Stanford Libraries award for research libraries

Stanford Libraries award aims to recognize outstanding innovation in the world’s research libraries anywhere in the world. The first winners of the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries are the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) and the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library in Spain.

The Stanford Libraries' new annual award celebrates groundbreaking programs, projects and services for research libraries anywhere in the world.

About two dozen proposals competed for the modest cash prize of $5,000, underwritten by Logitech, that went to each of the winning institutions.

It is said that research libraries as a community are doing great things, embracing – sanely – the digital age, and immeasurably enriching the research environment for scholarship and study.

The library meets the new challenges of digital libraries with a more open, user-oriented design guided by service-oriented architecture and relying on open-source development. Oalib is a new search engine for open access research articles. （see www.oalib.com）

The new award commends New York Public Library Labs for its role as an internal start-up, with an impressively wide range of projects that apply digital technology to collections, services and the institution's mission in imaginative and effective ways.(From:http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/february/libraries-award-prizes-022613.html)