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Make Your Award Nomination It’s not too late to make your nomination for the Northern New York Library Network’s 12th Annual Award for Excellence in Library Service. You may nominate any staff member of any library for this award. To nominate someone, simply write a confidential letter describing how your nominee’s activities have contributed to excellence in library service, and send the letter to: Excellence Award, Northern New York Library Network, 6721 U.S. Highway 11, Potsdam, NY 13676. Nominations must be received by April 22, 2002. The award will be presented during the Network’s 37th Annual Meeting to be held on May 23, 2002 in Lake Placid.

ILL Study Results Are In Staff at the Hunter-Rice Library at Samaritan Medical Center recently completed a study of their Interlibrary Loan Service. During November and December 2001, data was collected on 300 consecutive ILLs. For each ILL the following information was recorded: timeliness, cost, reason for sending, method of receipt, ILL system used, and date of publication for journal articles. The results showed Hunter-Rice Library was able to eventually obtain all but two of the 300 requests, giving them a total success rate of 99.3 percent. Since the establishment of the Hospital Library Program in Watertown in 1983, the Hunter-Rice Library at Samaritan Medical Center has sent for nearly 60,000 interlibrary loans.