On Dec. 14 in San Francisco, the Library was recognized at the fourth annual Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards as the winner of the best Web site in Education.
Ziff-Davis's GII Awards are the world's leading forum to define, recognize and promote best practices and new models in the application of Internet and network technology. The honor, awarded to the Library's National Digital Library Program, was presented at a ceremony at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on the evening of Dec. 14, in conjunction with the Nextravaganza conference, part of ZD Studios' Internet.inc series.
"On behalf of the Library's hard-working staff, I am honored to accept this prestigious award," said Dr. Billington. "The National Digital Library Program, with the help of Congress and private donors, is leading the way to the next millennium by providing unique, high quality educational content for Internet users throughout the nation and the world."
The award was accepted in San Francisco by Susan Veccia, manager for educational projects of the NDL Program.
The GII Awards program is a nonpartisan, private-sector initiative sponsored by leading corporations, organizations, publishers and government agencies.
"The GII Awards honor people in all areas of society and industry who use the Internet to create extraordinary results, from making money to making a difference," said Melanie McMullen, general manager of the GII Awards and The Standard for Internet Commerce. "The Library of Congress is a visionary institution that exemplifies best practices and an innovative model in a new era of knowledge and communication."
The fourth annual GII Awards recognized achievement in 10 categories "that are central to the way people live, work and play": Arts and Culture; Children; Commerce; Community; Education; Entertainment; Government; Health; Netpreneur; and News and Media.
Other winners were:
- College of Computing, Arts and Culture category
- MaMaMedia, Children category
- E*Trade Group, Commerce category
- Join Together/Boston University School of Public Health, Community category
- As If Productions, Entertainment category
- Office of Information Resources Management, Enterprise Information Management Division, EPA, Government category
- BabyCenter, Health category
- Garden.com, Netpreneur category
- Cygnus Publishing, Inc. and Cool/Writer Internet, News and Media category
"This award reinforces the Library's efforts to use technology to make its collections as useful as possible to all Americans," said Laura Campbell, director of the NDL Program. "All the hundreds of LC staffers who have worked to make our Web site a leader in providing educational content share in this honor."
