JCDL 2009 Awards

Winners of JCDL awards were announced at the banquet.  Congratulations to all!

Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award:
Automatically Characterizing Resource Quality for Educational Digital Libraries
Steven Bethard, Philipp Wetzler, Kirsten Butcher, James H. Martin, and Tamara Sumner

Best Student Paper Award:
Improving Optical Character Recognition through Efficient Multiple System Alignment
William B. Lund and Eric K. Ringger

Best Poster/Demo Award:
Using University Collections in Digital Library Education
Quinn Stewart and David Todd

Best Poster/Demo runners up:
#2
Correlation of Music Charts and Search Engine Rankings
Martin Klein, Olena Hunsicker, and Michael L. Nelson
#3
Virtual DL Poster Sessions in Second Life
Spencer Lee, Edward Fox, Gary Marchionini, Javier Velasco, Gonçalo Antunes, and José Borbinha