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The W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship award winner for 2006 is Kevin Reynolds. The Rozkuszka award provides financial assistance to an individual who is currently working with government documents in a library and is working to complete a masters’ degree in library science. Kevin, the 2006 award winner, is enrolled in the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences and expects to receive his masters’ degree in May 2008.

Kevin has worked in libraries for more than 12 years and was head of the government documents department at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee for six years. Currently, as the Assistant University Librarian for Learning and Access Services at the University of the South, he supervises Circulation, Reference, and the Archives and Special Collections and serves as the point person for the depository collections.

Kevin has been associated with government documents since he worked as an undergraduate student worker for Larry Romans at Vanderbilt University Library. It was this experience that made him realize that librarianship was where he wanted to work and that government information was of special interest. It was a surprise to many on the Awards Committee that Kevin did not already have his library degree because he has been active in national and state associations for several years.

He has served as chair of the Tennessee GODORT and the Tennessee Advisory Committee on State Documents, as chair of the GODORT Legislation Committee, and he currently serves as the chair of the 91´«Ã½ Committee on Legislation Government Information Subcommittee. GODORT members know well the level of commitment and dedication that is required in working with the legislation committees.

Kevin’s long-term goals are to obtain a position that provides him an opportunity to spend more time on government information policy issues; it could be in library administration or as a teacher. Wherever he works, he intends to spend some time as a practicing reference librarian as he believes that the experience will make him a better administrator or educator.

Kevin’s letters of support from GODORT and Tennessee colleagues applaud his dedication, commitment, intelligence, energy and enthusiasm for public access to government information and encourage his pursuit of the graduate degree in library science. It is a pleasure to award this scholarship to an individual who has been an active GODORT member for many years.