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Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award
This annual award recognizes an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the preceding two years. The award honors Ilene F. Rockman's professional contributions to academic librarianship in the area of information literacy. This award is administered by the Instruction Section.
Award
A plaque and $3,000 award, donated by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, are presented during the Instruction Section program at the ALA Annual Conference.
Criteria
Publications are judged on the basis of relevance to the field of instruction in academic or research libraries, originality, timeliness, and quality of writing.
Eligibility
Publications include journal articles, books, book chapters, and published proceedings. Submitted publications may be authored by one or more individuals, a group, organization, or committee. Instruction Section publications are not eligible for award consideration. Publications from 2007 and 2008 can be considered for the 2009 award.
Submissions
Electronic submissions are required. Nominations must include a letter supporting the publication and a complete citation of the publication. Whenever possible, an electronic version of the article, book, etc., should also be included.
Send the nomination to the IS Awards Committee Co-Chairs, Susan Beck, susabeck@lib.nmsu.edu and Emily Rogers, ecrogers@valdosta.edu.
Submission Deadline: December 5, 2008
Previous Recipients
2008 — Patrick Ragains, University of Nevada - Reno, for his book, "Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population."
2007 — James K. Elmborg, University of Iowa, and Sheril Hook, University of Toronto, Mississauga, for their book, Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration, Publications in Librarianship #58.
2006 — Michelle Holschuh Simmons, University of Iowa, for her article, "Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move Toward Critical Information Literacy."
Prior to 2006, this award was known as the IS Publication of the Year Award
2005 — Trudi E. Jacobson, University at Albany and Lijuan Xu, Lafayette College, for their book, Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes
2004 — Esther Stampfer Grassian and Joan Kaplowitz for their book, Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice and Ann J. Grafstein for her article, "A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy."
2003 — Elmborg, James K. "Teaching at the Desk: Toward a Reference Pedagogy"
2002 — Betsy Baker for "Values for the Learning Library"
2001 — Linda Shirato for "A LOEX 25-Year Retrospective," a special issue of Reference Services Review
2000 — Bonnie Gratch Lindauer for "Defining and Measuring the Library's Impact on Campus-wide Outcomes"
1999 — Christine Bruce for The Seven Faces of Information Literacy
1997 — Gloria J. Leckie for "Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions about the Undergraduate Research Process"
1996 — Larry Hardesty for "Faculty Culture and Bibliographic Instruction: An Exploratory Analysis"
1995 — Frances F. Jacobson and Michael J. Jacobson for "Representative Cognitive Learning Theories and BI: A Case Study of End User Searching"
1993 — Terrence F. Mech and Donald W. Farmer for Information Literacy; Developing Students as Independent Learners
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