IFRT accepting nominations for 2014 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award

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CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2014 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award. The John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award honors intellectual freedom fighters in and outside the library profession who have demonstrated remarkable personal courage in resisting censorship. The award consists of $500 and a citation. Individuals, a group of individuals or an organization are eligible for the award. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 1, 2013.

John Phillip Immroth was a teacher, author, scholar, advocate and defender of First Amendment rights.  He was the founder and first chair of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table in 1973.  His impact on the ideal of intellectual freedom and its practice was great.

The Immroth nomination form is available on the ALA website. Nominations and supporting evidence should be sent to:  Shumeca Pickett, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 312-280-4220 or 800-545-2433, ext. 4220. Fax: 312-280-4227. E-mail: spickett@ala.org

The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) provides a forum for the discussion of activities, programs and problems in intellectual freedom of libraries and librarians; serves as a channel of communications on intellectual freedom matters; promotes a greater opportunity for involvement among the members of the ALA in defense of intellectual freedom; promotes a greater feeling of responsibility in the implementation of ALA policies on intellectual freedom.  

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IFRT accepting nominations for 2014 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award

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CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) is seeking nominations for its 2014 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award. The biennial award is presented for the best published work in the area of intellectual freedom and consists of $500 and a citation. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 1, 2013.

The award was named for Eli M. Oboler, the extensively published Idaho State University librarian known as a “champion of intellectual freedom who demanded the dismantling of all barriers to freedom of expression.”  Works to be considered for the award may be single articles (including review pieces), a series of thematically connected articles, books or manuals published on the local, state or national level in English or English translation. The work must have been published within the two-year period ending the December prior to the ALA Annual Conference at which it is granted. The 2014 award is for work published between 2012 and 2013.

The Oboler nomination form is available on the ALA website. Nominations and supporting evidence should be sent to:  Shumeca Pickett, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Telephone: 312-280-4220 or 800-545-2433, ext. 4220. Fax: 312-280-4227. Email: spickett@ala.org.

The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) provides a forum for the discussion of activities, programs and problems in intellectual freedom of libraries and librarians; serves as a channel of communications on intellectual freedom matters; promotes a greater opportunity for involvement among the members of the ALA in defense of intellectual freedom; promotes a greater feeling of responsibility in the implementation of ALA policies on intellectual freedom.  

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Win $1,000 with the MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens

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CHICAGO — YALSA members who have run an exceptional reading or literature program in the 12 months leading up to Dec. 1, 2013 are eligible to apply for the MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens, which recognizes an outstanding reading or literature program for young adults.

Do you run a spectacular teen book club that engages underserved audiences? Did your summer reading program or literature festival connect teens with literature in an innovative way? Have you connected teens to literature or helped them gain literacy skills via some other exciting means?  If so, you could win $500 for yourself and an additional $500 for your library by applying for award.  Individual library branches may apply.

The MAE Award is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust. Applications and additional information about the award are available online.  Applications must be submitted online by Dec. 1, 2013. For questions about the award, please contact the jury chair, Laurie Amster-Burton (laurieab@gmail.com).  The winner will be announced the week of Feb. 9, 2014.

Not a member of YALSA yet? It's not too late to join so you can be eligible for this award. You can do so by contacting YALSA’s Membership Marketing Specialist, Letitia Smith, at lsmith@ala.org or (800) 545-2433, ext. 4390. Recognize the great work you are doing to bring teens together with literature and apply today.

For more than 50 years, YALSA has worked to build the capacity of libraries and librarians to engage, serve and empower teens.  For more information about YALSA or to access national guidelines and other resources go to www.ala.org/yalsa, or contact the YALSA office by phone, (800) 545-2433, ext. 4390, or e-mail, yalsa@ala.org.

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Nominations sought for prestigious research award

Nominations sought for prestigious research award | News & Press Center Skip to main content #header { background-image: url("http://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/ala-header-long.png"); } ALA User Menu My AccountALAALA ConnectContact ALAGiveALAJoin/RenewLogin Search form Search ala homepage quick links CommitteesALA & Council CommitteesDivision CommitteesJoint CommitteesRound Table CommitteesSpecial CommitteesVolunteer FormsDivisionsAmerican Association of School Librarians (AASL)Assn. for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)Assn. for Library Service to Children (ALSC)Assn. of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)Assn. of Specialized & Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)Library & Information Technology Assn. (LITA)Library Leadership & Management Assn. (LLAMA)Public Library Assn. (PLA)Reference & User Services Assn. (RUSA)United for LibrariesYoung Adult Library Services Assn. (YALSA)OfficesChapter Relations Office (CRO)Conference ServicesDevelopmentFinance & AccountingGovernanceHuman ResourcesInformation Technology & Telecommunication Services (ITTS)International Relations Office (IRO)LibraryMember & Customer Service (MACS)Membership DevelopmentOffice for AccreditationOffice for DiversityOffice for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR)Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP)Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)Office for Library Advocacy (OLA)Office for Literacy & Outreach (OLOS)Office for Research & Statistics (ORS)Office of Government Relations (OGR)Public Information Office (PIO)Public Programs Office (PPO)PublishingStaff Support ServicesWashington Office (WO)Round TablesEthnic & Multicultural (EMIERT)Exhibits (ERT)Federal & Armed Forces Libraries (FAFLRT)Games & Gaming (GameRT)Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender (GLBTRT)Government Documents (GODORT)Intellectual Freedom (IFRT)International Relations (IRRT)Learning (LearnRT)Library History (LHRT)Library Instruction (LIRT)Library Research (LRRT)Library Support Staff Interests (LSSIRT)Map & Geospatial Information (MAGIRT)New Members (NMRT)Retired Members Round Table (RMRT)Social Responsibilities (SRRT)Staff Organizations (SORT)Sustainability (SustainRT)Video (VRT)PublicationsALA Award & Notable SealsALA Mail List RentalALA StoreAmerican Libraries MagazineBooklistSubscription Order FormRelated@ your libraryALA-Allied Professional AssociationAmerican Libraries Buyers GuideDonate (giveALA)Freedom to Read FoundationI Love LibrariesLegislative Action CenterLibraryCareers.orgMerritt Humanitarian FundProgramming LibrarianRead Write Connect Right Nav Contact CongressFeedback You are at: ALA.org  » NEWS  » Nominations sought for prestigious research award !Left Navigation: News & Press Center ALA Press ReleasesPress CenterPress Credential GuidelinesPress KitsState of America's Libraries Report 2013State of America's Library Report ArchiveSubmit News Items to ALAOp-edsRecent Media Coverage Share this page:Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on StumbleUponShare on RedditShare on DiggShare on LinkedInShare on Google+Share on PinterestShare on TumblrMore Options Send via email  Print  Cite  Nominations sought for prestigious research award  Subscribe

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Contact: Mary Taylor Executive Director Library Information Technology Association (LITA) 312-280-4267 mtaylor@ala.org

CHICAGO — Nominations are invited for the 2014 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).  The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2013.

The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to the development of information technologies, in particular research which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information or how information and data are manipulated and managed.  The Kilgour award consists of $2,000 cash, an award citation and an expense paid trip (airfare and two nights lodging) to the ALA Annual Conference.

Nominations will be accepted from any member of the American Library Association.  Nominating letters must address how the research is relevant to libraries; is creative in its design or methodology; builds on existing research or enhances potential for future exploration; and/or solves an important current problem in the delivery of information resources.  A curriculum vita and a copy of several seminal publications by the nominee must be included.  Preference will be given to completed research over work in progress. More information and a list of previous winners can be found at www.lita.org.

Currently-serving officers and elected officials of LITA, members of the Kilgour Award Committee and OCLC employees and their immediate family members are ineligible.

The 2014 Frederick G. Kilgour Award Committee includes Erik Mitchell, chair, Brett Bonfield, past-chair, Rebecca Mugridge, and Kebede Wordofa, members, and, Roy Tennant, OCLC liaison. More information about the Committee is available at http://www.ala.org/lita/involve/committees/kilgour/lit-awoclckil .

            The following distinguished people have received the award to date:

Karen Markey Drabenstott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1998Dean K. Jue, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., 1999Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2000Marcia Bates, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 2001Carol C. Kuhlthau, Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J., 2002Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, N.M., 2003Carl Lagoze, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 2004William E. Moen, University of North Texas , Denton, Texas, 2005Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College, Boston, 2006Richard Pearce-Moses, Arizona State Library, 2007Dr. Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2008William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009Dr. John Willinsky, Stanford University, 2010Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason University, 2011G Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University, 2012Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress, 2013

More information about the Award is available at http://www.ala.org/lita/awards/kilgour.

Send nominations by Dec. 31, 2013, to the Award jury chair: Erik Mitchell, 255 Doe Library, MC 6000, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 or emitchell@berkeley.edu . 

The  Kilgour Research Award will be presented at the LITA President’s Program on June 29 during the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas.

 

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About LITA

LITA is the leading organization reaching out across types of libraries to provide education and services for a broad membership including systems librarians, library administrators, library schools, vendors and many others interested in leading edge technology and applications for librarians and information providers.  For more information, visit www.lita.org, or contact the LITA office by phone, 800-545-2433, ext. 4268; or e-mail: lita@ala.org

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Quakesim and NASA Mobile App Win NASA Software Award

The total ground deformation caused by a simulated magnitude 8.0 earthquake on the San Andreas fault. This is the largest event from a 30,000 year interacting earthquake fault simulation using QuakeSim's Virtual California. Instead of mimicking an exact series of observed events, Virtual California simulations create a large catalog of possible earthquake sequences. Image Credit - University of California, Davis
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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting and our understanding of earthquake processes, and NASA's first mobile application are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award. The award recognizes innovative software technologies that significantly improve the agency's exploration of space and maximize scientific discovery on Earth.

QuakeSim, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art software tool for simulating and understanding earthquake fault processes and improving earthquake forecasting. Initiated in 2002, QuakeSim uses NASA remote sensing and other earthquake-related data to simulate and model the behavior of faults in 3-D both individually and as part of complex, interacting systems. This provides long-term histories of fault behavior that can be used for statistical evaluation. QuakeSim also is used to identify regions of increased earthquake probabilities called hotspots.

Studies have shown QuakeSim to be the most accurate tool of its kind for intermediate earthquake forecasting and detecting the subtle, transient deformation in Earth's crust that precedes and follows earthquakes. Its varied applications include scientific studies, developing earthquake hazard maps that can be used for targeted retrofitting of earthquake-vulnerable structures, providing input for damage and loss estimates after earthquakes, guiding disaster response efforts, and studying fluid changes in reservoirs, among others.

QuakeSim provides model and analysis tools, computational infrastructure, access to data and an interface for understanding the complete cycle of earthquakes. The software assimilates data of crustal deformation that leads to and follows earthquakes, together with seismicity data of earthquakes and geologic data. QuakeSim's integrated, map-based interfaces and applications make an unprecedented amount of complex geophysical data from the ground, air and space available and accessible to a broad range of scientists and end users, including emergency responders, commercial disaster companies, the insurance industry and civil engineers. The software allows them to explore and analyze observations, model earthquake processes and analyze patterns to focus attention and identify significant and/or subtle features in the data.

QuakeSim has had a number of notable accomplishments to date. It produced the first readily accessible set of digital fault models of California. It was used to identify regions in extreme southern California at risk for earthquakes, guiding the collection of data by NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) prior to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Baja, Mexico in 2010, which led to the first-ever airborne radar images of deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake. It helped define NASA's planned synthetic aperture radar satellite mission. It was used to rule out tectonic deformation of Earth's surface as a factor when a spate of water pipe breaks afflicted Los Angeles in 2009. The software also was used in several recent government earthquake response exercises, including the 2008 California ShakeOut, 2011 National Level Exercise and the 2012 Golden Guardian Exercise. QuakeSim approaches are being adopted by numerous organizations, including the Southern California Earthquake Center, United States Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey.

The multidisciplinary QuakeSim team includes principal investigator Andrea Donnellan, Jay Parker, Robert Granat, Charles Norton and Greg Lyzenga of JPL; Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce of Indiana University, Bloomington; John Rundle of the University of California, Davis; Dennis McLeod of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Lisa Grant Ludwig of the University of California, Irvine.

Software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., developed the NASA App for mobile platforms including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android phones and tablets.

The NASA App currently has more than 9.6 million user installations and receives more than three million hits per day on average.

The NASA App gathers the agency's online content, breaking news, image and video collections, news and image feeds, social media accounts, and more in one easy-to-use location that aids public access to science, technology and engineering discoveries. The app's creators are program manager Jerry Colen, software engineer John Freitas and new media specialist Charles Du.

A NASA software advisory panel reviews Software of the Year entries and recommends winners to NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board for confirmation. Both Ames and JPL have won individually or shared the award several times since it was initiated in 1994.

For more information about QuakeSim, visit: http://www.quakesim.org . For more information about NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board, visit: http://icb.nasa.gov . For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov .

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.

Alan Buis 818-354-0474
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov

Rachel Hoover 650-604-4789
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.           
rachel.hoover@nasa.gov

Sonja Alexander 202-358-1761
NASA Headquarters, Washington
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

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2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients

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Winners of the annual 2008 Lew Allen Award for Excellence receive research funding and commemorative plaques.

The Lew Allen Award for Excellence was created to recognize and encourage significant individual accomplishments or leadership in scientific research or technological innovation by JPL employees during the early years of their professional careers.

The award consists of a wall plaque and an award of $25,000 from the JPL Research and Technology Development Fund (R&TD) to be used at JPL to enhance the professional efforts of the awardee. The award is to be used at JPL in a manner consistent with the objectives and fiscal year constraints of the R&TD.

The 2008 winners of this award were:

Hui Su (Ph.D. 1998): Hui was selected for major advances in the understanding of water vapor and cloud feedbacks on climate change through quantitative analyses of relationships between upper tropospheric humidity, clouds, and sea surface temperature using satellite remote sensing data, meteorological analyses, and general circulation and radiative transfer models.Ioannis Mikellides (Ph.D. 1999): Ioannis was selected for the development of outstanding computational models of the plasma physics in electric propulsion hollow cathodes, and of their major wear mechanisms, which have excelled JPL to the forefront of Electric Propulsion Life Modeling worldwide.Pekka Kangaslahti (Ph.D. 1999): Pekka was selected for demonstrating world leadership in the fields of monolithic microwave integrated circuit design and millimeter-wave component development, capabilities which enable new missions in Earth Science, Astrophysics and Planetary Exploration.Kiri L. Wagstaff (Ph.D. 2002): Kiri was chosen for advancing the performance and application of machine learning methods to onboard and ground-based space science, Earth science and spacecraft engineering.

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NASA's JPL, Ames Win 2007 NASA Software of Year Award

This before/after image shows how the JPL software allows control of distortions to correct aberrations in light. Image credit: NASA/JPL July 22, 2008

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA has selected the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., as one of two winners of the agency's 2007 Software of the Year Award for software to help detect planets outside our solar system.

JPL's software, called Adaptive Modified Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval, characterizes the optical errors in a telescope system using innovative and robust algorithms. The software may be integrated into a telescope's calibration control loops to correct those errors and markedly improve optical resolution. JPL's software can be applied to other sciences and systems that use light, such as laser communications and extrasolar planet detection.

The other award went to software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who developed the Data-Parallel Line Relaxation, or DPLR, which is used to analyze and predict the extreme environments human and robotic spacecraft experience during super high-speed entries into planetary atmospheres.

JPL's software is already used at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory, in northern San Diego County. The software played a significant role in designing next-generation telescopes such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2013.

A eight-person team from JPL is responsible for the Adaptive Modified Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval Software: Scott Basinger, Siddarayappa Bikkannavar, David Cohen, Joseph Green, John Lou, Catherine Ohara, David Redding and Fang Shi.

Early work for the software was based on efforts to correct the vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. After initial images came back blurry, engineers worked for months to determine the problem. Eventually, astronauts traveled to the telescope to install a corrective lens based on telescope-imaging errors.

"Several years ago, it took teams of experts months to agree on a correct prescription for a telescope lens," said team member Siddarayappa Bikkannavar. "Our software can do all of that in just a few minutes."

David Redding said he and his team have worked since the mid-1990s to develop the innovative software, and they are gratified to receive recognition for it.

Ames Research Center's DPLR software simulates the intense heating, shear stresses and pressures a spacecraft endures as it travels through atmospheres to land on Earth or other planets. It is capable of creating a highly accurate, simulated entry environment that exceeds the capability of any test facility on Earth, allowing engineers to design and apply thermal protection materials suited to withstand such intense heating environments.

The DPLR team members include Michael J. Wright, James Brown, David Hash, Matt MacLean, Ryan McDaniel, David Saunders, Chun Tang and Kerry Trumble.

The NASA Software of the Year Award was initiated in 1994. Since then, both JPL and Ames have won or have been co-winner of the award seven times, including three out of the past four years.

A NASA Software Advisory Panel reviews entries and recommends winners to NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board for confirmation. Entries are nominated for developing innovative technologies that significantly improve the agency's exploration of space and maximize scientific discovery.

More information about NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board is at: http://icb.nasa.gov .

More information about JPL is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov. More information about NASA is at: http://www.nasa.gov .

Media contacts: Rhea Borja 818-354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Rachel Prucey 650-604-0643
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Sonja Alexander 202-358-1761
NASA Headquarters, Washington
Sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

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