepfellowship/.

For further information, contact:
Shelley Sperry
Communications Coordinator
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle
Washington, DC 20036
shelley at cni.org
202-296-6567  ext. 135

Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
PHONE: (301) 495-0900

http://www.asis.org