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World-Class AchievementSaluting the 2007 ALA Award WinnersThe practice of bestowing awards for a job well done is what American business magnate, author, editor, and homemaking advocate Martha Stewart calls “a good thing,” pure and simple. It is a measure of success in a world of mixed blessings and diminished returns. In its centennial year, American Libraries is proud to showcase the Association’s “Academy Award–winning stars”—those who have been recognized by their peers for above-and-beyond efforts and outstanding library programming as well as our up-and-coming leaders. Though its divisions, offices, and round tables, ALA bestows more than 200 awards, scholarships, and grants annually. Special accolades are due to the jury panels who had the difficult task of examining the hundreds of applications and nominations and to the donors and sponsors for making the prizes available. Below is a complete listing of ALA award recipients, most of whom were honored at ceremonies during Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., as well as new awards announced for 2008. Contents
ALA AwardsHonorary MembershipDavid Cohen, Alice L. Hagemeyer, Anita R. Schiller, and Alphonse F. Trezza were chosen as the 2007 ALA Honorary Members—the highest award bestowed by the Association in recognition of outstanding contributions of lasting importance to libraries and librarianship. Professor emeritus, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, David Cohen is recognized for his contributions to multicultural librarianship and intellectual freedom in a career stretching over seven decades. As a school library media specialist and professor, Cohen inspired generations of library school students to initiate library programs and build library collections reaching out to the broadest possible range of ethnic and multicultural populations. He worked within both ALA and the New York Library Association (NYLA) to create and support intellectual freedom committees and round tables. Cohen has served as chair of ALA’s Committee on the Treatment of Minorities in Library Materials and on the Minority Concerns Committee. He is cofounder and served as coordinator of ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table’s Task Force on Ethnic Materials (now the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table) and is a founding member of EMIERT’s Jewish Librarians’ Caucus and the founding editor of the EMIERT Bulletin. Cohen was a charter member of ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation, a trustee of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom’s LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund, and a cofounder of the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship. He is the recipient of NYLA’s ProQuest Intellectual Freedom Award and ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award. ALA established the David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award in 1999 to recognize individuals for notable work on multiculturalism and libraries. In 2004, in celebration of his 95th birthday, ALA’s governing Council presented Cohen with a proclamation honoring his lifetime achievement in multiculturalism and intellectual freedom. Alice L. Hagemeyer, outreach coordinator for the National Literary Society of the Deaf in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the first Librarian for the Deaf Community at the District of Columbia Public Library, was recognized for her passionate, lifelong interest in promoting information about the language, culture, and achievements of deaf individuals. Through her leadership, Hagemeyer has brought the library community and the deaf community together to expand the concept of diversity to include both deaf individuals and people with disabilities. Early in her career, responding to a scarcity of books written about deaf experiences, Hagemeyer created The Red Notebook, a comprehensive resource on deaf issues used by libraries nationwide to encourage deaf people to be resourceful in using their libraries. The publication is now available electronically as “Deaf Awareness Begins @ your library.” In 1980, Hagemeyer founded a unit within ALA’s Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies’ (ASCLA) Libraries Serving Special Populations Section, now called the Library Service to People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Forum. She also is the founder of Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action. She has worked with several committees that focus on deaf issues within ALA and the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). Hagemeyer chaired NAD’s Task Force for National Deaf History Month, and served as co-coordinator of the Center for the Book’s first celebration of National Deaf History Month at the Library of Congress. Hagemeyer has received many honors and awards, including the NAD President’s Award, ASCLA’s Exceptional Service Award, and the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services Alumna of the Year Award, and was elected in 2000 to ALA’s National Advocacy Honor Roll. Librarian emerita at the University of California at San Diego, Anita R. Schiller was chosen for her groundbreaking efforts to enhance the status of women in librarianship. Through her accomplishments as a researcher, writer, speaker, and mentor, Schiller has had a profound impact on the profession. She first documented a pervasive pattern of gender inequality within the library profession in her 1968 study Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Libraries—a publication that galvanized a generation of women in librarianship to address the inequalities in the profession. Throughout the remainder of the 1960s and the 1970s, Schiller continued to research and document salary disparities between male and female librarians. She disseminated her findings in numerous studies, reports, and articles as well as in seminars, speeches, and conference programs. An active ALA member throughout her career, Schiller has served as a member of ALA’s governing Council, the Social Responsibilities Round Table’s Feminist Task Force, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and the President’s Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity for Library Workers. In 1985, she was awarded ALA’s Equality Award for outstanding contributions toward promoting equality between men and women in the library profession. Alphonse F. Trezza, professor emeritus at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies in Tallahassee, was recognized for his accomplishments in fostering resource sharing between libraries and the development of cooperative library systems, and in library education, library association management, and library management and leadership at the state and national levels. Trezza has served as executive director of the Catholic Library Association; ALA associate executive director; executive secretary of ALA’s Library Administrative Division (now the Library Administration and Management Association); director of the Illinois State Library; and executive director of the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), where he masterminded the early planning for the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services. At ALA, Trezza served as staff liaison for the design, funding, and staffing of the Library/USA exhibit at the Seattle and New York World’s Fairs and was instrumental in establishing the ALA–American Institute of Architects’ Library Building Awards Program, administered by LAMA. His efforts at the Illinois State Library led to the establishment of a statewide system of all types of libraries that is still recognized as one of the best models in the country. Trezza provided leadership and attracted funding to support recruitment of minorities to librarianship, library education, and the development of a sound research program. Trezza served on ALA’s governing Council and Executive Board. He was president of the Florida Library Association and the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange. His honors and awards include the Drexel University Graduate School of Library and Information Science Outstanding Alumnus Award, the ASCLA Exceptional Achievement Award, ALA’s Joseph W. Lippincott Award, NCLIS’s Silver Award, and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Rosary College (now Dominican University).
The ALA/Information Today Library of the Future Award$1,500 to an individual library, library consortium, group of librarians, or support organization for innovative planning, application, or development of patron training programs about information technology in a library setting.Donor: Information Today.Kitty Pope, executive director of the Alliance Library System, a multitype resource-sharing system in central Illinois, and the international collaborative group of librarians working on the Alliance Second Life Library were recognized for their groundbreaking work in the development of a 3D virtual world library. They were also acknowledged for forging new partnerships within the virtual world and for providing programs, services, and materials to the more than 1.3-million residents who inhabit Second Life. Since opening its virtual doors in April 2006, the Alliance Second Life Library (alliancelibraries.info/secondlife.htm) has expanded its presence to include locations on Info Islands I and II, HealthInfo Island, the Caledon (19th century) Branch Library, Cybrary City Islands, and the Teen Second Life “Eye4YouAlliance,” where engaging activities and interactions occur in a collaborative, social/learning space.
Beta Phi Mu Award$1,000 for distinguished service to education in librarianship.Donor: Beta Phi Mu International Library Honor Society.Barbara Immroth, professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, was recognized for her extensive and lasting impact on education for youth services librarians in school and public libraries. According to committee chair Ernest A. DiMattia Jr., Immroth has “devoted her long and impressive career to fostering scholarship among library youth services professionals, raising funds for their education and mentoring future educators to teach in this area. Through highly acclaimed dedication to the advancement of library service to young people, she has made a major contribution to society as well as to her profession. Her leadership, energy, and counseling—coupled with both an intellectual and practical approach to her activities—has enabled her to help shape the careers of many librarians.” Among her many professional activities, Immroth is past president of Beta Phi Mu and ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children and has been a trustee of ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation, president of the Texas Library Association, member of ALA’s governing Council, and a member of many international, national, and regional library committees.
W. Y. Boyd Literary Award$5,000 to the author of a military novel that honors the service of American veterans during a time of war.Donor: William Boyd.“Robert Mrazek has written an excellent work on a critical period in the Second World War,” said committee chair Robert Schnare. “It is a very compelling tale that enables the reader to obtain a perspective of what it was really like in war-weary England in the days before the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.” The Deadly Embrace: A Novel of World War II (Viking, 2006) tells the story of the intrigue, tension, and secrecy surrounding those critical days before the invasion as chronicled through the eyes of American officers Lieutenant Elizabeth “Liza” Marantz and Major Sam Taggart. As the pair work to uncover who is involved in the killing of women who may have knowledge of the invasion date, they battle the British and American chains of command. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1983–93), Mrazek served in the Navy and is a Vietnam War veteran. He is the author of two other novels: Stonewall’s Gold: A Novel of the Civil War (Thomas Dunne Books, 1998) and Unholy Fire: A Novel of the Civil War (Thomas Dunne Books, 2003).
Marshall Cavendish Excellence in Library Programming Award$2,000 to a school or public library that demonstrates excellence in library programming by providing programs that have community impact and respond to community needs.Donor: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.Calgary (Alberta) Public Library received the award for its project “It’s Not a Crime to Read,” which pairs libraries, schools, and police officers in an effort to encourage at-risk children to read and to develop a positive collaboration between librarians and teachers. Now in its fifth year, the project connects 2nd- and 3rd-graders with books, reading, lifelong learning, and positive community relationships. Once a month throughout the school year, public library staff, accompanied by police officers, visit a partner school where police officers read to the students. The program has been credited with increased reading time, library use, and improved reading scores. During one cycle of the program, students increased their reading time by 28% and ranked reading as the number-one activity to do when they were bored. “It’s Not a Crime to Read” is credited with creating a focus on literacy in the fourth most ethnically diverse city in Canada. In addition, the involvement of police personnel provides a positive role model, raising the self-esteem of the children. Partners in the project include eight Calgary schools, six public library branches, five police districts, six Rotary clubs, and one corporate funder.
Melvil Dewey MedalFor creative professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.Sponsor: OCLC/Forest Press.A noted author, consultant, and trainer, Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s librarian and director of Oxford University Library Services in England, was honored for “her extraordinary leadership in the advancement of research libraries in general, and cataloging and bibliographic standards and practices in particular, both nationally and internationally, during a distinguished career spanning more than three decades.” According to committee chair Winston Tabb, “Dr. Thomas has demonstrated inspiring vision, relentless determination, and unfailing optimism as an innovative leader in three great American libraries—the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and Cornell University—and will undoubtedly enhance this impressive record of achievement as she assumes leadership of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.” Among the achievements specially noted by the committee and the numerous colleagues who wrote in support of this award were Thomas’s vision, perseverance, and diplomacy in conceiving, launching, and nurturing the Program for Cooperative Cataloging that ushered cooperative cataloging into the 21st century; innovative initiatives at Cornell, such as the Library Gateway, Project Euclid, and DPubS; her commitment to diversity in library workforces and collections; and her leadership of numerous professional organizations, including the Association of Research Libraries, which she guided through a major, transformative strategic planning process.
Equality Award$500 each for an outstanding contribution that promotes equality in the library profession.Donor: Scarecrow Press.Gladys Smiley Bell, Peabody librarian, William R. And Norma B. Harvey Library at Hampton (Va.) University, and Kenneth A. Yamashita, library division manager at Stockton–San Joaquin County (Calif.) Library, were recognized for their work as co-chairs of the first Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, held in 2006 in Dallas. Both Bell and Yamashita are long-time champions of diversity in librarianship. Bell has served as president (2000–02) of the Black Caucus of ALA and has published extensively on diversity issues. Yamashita has held numerous leadership positions, including president 1996–97) of the ALA affiliate Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.
Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award$1,000 to a librarian who invests time and talent to make positive changes in the profession of librarianship.Donor: Futas Memorial Fund.In librarianship, Jenna Freedman, coordinator of reference services at Barnard College Library in New York City, found a career that not only accommodates political and social action but demands it. She has been influenced by many role models, including her father and past ALA president Maurice (Mitch) Freedman and Kathleen de la Peña McCook, distinguished university professor of library and information science, University of South Florida in Tampa. According to committee Chair Charles Harmon, “Freedman is a change agent. She developed a zine collection (consisting of self-produced, self-published, and self-distributed magazine-type publications creatively expressing individuality and interest in a particular subject) at Barnard, and has spread the word nationwide to libraries about the value and importance of collecting zines. Freedman writes her own zine called Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out. Freedman initiated the movement to have a Library Workers’ Day, now incorporated as part of ALA’s National Library Week and administered by the ALA–Allied Professional Association. In 2004, she founded Radical Reference, a volunteer collective of library workers who believe in promoting social justice and equality, to support citizens and activists who were protesting the Republican National Convention in New York City. Freedman worked to help establish the ALA Presidential Task Force on Better Salaries and is one of the youngest members elected to ALA’s governing Council.
Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship$1,000 for contributing significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of librarianship through performance, teaching, or writing.Donor: Ken Haycock.Mary Dempsey was honored for her contributions to public library service and the profession of librarianship as commissioner of the Chicago Public Library. Since she assumed office in 1994, librarywide strategic plans emphasizing professional development and training have been implemented, 40 new library branches have been constructed, and the 79-branch system has been thoroughly revitalized. Through an emphasis on neighborhood revitalization through branch library construction, Chicago is now a national model in the use of libraries as magnets for urban development. John A. Moorman, committee chair, pointed to a Chicago Tribune article announcing Dempsey’s receipt of one of Governing magazine’s 2006 Public Official of the Year awards. The article stated that “Twelve years ago, the Chicago Tribune called the city’s public library system ‘the runt of the litter’ among local cultural fixtures. Only six years later, the newspaper was touting it as ‘a national showcase.’ Since then, the Chicago Public Library has continued to burnish its reputation as a powerful educational, social, and economic force in the city.”
Paul Howard Award for Courage$1,000, given biannually for exhibiting unusual courage for the benefit of library programs or servicesDonor: Paul Howard Memorial Fund.Four “John Does”—also known as George Christian, Peter Chase, Barbara Bailey, and Jan Nocek—were recognized for their challenge of a National Security Letter (NSL) they received and the gag-order provision of the USA Patriot Act that prohibited their discussing it. Christian is the executive director of the Library Connection, a nonprofit consortium of 27 libraries in Connecticut. Chase is former vice president of the Library Connection, director of the Plainville (Conn.) Public Library, and chair of the Connecticut Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. Bailey is former president of the Library Connection and director of the Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Nocek is former secretary of the Library Connection and director of the Portland (Conn.) Library. In 2005, Library Connection received an NSL from the FBI, demanding library patrons’ records. Christian and the three members of the board’s Executive Committee engaged the American Civil Liberties Union to file suit to challenge the constitutional validity of the NSL. Because Section 505 of the Patriot Act, which authorizes the FBI to demand records without prior court approval, also forbids anyone who receives an NSL from telling anyone else about receiving it, the four also challenged the validity of the gag order. For almost a year ACLU fought to lift the gag order, challenging the government’s power to silence four citizens who wished to contribute to public debate on the Patriot Act. In May 2006, the government finally gave up its legal battle to maintain the gag order. On June 26, 2006, the ACLU announced that, after dropping its defense of the gag provision accompanying the NSL request, the FBI abandoned its demand for the library records entirely. In 2006, the Connecticut Four received the Connecticut Library Association’s Outstanding Librarian Award as “John Doe” for their challenge to the Patriot Act. In 2007, each of the four received the award individually now that their identities have been made public. “Throughout their ordeal, the John Does fought for basic library principles, in particular a library user’s right to confidentiality,” said committee chair Li Chen. “The John Does protected a fundamental constitutional issue at great personal and emtional expense with the real threat of criminal proceedings hanging over them. It was this act of courage that led the John Does to become champions not only for library service in the post–9/11 era, but also for democracy in the United States.”
Joseph W. Lippincott Award$1,000 for outstanding participation in professional library activities, notable published professional writing, or other significant activities on behalf of the profession.Donor: Joseph W. Lippincott III.Winston Tabb, dean of university libraries and Sheridan director at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was acknowledged for his significant and enduring contributions to the library profession both nationally and internationally. “During a long and distinguished career at the Library of Congress culminating as associate librarian of Congress, library services, Winston Tabb had an enormous impact on libraries, librarians, the profession as a whole, and on library users in the U.S,” noted committee chair Jon Cawthorne. “He played a strong leadership role in the development of LC’s internationally recognized digital library efforts through development of the pioneering American Memory program and cochairing the Digital Futures Group,” added Robert Newlen, head, Legislative Relations Office, Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress. Tabb’s achievements at the international level include serving as chair of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ Professional Committee, National Libraries Section, Coordinating Board for the Division of General Research Libraries, and Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee.
Schneider Family Book Awards$5,000 to an author or illustrator for a book that encourages artistic expression of the disability experience for young children, middle school, and teens in each category.Donor: Katherine Schneider.Author Pete Seeger, poet Paul DuBois Jacobs, and illustrator R. Gregory Christie are the recipients of the Schneider Award in the young children’s category (birth through grade school) for The Deaf Musicians (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006). After losing his hearing, jazzman Lee learns to make music in a new way. According to committee chair Barbara T. Mates, “The book’s upbeat narrative and bright colors teach the reader that there is more than one way to do everything, to never give up on your dreams, and that music can be enjoyed by all.” Cynthia Lord, author of Rules (Scholastic Press, 2006), is the winner in the middle-school category for the novel’s realistic depiction of 12-year-old Catherine’s quest to find her place in a family consumed by her autistic brother David’s needs. “Catherine copes by developing rules for her and for David,” Mates explained. “She tries to adhere to these rules until she meets Jason, a nonverbal paraplegic teen, who teaches her that rules are sometimes just excuses.” Louis Sachar, author of Small Steps (Delacorte Press, 2006), received the teen category award for the sequel to the award-winning Holes (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998). Small Steps portrays the unexpected friendship between Armpit and 10-year-old Ginny, who has cerebral palsy, as they help each other take incremental steps towards a brighter future.” The book shows that friendship comes in many shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities,” said Mates.
Scholastic Library Publishing Award$1,000 for an unusual contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and young people that exemplifies outstanding achievement in the profession.Donor: Scholastic Library Publishing.Eliza T. Dresang, professor, School of Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee, has devoted her career to books and children. Her Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age (H. W. Wilson, 1999) is a staple of children’s literature curricula and has directly influenced countless librarians and teachers and the children they serve. Dresang’s philosophy of inclusiveness and equal access was voiced clearly in her 1977 School Library Journal article, “There Are No Other Children: Special Children in Library Media Centers,” which has been reprinted as one of the best of the past 50 years. According to committee chair Lydia Acosta, “Throughout her career, Dresang has demonstrated her commitment to the 21st-century child’s right to equal access to knowledge, to diverse literature in which the child is represented, and to a literature that speaks in both content and form to the child’s unique ways of knowing and reading. Dr. Dresang’s revolutionary viewpoint has had a significant impact on professionals in a variety of literacy-related fields, and continues to do so as she guides future professionals as they develop.” Dresang has been named both Outstanding Faculty Member and the Eliza Atkins Gleason Professor at Florida State. Her numerous accomplishments include serving as one of 11 advisors to the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries; as chair of a variety of ALA committees and ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) and Young Adult Library Services Association; and helping to shape the ALSC Pura Belpré Award, presented biennially to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to ChildrenTo an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to children while having general management, supervisory, or administrative responsibility that has included public library service to children in its scope.Donor: Peggy Sullivan.Library services director at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Keith Kuhn was selected for his leadership role in making children’s services an organizational priority for the library system, according to committee chair Tim Grimes. Under Kuhn’s direction, a five-member Children’s Services Council was created for the system and ultimately led to the establishment of other such library work groups in the library. The program received state and national attention as the focus of several key programs during an ALA Public Library Association national conference and an Ohio Library Council Children’s Services Conference. Kuhn has served on numerous professional boards and committees, including the ProQuest Advisory Board and the Macmillan/Scribner’s Advisory Board.
H. W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant$3,500 to a library organization for a program to further its staff development goals and objectives.Donor: H. W. Wilson Company.The Lee County (Fla.) Library System (LCLS) will use the award to begin offering a program titled “Taking it to the Screen,” an initiative that converts most of its current face-to-face staff-orientation program into a series of computer modules that may be viewed by library staff throughout the multibranch system. LCLS has established a standard five-component orientation program for the over 300 staff members of its 13-branch system. “Taking it to the Screen” will allow library workers, especially those new to the system, to have a more complete and timely orientation program. The staff orientation series will consist of three parts—multimedia, face-to-face, and an interactive customer service workshop—to allow staff to obtain a deep understanding of the various operations within the library system, gain an understanding of customer service principles, and understand their roles in helping the library system fulfill its mission. Although the program is designed for new hires, longer-term staff members are encouraged to participate as well.
Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor AwardTo recognize individuals who have contributed substantially to the Foundation through adherence to its principles and/or substantial monetary support.Sponsor: Freedom to Read Foundation.2007 marks the 50th year of ALA membership for Lucille C. Thomas, immediate past president of the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library’s Board of Trustees and former assistant director of the New York City Board of Education, Office of Library, Media, and Telecommunications. In 2003, Thomas was awarded an honorary ALA membership, the Association’s highest honor. A member of and former liaison to the FTRF board, she is a longtime advocate of the principles of intellectual freedom and equity of access to information in public and school libraries. Among her many other activities, Thomas has served as an ALA Executive Board member, president of the International Association of School Librarianship, chair of ALA’s Committee on Professional Ethics, chair of ALA’s Association of Library Trustees and Advocates’ Intellectual Freedom Committee, and on the board of the Black Caucus of ALA. She currently serves as a trustee of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund, which provides financial assistance to librarians facing job loss or retaliation due to their defense of intellectual freedom or because of discrimination.
Thomson Gale Group Financial Development Award$2,500 is given to a library organization that exhibited meritorious achievement in carrying out a financial development project to secure new funding resources for a public or academic library. No 2007 recipient.Sponsor: Thomson Gale, Inc.
Other ALA GrantsCarroll Preston Baber Research GrantUp to $3,000 for innovative research that could lead to an improvement in library services to any specified group of people: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Eric R. Baber. Not available in 2008.
EBSCO Conference Sponsorship AwardUp to $1,000 in expenses to the ALA Annual Conference: Jennifer Brannock, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg; Lisa Gann, University of Missouri at Columbia; Katy Herrick, Grand Prairie (Tex.) Public Library; Amy Hoseth, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Kristie Morrison, Ashland (Ohio) Public Library; Jessica Moyer, State University of New York, Oneonta; Lan Shen, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana; Robbie Sittel, Tulsa (Okla.) City-County Library System; Alexandra Tyle, Homer Township (Ill.) Public Library; Jill Woolums, University of California at Berkeley. Deadline: December 1.Loleta D. Fyan Grant$10,000 to a library, library school, association, unit, chapter of ALA, or an individual for the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Fyan Estate. Not available in 2008.World Book-ALA Goal Grant$10,000 to ALA units for the advancement of public, academic, or school library service and librarianship through support of programs that implement the goals and priorities of ALA: Young Adult Library Services Association for “Improving Teen Services in Key States.” Donor: World Book. Deadline: March 1, 2008.
Committee AwardsInternational Relations CommitteeBogle Pratt International Travel Fund$1,000 to ALA members to attend their first international conference: Dora T. Ho, young adult librarian, Los Angeles Public Library. Donor: Bogle Memorial Fund and the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. Deadline: January 1, 2008.John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award$1,000 to an individual for significant contributions to international librarianship: Winston Tabb, dean of libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Donor: OCLC/Forest Press. Deadline: December 1.
Interdivision AwardHugh C. Atkinson Memorial AwardCash to recognize outstanding achievements (including risk-taking) in the areas of library automation, management, or development and research: James G. Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian, Columbia University, New York City. Sponsors: ACRL, ALCTS, LAMA, and LITA. Deadline: December 7.
Division AwardsAmerican Association of School Librarians(2008 award deadline February 1, 2008, unless otherwise noted)ABC-CLIO Leadership GrantUp to $1,750 to school library media affiliate organizations for planning and implementing leadership programs at the state, regional, or local level: Association for Indiana Media Educators. Donor: ABC-CLIO Schools.Collaborative School Library Media Award$2,500 to a school library media specialist who demonstrates exemplary collaborative efforts through joint planning of a program, unit, or use of school library media center resources: Renee Zorc, school library media specialist, Daniel Wright Junior High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois. Donor: Highsmith.Crystal AppleGiven at the discretion of the AASL president, to an individual or group who has had a significant impact on school libraries and students: Scholastic Library Publishing.Distinguished School Administrators Award$2,000 to a school administrator who has made worthy contributions to the operations of an exemplary school library media center and to advancing the role of the school library media center in the educational program: Nathan S. Greenberg, superindentent of schools, Londonderry (N.H.) School District. Donor: ProQuest.Distinguished Service Award$3,000 to an individual member of the library profession who has, over a significant period of time, made an outstanding national contribution to school librarianship and school library development: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Baker and Taylor.Frances Henne Award$1,250 to a school library media specialist with five or fewer years of experience who demonstrates leadership qualities with students, teachers, and administrators, to attend an AASL national conference or ALA Annual Conference for the first time: Jessica Klinker, Immaculate Conception School, Columbus, Ohio. Donor: Greenwood Publishing Group.Information Technology Pathfinder Award$1,000 to a school library media specialist and $500 to the library in two categories, elementary (K–6) and secondary (7–12), for demonstrating vision and leadership through the use of information technology to build lifelong learners: Holly Hartell, Pacolet (S.C.) Elementary School (elementary), and Sheila C. Howard, North Atlanta High School (secondary). Donor: Follett Software Company.Innovative Reading Grant$2,500 to support the planning and implementation of a unique and innovative program for children that motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers. Nancy Baumann, Early Bird Readers, Barnett Shoals Elementary School, Athens, Georgia. Donor: Coughlan Publishing.Intellectual Freedom Award$2,000 to the recipient and $1,000 to the media center of the recipient’s choice for upholding the principles of intellectual freedom as set forth by AASL and ALA: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: ProQuest.National School Library Media Program of the YearAwards of $10,000 each to one school district and two single schools for exemplary school library media programs that are fully integrated into the school’s curriculum to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information and exemplify implementation of Information Power: Norman (Okla.) Public Schools (school district), Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, and North Elementary School, Noblesville, Indiana (single schools). Donor: Follett Library Resources Deadline: January 2, 2008.School Librarian’s Workshop Scholarship$3,000 to a full-time student preparing to become a school library media specialist at the preschool, elementary, or secondary level and who is pursuing graduate-level education in an ALA-accredited library school program or in a school library media program that meets the ALA curriculum guidelines for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education: Donna Mae Ohlgren, Champlin, Minnesota. Donor: Jay W. Toor, president, Library Learning Resources. Deadline: March 1, 2008.
Association of College and Research Libraries(2008 award deadline December 3, unless otherwise noted)Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award$5,000 to honor an outstanding member of academic or research librarianship and library development: Lizabeth A. Wilson, dean of libraries, University of Washington, Seattle. Sponsor: YBP Library Services.Community and Junior College Libraries Section EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award$500 to recognize significant achievement in the advocacy of learning resources and leadership in professional organizations that support the missions of community, junior, and technical colleges: David R. Dowell, library director, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California. Sponsor: EBSCO Information Services.Community and Junior College Libraries Section Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement Award$500 to recognize outstanding achievement in library programs or leadership: Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities, Spokane (Wash.) Community College. Sponsor: EBSCO Information Services.Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship$1,500 to assist doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research: Jihyun Kim, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor. Sponsor: Thomson Scientific.Excellence in Academic Libraries Award$3,000 each to a college, community college, and university library for outstanding efforts in furthering the educational missions of their institutions: Community College: Hostos Community College/City University of New York Library; College: Coates Library, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas; University: Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, Atlanta. Sponsor: Blackwell’s Book Services.Distance Learning Section Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award$1,200 to honor any individual ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success of, distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education: Anne Marie Casey, associate dean of libraries, Central Michican University, Mount Pleasant. Sponsor: Haworth Press.Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award$1,000 to honor outstanding contributions to education and behavioral sciences librarianship: Patricia O’Brien Libutti, social sciences/education librarian emeritus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Sponsor: John Wiley and Sons.Instruction Section Innovation Award$3,000 for a project that demonstrates creative, innovative, or unique approaches to information literacy instruction: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Instructional Services Department. Sponsor: LexisNexis.Instruction Section Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award$1,000 to recognize a librarian for significant contributions to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment: Debra L. Gilchrist, dean of library and media services, Pierce College, Puyallup, Washington. Sponsor: Elsevier.Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award$3,000 to recognize an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the preceding two years: James K. Elmborg, associate professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Sheril Hook coordinator of instructional services, University of Toronto, Mississauga. Sponsor: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.Law and Political Science Section Marta Lange/CQ Press Award$1,000 to recognize a librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science: Binh P. Le, associate librarian, Penn State University, Abington. Sponsor: CQ Press.Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue AwardsCitations to recognize outstanding catalogs published by American or Canadian institutions in conjunction with library exhibitions: Division One (expensive): No Other Appetite: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry, The Groller Club, New York City, and Half-Life: 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum and Triangular Press, Multnomah County (Oreg.) Library; Division Two (moderately expensive): Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps, New York Public Library; Division Three (inexpensive): Maxwell Did It! Photographing the Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1920s–1950s, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry, University of Delaware, Newark; Division Four (brochures): A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Division Five (electronic exhibition): Vanished Worlds, Enduring People: Cornell University’s Native American Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Sponsor: Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Endowment. Deadline: September 30.Samuel Lazerow Fellowship$1,000 for travel and writing in the fields of acquisition or technical services: Not awarded in 2007. Sponsor: Thomson Scientific.Science and Technology Section Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural SciencesGiven in odd-numbered years for the best English-language bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science. AgEcon Search, University of Minnesota Libraries, University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics, and American Agricultural Economics Association. Sponsor: Eunice Rockwood Oberly Memorial Fund.Western European Studies Section Coutts Nijhoff International West European Specialist Study GrantUp to 4,500 Euros to support research in Europe in the acquisition, organization, or use of materials from or relating to Western Europe: Thea Lindquist, assistant professor of history and Germanic language and literature librarian, University of Colorado, Boulder. Sponsor: Coutts Nijhoff International.Women’s Studies Section Awards for Career Achievement$1,000 recognizing career achievement in the area of women’s studies librarianship: Sandra A. River, architecture and humanities librarian, Texas Tech University. Sponsor: Greenwood Publishing Group.Women’s Studies Section Awards for Significant Achievement$500 for each of two awards recognizing significant achievement in the area of women’s studies librarianship during the year of the award: Jennifer Gilley, head librarian, Pennsylvania State University New Kensington, and Kayo Denda, women’s studies librarian, Rutgers University, Jenna Freedman, coordinator of reference services and zine librarian, Barnard College, and Sharon Ladenson, gender studies and communications librarian, Michigan State University. Sponsor: Routledge.
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services(2008 award deadline December 1)Best of Library Resources and Technical Services Award$250 to the author of the best paper published in LRTS: Jim Stemper, electronic resources librarian, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Susan Barribeau, electronic resources librarian for collection development, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for “Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library’s Licenses” (April 2006).Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award$1,500 for contribution of a professional preservation specialist active in the field of preservation and/or conservation of library and/or archival materials: Walter Henry, lead analyst, Preservation Department, Stanford (Calif.) University. Donor: Preservation Technologies.Blackwell’s Scholarship Award$2,000 scholarship donated to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the author(s) choice for an outstanding monograph, article, or original paper about acquisitions or collection development: Ross Atkinson (posthumously), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for “Six Key Challenges for the Future of Collection Development,” Library Resources and Technical Services, vol. 50, no. 4, October 2006. Scholarship: Simmons College, Boston. Donor: Blackwell’s.Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award$1,500 for distinguished contributions to serials: Julia Blixrud, assistant executive director for external relations, Association of Research Libraries. Donor: ProQuest CSA.First Step Award/Wiley Professional Development Grant$1,500 to a librarian new to the serials field to attend an ALA Annual Conference and participate in Serials Section activities: Paula Webb, serials/interlibary loan librarian, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi. Donor: John Wiley and Sons.Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award$1,500 for outstanding leadership in the field of acquisitions librarianship: Nancy Gibbs, head of acquisitions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Donor: Harrassowitz.Margaret Mann Citation$2,000 scholarship donated to the library school of the winner’s choice for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification: Robert Wolven, director of library systems and bibliographic control, Columbia University, New York. Donor: OCLC.Esther J. Piercy Award$1,500 to recognize contributions to library collections and technical services by a librarian with no more than 10 years of professional experience: Robert L. Bothmann, electronic access/catalog librarian, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Donor: YBP Library Services.SAGE Support Staff Travel GrantUp to $1,000 each to enable six support staff to attend the ALA Annual Conference: Monica Claasen-Wilson, program assistant for collection development, Kansas University, Lawrence; Julia Merkel, preservation specialist, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Audrey Pryce, children’s literature cataloger, Bank Street College of Education, New York City; Nancy Slate, assistant librarian, Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library, Bloomfield, Colorado; LaShawn Wilson, PART moderator, Auburn (Ala.) University; Siu Min Yu, library associate II, Rice University, Houston. Donor: Sage Publications.Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award$3,000 honoring the legacy of Ross Atkinson, distinguished library leader, author, and scholar to recognize the contribution of an ALCTS member and library leader who has demonstrated exceptional service to ALCTS and its areas of interest: Brian E. C. Schottlaender, university librarian, University of California, San Diego. Donor: EBSCO.Outstanding Collaboration CitationFor outstanding collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library materials: CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), Stanford (Calif.) University Libraries.50th Anniversary Presidential CitationsFor outstanding service to ALCTS: Beacher Wiggins, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Peggy Johnson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Glenn Patton, OCLC.Presidential CitationsFor outstanding service to ALCTS: Edward Swanson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Beth Picknally Camden, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester, New York; and Christine Taylor and Julie Reese, ALCTS staff.
Association for Library Service to ChildrenMay Hill Arbuthnot Honor LectureAwarded to an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children’s literature of any country who prepares a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature: David Macaulay. Deadline for 2009 host site consideration: May 1, 2008.Mildred L. Batchelder AwardTo the publisher of the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a foreign language and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States: Delacorte Press for The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated by Y. Maudet. Honor Awards Delacorte Press for The Killer’s Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux and Hyperion/Miramax for The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari. Deadline: December 31.Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship$4,000 for study at the Baldwin Library, University of Florida, Gainesville: Charmette Kuhn-Kendrick, children’s librarian, Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library, North Columbus branch, Columbus, Georgia. Deadline: December 3.Pura Belpré AwardFor the Latino/Latina author and illustrator of a work that best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth: Not awarded in 2007. Sponsors: ALSC and Reforma. Deadline: December 31.Bookapalooza ProgramOffering three select libraries a collection of materials that will help transform their collection and provide the opportunity for these materials to be used in their community in creative and innovative ways: College Gate Elementary School Library, Anchorage, Alaska; Custer County School District Library, Westcliffe, Colorado; and Creswell (Oreg.) Library. Deadline: November 30.BWI Summer Reading Program Grant$3,000 for an outstanding summer reading program: Santa Clara (Calif.) City Library. Donor: Book Wholesalers Inc. Deadline: December 3.Bound to Stay Bound Scholarship$6,500 each toward an MLS or beyond in the field of library service to children at an ALA-accredited program: Jessica Kerlin, Lakewood, Ohio; Laura Knouff, Pittsburgh; Esther Mortensen, Ashland, Oregon; and Jeanna Rex, Jamaica Plain, Massachussets. Sponsor: Bound to Stay Bound Books. Deadline: March 1, 2008.Randolph Caldecott MedalTo the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children: David Wiesner for Flotsam (Clarion); Honor Awards: David McLimans for Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet (Walker), and Kadir Nelson for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun). Deadline: December 31.Andrew Carnegie MedalTo the producer of the most outstanding video production for children released in the preceding year: Mo Willems and Weston Woods Studios for Knuffle Bunny. Deadline: December 31.ALSC Distinguished Service Award$1,000 to an ALSC member who has made significant contributions to, and an impact on, library service to children and ALSC, as well as a sustained contribution over time to the understanding or expansion of library services to children: Caroline Ward, youth services coordinator, Ferguson Library, Stamford, Connecticut. Deadline: December 3.Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship$6,000 each toward an MLS or beyond in the field of library service to children at an ALA-accredited program: Rebecca Heckathorn, Inman, South Carolina; and Cynthia Jablonka Simpson, Highland, Michigan. Deadline: March 1, 2008.John Newbery MedalTo the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children: Susan Patron for The Higher Power of Lucky (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson); Honor Awards: Jennifer L. Holm for Penny from Heaven (Random House), Kirby Larson for Hattie Big Sky (Delacorte), and Cynthia Lord for Rules (Scholastic). Deadline: December 31.Penguin Young Readers Group Awards$600 each toward ALA Annual Conference attendance: Rachel Martin Gould, Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library, Watertown, Massachussets; Cheryl “Kay” Gooch, Gullett Elementary School, Austin, Texas; Sally L. Miculek, Austin (Tex.) Public Library; and Suzanne Myers Harold, Multnomah (Oreg.) County Library. Donor: Penguin Young Readers Group. Deadline: December 3.Tandem Library Books Literature Program Award$1,000 toward ALA Annual Conference attendance for the development of an outstanding reading or literature program for children: Diane Williamson, media specialist, Abbotts Hill (Ga.) Elementary School. Donor: Tandem Library Books. Deadline: December 3.Robert F. Sibert Informational Book AwardTo the author and illustrator of the most distinguished informational book for children: Catherine Thimmesh for Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Houghton); Honor Awards: Ann Bausum for Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement (National Geographic), Sy Montgomery, author, and Nic Bishop, photographer, for Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (Houghton), and Sienna Cherson Siegel, author, and Mark Siegel, illustrator, for To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson and Simon & Schuster/Aladdin). Sponsor: Bound to Stay Bound Books. Deadline: December 31.Laura Ingalls Wilder MedalAwarded biennially to an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children: James Marshall. Deadline: December 31.Theodor Seuss Geisel MedalFor the author and illustrator of the most distinguished beginning reader book: Laura McGee Kvasnosky for Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways (Candlewick); Honor Awards: Kate DiCamillo (author) and Chris Van Dusen (illustrator) for Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride (Candlewick), Karen Beaumont (author) and Jane Dyer (Illustrator) for Move Over, Rover! (Harcourt), and Antoinette Portis for Not a Box (HarperCollins). Deadline: December 31.Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Visit AwardUp to $4,000 for an honorarium and travel to an academic, public, or school library for a visiting author/illustrator to speak to children who have not had an opportunity to hear a nationally known author/illustrator: Betty Ranck, children’s librarian, and Lauren Miller, director, Athens County (Ohio) Public Library. Sponsor: Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing. Deadline: December 3.
Association for Library Trustees and Advocates(2008 award deadline December 1)ALA Trustee Citation AwardFor best contributions and efforts of the estimated 60,000 American citizens who serve on library boards: Jane Rowland, president, Calumet City (Ill.) Public Library Board, and Patricia O. Norman, chair, Library Board of Trustees, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (N.C.).Gale Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant$750 each to two public library trustees to attend an ALA Annual Conference for the first time: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Gale Research.Literacy AwardTo a library trustee or volunteer who has made some significant contribution to addressing the literacy problem in the United States, particularly as it relates to the role of the public library: Not awarded in 2007.Major Benefactors AwardPresented to individuals, families, or corporate bodies for major benefactions to public libraries: Not awarded in 2007.
Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies(2008 award deadline December 17, unless otherwise noted)Exceptional Service AwardTo recognize exceptional service to patients; the homebound; medical, nursing, and other professional staff in hospitals; and to inmates, as well as effective programming, pioneering activity, or significant research to special populations: Diana Reese, institutional library services coordinator, Colorado State Library, Salida.Francis Joseph Campbell AwardTo recognize outstanding contribution to the advancement of library service for people who are blind and have physical disabilities: Sue O. Murdock, retired manager, Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Pittsburgh.Leadership Achievement AwardTo recognize leadership and achievement in the areas of consulting, multitype library cooperation, and state library development: Lee A. Logan, director of consulting and continuing education, and Kitty Pope, executive director, Alliance Library System, East Peoria, Illinois. In 2008, the Leadership Achievement Award and the Professional Achievement Award will be merged into the Leadership and Professional Achievement Award.KLAS/National Organization on Disability Award$1,000 to a library organization to recognize services for people with disabilities: Braille Institute of Library Services, Los Angeles. Donor: Keystone Systems.Professional Achievement AwardTo recognize ASCLA members for professional achievement within the areas of consulting, networking, statewide service, and programs: Thomas J. Sanville, executive director, OhioLINK, Columbus. In 2008, the Leadership Achievement Award and the Professional Achievement Award will be merged into the Leadership and Professional Achievement Award.Cathleen Bourdon Service AwardRecognizes an ASCLA personal member for outstanding service and leadership to the division: Not awarded in 2007.Century ScholarshipUp to $2,500 annually to a library school student or students with disabilities attending an ALA-accredited library school to fund services or accommodations not provided by law or the university: Cynthia Nugent, University of Southern Mississippi. Deadline: March 1, 2008.
Library Administration and Management AssociationAIA/ALA Library Buildings AwardAwarded biennially, to recognize excellence in the architectural design and planning of libraries: Gluckman Mayner Architects for the Robin Hood Foundation Library for P.S. 192, New York City; Richärd + Bauer Architecture for the Desert Broom branch of Phoenix Public Library; P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd. for the Shunde Library, Foshan, China; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson for the Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center of Seattle Public Library; CO Architects for the Santa Monica (Calif.) College Library; Ann Beha Architects for the Lafayette College Skillman Library, Easton, Pennsylvania; Polshek Partnership Architects LLP for the William J. Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Office dA for the Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library, Providence; and Patkau Architects for the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, Montreal. Sponsors: LAMA and American Institute of Architects. Deadline: December 3.Diana V. Braddom Fundraising and Financial Development Section Scholarship$1,000 to attend the ALA Annual Conference: JaEun Ku, Korean studies librarian, University of California at Los Angeles. Donor: Diana V. Braddom. Deadline: December 1.Cultural Diversity Grant$1,000 to support the creation and dissemination of resources that will assist library administrators and managers in developing a vision and commitment to diversity, and in fostering and sustaining diversity throughout their institutions: Not awarded in 2007. Deadline: December 1.John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award$3,000 each to libraries or library organizations of all types for public relations programs or special projects: Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library for “Brooklyn Reads to Babies”; Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries for “Page to Stage Productions”; Huntsville-Madison County (Ala.) Public Library for “The Big Read; Huntsville Reads The Great Gatsby”; Illinois State University, Normal, for “Honoring Illinois State University’s First Librarian Angeline ‘Ange’ Vernon Milner”; Ocean County (N.J.) Library for “Hurricane Katrina—Partners in Caring”; Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for “Pennsylvania: One Book, Every One Child”; and Wyoming State Library, Cheyenne, for “Wyoming Libraries: Bringing the World to Wyoming.” Donors: H. W. Wilson Company and H. W. Wilson Foundation. Deadline: December 10.Leadership AwardTo honor an individual LAMA member for outstanding contribution to the goals of LAMA: Julie B. Todaro, dean of library services, Austin (Tex.) Community College. Deadline: December 1.President’s AwardTo honor an individual who is not a LAMA member or to an organization that has made significant contributions to the goals of LAMA. American Institute of Architects. Deadline: December 1.Group Achievement AwardTo honor LAMA committees or task forces, recognizing outstanding teamwork supporting the goals of LAMA. LAMA/International Interior Design Association Award Committee (Kelly K. Bauer, Richärd + Bauer Architecture, IIDA committee chair; Phil Tramdack, Slippery Rock (Pa.) University, program chair; Joe Agati, Agati Furniture; Gail Kennedy, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Sarah Schuler, Veazey, Parrott, Durkin, and Shoulders; Amelia Shelley, Laramie County (Wyo.) Library; Marshall Shore, Maricopa County (Ariz.) Library; Martha Stewart, IIDA). Deadline: December 1.YBP Student Writing and Development Award$1,000 to attend ALA Annual Conference in honor of the best article on a topic in the area of library administration and management written by a student enrolled in a library and information studies graduate program: Miriam Matteson, University of Maryland, College Park, for “Integrating Theory and Practice: The Role of the Professional Library Association.” Donor: YBP Library Services. Deadline: March 1, 2008.Library Interior Design AwardAwarded biennially, to recognize excellence in library interior design in North America and to promote examples of extraordinary design in North America and to promote examples of extraordinary design reflected through innovative concepts: Not awarded in 2007. Sponsors: LAMA Business and Equipment Section and the Interior Design Association Deadline: March 1, 2006.
Library and Information Technology AssociationBrett Butler Entrepreneurship Award$5,000 recognizes exemplary entrepreneurship and the provision of an innovative product or service designed to meet the needs of the library world: Annette Bailey, digital assets librarian, Virginia Tech University, and Godmar Back, assistant professor, Virginia Tech University, computer science department. Donor: Thomson Gale Group. Deadline: December 31.
Ex Libris Student Writing Award$1,000 and publication in Information Technology and Libraries for the best paper on libraries and information technology by a student or students in an ALA-accredited library and information studies graduate program: Timothy Dickey, Kent (Ohio) State University. Donor: Ex Libris. Deadline: February 28, 2006.
Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology$2,000 and attendance at ALA Annual Conference, for research relevant to the development of information technologies that have a positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information: Richard Pearce-Moses, director of digital government information, Arizona State Library. Donor: OCLC. Deadline: December 31.
Christian Larew Memorial Scholarship Award$3,000 for master’s-level study with an emphasis on library and information technology and/or automation: Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri, Columbia. Donor: Informata.com. Deadline: March 1, 2006.
Library Hi Tech Award$1,000 for outstanding achievement in communication to educate practitioners in library and information technology: Priscilla Caplan, assistnat director of library services, Florida Center for Library Automation Donor: Emerald Press. Deadline: December 31.
LSSI Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology$2,500 to a principal minority group member for work toward an MLS in an ALA-accredited program with emphasis on library automation: Lydia C. Welhan, Indiana University. Donor: Library Systems and Services. Deadline: March 1, 2006.
OCLC Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology$3,000 to a principal minority group member for work toward an MLS in an ALA-accredited program with emphasis on library automation: Heather Devine, San Jose State University. Donor: OCLC. Deadline: March 1, 2006.
Public Library Association(2008 award deadline December 3)Advancement of Literacy AwardTo a publisher, bookseller, hardware and/or software dealer, foundation, or similar group for a significant contribution to the advancement of literacy: Jacksonville (Fla.) Public Library Foundation. Sponsor: Library Journal.
Allie Beth Martin Award$3,000 to a public librarian who has extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about books/library materials and the distinguished ability to share that knowledge: Barry Trott, adult services director, Williamsburg (Va.) Regional Library. Donor: Baker and Taylor.
Baker and Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Product Award$2,500 in audio/music/video products for a proposal that outlines the purpose, benefits, and plan for initiating or expanding a circulating audio music/video collection: L.D. Fargo Library, Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Donor: Baker and Taylor.
Charlie Robinson Award$1,000 to a public library director who, over a period of seven years, was a risk-taker, innovator, and/or change agent in a public library: Sandra Feinberg, director, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, New York. Donor: Baker and Taylor.
EBSCO Excellence in Small and/or Rural Public Library Service Award$1,000 to a public library serving 10,000 or less that demonstrates excellence of service to its community as exemplified by an overall service program or special programming: Kenai (Alaska) Community Library. Donor: EBSCO Information Services.
Grow Your Own @ your library Institutional Scholarship$8,000 to public libraries for reimbursement of employees’ course tuition costs at the undergraduate or graduate level: Dallas Public Library; Palm Beach County (Fla.) Library System; Chestrfield County (Va.) Public Library; Hall County (Ga.) Library System; Daviess County (Ky.) Public Library; Northwest Regional Library, Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Dunham (N.Y.) Public Library; Decorah (Iowa) Public Library; Upper Skagit (Wash.) Library District.
Highsmith Library Innovation Award$2,000 to a public library for innovative and creative service to the community: Athens-Clarke County (Ga.) Library. Donor: Highsmith.
Demco New Leaders Travel GrantUp to $1,500 each, not to exceed $5,000, to PLA members who are new to the profession and who have not attended a major PLA continuing education event in the last five years: Lisë Chlebanowski, Avondale (Ariz.) Public Library; Janet Eldred, Hollidaysburg Area (Pa.) Public Library; Susan Fisher, Bethesda Public Library, Thompsons Station, Tennessee; and Terri Romberger, Pasco County (Fla.) Library System. Sponsor: Demco.
Public Libraries Magazine Feature Writing Awards$500 (first prize) and $300 (second prize) to the authors of the best articles published in the previous year’s issues of Public Libraries: First prize: Meagan Albright, youth services librarian, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for “The Public Library’s Responsibility to LGBT Communities—Recognizing, Representing, and Serving”, September/October 2006; Second prize: Mary Cosper LeBoeuf, director, Terrebonne Parish Library System, Houma, Louisiana, for “Ill Winds: Hurricanes and Public Libraries Along the Gulf Coast,” May/June 2006.
Gordon M. Conable Award$1,500 to a public library staff member, library trustee, or public library that has demonstrated a commitment to intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights: Ken Verdoia, Salt Lake County (Utah) Library Services Board of Directors. Sponsor: LSSI.
Reference and User Services Association(2008 award deadline December 15)BRASS [Business Reference and Services Section] Thomson Financial Student Travel Award$1,000 to enable a student interested in a career as a business reference librarian and with the potential to be a leader in the profession to attend the ALA Annual Conference: Anthony B. Lin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Sylvia James, principal, Sylvia James Consultancy, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Donor: Thomson Financial.
Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan Librarian Award$2,000 to recognize a librarian for outstanding professional achievement, leadership, and contributions to interlibrary loan and document delivery: Anne K. Beaubien, library director and cooperative access services and grants officer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Donor: OCLC.
Dartmouth MedalFor achievement in creating reference works outstanding in quality and significance: Thomson Gale for Encyclopaedia Judaica (2006). Honorable Mention: Cambridge University Press for Historical Statistics of the United States: Earlier Times to the Present: Millennial Edition (2006). Donor: Dartmouth College.
Dun and Bradstreet Award for Outstanding Service to Minority Business Communities$2,000 to recognize a business librarian or library that has created an innovative service for a minority business community or has been recognized by that community as an outstanding service provider: Liz Kudwa, Capital Area District Library, Lansing, Michigan. Donor: Dun and Bradstreet.
Dun and Bradstreet Public Librarian Support Award$1,000 to support the attendance at ALA’s Annual Conference of a public librarian who has performed outstanding business reference service: Rachelle Miller, business specialist, Dayton (Ohio) Metro Library. Donor: Dun and Bradstreet.
Genealogical Publishing Company/RUSA History Section Award$1,500 to recognize professional achievement in historical reference and research librarianship: Louis A. Vyhnanek, development manager, humanities and social sciences collection, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman. Donor: Genealogical Publishing Company.
Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services AwardTo a librarian who has made significant contributions to, and has had an impact on, adult library services: Barry Trott, adult services director, Williamsburg (Va.) Regional Library.
Isadore Gilbert Mudge-R. R. Bowker Award$5,000 for distinguished contributions to reference librarianship: Barbara Bibel, reference librarian, Oakland (Calif.) Public Library. Donor: R. R. Bowker.
Reference Service Press Award$2,500 to recognize the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in Reference and User Services Quarterly during the preceding two volume years: C. Brandi Borman, team leader of admissions, and Pamela Jane McKenzie, associate professor of information and media studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Donor: Reference Service Press.
John Sessions Memorial AwardTo recognize the efforts of a library or library system to work with the labor community: James B. Carey Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Donor: Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO.
Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award$3,000 to an individual, team, or organization for excellence in the reviewing of books and other materials for libraries: Katina Pathemos Strauch, head of collection development, College of Charleston, South Carolina. Donor: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Thomson Gale Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship$3,000 to an individual who has distinguished him/herself in the field of business librarianship: Sylvia James, principal, Sylvia James Consultancy, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Donor: Thomson Gale.
Thomson Gale Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services$3,000 to a library or library system for developing an imaginative and unique library resource to meet patrons’ needs: Springfield-Greene County (Mo.) Library. Donor: Thomson Gale.
Sophie Brody MedalFor outstanding achievement in Jewish literature: Daniel Mendelsohn for The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins); Honorable Mentions: Dara Horn for The World to Come (Norton), Sandy Tolan for The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury), and Markus Zusak for The Book Thief (Knopf). Sponsor: Arthur Brody and the Brodart Foundation.
Machine-Assisted Reference Section Recognition CertificateTo recognize excellence in service to the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of RUSA: LeiLani Freund, chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Services, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Emerald Research Grant Award$5,000 to an ALA member seeking support to conduct research in business librarianship: Lisa G. O’Connor, assistant professor, and Diane M. Owens, MLIS candidate, University of Kentucky at Lexington, and Y. Diana Wu, reference and instruction librarian, San Jose (Calif.) State University. Donor: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section-Atlas Mentoring Award$1,000 to attend ALA’s Annual Conference to a library practitioner new to the field of interlibrary loan, resource sharing, or electronic reserves, who is interested in a mentoring opportunity: Danielle Cournoyer, library specialist, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Donor: Atlas Systems.
ABC-CLIO Online History Award$3,000 to recognize professional achievement in historical reference and research librarianship: Faith Jones, head of literature and language collection, Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library, for the Yizkor Books Project. Honorable Mentions: Bethlehem Digital History Project, Bethlehem (Pa.) Area Public Library and Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, Seattle, and The Giza Archives Project, Donor: ABC-CLIO.
Young Adult Library Services Association(2008 award deadline December 1)Alex AwardsTo the 10 best adult books that appeal to teens: The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (Simon and Schuster/Atria); The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (Harcourt); Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D’Orso (Bloomsbury); Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin); Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern (University of Nebraska); Color of the Sea by John Hamamura (Thomas Dunne); by Michael Lewis The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Norton); Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Random House); The World Made Straight by Ron Rash (Henry Holt); The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Simon and Schuster/Atria). Sponsor: Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist.
Baker and Taylor Scholarship Grants$1,000 each to librarians who work directly with young adults in a public or school library to enable them to attend the ALA Annual Conference for the first time: Christine Beaver, teen services librarian, Hancock County Public Library, Greenfield, Indiana; and Dana Hutchins, librarian, Jackson Middle School, San Antonio, Texas. Donor: Baker and Taylor.
BWI Collection Development Grant$1,000 each for collection development to YALSA members who represent a public library and who work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18: Carrie Wuensch-Harden, youth services librarian, Lake Wales (Fla.) Public Library, and Karen Odom, head librarian, Centerville (Ga.) Public Library. Donor: Book Wholesalers Inc.
Frances Henne Voice of Youth Advocates Research Grant$500 for seed money for small-scale projects that encourage research responding to the YALSA research agenda: Holly Anderton, senior teen librarian, and Karen Brooks-Reese, teen services coordinator, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Donor: Scarecrow Press.
Great Book GiveawayTo a library in need of approximately 1,200 newly published children’s, young adult, and adult books, videos, CDs, and audiocassettes submitted to YALSA for review, valued at about $30,000: New Orleans Public Library.
Margaret A. Edwards Award$2,000 to an author whose book or books have provided young adults with a window through which they can view their world and which will help them to grow and to understand themselves and their role in society: Lois Lowry for The Giver. Donor: School Library Journal.
Michael L. Printz AwardTo the book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature: American Born Chinese (First Second) by Gene Luen Yang. Honor Books: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v.1: The Pox Party (Candlewick) by M.T. Anderson; An Abundance of Katherines (Dutton) by John Green; Surrender (Candlewick) by Sonya Hartnett; and The Book Thief (Alfred A. Knopf) by Markus Zusak. Donor: Booklist.
Sagebrush Award for a Young Adult Reading or Literature Program$1,000 to support attendance at ALA Annual Conference for YALSA members who have developed an outstanding reading or literature program for young adults: Joanna Peled, young adult librarian, Tucson-Pima (Ariz.) Public Library. Donor: Sagebrush Corp.
Office AwardsOffice for DiversityAchievement in Diversity Research HonorComplimentary ALA Annual Conference registration to an ALA member who has made significant contributions to diversity research in the profession: Not awarded in 2007. Deadline: April 30, 2008.
Diversity Research Grant$2,500 for three research proposals that address critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science: Karen E. Downing, foundation and grants librarian, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for The Relationship Between Social Identity(ies) and Role Performance Among Academic Librarians; Mark Winston, associate professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Allison Rainey, MLIS student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for (Re)Envisioning Diversity and Multicultural Librarianship and Pedagogy in the Post 9/11 Context; and Allison M. Sutton, assistant professor and psychology and social work subject specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Archival and Grey Literature Use Patterns in Library and Information Science Journal Articles with a focus on the African-American Experience (1986–2006). Sponsor: Office for Diversity. Deadline: April 15, 2008.
Office of Government RelationsJames Madison AwardPresented on Freedom of Information Day to recognize those individuals or groups that have championed public access to government information and the public’s right to know: Paul K. McMasters, retired Freedom Forum First Amendment ombudsman. Deadline: Nominations not accepted.
Eileen Cooke State and Local James Madison AwardPresented on Freedom of Information Day to recognize individuals, groups, or other entities that have championed public access to government information and the public’s right to know at the state or local level: Patricia Glass Schuman, president, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York City. Deadline: Nominations not accepted.
Office for Information Technology PolicyL. Ray Patterson Copyright AwardTo recognize contributions of an individual or group that pursues and supports the constitutional purpose of the U.S. Copyright Law, fair use, and the public domain: Peter Jaszi, professor of law and faculty director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, American University, Washington, D.C. Sponsor: Freedom to Read Foundation.
Office for Intellectual FreedomFreedom to Read Foundation Roll of HonorCitation to recognize individuals who have contributed substantially to the Foundation through adherence to its principles and/or substantial monetary support: Lucille C. Thomas, immediate past president, Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library Board of Trustees. Sponsor: Freedom to Read Foundation. Deadline: December 1.
Office for Literacy and Outreach ServicesJean E. Coleman Library Outreach LectureHonors the first OLOS director as a tribute to her work to ensure that all citizens, particularly Native Americans and adult learners, have access to quality library services: Anne E. Moore, W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Boston, and Roland Hansen, Columbia College, Chicago. Trophy Donor: 15th of March, Inc.
Diversity Fair AwardsA total of $700 to outreach librarians for their institutions’ diversity-in-action initiatives, including programs, activities, and services: (first place, $400) Lori J. Wilcox, Chicago Public Library Wrightwood-Ashburn branch, for “Break for Boys—Male-to-Male Mentoring”; (second place, $200) John Bradford, Teri Rose Memorial Library, Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, for “LA&M Road Show”; and (third place, $100) Linda Sperry, Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library, for “Watch Us Grow!” Donor: Demco. Deadline: April 30, 2008.
Public Information OfficeScholastic Library/Grolier National Library Week Grant$5,000 to a U.S. libraries of any type for a public awareness campaign in support of National Library Week: Minoa (N.Y.) Elementary School Library. Sponsor: Scholastic Library Publishing. Deadline: October 1.
Public Programs OfficeSara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming$4,000 to honor a school library (K-8) that has conducted an exemplary program or program series in the humanities: Central Elementary School Library, Wilmette, Illinois, for “Central School Third Grade Virtual Museum—a Day in the Neighborhood.” Donor: Sara Jaffarian and the ALA Cultural Communities Fund. Deadline: December 1.
Publishing ServicesCarnegie-Whitney GrantsUp to $5,000 for the preparation and publication of popular or scholarly reading lists, indexes, and other guides to library resources: Carolyn Garnes, Lowe/Garnes Consulting Group, Atlanta; Nadean Meyer, Eastern Washington University, Cheney; Jie Tian and Mathew Mallard, California State University, Fullerton; Jocelyn Tipton, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston; and the Young Adult Library Services Association. Deadline: November 5.
Women’s National Book Association/Ann Heidbreder Eastman GrantUp to $750 for a librarian to take a course or participate in an intensive institute devoted to aspects of publishing as a profession: Linda B. Moskovics, San Diego Public Library System. Deadline: November 1.
ALA Scholarships(2008 award deadline March 1, 2008)Marshall Cavendish Scholarship$3,000 to a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Jill Golden, Syracuse, New York. Donor: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
David H. Clift Scholarship$3,000 to a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Kristen Allen, Beavercreek, Ohio.
Tom and Roberta Drewes Scholarship$3,000 to a library support-staff member who is a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident and is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Christopher David Case, Baltimore. Donor: Founder of Quality Books.
Mary V. Gaver Scholarship$3,000 to a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing an MLS specializing in youth services in an ALA-accredited program: Wendy Brown, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship$3,000 to an ALA or library support staff member who is a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Anna Lea Foote, Kansas City, Missouri.
Christopher J. Hoy/Exhibits Round Table Scholarship$5,000 to a U.S./Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Chelsea Schmitz Couillard, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Donor: Family of Christopher Hoy and ERT.
Tony B. Leisner Scholarship$3,000 to a library support-staff member who is pursuing an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Elizabeth Aspen Walker, Sedalia, Colorado. Donor: Tony B. Leisner.
Spectrum Initiative Scholarships$6,500 to U.S./Canadian citizens who are members of the five underrepresented groups in librarianship—American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander—to pursue an MLS in an ALA-accredited program: Sara Abdmishani, Richmond, Kentucky; Raymundo Andrade, Bell, California; Lisa Ree Anfield, Columbus, Ohio; David Aponte, Oakland, California; Aimee Yeong Babcock-Ellis, Feura Bush, New York; Rita Benitez, Lehigh Acres, Florida; Gaurav Bhatnagar, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Dana Lee Bing, Odenton, Maryland; Jennifer Blakely, Shelby Township, Michigan; Angela Bonds, Roxbury, Massachusetts; Carmen Boston, Baltimore, Maryland; RaShauna Brannon, Raleigh, North Carolina; Alice C. Brown, High Springs, Florida; Norah A. Burns, Columbia, Maryland; Tina Chan, Allston, Massachusetts; Stephen S. Chan, Alexandria, Virginia; Lulu Chen, Boston, Massachusetts; Linnae Ann-Marie Cintron, Effort, Pennsylvania; Henrique Balbino Coelho, Natick, Massachusetts; Christine Cordova, Hull, Massachusetts; Michael Sean Creedon, Newton, Massachusetts; Yago Said Cura, New York City; Prisciliana Kristina Delgado, San Marcos, Texas; Heather Devine, Sunnyvale, California; Dan Tam Do, Bloomington, Indiana; Khue Duong, Fullerton, California; Akunna Eneh, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; Rita Felton-Mitchell, Chicago; Yesenia Figueroa, Allison Park, Pennsylvania; Jamey Frails, Harlem, Georgia; Blodine F. Francois, Lauderhill, Florida; Sheneatha Frison, St. Louis; Brenda Garcia, Chicago; Meseret Gebrekristos, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Sarah Ann Geisler, Nanuet, New York; Andrea Gibbs, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Glynnis Gilbert, Tampa, Florida; Janelle Gonzalez, Miami; Susan Hoang, Los Angeles; Doreen Howson, White Plains, New York; Christine Jackson, Los Angeles; Lynette Jackson, San Antonio; Robert L. Jones, Springfield, Illinois; Bergis Jules, Bloomington, Indiana; Marc Levitt, Plymouth, Michigan; Jenny Lockerby, Pitman, New Jersey; Teresa Mares, Hemet, California; Vanessa Tepsis Martin, Madison, Wisconsin; Roshin Mathew, Washington D.C.; Edwin Maxwell, Bronx, New York; Shakema Miller, Brooklyn, New York; Michelle M. Miller, Jamestown, Ohio; Andres Montejo, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Claudia Moore, Omaha, Nebraska; Martin A. Morales-Duran, Melrose Park, Illinois; Dolly Morse, Seattle; Janice Murray, Merritt Island, Florida; Sarah Beth Okner, Buffalo Grove, Illinois; Bijal Patel, Brookline, Massachusetts; Kimberly Patton, Lawrence, Kansas; Annie Patrick, Savannah, Georgia; Richard S. Porter, Suwanee, Georgia; Rona Razon, Washington, D.C.; Francis Reyes, Las Vegas, Nevada; Jose Rivera, Los Angeles; Amy Roberson, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Megan Rucker, Birmingham, Alabama; Oscar Rueda, Philadelphia; Amina SaniKangiwa, Bronx, New York; Kristal Sergent, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Helen Snowden, Williamstown, New Jersey; Joi Sorensen, Waterbury, Connecticut; Autumn Sullivan, Oakland, California; Phuong Vu, West Jordan, Utah; and Jason Yamashita, Chicago. Donors: ALA and Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Leo Albert Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Caroline Caviness, Highland Park, New Jersey. Donor: Leo Albert.
Calloway Marathon Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Gregory Calloway and Friends.
Louise Giles Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Phillippa Caldeira, Berkeley, California. Donor: Louise Giles.
William R. Gordon Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: William R. Gordon and Friends.
Medical Library Association/National Library of Medicine Spectrum ScholarshipsTo designated Spectrum Scholarship recipients pursuing a career in medical librarianship: Seung-Hae (Diana) Bang, Toronto, Ontario, and Natalie Pulley, Augusta, Georgia. Donor: Medical Library Association.
Howard M. and Gladys B. Teeple Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Kathy Carroll, Columbia, South Carolina Donor: The Religion and Ethics Institute.
Betty J. Turock Spectrum ScholarshipTo a designated Spectrum Scholarship recipient: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: The JTBC Foundation.
Spectrum Doctoral FellowshipsFull tuition support and annual stipends totaling $20,000 for all four years of study to U.S./Canadian citizens who are members of the five underrepresented groups American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Janet Ceja Alcalá, Los Angeles; Tammy Mays, Chicago; Liladhar Pendse, Los Angeles; J. Brenton Stewart, Kennesaw, Georgia; and Vivian Wong, Los Angeles. Donors: The Institute of Museum and Library Services; the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences; the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies; and the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies.
Elizabeth Martinez Spectrum Doctoral FellowshipTo a designated Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship recipient interested in pursuing executive-level library management: Elisabeth Rodriguez, Lafayette, Indiana. Donor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences.
Round Table AwardsEthnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round TableCoretta Scott King Awards$1,000 and a set of encyclopedias to an author and an illustrator of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the African-American experience: Author Award: Sharon Draper for Copper Sun (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers); Author Honor Award: Nikki Grimes for The Road to Paris (G.P. Putnam’s Sons); Illustrator Award: Kadir Nelson for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun); Illustrator Honor Awards: Christopher Myers for Jazz by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House), and Benny Andrews for Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (Sterling). Sponsor: Coretta Scott King Book Award Committee. Donors: Johnson Publishing Company, Encyclopedia Britannica, Book Wholesalers, and World Book. Deadline: December 1.
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New TalentT o affirm new talent and offer visibility to excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career: Traci L. Jones for Standing Against the Wind (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). Sponsor: Coretta Scott King Book Award Committee.
Coretta Scott King Review Book Donation GrantApproximately 300 books by African American authors and illustrators submitted to the committee: Art Aids Art, Altadina, California; and Out and Up, Macon, Georgia. Sponsor: Coretta Scott King Book Award Committee. Deadline: December 1.
Gale/EMIERT Multicultural Award$1,000 to recognize any significant accomplishments in library services that are national or international in scope and that include improving, spreading, and promoting multicultural librarianship: Not awarded in 2007. Donor: Gale Research Company. Deadline: December 31.
David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award$300 to encourage and recognize articles of significant new research and publication that increase understanding and promote multiculturalism in libraries in North America: Sponsor: Routledge. Not awarded in 2007. Deadline: December 31.
Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Round Table(2008 award deadline February 29, 2008)Achievement AwardTo an individual for achievement in the promotion of library and information service and the information profession in the federal government community: Not awarded in 2007.
Distinguished Service AwardTo a FAFLRT member for outstanding and sustained contribution: Maria G. Pisa, associate director for public services, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.
Adelaide Del Frate Conference Scholarship$1,000 to attend ALA Annual Conference to a library school student with an interest in working in a federal library: Alba Scott, San Jose (Calif.) State University.
Cicely Phippen Marks Scholarship$1,500 to a library school student who has an interest in working in a federal library: Allison L. Snell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round TableStonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award$1,000 for novels, short stories, poetry, and drama: Andrew Holleran for Grief (Hyperion). Honor Awards: Christian Burch for The Manny Files (Atheneum), Sarah Waters for The Night Watch (Riverhead), Michelle Tea for Rose of No Man’s Land (MacAdam/Cage), and Martin Hyatt for The Scarecrow’s Bible (Suspect Thoughts). Deadline: October 31.
Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Award$1,000 for works including biography, history, criticism, reference work | ||