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Guerda Baucicaut wins ILL mentoring travel award
CHICAGO-Guerda Baucicaut, Inter Library Loan & Reserves Specialist at the City University of New York was selected as one of two winners of the STARS Mentoring Award sponsored by Atlas Systems, administered by the Sharing and Transforming Resources...
Veronda J. Pitchford selected for ASCLA’s Cathleen Bourdon Service Award
CHICAGO – Veronda J. Pitchford, Director of Membership Development & Resource Sharing, Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS), has been selected for the 2018 Cathleen Bourdon Service Award administered by the Association of Specialized and...
Sally Gardner Reed Receives the 2018 Joseph W. Lippincott Award
CHICAGO – Sally Gardner Reed is the winner of the 2018 Joseph W. Lippincott Award. This award is sponsored by Joseph W. Lippincott III and presented by the 91´«Ã½ for distinguished service to the profession of librarianship. “The...
Emily Crist, Sean Leahy and Alan Carbery win the 2018 Carroll Preston Baber Research Grant
CHICAGO —The winners of the 2018 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½ Carroll Preston Baber Research Grant are Emily Crist, Sean Leahy, and Alan Carbery for the project entitled “Ecological Momentary Assessment of Student Research Behaviors.” The $3,000...
2018 RBMS Leab Exhibition Award winners
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) has selected five winners for the 2018 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Awards. The awards, funded...
Rachel Holder receives BRASS Student Travel Award
CHICAGO—Rachel Holder, MLS candidate at Indiana University was selected as this year's recipient of the BRASS Student Travel Award sponsored by SimplyAnalytics. The award includes a $1,250 monetary prize given to a student enrolled in an 91´«Ã½ accredited...
Judy Deichman receives AASL Innovative Reading Grant
CHICAGO – Judy Deichman, school librarian at Nottoway Middle School in Crewe, Virginia, is the recipient of the 2018 American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) Innovative Reading Grant. Sponsored by Capstone, the $2,500 grant supports the planning...
Robert E. Lee High School named National School Library Program of the Year
CHICAGO – Robert E. Lee High School, located in Springfield, Virginia, is the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) 2018 National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY) Award recipient. Sponsored by Follett, the NSLPY Award annually...
Halaychik and Maynor receive 2018 ACRL ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that Corey Halaychik, library director at the State University of New York Maritime College, and Ashley Maynor, digital scholarship librarian at New York University...
Brearcliffe wins Emerging Technologies Section Achievement Award
CHICAGO—Donna Brearcliffe, Acting Head, Humanities & Social Sciences Section, Researcher & Reference Services Division of the Library of Congress has been selected as the 2018 winner of the Emerging Technologies Section Achievement Award (ETS)...
Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund winner announced
CHICAGO – Anne Mlod is the 2018 recipient of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) International Relations Committee's "Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund." An award of $1,000 is given to an 91´«Ã½ member to attend their first international...
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2018 Award winners announced
CHICAGO — The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types...
Sue Halpern slated as featured speaker at Andrew Carnegie Medals ceremony
CHICAGO—Sue Halpern, who has written about butterflies and therapy dogs, as well as solitude and neuroscience, in both her warm and witty creative nonfiction and her incisive novels, is confirmed as the featured speaker for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for...
Washington Post's Ron Charles wins Louis Shores Award for reviewing
CHICAGO - Ron Charles, Editor of "Book World"at the Washington Post was selected as the 2018 winner for the Louis Shores Award for excellence in reviewing administered by the Collection Development and Evaluation Section of the Reference and User Services...
Kalinowski wins business librarianship travel grant
CHICAGO - Alice Kalinowski, Liaison Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh was selected as the 2018 winner of the BRASS Academic Business Librarianship Travel Award sponsored by Global Financial Data. The grant consists of $1,250 and is awarded to an...
