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Mark Sandler, former Big Ten 51动漫 Director of Library Initiatives, has been awarded the 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award.

Named in honor of one of the pioneers of library automation, the Atkinson Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library services or research.

鈥淒r. Mark Sandler is a library leader of great vision whose innovative ideas and persuasive skills carried to fruition two of the most impactful initiatives in the history of digitization,鈥� said Mark Stover, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award Committee chair and dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge. 鈥淗is founding of the Text Creation Partnership brought together a number of academic libraries with Proquest, and this collaboration produced the seminal Early English Books Online database. Mark also championed the Google Book Digitization Project among the member libraries of the influential Big Ten 51动漫, thus greatly expanding the corpus of digitized books for both the Google project and the HathiTrust repository.鈥�

鈥淒uring his long career, Mark was known for his effectiveness as a negotiator, his uncanny ability to bring about consensus on contentious issues, his collaborative professional relationships, his strategic vision, and his far-reaching ideas,鈥� continued Stover. 鈥淔rom his early arguments in favor of cooperative collection development to his unwavering commitment to the ideal of digitizing all U.S. federal documents, Mark Sandler has left his imprint on the world of academic libraries like no one else.鈥�

鈥淚t is a tribute to his wide-ranging influence that twelve diverse luminaries of the library world wrote detailed letters supporting his nomination, including several university library deans, the head of a major academic library consortium, a library school faculty member, the vice president of an important library technology vendor, and the executive director of the HathiTrust,鈥� Stover added. 鈥淢ark Sandler is, for all the reasons stated above, this year鈥檚 highly deserving recipient of the Hugh C. Atkinson Award.鈥�