[Asis-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Chris Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award at April CNI Meeting, San Diego

[Richard Hill]

Christine Borgman is a past winner of the ASIST awards: Book of the Year (2
times, 2008 and 2001), Best JASIST Paper (’96), and the Doctoral Forum
Award.

Dick Hill

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

UCLA Professor Christine Borgman to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award

Washington, DC - February 14, 2011 - The Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased
to announce that Christine L. Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in
Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has
been named the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award. The award
recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use
of information resources and services that advance scholarship and
intellectual productivity through communication networks.
 
Named for CNI’s founding director, the award will be presented during the
CNI Membership Meeting in San Diego, CA to be held April 4–5, 2011, where
Borgman will deliver the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture. Previous award
recipients include Daniel Atkins (2008), Paul Ginsparg (2006), Brewster
Kahle (2004), Vinton Cerf (2002), and Tim Berners-Lee (2000).

One facet of Borgman’s work that was particularly compelling for the award
committee was her wide-ranging research interests, which focus “not only on
the new technologies, but, just as importantly, on the underlying social and
policy changes that she describes as profound and having lasting effects on
the future scholarly environment,” noted committee member Nancy Eaton of
Pennsylvania State University.

“It's a delight to see my colleague Chris get this recognition for her work;
in particular, at least for me, her books Scholarship in the Digital Age and
>From Gutenberg to Global Information Infrastructure capture and elucidate a
tremendous amount of the intellectual agenda and context that has driven the
work of CNI,” commented CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch. “Indeed, it's
particularly appropriate in that these are issues and ideas that the late
Paul Peters, whose contributions we also commemorate through this award,
cared deeply about.” 

A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
Borgman’s current research clusters in two areas. One area is empirical
research on the creation, use, and management of scientific data and its
implications for science policy, which is associated with the Center for
Embedded Networked Sensing. Her second area of interest is analytical work
on the changing nature of scholarship in an environment of ubiquitous
computer networks and digital information. She has authored more than 200
publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and
communication, and both of Borgman’s monographs have received the American
Society for Information Science and Technology Best Information Science Book
of the Year award. 

Borgman has served on numerous national boards and committees throughout her
career, including the Task Force on Cyberlearning for the National Science
Foundation (NSF), for which she was chair. Currently, Borgman is a member of
the US National Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information and the US
National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), as well as
serving as a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems
(CENS), an NSF Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data
practices research.

“Chris has an impressive range of accomplishments including her widely read
publications on digital libraries, her pioneering work in the areas of
e-science and data stewardship, and her participation on national advisory
groups,” remarked ARL Executive Director Charles Lowry. “As a faculty member
at UCLA, she is preparing a new generation of information professionals who
will have the skills needed to advance scholarship in the digital
environment.”

EDUCAUSE President Diana Oblinger also noted, “Having had the chance to work
with Chris as a member of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning, I have seen
firsthand how effectively she frames and navigates emerging issues in the
use of technology to advance teaching, learning, and research. I cannot
imagine a finer candidate for the Paul Evans Peters Award, and I am pleased
that EDUCAUSE can join with CNI and ARL in recognizing her contributions to
higher education.”

A four-member committee selected Borgman for the award: Marjory Blumenthal,
Associate Provost, Academic, at Georgetown University; Nancy Eaton, Dean
Emeritus of University Libraries at Pennsylvania State University; William
Hogue, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information
Officer of the University of South Carolina;  and Joan Lippincott, Associate
Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.

CNI, ARL, and EDUCAUSE sponsor the Paul Evan Peters Award, which was
established with additional funding from Microsoft and Xerox Corporations.
The award honors the memory and accomplishments of Paul Evan Peters
(1947–1996). Peters was a visionary and a coalition builder in higher
education and the world of scholarly communication. He led CNI from its
founding in 1990 with informed insight, exuberant direction, eloquence, and
awareness of the needs of its varied constituencies of librarians,
technologists, publishers, and others in the digital world.

CNI is a coalition of some 200 member institutions dedicated to supporting
the transformative promise of networked information technology for the
advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual
productivity. ARL is an organization of 126 research libraries in the US and
Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly
communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the
diverse communities they serve. An association with more than 2,200 members,
EDUCAUSE actively engages with colleges, universities, corporations,
foundations, government, and other nonprofit organizations to further the
mission of higher education through the use of information technology.

For more information, visit the award Web site at
http://www.educause.edu/PaulEvanPetersAward/852.

Contact:
Diane Goldenberg-Hart
diane at cni.org
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Ph:  202-296-5098