Awards and Honors (1995 – 2004)

2004

• April 2004 – Dr. Walter Warnick appointed to the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer of the United States
  Public Printer of the United States Bruce James appointed OSTI Director Walter Warnick to the Depository Library Council. The council addresses policy issues and seeks practical options toward efficient management and operation of the nation’s Depository Library Program. Public Printer James said of the appointees, "These individuals have dedicated their lives to ensuring that every American has access to Government information.” In addition to Dr. Warnick, the appointees include three university officials (Duke, South Carolina and Illinois) as well as a New York Public Library official.
  
  
• April 2004 – Dr. Walter Warnick nominated to serve as CENDI chair
  CENDI, an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Managers from 11 Federal agencies, named Dr. Warnick as chair. CENDI agencies represent over 93% of the FY04 federal research and development budget. The group addresses science- and technology-based national priorities to improve productivity of programs and to strengthen U.S. competitiveness.

2002

• March 2002 - Secretarial Certificate for Achievement of Electronic Goal
  OSTI and its STIP partners at DOE field offices and laboratories received Certificates of Achievement from Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham for successfully completing the transition from paper to electronic technical information reporting in support of DOE's R&D mission three years ahead of the DOE goal. This collaborative implementation of best business practices in electronic government ensures that information resulting from the Department's R&D activities is readily accessible to all appropriate users in a fully integrated E-Government environment. (Secretarial Certificate )

• March 18, 2002 - DOE IT Quality Award for Mgmt/Admin Excellence
  OSTI's "Streamlining OSTI Acquisitions and Data Management Team" won an IT Quality Award for Management/Administrative Excellence at a special awards ceremony at the 2002 Annual Information Technology Conference held in Denver, CO, on March 18, 2002. The award recognized the leadership in implementing a streamlined system for providing legacy and current DOE STI in the Energy Citations Database and developing a technical program for "harvesting" DOE R&D results.

• January 2002 - Commendation from Depository Library Council for Energy Citations Database
  The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer commended the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and the Government Printing Office for their partnership which provided the Energy Citations Database (ECD). The database provides citations to publications from 1948-present and contributes significantly to increasing accessibility of Federal Government information to the public.

2001

• September 2001 - OSTI Director Receives Interagency Award
  Chosen by leaders of the federal information technology and information science communities, the 2001 Interagency Resource Management Conference (IRMCO) Individual Award for all of government was presented to OSTI's Director, Dr. Walter L. Warnick. This prestigious award is presented each year to an individual or team that has demonstrated exceptional ability to operate across organizational boundaries to improve the government's service to its people.

• March 2001 - 2000 Information Technology Quality Award for Executive Leadership
  OSTI's Director, Dr. Walter L. Warnick, received the DOE-Wide IT Quality Award for Executive Leadership for his "vision and leadership in championing an aggressive effort to capitalize on technological advances in the Information Age to bring science information to the desktops of U.S. and DOE researchers."

• January 2001 - Energy100 Award for PubSCIENCE
  PubSCIENCE is recognized as one of the best 100 scientific and technological accomplishments of the Department of Energy during this century.  Read more about the Energy100 Awards.

 

2000

• January 2000 - Commendation from the Depository Library Council for PubSCIENCE
  Depository Library Council commends GPO and the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information for sponsoring public access to PubSCIENCE, a Web-based product that provides access to more than a million citations to journal articles in the physical sciences with connections to a growing number of full text articles. Council is especially pleased to see GPO and OSTI continue in their partnership to provide essential energy-related information to the public and hopes to see additional products available in the future.

1999

• October 1999 - PubSCIENCE appears in First Anniversary Edition of Access America Online
  Search Scientific Journals Online, an article about PubSCIENCE, appeared in the First Anniversary Edition of Access America Online. PubSCIENCE, OSTI's newest product, is a component of EnergyFiles Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology.

• August 16, 1999 - EnergyPortal Appears in Federal Computer Week
  "DOE energizes site with extensive Web searches" is the title of the article appearing in "Federal Computer Week," August 16, 1999. The article discusses the new EnergyFiles search engine "EnergyPortal" and its capability to combine searches of 450 distributed databases and various government and private/non-profit Web sites. Search EnergyPortal.

• August 6, 1999 - PubSCIENCE Appears in "Science" Magazine
  SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Science Magazine reported in its August 6, 1999, issue that DOE has built a Web site for the Physical Sciences called PubSCIENCE. PubSCIENCE, which is jointly sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and the Government Printing Office (GPO), is a World Wide Web application which provides access to abstracts of journal articles and associated bibliographic information. PubSCIENCE is expected to be available to the public on October 1, 1999.

• July 1999 - STIP Community Wins Award
  The STIP Community was awarded a National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) "Hammer Award" for the successful transition to electronic scientific and technical information (STI) management. This award recognizes the team of employees who made a significant contribution in support of reinventing government principles. Some 96 individual participants were involved in the electronic transition effort.

  In the single most revolutionary change in its history, OSTI and its STIP partners collaboratively developed procedures to convert the Program from a centralized paper-based operation to a decentralized electronic activity which uses the Internet and World Wide Web, thus making DOE's STI more widely available in less time and at a lower cost per person served. It is estimated that this paperless way of doing business will avoid costs to the Department and U.S. taxpayers of approximately $2 million per year.

• July 1999 - Congressman Lauds Agreement between GPO and OSTI for Information Bridge
  On July 13, 1999, Congressman Steny Hoyer recognized government successes by lauding GPO and DOE for the Information Bridge. Read statements.
• May 1999 - Award
  Presented for the R & D Project Summaries Web Database, which contains key corporate information relating to over 14,000 R&D projects performed since FY95 by DOE's laboratories and other installations, "the Hammer Award is an NPR tribute to teams of federal reinventors and their partners in state and local government and the private sector.   The award recognizes them for using reinvention principles to create a government that works better, costs less, and delivers results the American people care about," according to the NPR Web page (http://www.npr.gov).  This Web application was made available to DOE customers and stakeholders, including the public, on June 1, 1997. This Hammer Award was presented at a ceremony held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• May 1999 - EnergyFiles Award
  EnergyFiles: Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology The EnergyFiles: Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology team members from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Office of Science, were selected to receive a 1999 Hammer Award. "The Hammer Award is a tribute to teams of federal reinventors and their partners in state and local government and the private sector. The award recognizes them for using reinvention principles to create a government that works better, costs less, and delivers results the American people care about," according to the NPR Web page (http://www.npr.gov). EnergyFiles: Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology provides access to over 400 scholarly collections of energy-related scientific and technical information. This Hammer Award was presented at a ceremony in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• February 1999 - Information Bridge Award
  DOE Information Bridge team members from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Office of Science, received a National Partnership for Reinventing Government "Hammer Award." The Hammer Award was presented to OSTI representatives at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Virtual Government Conference in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 1999. Francis Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, was also at the ceremony representing the Government Printing Office, which through a cooperative partnership with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information made a public version available to Federal Depository Libraries and other interested users at http://www.doe.gov/bridge. The Hammer Award recognizes teams of federal employees and their partners whose work resulted in a government that works better and costs less. The public version of the award-winning DOE Information Bridge captures and offers free access to the key deliverables of DOE's annual $6 billion R&D program in such areas as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, and other energy-related disciplines. An enhanced version is also available to the Department and its contractors at http://www.osti.gov/dds/. Making this information available on the Internet in an organized, searchable format is a significant benefit to the Department and, ultimately, to the U.S. taxpayer.

1998

• September 1998 - DOE Information Management Quality Award for Technical Excellence
  Presented to the DOE Information Bridge Project Team, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Science Applications International Corporation, and NCI Information Systems, Inc., for development and implementation of the innovative DOE Information Bridge providing Web access for scientific research activities to DOE R&D program results, thus maximizing the U.S. taxpayer investment in energy research.
• April 1998 - Commendation from the Depository Library Council for the Information Bridge
  Approved by the Depository Library Council, which serves as an advisory committee for the GPO, to the Public Printer, the commendation reads: "Council commends the GPO and the Department of Energy for providing no-fee public access to the Office of Scientific and Technical Information's 'Information Bridge' through GPO Access.  This partnership between a major technical agency and GPO provides a convenient and cost-effective successor to the DOE depository microfiche collection." It is a rare honor for one agency to award a commendation to another agency.
• April 1998 - Yahoo Pick of the Day
  The DOE Information Bridge selected for the pick of the day for April 29, 1998.
• January 1998 - Tennessee Quality Commitment Award
  The Office of Scientific and Technical Information was presented with the Tennessee Quality Commitment Award by Governor Don Sundquist at the fifth annual Tennessee Quality Awards presentation on January 12, 1998.  The Quality Commitment describes an intermediate level for organizations that have advanced from their initial steps toward total quality improvement and are recognized for the accomplishments toward the next level of achievement. The ceremony was attended by more than 1,000 representatives of participating Tennessee companies, organizations and support groups statewide. OSTI's award puts it in a class of being one of the best of Tennessee organizations.

1997

• November 1997 - Senator Warner's Committee Applauds Agreement Between GPO and OSTI for Information Bridge
  A letter approving the interagency agreement between GPO and OSTI for the Public Information Bridge was sent to The Honorable Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer, from John Warner, Chairman for the Joint Committee on Printing. The letter states: "The committee views this proposed Interagency Agreement as a good model which should be offered to other agencies whose materials are of value to the depository library program..."
• October 1997 - Department of Energy's FY 1997 Information Management (IM) Management/Administrative Excellence Award
  This award was presented to OSTI's R&D Project Summaries Web Database Team during the IM Council meeting, October 20-22, 1997, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The award was given for creation of the DOE R&D Project Summaries Web Database in response to ongoing Departmental needs to share, publicize, and better manage the Department's R&D results.
• October 1997 - Energy Quality Commendation Award
  Presented by Secretary Federico Peņa, the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) received this award.  The Energy Quality Award is given for excellence in work processes, environmental issues, and leadership practices judged by the Department's Energy Quality Council and award examiners using six Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award management criteria. A large number of the OSTI staff participated in explaining and demonstrating how the OSTI quality program operates during a site visit that was conducted by the examining team in July of this year. The award recognizes OSTI as one of the Administration's National Performance Review high caliber organizations.
• January 1997 - OSTI Receives Secretary's Gold Award
  Presented by the Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary, this award was given in recognition of OSTI's participation on the Human Radiation Experiments Team. Assistance was provided to the Presidential Advisory Committee and the Office of Human Radiation Experiments in the search to uncover and make available agency records on radiation experiments associated with the Department and its predecessor agencies.

1996

• August 1996 - Award for Reinventing Government
  The Directive Re-engineering Group led by OSTI received an award for cutting red tape associated with the management of the Department-wide $240 million annual process for managing STI, thus supporting the principles of reinventing government. The Group received this award for working in partnership with over 100 STI managers to reduce 143 pages of prescriptive and mandatory requirements to just 8 pages of collaboratively developed requirements.  As a result of the significant success of this Group, the collaborative process for managing the Department's STI function is now the standard for DOE and the working model that other information management activities try to emulate.

1995

• Spring 1995 - Adopter of the Year Award
  Presented by Anderson County Schools in recognition of  the Office of Scientific and Technical Information's Adopt-A-School program and their efforts to help Anderson County Elementary Schools.