Awards

Joanne R. Hugi Excellence Award

Applying for an Excellence Award

 

About the Excellence Award
The goal of the Excellence Award is to recognize and share information about outstanding IT practices among the higher education institutions of the Pacific Northwest. NWACC hopes that the exemplars identified by this program can provide useful models for improving technology resources in teaching, learning, and research throughout the region. Award winners are invited to make presentations about their practice at the annual NWACC Conference.

About Joanne R. Hugi

Past Award Winners

2005 | Orbis Cascade Alliance
The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a library consortium composed of 31 public and private colleges, community colleges, and universities in Oregon and Washington. The Alliance provides a range of services to member libraries, and to other libraries in the region. Chief among these are the Summit union catalog, Summit Borrowing, electronic resource purchasing (ejournals, ebooks, databases), and courier service.

Outstanding Project Award

2005 | The Nolli Map Project • James Tice, University of Oregon
The purpose of the project was to use a unique historic document, the 1748 Nolli map, to create a highly interactive teaching tool for the study of the city of Rome. The Nolli map web site includes a centralized database that supports the compilation and digitization of geospatial data by distributed authors. Initially used for architectural studies, the web site can be used by a wide variety of Rome scholars and serves as a model for collaborative investigations of other ancient urban centers.

About the Outstanding Project Award
All funded grant projects become eligible for NWACC’s Outstanding Project Award. The project that is judged by the NWACC Grant Committee to represent the best use of NWACC funds receives an award of $5,000. The award is based on the information made available through the project Web site, initial progress report, and final project report. Award winners are invited to make presentations about their projects at the annual NWACC Conference.