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CAROLE MOORE WINNER OF THE 2008 CARL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO RESEARCH LIBRARIANSHIP
OTTAWA May 12, 2008 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL) recognized
Carole Moore, Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto, as the winner
of the 2008 CARL
award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship.
The award is presented annually to an individual at a CARL member institution
who has made a
substantial local, national or international contribution to research librarianship.
Ms. Moore
received the award for her outstanding and dynamic contributions to the
profession as a library
leader in a vast digital expansion of access to research literature in Canadian
universities.
Ms. Moore has been a key promoter of the digital preservation and dissemination
of Canadian
heritage publications and other public domain materials. Through her leadership,
the University
of Toronto Libraries have digitized thousands of books for contribution
to the Open Content
Alliance and to the Internet Archives. She was also one of the originators
of the groundbreaking
Canadian digitization program, AlouetteCanada (now part of Canadiana.org).
Ms. Moore has been a major player in collaborations among Canadian universities
to achieve
regional or national licenses for access to scholarly and scientific literature
collections for
Canadian researchers. Her role was indispensable in the success of the Canadian
National Site
Licencing Program (CNSLP—now the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
[CRKN]) and
the Ontario ScholarsPortal project, both of which have been a boon to Canadian
researchers and
the envy of those elsewhere.
Ms. Moore has also been a leader in the creation of a national infrastructure
for the open access
publication of Canadian research outputs through the Synergies project,
an initiative that has won
funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Highly engaged in the work of many library and publishing organizations,
both in Canada and
international, Ms. Moore has been President of the Canadian Association
of Research Libraries
and has served on the boards of such organizations as Library and Archives
Canada, the (North
American-wide) Association of Research Libraries, the Research Libraries
Group, the University
of Toronto Press, DSpace, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.
In presenting the Award, CARL President Leslie Weir stated, “The amazing
contributions to
Canadian research libraries and the Canadian research enterprise that Carole
Moore has made
owe much to her broad and generous vision and her strong collaborative instincts:
we have all
benefited from the projects that she has so skillfully championed and led.”
Micromedia ProQuest has generously sponsored 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:
Brent Roe
Executive Director
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(613) 562-5385
carl@uottawa.ca
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