2006: SPARC Innovator award Herbert Van de Sompel received the first Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Innovator Award, recognizing an individual, institution, or group that exemplifies SPARC principles by working to challenge the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public. more

2005: American Society for Information Science and Technology, Los Angeles Chapter (LACASIS) award for 2005 to Herbert Van de Sompel. Each year, LACASIS presents this award to one or more individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of information science and technology and are recognized by their colleagues as exceptional leaders whose dedication, commitment and vision inspire others. Herbert was recognized for his ground-breaking contributions in the areas of the Open URL Framework, the Open Archives Initiative and the URI schema.

2005: Ibero-America Science and Technology Education Consortium honors Rick Luce: The Board of Directors of the Ibero-America Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) honors Library Director Rick Luce for his "support for the development of digital libraries in Latin America, and for your vision that resulted in the adoption of the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access in 2004." Rick received the award in November 2005 at a ceremony at the ISTEC headquarters in Albuquerque. ISTEC is a non-profit organization comprised of educational, research, industrial, and multilateral organizations throughout the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. The Consortium fosters scientific, engineering, and technology education, and joint r&D efforts among its members for the application and transfer of technology.

2005: LANL Fellows' Prize for Leadership awarded to Rick Luce, in recognition of his technical development and operation of Los Alamos’ Research Library, providing vision, leadership and mentoring that have revolutionized the Laboratory’s unclassified library through cyber-infrastructure to achieve state-of the-art desktop information access that is recognized internationally as the “kernel of a National Science Library.” Los Alamos NewsLetter article (pdf) October 2005.

2005: Los Alamos Award to the Aleph Team for the successful implementation of the Aleph integrated library system. Miriam Blake, Tebols Casados, Irma Holtkamp, Kathy Varjabedian, HongHong Zhu. September 2005.

2005: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Best Poster Award, 2nd Place: Jeroen Bekaert, Xiaoming Liu, and Herbert Van de Sompel received this award for their poster "aDORe, A Modular and Standards-Based Digital Object Repository at the Los Alamos National Laboratory." LA-UR-05-5221

2004: Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award to Herbert Van de Sompel

Herbert has brought international recognition and distinction to the Laboratory through two facets of his work as Team Leader of the Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library: (1) in leading the creation and deployment of LANL's state-of-the-art digital repository (aDORe) capabilities and (2) in his innovative and prolific work developing international information standards.

As but one measure of success and impact, Herbert's creativity and output during the past year has been picked up and adopted by the international community. His dedication to shaping the leading technical developments in our field has gone far beyond the level anyone would expect of even the most accomplished researcher.

This is only the second DPA ever awarded to a member of the Research Library and is indeed quite a distinction. Individuals or small teams who receive Distinguished Performance awards must have made an outstanding and unique contribution that had a positive impact on the Laboratory's programmatic efforts or status in the scientific community, required unusual creativity or dedication of the individual or team and resulted from a level of performance substantially beyond what normally would be expected.

2003: The UKOLUG (UK Online Users Group) Tony Kent Strix Award is presented in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. On November 21, 2003 it was awarded to Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library in recognition of his work on both SFX (a system that creates locally-appropriate related Web links to other systems) and OpenURL.

2003 Los Alamos Award to the MyLibrary team: Mariella Di Giacomo, Susan Heckethorn, Frances Knudson, Joe Liberty, Linn Marks, Mona Mosier, Lou Pray and Nan Zou.

In the last six months the MyLibrary Team put into production two release upgrades which improved the functionality for Laboratory users. Among the most noteworthy application enhancements was the active recommendation links for journals, which use data from the ARP project. Personal initiative and many extra hours were devoted to bringing the application improvements into production. The team successfully meshed the following roles and capabilities to achieve their success: technical development and software programming; knowledge of customer requirements; interface design issues; and project milestone coordination.

2003 Los Alamos Award to the Property Team: Linda Chavez, Judy Ireland, Marlene Lujan and Michelle Mirabal

A small collaborative team was formed to begin within the Library to create a "Wall-to-Wall" inventory plan, to account for all barcoded equipment. Personal initiative and high degree of responsibility and accountability were shown by each of the members in working together to solve complex problems with very aggressive time requirements. The team was successful in becoming one of the first groups in the Laboratory to reach 100% accountability on over 300 property items, with the assistance of STB's Property Administrator, Judy Ireland.

2003 LITA Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology to Herbert Van de Sompel. LITA press release

Recognizing two major current developments: linking technologies and metadata harvesting. Herbert and Patrick Hochstenbach [also at LANL] created SFX, a system that uses information passed from one information system to create locally appropriate related web links to other systems. The SFX system now is in use in hundreds of libraries worldwide. A key element of the SFX linking architecture is the OpenURL, a method for passing bibliographic information from one information system to another encoded in a URL. The OpenURL is now being standardized by NISO. Herbert led an international effort resulting in the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, which enables systems holding descriptive metadata to make that metadata available for "harvesting" and re-use by other information systems.

2000 Quality New Mexico Roadrunner Award to the Research Library. The New Mexico Quality Roadrunner Award recognizes those organizations and businesses in New Mexico that have made significant progress on the road to excellence and have undergone an in-depth assessment and evaluation by a team of New Mexico Quality Award Board of Examiners.

2000, January. Los Alamos Award. Electronic Journals Team: Carol Hoover, Miriam Blake, Frances Knudson, Isabel Brackbill, Donna Berg, Linda Cherrett, Doug Chafe and Mark L.B. Martinez.

2000, January. Los Alamos Award. Business Support Team: Lyn Bennett, Helen Boorman, Roseanna Rondeau-Risher, Debra Valdez-Garcia

1999 Library/Information Center of the Year award from the Federal Library and Information Center Committee, Library of Congress. The library was one of only two chosen to receive this honor from more than 1200 federal libraries and information centers. The award recognizes the "single vision linked to sound quality business processes which brought about new levels of customer service, technology innovation and leadership and collaboration within the information community." Press release.

1999 Los Alamos Award: Science Server For Implementation of Science server hardware and software. Miriam Blake, Kip Fisher July 1999

1999 Los Alamos Award: Report Team To recognize the achievement of the Report Library in the area of classified information security. Jack Carter, Marcia Gallegos, Linda Kolar, Marlene Lujan, Mona Mosier, and Viola Vigil. July 1999

1998 Special Libraries Association awards for marketing materials: First Place, Library Video; First Place, Library Web Site, Second Place, Library Special Materials.

1997 Quality New Mexico Roadrunner Award. The first library to be honored with the Roadrunner award, the Research Library was recognized for providing distinguished service in support of scientific research. It was cited for integrating a strong customer focus with visionary planning and using a well-defined process, Strategic Business Management, for managing their business.

1997 Los Alamos Award: Marketing Team Lou Pray, Donna Berg, Allan MacKinnon, Anne Menefee, Kathy Varjabedian. June 1997

1996 Los Alamos Award: Electronic Report Linking team. For developing and documenting processes for linking electronic technical reports. Isabel Brackbill, Tebols Casados, Doug Chafe, Kathy Fisher, Irma Holtkamp, Mark L.B. Martinez, Jean McClary, Kathy Pratt, Kathy Varjabedian. May 17, 1996

1995 Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Performance Award to Richard Luce.