NOTE: ** = Required Field
**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning
Report
**Date:
**Committee Name:
Shirley Olofson Memorial Award Committee
**Supervising Board Member: Shelly McCoy
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Bob Wolverton, chair
**Committee members:
Robin Ewing, Michelle Fossum, Christiana French, Geoffrey Morse, Bob
Wolverton
**Committee Charge:
The charge of the committee is to select the recipient of the Shirley
Olofson Memorial Award.
**2004 - 2005 Project Description / Goals: The major goal for the committee this year is
to continue the online application and review process for the Olofson Award.
This began with the 2003-2004 award process and seemed to work well. We had an
excellent group of applicants last year and hope that will continue in
2004-2005.
**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): One objective of the committee this year is
to develop and use a formal rating scale to assist committee members in
evaluating each applicant on the award criteria. A scale has been developed by
Geoff Morse of our committee for this purpose and will be used this year.
Financial Report Section:
|
Your budget appropriation (see budget) |
a. $1,100.00 |
Amount which you have spent so far this year
|
b. $ 0.00 |
Your estimated additional expenses this year
|
c. $ 0.00 |
|
Total of amount spent and additional
"estimated" expenses for this year (b+c) |
d. $ 0.00 |
|
Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses
from above (a-d) |
e. $1,100.00 |
f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year
(either money or in-kind gifts), list here: No vendor support is planned or anticipated
for the year.
g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list,
what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations
Committee?) No vendor support has been requested.
h. Vendor support received: (From the above list,
what if any, has been received?) No vendor support has been received.
Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the
categories below, please include approximate date service needed)
a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation,
web database, web database, scripting, etc): Web support was needed to revise and update
the online application form for the Olofson Award. The Olofson Committee
members revised and updated the content of the form, and Steve Brantley of the
NMRT Web Committee worked on finalizing it for web access. The online
application form was ready for use by award applicants on
b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated
numbers needed and brief job description) No on-site conference volunteers will
be used by this committee.
c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other
discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): An
announcement of the Olofson Award was developed by Michelle Fossum of our
committee and sent to the editor of Footnotes for inclusion in their August
2004 newsletter. Tiana French of our committee developed an additional
announcement to be used in publicizing the award, and it was forwarded to
Cassandra Osterloh of the NMRT Publicity Committee, who submitted it to
library-related listservs and organizations beginning on
**Report submitted by: Bob Wolverton
**Email address: bwolverton@library.msstate.edu