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Corey Halaychik receives ProQuest Coutts Award for Innovation
CHICAGO—The Association of Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Management Section (CMS) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017 ProQuest Coutts Award for Innovation. Corey Halaychik, assistant professor and head of...
Weaver wins 2017 ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award
CHICAGO – Janet Weaver, assistant curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa, is the winner of the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Award for Significant Achievement in...
Gilley wins 2017 ACRL WGSS Career Achievement Award
CHICAGO – Jennifer Gilley, head librarian at Penn State University New Kensington, has been selected as the 2017 winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Career Achievement Award. The award...
LDS Business College program wins ACRL CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Award
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is pleased to announce that LDS Business College has been chosen to receive the 2017 Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO Community College Learning Resources...
John Walsh receives ACRL CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award
CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is pleased to announce that John Walsh, director of library services at Cochise College, has been chosen to receive the 2017 Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO...
Two Friends groups win National Friends of Libraries Week Awards
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania -- Friends of the Glendale (Ariz.) Public Library and Holdrege (Neb.) Area Friends of the Library are winners of United for Libraries’ 2016 National Friends of Libraries Week Awards. Each group received $250 and were recognized at...
Call for Nominations: ASCLA's Achievement and Recognition Awards
CHICAGO - The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) has opened its nomination period for its annual series of achievement and recognition awards. Members are encouraged to nominate their colleagues and peers to recognize...
ALSC recipient of 2017 GLBTRT Award for Political Activism
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has been named the recipient of the 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) Award for Political Activism. The award will be presented...
CHICAGO – The 91´«Ã½’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) announced the Open Book Library ( Bibliothèque à livres ouverts) at the Community Centre for Gay and Lesbians of Montreal as the second recipient of...
Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
CHICAGO — Mark Sandler, principal at Novel Solutions Consulting, has been named the 2017 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Sandler will receive a cash award and citation during the 2017 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference in Chicago. Named in honor of one...
Loretta Parham named 2017 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year
CHICAGO — Loretta Parham, CEO and Director of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library is the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by GOBI Library...
Naomi Shihab Nye to deliver 2018 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
ATLANTA – Writer and Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver the 2018 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. The announcement was made today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), during the...
ATLANTA – Author Laurie Keller is the 2017 recipient of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for “We Are Growing! A Mo Willems’ Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! Book” published by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group. The award was...
Cooke recipient of 2017 Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award
CHICAGO — Nicole A. Cooke, assistant professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of the 2017 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Achievement in Library Diversity Research Honor. As part of its ongoing...
ATLANTA—The Notable Books Council, first established in 1944, has announced the 2017 selections of the Notable Books List, an annual best-of list comprised of twenty-six titles written for adult readers and published in the U.S. including literary fiction...
