2009 ACRL Award Winners
Division Award Winners
Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award (Donor: YBP Library Services)
Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon University
Excellence in Academic Libraries (Donor: Blackwell’s Book Services)
University: University of Minnesota Libraries – Twin Cities
College: Wyndham Robertson Library at Hollins University, Roanoke, Va.
Community College: Moraine Valley Community College Library, Palos Hills, Ill.
Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award (ACRL, ALCTS, LLAMA, LITA)
Ray English, Oberlin College
Samuel Lazerow Fellowship Award (Donor: Thomson Reuters)
Sara Marcus, Queensborough Community College, for her research project on the change of terms and terminology over several editions of the Sears List of Subject Headings
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Donor: Thomson Reuters)
Krystyna K. Matusiak, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, for her proposal, “Use of Digital Resources in an Academic Environment: A Qualitative Study of Students’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Digital Literacy Skills.”
Special Presidential Recognition Award
Founding members of the Institute for Information Literacy Steering Committee and Immersion faculty
Members of the founding Steering Committee are Louis Albert, Lori Arp, Esther Grassian, Thomas Kirk, Cerise Oberman (chair), Shelly Phipps, Loanne Snavely, Mitch Stepanovich, Julie Todaro, Karen Williams and Lizabeth “Betsy” Wilson.
Founding faculty members are Eugene Engeldinger, Debra Gilchrist, Randy Hensley, Joan Kaplowitz, Sharon Mader, Mary Jane Petrowski and Karen Williams. The faculty has grown to include Craig Gibson, Carol Hansen, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, John Holmes, Mary MacDonald, Megan Oaklfeaf, Tiffani Travis, Dane Ward, Beth S. Woodard, Susan Barnes Whyte and Anne Zald.
Section Award Winners
CJCLS Awards (Donor: EBSCO Information Services)
Library Program Achievement Award
Diana Fitzwater, College of DuPage
Learning Resources/Leadership Award
Kenley Neufeld, Santa Barbara City College
CLS ProQuest Innovation in College Librarianship Award (Donor: ProQuest)
Bruce Connolly and Gail Golderman, Union College Schaffer Library
DLS Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award (Donor: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.)
Jack E. Fritts Jr., Benedictine University
EBSS Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award (Donor: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Gary Lare, formerly of University of Cincinnati
IS Awards
Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award (Donor: Elsevier on behalf of its library and information science program)
Trudi E. Jacobson, University at Albany State University of New York
IS Innovation Award (Donor: LexisNexis)
Abby Clobridge and David Willson Del Testa, Bucknell University for the “Bucknell University World War II Poster Project”
IS Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award (Donor: Emerald Publishing Group Unlimited)
Carolyn Radcliff, Mary Lee Jensen, Joseph A. Salem, Jr., Kenneth J. Burhanna, and Julie A. Gedeon, Kent State University, for their book, “A Practical Guide to Information Literacy Assessment for Academic Librarians”
LPSS Marta Lange/CQ Press Award (Donor: CQ Press)
Lynne M. Rudasill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
RBMS/Leab Exhibition Catalogue Awards (Donor: Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Endowment)
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, submitted by The Getty Research Institute.
Category 1 Honorable Mention (Expensive)
The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse, submitted by The Grolier Club.
Category 2 Winner (Moderately Expensive)
Stanford University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections, for their piece entitled Experiments in Navigation: The Art of Charles Hobson
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
Scottie Fitzgerald: The Stewardship of Literary Memory, submitted by the Rare Books and Special Collections department at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
The Book Club of California’s brochure entitled, The Book Art of Edward Gorey
Category 5 Winner (Electronic Exhibitions)
Modern Books and Manuscripts unit at the Harvard University Houghton Library for Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200, (http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/longfellow/)
STS Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences (Donor: Oberly Endowment)
The International Rice Research Institute’s Rice Database
WESS Coutts Nijhoff International West European Specialist Study Grant (Donor: Coutts Information Services)
Gordon Bruce Anderson, University of Minnesota, for his proposal to work toward the completion of a long-standing project, the Svenskamerikanska Bibliografi [Swedish American Bibliography]
WSS Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship Awards
Career Achievement (Donor: Greenwood Publishing Group)
Linda Krikos, Ohio State University Libraries
Significant Achievement (Donor: Routledge)
Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University