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Big Ten Academic Alliance Cooperative Cataloging Partnership receives ALCTS Collaboration Award
CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected the Big Ten Academic Alliance Cooperative Cataloging Partnership (BTAA CCP) as the recipient of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018. The...
2018 Cunha-Swartzburg Award to Sandy Nyberg
CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) Jury for the George Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Preservation Award has selected Sandra "Sandy" Nyberg as the 2018 recipient. The award...
Ethiopia library wins first International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Mission Enhancement Grant
CHICAGO — The Chromebook Lab project at the Axumite Heritage Foundation Library in Ethiopia is the first recipient of the 91´«Ã½’s International Relations Roundtable (IRRT) Mission Enhancement Grant. The Axumite Heritage Foundation...
Treshani Perera awarded first Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant
CHICAGO—The 2018 Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant has been awarded to Treshani Perera, a recent graduate of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Lois Mai Chan Professional Development Grant was...
First Step Award to Natascha Owens
CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) congratulates Natascha Owens, serials cataloger at the University of Chicago Library, as the recipient of the 2018 First Step Award – a Wiley Professional Development Grant...
Juán-Pabló González awarded Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development Grant
CHICAGO—The 2018 Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development Grant has been awarded to Juán-Pabló González. González is a graduate archives assistant at The Catholic University of America, and a current Master of Library and Information Science candidate...
ALCTS’ Piercy Award to Alison M. Armstrong
CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) named Alison M. Armstrong, collection management librarian in the McConnell Library at Radford University, the winner of the 2018 Esther J. Piercy Award. This award will be...
The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) announces that the Nebraska Library Association Round Table for Intellectual Freedom is the 2017 recipient of the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations...
Swanson Best of LRTS Award to Neville and Henry
CHICAGO—Tina M. Neville and Deborah B. Henry, librarians at Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, University of South Florida St. Petersburg have been awarded the 2018 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award for the article, “ Repositories at Master’s...
Nuth and Blanchat book wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
CHICAGO—The recipients of the 2018 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award are Alana Nuth (publishing as Verminski) and Kelly Marie Blanchat for their volume, “ Fundamentals of Electronic Resources...
AASL Launches Affiliate of the Year Award
CHICAGO – At the 2018 91´«Ã½ Midwinter Meeting in Denver, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced the launch of its new Affiliate of the Year Award. The award recognizes the AASL Affiliate organization most active and dynamic in...
Submissions Now Open for the 2018 John Cotton Dana Awards
$10,000 Development Awards will go to up to Eight Winners The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) is now accepting submissions for the 2018 John Cotton Dana Awards. The awards are managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) and...
2018 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award winners announced
CHICAGO — The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the recipients of the 2018 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award – Naugatuck Valley Community College Max R. Traurig Library, Waterbury, Connecticut; State University of New...
David W. Lewis named 2018 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year
CHICAGO — David W. Lewis, dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library, is the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) 2018 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by GOBI...
AASL introduces National School Library Standards implementation grant for Affiliates
CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) proudly announces the launch of the AASL Past-Presidents Planning Grant for National School Library Standards. Three grants in the amount of $2,500 each will be awarded annually to AASL...
