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BRIAN OWEN WINNER OF THE 2007 CARL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO RESEARCH LIBRARIANSHIP
TORONTO, September 26, 2007 – The Canadian Association of Research
Libraries (CARL) recognized Mr. Brian Owen, Simon Fraser University, as
the winner of the 2007 CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research
Librarianship. The Award was made to mark Mr. Owen’s technical and
project leadership in a number of flagship projects that have benefited
Canada’s research and library communities.
The Award is presented annually to an individual at a CARL-member institution who has made a substantial local, national and/or international contribution to research librarianship.
Mr. Owen was instrumental in developing the successful Synergies proposal that led to an award from the Canada Foundation of Innovation that will help establish a national online publishing system for Canadian scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
He is actively involved in a three-way partnership between the University of British Columbia’s Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Simon Fraser University Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, and the Simon Fraser University Library. This has resulted most recently in the release of a major new version of Open Journal Systems – now used by over 400 journals in six languages. Mr. Owen was conference director of the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference held in July, 2007. He also led technical development of the Software @ SFU Library initiative
Brian Owen has served as a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network Negotiations Resource Team. This team gained international recognition for the development of a model licence for use in negotiations with publishers.
As a member of the Steering Committee for the B.C. Public Libraries Services Branch Gateway Project, Mr. Owen has helped design a province wide online public library services.
In presenting the Award CARL President Leslie Weir stated: “Brian Owen is a talented manager and administrator; a superb team player; an innovative problem solver; and he’s always quick to share his knowledge and expertise with his colleagues. It is in recognition of Mr. Owen’s diverse interests and talents that the research library community of Canada honours him today.”
Micromedia ProQuest sponsors the CARL Award for Distinguished Service to
Research
Librarianship. Micromedia ProQuest is Canada’s leading publisher and
distributor of proprietary
and third-party financial, bibliographic, and directory database products
for the corporate and
library markets.
CARL is the leadership organization for the Canadian research library community.
The Association’s members are the 27 major academic research libraries
across Canada, Library and Archives Canada, the Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information (CISTI) and the Library of Parliament.
Further information:
Timothy Mark
Executive Director
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(613) 562-5385
carl@uottawa.ca
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