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Two Friends groups win National Friends of Libraries Week Awards
PHILADELPHIA -- Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library (Redlands, California) and Friends of the Logan County (Kentucky) Library are winners of United for Libraries’ 2014 National Friends of Libraries Week Awards. Friends of Fondulac Library (East Peoria...
RUSA’s STARS section names winners of 2015 achievement awards for ILL practitioners
CHICAGO —The Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) has selected the winners of its two achievement awards honoring librarians providing exceptional service in the fields of interlibrary loan (ILL), resource sharing and document...
RUSA MARS section names Debbie Bezanson winner of service achievement award
CHICAGO —The MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected the winner of the 2015 service achievement award. The My Favorite Martian Award, which offers a citation to a member of the...
Arizona, California libraries win 2015 Bookapalooza Program
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) has awarded the 2015 Bookapalooza Program to three libraries: Maricopa Public Library, Maricopa, Arizona; Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library, Lakeside, Arizona; and Monterey County Free...
Farmer wins 2015 LIRT Librarian Recognition Award
CHICAGO — The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the 91´«Ã½ has chosen Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer, professor of library media at California State University Long Beach, as the 2015 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition...
Keba, Schofield and Segno win 2015 ACRL IS Innovation Award
CHICAGO — Michelle Keba, Michael Schofield and Jamie Segno, all of Nova Southeastern University, have been selected to receive the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section (IS) Innovation award for their work on the...
CHICAGO — The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected the winners of the 2015 achievement awards. Winners receive research and travel grants that recognize the profession’s most exceptional librarians, libraries and projects involving...
RUSA Reference Services Section names Liane Taylor winner of outstanding service award
CHICAGO —The Reference Services Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected the winner of the 2015 Service Achievement Award. The RSS Service Achievement Award consists of a citation that recognizes a member who has made...
HARRASSOWITZ Award to Michael Levine-Clark
CHICAGO — The Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected Michael Levine-Clark, associate dean for scholarly communication and collections services and professor at the University of Denver, to...
Hinchliffe wins 2015 ACRL/IS Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award
CHICAGO – Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, coordinator for information literacy services and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s (IS) Miriam...
Emery and Stone receive Ingram Coutts Innovation Award
CHICAGO —The Association of Library Collections & Technical Services ( ALCTS) Collection Management Section ( CMS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Ingram Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management. Jill Emery...
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has named Myung-Ja (MJ) Han, metadata librarian and associate professor of library administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as the recipient of the...
Sibley named 2015 Routledge Distance Learning Librarianship Conference Sponsorship Award winner
CHICAGO — Christina Sibley, distance education librarian at Arizona Western College, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Routledge Distance Learning Librarianship Conference Sponsorship Award. This annual award, sponsored by Routledge/Taylor &...
PLA awards recognize 15 individuals and public libraries representing excellence
CHICAGO — The Public Library Association (PLA) has announced 15 2015 award winners honoring the best in public library service, innovation and outreach. The Allie Beth Martin Award, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, recognizes a public librarian for...
Brian Schottlaender wins 2015 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
CHICAGO — Brian Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel university librarian at the University of California-San Diego, has been named the 2015 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Schottalender will receive a cash award and citation during the 2015 91´«Ã½...