[nfais-l] CENDI Honors Two with 2013 Meritorious Service Awards

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CENDI Honors Two with 2013 Meritorious Service Awards
 
(Oak Ridge, Tennessee) – Jerry Sheehan, Assistant Director for Policy Development, National Library of Medicine, and William (Bill) Adams, Associate Deputy General Counsel (Acquisition) in the Office of the General Counsel, Headquarters, Department of the Army, have been honored by CENDI, the federal Scientific and Technical Information Managers Group. The 2013 CENDI Meritorious Service Award was presented at the CENDI meeting on January 9, 2014, at the National Technical Information Service in Alexandria,  Virginia. CENDI’s Meritorious Service Award recognizes an individual(s) or team that makes “a noteworthy contribution to CENDI and to federal interagency cooperation through its events, publications, administration, or outreach.” 
 
 CENDI recognized Deputy Chair, Jerry Sheehan, for his significant contributions to CENDI information policy programs and discussions over many years. His service includes being a CENDI Alternate and then Principal, Deputy Chair of CENDI, and Chair of the CENDI Policy Working Group.  He was a key contributor to development of white papers presented to the Obama Administration on scientific and technical information (STI) issues, and to the CENDI Grand Challenge document, iScience to Jobs, in 2012. Sheehan’s support of CENDI has significantly increased the CENDI focus on data and promoted closer CENDI interactions with the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy on open/public access issues. At a time when CENDI agencies are grappling with big data and open science, it is highly appropriate to recognize Sheehan for contributions that have helped to expand CENDI’s attention to a range of scientific information policy issues.
 
Bill Adams, a significant contributor to the work of CENDI’s Copyright and Intellectual Property Working Group, is being honored as an expert on federal acquisitions, patent law, trademark law, copyright law, technical data rights, and technology transfer.  He contributed substantively to the Copyright Working Group’s major publications, including Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright, Permissions – Government-produced and Non-government Produced Works; Copyright Issues in Mass Digitization (in process), and Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues affecting the U.S. Government with Special Emphasis on Open Source Software. Adams has demonstrated his commitment to CENDI and advancing interagency cooperation by sharing his expertise in the legal challenges involved in information management and delivery within the federal government.
 
CENDI is an interagency consortium of senior STI managers from 14 U.S. federal agencies that represent over 97% of the federal research and development budget.  The CENDI Secretariat is headquartered in Oak   Ridge, Tennessee, and managed by Information International Associates, Inc., under the direction of Bonnie C. Carroll.  More information about CENDI can be found at [http://www.cendi.gov/] www.cendi.gov.
 
 
 
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