Noyes honored by PALNI

INDIANAPOLIS — Jill Noyes, director of library and information services at Trine University, was recognized with the Special Recognition of PALSave Support award from the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) during the organization’s biennial All-Staff Meeting on Aug. 2 at Marian University.

This award recognizes the support team and task force members, project managers and consultants who contributed to making the Lilly Endowment-funded PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning Program a success by achieving $2.3 million in overall savings and impacting 37,233 students throughout the state.

PALSave supports student success and retention by fostering the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), teaching, learning and research resources that are available freely and publicly.

According to PALNI, the program provides collaborative resources and a framework for OER awareness, education and engagement. It also funds and supports faculty adoption of affordable learning.

“PALSave’s mission is to make education more affordable and help professors provide immediate access to their resources, which I think is important for student learning,” said Noyes. “All of us who were recognized have been actively working on projects that lead to direct publication sometime in this last year. It was really thoughtful for PALNI to acknowledge how much work it is for the authors and the managers to bring these textbooks to the students.”

Twenty-five PALNI and university officials received the Special Recognition of PALSave Support award this year.

Nominated by peers

PALNI also presented awards for Outstanding Service, Hall of Fame, Heart of PALNI, Outstanding Achievement Award for Leadership in Deep Collaboration, Leadership in External Collaboration, and the Lifetime Visionary Award for Leadership in Deep Collaboration.

This year’s award recipients were nominated by their peers and represent a variety of organizations, roles and responsibilities within the consortium. Awards were given in categories that support PALNI’s mission of providing high-quality support for student learning and effective teaching through shared expertise, services, resources and partnerships.

“Each person in PALNI holds a great deal of knowledge and expertise within their respective role, which is contributed back to the collaboration in many ways," said Kirsten Leonard, PALNI executive director. “The PALNI Awards were created to recognize what we do together. Our ability to function effectively only works because of the people who contribute their time and expertise to our mission. Every person in PALNI is important and provides something we need to be successful. These awards are one way we recognize those efforts in deep collaboration.”

Now in its 31st year, PALNI is a nonprofit organization supporting collaboration for library and information services for 24 private colleges, universities, and seminaries throughout Indiana. The PALNI community comprises more than 150 employees from those libraries, serving approximately 47,500 students and faculty statewide.

About the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) is a non-profit organization that supports collaboration for library and information services for 24 colleges, universities, and seminaries throughout the state. From its inception in 1992, the PALNI collaboration has been a key avenue for its supported institutions to contain costs while providing more effective library services. More recently, PALNI has adopted a model of deep collaboration that pools resources and people as a tool to expand services while containing costs. Simultaneously, PALNI is expanding collaboration within its institutions and with external library partners to address challenges and build cost-effective services. Visit palni.org for more information.