Eligibility: Currently enrolled students and currently employed faculty and staff of the State University System (SUS) of Florida are eligible to enter. The Directors of the SUS Libraries, members of the SUS Public Services Planning Committee and their families are ineligible.

Prize: a new laptop computer worth up to $3,500 will be awarded to the winning entrant. The winner will be selected by the Directors of the SUS Libraries of Florida. Effort will be made to contact the selected winner by telephone, email, and registered mail, but in the event that no response from the winner is received within ten working days of the initial attempt to contact (excluding Spring Break), another winner will be selected. The winner will be notified and receive the computer during Spring Semester 2000.

Definition of Entry:   An "entry" will be the combination of the system NAME and an explanation for that name such as the meaning of an acronym or the rationale for why the name is appropriate to the SUS library system.

 

Entries: All entries must be received by midnight, Eastern Standard Time, on March 24, 2000. Multiple non-duplicate entries may be submitted by any eligible person. Date and time of receipt of all entries will be recorded. In the case of duplicate entries, only the earliest entry received will be judged. Entries will be judged for creativity, appropriateness and originality. All entries become the property of the SUS Libraries and the Florida Center for Library Automation. This is not an institutional specific contest. All SUS entries are combined for judging, and only one prize will be awarded. The laptop prize will be awarded to a contest winner. The decision of the Directors of SUS Libraries will be final. The Directors of the SUS Libraries reserve the right not to use the winning name.

The State University System of Florida, also known as the SUS, is made up of 10 universities geographically spread between Pensacola and Miami. The SUS is governed by a single governing board known as the Board of Regents.

The Florida Center for Library Automation serves the libraries of the 10 SUS universities. This service includes operating and maintaining the computer hardware and software that supports:

the 10 university WebLUIS catalogs plus the SUS Union Catalog,

• 20 online databases running at the FCLA facilities,
• gateways to another 140+ databases located on remote servers around the world,
• full text journals in general academic studies, business and science and technology,
• the developing digital library, containing the Florida Heritage Project and other digitized collections, and
• the system that supports the many other library services and operations that students, faculty and staff use such as circulation, electronic reserves, interlibrary loan, and the acquisition and cataloging of new materials.

The Name that System Contest received 1,938 entries from students, faculty, librarians, and staff. The SUS Public Services Planning Committee met and recommended twelve semi-finalists to the SUS Library Directors. These were: (in alphabetical order) ALLEGRO, CITRUS, FLAMINGO, FLORA, FUSION, GLADES, HELIOS, MENTOR, ORCHID, ROSETTA, SUNDIAL, and ZORA. After considerable deliberation, the SUS Library Directors selected "Rosetta" as the winning entry. Just as the Rosetta stone served as the key that permitted scholars to begin deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the SUS Libraries Digital Library will unlock the world of information for our students and scholars. Rosetta was submitted by Mrs. Barbara Hood, Public Information Officer at the University of Florida. She will receive the grand prize, a laptop computer.

We would like to thank all of the SUS students and staff who took the time to enter the contest. A great deal of creativity was displayed and enabled us to choose from a wide range of potential names.

SUS Library Council