Congratulations to Roberto Sarmiento, Head of Northwestern University Transportation Library, for his award winning paper, Gift Management for Transportation Libraries: Observations and Recommendations. Roberto received the Division’s newly created Innovation Award along with its $1,000 prize at the Transportation Division Business Luncheon at the SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia on Tuesday June 14, 2011.

For information about the Innovation Award and to link to the full text of Roberto’s paper, see here. As the award was created to stir innovation, we look forward to more entries in the future.

Thanks so much, Roberto, for this gift to the Division and to all libraries!