For Immediate Release
Contact: Charles Wilt

April 1, 2008
Executive Director, ALCTS

312-280-5030

cwilt@ala.org

CHICAGO-The Collection Management and Development Section (CMDS) of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is
pleased to announce Tim Jewell,  director, information resources,
collections, and scholarly communication at the University of
Washington, Seattle, Wash., as the winner of the first annual Coutts
Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management.

The award recognizes significant and innovative contributions to
electronic collections management and development practice. The
recipient receives a $2,000 award generously donated by Coutts
Information Services and a citation. The award will be presented on
Sunday, June 29, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2008 American
Library Association (ALA) meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

Tim Jewell has a distinguished record of innovation in the field of
electronic resources management and is a key figure in the development
of initiatives and standards. His pioneering report, "Selection and
Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and
Practices," shed light on the ways that libraries were integrating
electronic resources into print collections.

Jewell was co-creator of the Web Hub for Developing Administrative
Metadata for Electronic Resources Management, a Web site that served as
a forum for electronic resources librarians to share information. He
conceived and co-directed the Digital Library Federation Electronic
Resource Management Initiative (ERMI), identifying the unique management
needs of electronic resources that were not being addressed by
traditional library management systems and  encouraging the development
of new systems for managing these resources. This work culminated in "
Electronic Resource Management: The Report of the DLF Initiative," an
innovative report, which outlined functional requirements and a
comprehensive model for managing electronic resources that is now used
by most major automation vendors.

Jewell also played a pivotal role in the development of the Standardized
Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), which was subsequently
approved as a NISO standard, and ONIX for Publications Licenses
(ONIX-PL). He continues to play a critical role developing new
initiatives, as evidenced in the recent publication of the DLF/ERMI
"White Paper on Interoperability between Acquisitions Modules of
Integrated Library Systems and Electronic Resource Management Systems,"
inspiring vendors to standardize the automatic transfer of acquisitions
information into an electronic resources management system from an
integrated library system.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is
the national association for information providers who work in
collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging,
collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital
and print formats.

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.