GreyNet International

This year’s Annual Award Dinner was held on

October 21^st  2019  in Hannover, Germany

Dr. Plato Smith is the Data Management Librarian at the University of Florida with experience in academic research libraries, digital libraries, and data management. He received his doctorate in the field of Information Science from the School of Information within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University, Florida’s iSchool, Summer 2014. From 2005 to 2012, he was Department Head for the FSU Libraries’ Digital Library where he developed, populated, and managed digital collections in the FSU Libraries’ digital content management system, DigiNole Repository, and electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) institutional repository. Email: plato.smith@ufl.edu

GreyNet Award Recipient 2018 - Tomas A. Lipinski

This year’s Annual Award Dinner was held on December 2^nd 2018  in New Orleans

Professor Lipinski is the Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He completed his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received the Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lipinski has worked in a variety of legal settings including the private, public and non-profit sectors. In 2006 he was the first named Global Law Fellow, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where continues to lecture annually at its Centre for IT & IP Law and has been a visiting professor in summers at the University of Pretoria-School of Information Technology (Pretoria, South Africa) and at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is active in copyright education and policy-making, chairing PLA Legal Issues in Public Libraries Forum, Chair of the ALA Committee on Legislation Copyright Subcommittee, Chair of the ACRL Copyright Discussion Group from 2013 to 2016, Former Chair and at present member of the ALA OITP Copyright Education Subcommittee, a former member and now Expert Advisor to the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of IFLA and serves as head of an NGO delegation with Permanent Observer status to the WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organization and its Standing Committee on Copyright and Other Rights. tlipinsk@uwm.edu

Dr. Dobrica Savic, GreyNet Award Recipient 2017
Head Nuclear Information Section, NIS-IAEA 

 “Over the past years, Dobrica has published a number of leading articles in the field of grey literature. His work with the INIS Repository Collection provides a paradigm for information professionals dealing with grey literature. He has served on consecutive GL Program Committees, assumed a leading role in drafting, promoting, and assessing the ‘Pisa Declaration on Policy Development for Grey Literature Resources’, and chairs GreyNet’s Resource Policy Committee.”

Dobrica Savić holds a PhD degree from Middlesex University in London, an MPhil degree in Library and Information Science from Loughborough University, an MA in International Relations from the University of Belgrade, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Public Administration from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has extensive experience in the management and operations of web, library, information and knowledge management, as well as records management and archive services across various United Nations Agencies, including UNV, UNESCO, World Bank, ICAO, and the IAEA. His main interests are creativity, innovation and use of information technology in library and information services.

"For the development and maintenance of the GreyGuide Repository and Web Access Portal, as well as for her team’s content contributions over the past ten years to the International Grey Literature Conference Series”

“For the technical support that DANS renders as service provider for GreyNet’s research data issuing from the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, as well as for his award winning presentation last year at the Library of Congress”

Kiyoshi Ikeda works as a librarian at the Central Library of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). He also currently works as the chief of International Nuclear Information System (INIS) and Nuclear Information Management Section of JAEA. Since 2011, he has been in charge of selection and classification for INIS Database input data. He joined Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI, former JAEA) in 2004, and has been working for acquisition of library materials (domestic/foreign books, journals, technical reports and proceedings). From 2007 to 2010, he had been working for editing work at “JAEA Reports” and “JAEA R&D Review” which are grey literature. From 2008 to 2013, he has also been a member of editorial committee of the Japan Special Libraries Association (JSLA). He holds a degree in library and information science (M.A.) from the Graduate School at the University of Library and Information Science in Japan.

"Ikeda's  work in collecting, organizing, and disseminating data and information on nuclear accidents and in particular the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident has earned him the GreyNet Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Grey Literature was presented during GreyNet's 11th Annual Award Dinner on December 7, 2014."

The GreyNet Award 2013 was presented to Marcus Vaska during the 10^th Annual Award Dinner hosted by CVTISR in Bratislava

Marcus Vaska is a librarian with the Knowledge Resource Service (KRS), University of Calgary, Holy Cross Site, providing research and information support at an Alberta Cancer Care research facility. A firm supporter of embedded librarianship, Marcus engages himself in numerous activities, including instruction and research consultation, with research teams at Holy Cross and beyond. Marcus’ current interests focus on collaborative educational techniques aimed at creating greater awareness and bringing grey literature to the forefront in the medical community. Nominations for the GreyNet Award are based on 1.) Results from the GL14 Participant Evaluation Forms, 2.) Publication of the author’s paper in the GL14 Conference Proceedings, 3.) Selection and publication of the author's paper as a journal article, thus exporting and distributing research results originating in the GL-Conference Series, and 4.) Prior history of the author in the field of grey literature.

GreyNet Award 2012 was presented to Petra Pejsova at the Annual Award Dinner held in Rome

June Crowe is the Senior Researcher and Group Manager, Open Source Research Division at Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa).  She received her AMLS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her M.Ed. in geographic education from the University of Georgia, Athens.  She has extensive experience in the management and operations of library services across government, public, academic, and special libraries. At IIa she manages the open source research division which focuses on medical, socio-cultural, science and technology and business research. Her primary interests are open source information in Grey Literature, digital repositories, and open source intelligence tools.