[Air-L] SPARC announces winners of the first annual SPARKY awards

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> January 22, 2008
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> Jennifer McLennan
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> jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
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> SPARC ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL SPARKY AWARDS
> Short Videos Showcase Student Perspectives on Information Sharing
>
> Washington, DC ? January 22, 2008 ? SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing  
> and
> Academic Resources Coalition) today announced the winners of the first
> SPARKY Awards. The 2007 contest called on entrants to imaginatively
> illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas and  
> information of
> all kinds.
>
> The three winning entries offer a glimpse of student views on the  
> importance
> of access to information, and feature an animated look at the most  
> basic
> benefits of sharing, a film noir-style crime investigation using the
> Internet, and a tongue-in-cheek documentary on Open Access. The  
> winners are:
>
> First Place
> ?Share?
> http://blip.tv/file/488550
> Written and directed by Habib Yazdi, University of North Carolina at  
> Chapel
> Hill
>
> First Runner Up
> ?Pri Vetai: Private Eye?
> http://www.blip.tv/file/512440
> Directed by Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, Carleton College
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> Second Runner Up
> ?An Open Access Manifesto?
> http://blip.tv/file/517300
> Written and directed by Romel Espinel and Josh Hadro, Pratt Institute
>
> ?I decided to participate in the contest because I strongly believe  
> in the
> value of sharing ? especially with regard to information,? said  
> Habib Yazdi,
> who is a senior communication studies major. ?Through sharing what  
> we have
> learned we can improve the lives of those who are less privileged.  
> Being on
> a college campus, I have really come to appreciate how many students  
> are
> willing to share knowledge with others.?
>
> "Tommy and I had a lot of fun working on our film,? said Max Silver, a
> freshman. Being able to access information for free has vastly changed
> society, especially in the lives of students. It is important to  
> realize
> this, and to keep moving in the same direction ? to give as many  
> people as
> much information as possible."
>
> Josh Hadro, a student of library science, added, ?While the focus of  
> our
> class was academic librarianship, Open Access was a frequently  
> recurring
> theme in our discussions, and one to which nearly all of the  
> students in our
> small seminar-style class were sympathetic. Romel and I especially  
> agreed
> with this idea of the inevitable progress of the Open Access  
> movement, and
> used the opening of the video to highlight this. We enjoyed the  
> thought of
> the Ken Burns-esque look back at a time before Open Access was a  
> given.?
> Their film was made as a final project for a course in scholarly
> communication.
>
> ?Taking a look at student views on access to information through the  
> contest
> entries was fun and enlightening,? said Heather Joseph, Executive  
> Director
> of SPARC. ?Our winners? entertaining and thought-provoking works  
> will surely
> stimulate others to consider the power and importance of information
> sharing. Thanks to everyone who participated and to our esteemed  
> judges.?
>
> Submissions were judged by a panel that included:
>
> * Peter Wintonick, award-winning documentary filmmaker and principal  
> of
> Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.
> * Karen Rustad, president of Free Culture 5C and a senior at Scripps  
> College
> majoring in media studies
> * Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
> * Rick Johnson, communications consultant and founding director of  
> SPARC
> * Jos?-Marie Griffiths, Professor & Dean at the School of  
> Information and
> Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> * Aaron Delwiche, Assistant Professor in the Department of  
> Communication at
> Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas
>
> Each of the winning entries is available under a Creative Commons use
> license, which enables creators to easily mark their work with the  
> freedoms
> they want it to carry and tells users what rights they have beyond  
> those
> under copyright.
>
> For more details on the contest, including information on the 2008
> competition, please see the SPARKY Awards Web site at
> http://sparkyawards.org.
>
> ###
>
> SPARC
>
> SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with  
> SPARC
> Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800
> academic and research libraries working to create a more open system  
> of
> scholarly communication. SPARC is a founding member of the Alliance  
> for
> Taxpayer Access, a coalition of patient, academic, research, and  
> publishing
> organizations that supports open public access to the results of  
> federally
> funded research ? including research funded by the National  
> Institutes of
> Health. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc/.
>
>
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> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Communications
> SPARC
> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
> http://www.arl.org/sparc
> (202) 296-2296 ext 121
> jennifer at arl.org
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
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Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.  
--Byron