Schaffer Library has won the Be Innovative! Award for “Most Innovative Public Access Application” from Innovative Interfaces, Inc., a producer of integrated library systems software, and officers of the Innovative Users Group.
The award recognizes the overall design of the Library's website and custom features such as the new acquisitions list, thesis search capability, and interactive maps as well as the Library's “effective and creative use” of Innovative Interfaces products.
Thirty-nine library sites were entered in the competition.
Judging was by a panel of representatives from Innovative and officers of the IUG.
David Fuller, systems librarian and chair of the Library Web Opac Committee, accepted the award at the IUG Conference in San Francisco. He also presented an invited poster session with Bruce Connolly, reference librarian, titled “Mainstreaming Millennium: Positioning the Web Opac at the Center of the Research Process.” Lorie Wies, acquisitions librarian, and Gail Golderman, electronic media librarian and chair of the Library Web Design Committee, presented a poster session on “From Access to Electronic Resource Management.”