Awards & Achievements

Congratulations Research Library!

The Research Library and its staff have received many prestigious awards in its history, this page list a select few of them…

2020

Best Paper Award

Martin Klein and Lyudmila Balakireva won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries for their paper: On the Persistence of Persistent Identifiers of the Scholarly Web.

2017

LANL Distinguished Performance Award 

Frances Knudson, for her achievements in the development of electronic tools and systems for the Research Library and the Laboratory.

Paul Evan Peters Award

Herbert Van de Sompel, in recognition of notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of network-based information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

2016

Best Paper Award

Martin Klein, together with co-authors from the UCLA Library, won the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award for the paper: Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Versions.

2015

Los Alamos Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research

Herbert Van de Sompel.

2012

Best Poster Award

Robert Sanderson for his poster "Global Web Archive Integration with Memento" for the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 10-14, Washington.

2011

Best Paper Award

Robert Sanderson, Benjamin Albritton, Rafael Schwemmer and Herbert Van De Sompel won the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award for their paper, SharedCanvas: A Collaborative Model for Medieval Manuscript Layout Dissemination.

2010

Digital Preservation Award

Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila Balakireva, and Harihar Shankar of the Research Library (STBPO-RL) and collaborators at Old Dominion University (Michael Nelson and Scott Ainsworth) won the 2010 Digital Preservation Award for Memento, a framework for time travel on the web.

2007

Best Poster Award, 16th International World Wide Web Conference, May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Awarded to Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez and Herbert Van de Sompel, Ludmila L. Balakireva and Aric Hagberg for The largest scholarly semantic network...ever.