CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

We will be conducting nominations in the same manner as last year. There will be two categories – individual employees and groups.

Please note that any library employee – supervisors, co-workers, staff, and colleagues, may make nominations. No form is necessary. One need only to complete the nomination form that is on the Performance Recognition Awards website at:

http://www.nd.edu/~libstaff/recognition/index.shtml

You can also send a brief note to Kristi Flaherty, the Library’s Human Resources Officer, by November 15, 2002. For individual nominees, the letter should name the nominee, the nominee’s department or unit, and describe the reason for the nomination. For group nominations, it is important to list all members of the group. To help the reviewers evaluate the nomination, please offer some examples that illustrate the excellence of performance for which the individual or group is being nominated.

The guidelines for nomination are:

· All individual library and staff are eligible for these awards except for individuals currently under corrective action.

· Any employee may nominate any other employee, but no employee should nominate more than two individuals and two groups.

· No individual may win an individual award in two consecutive years, but a person can win and be part of a winning group at any time. This means that an individual may win an individual award in the same year that he/she is honored as part of a group or in the year preceding or following the group award.

· Group awards are for any formal or informal team of two or more people who worked on a common project or who achieved a shared accomplishment. Groups may include official committees, working groups, and teams (including those with non-library members), units, and unofficial groups of individuals who have worked together on a specific project or on resolving a recognized problem.

This year, we will not notify nominees before the ceremony. If you do not want to be considered for an award, please notify Kristi Flaherty by November 15th and your wishes will be honored.

Nominations will be reviewed by a committee composed of one member of LEC (Jo Bessler), last year’s individual award winners (Marilyn Bierwagen, Ross Fergerson, Tom Hanstra, Joni Kanzler, Sandy Stellema, and Marsha Stevenson) and the Library’s Human Resources Officer, Kristi Flaherty.

Lastly, individuals are welcome to submit announcements about their own extramural accomplishments – such as new degrees, publications, starring roles, and non-work related awards or those of a colleague.

Every year, many individuals throughout the University Libraries make heroic efforts to streamline operations, master new technologies, and to enhance services. Some contributions are easily noted and appreciated by the public. Others can only be fully understood in the same unit possessing similar expertise. I encourage each of you to alert the Review Committee to the individual achievements that you have seen this year and to help us acknowledge these outstanding accomplishments.

Jennifer Younger
Edward H. Arnold Director of University Libraries