For immediate release:
March 11, 2008
For more information, contact:
Diane Goldenberg-Hart
Coalition for Networked Information
diane@cni.org
202-296-5098
Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has announced the 2008 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship. Applications are due by April 14, 2008.
The Paul Evan Peters Fellowship was established to honor and perpetuate the memory of CNI’s founding Executive Director. The fellowship is awarded every two years to a student pursuing graduate studies in librarianship, the information sciences, or a closely related field, who demonstrates intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, including:
commitment to use of digital information and advanced technology to enhance scholarship, intellectual productivity, and public life;
interest in the civic responsibilities of information professionals and a commitment to democratic values and government accountability;
positive and creative approach to overcoming personal, technological, and bureaucratic challenges; and
humor, vision, humanity, and imagination.
The fellowship is in the amount of $5,000 per year, to be awarded two consecutive years to a student in a graduate program.
Application information is available at http://www.cni.org/pepfellowship/.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations make up CNI’s members. CNI is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. Learn more about CNI at http://www.cni.org/.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.