This annual award recognizes a project that demonstrates creative, innovative, or unique approaches to information literacy instruction or programming.
A certificate and a $3,000 award, donated by LexisNexis, are presented during the Lexis-Nexis Breakfast at the ALA Annual Conference. Recipients(s) are also recognized during the Instruction Section Program at the ALA Annual Conference. The award is administered by the Instruction Section of ACRL.
Projects nominated for the award should demonstrate recognized creativity, quality, and innovation within the context of national trends in information literacy instruction or programming.
Academic librarians or academic project teams that include an academic librarian are eligible to receive the award. Recipients must have implemented their project in an academic or research library or through the aegis of a professional library organization no more than two years prior to the nomination submission deadline.
Nominations must include a description of the innovative project, a letter supporting the innovative project, and sufficient supporting documentation for the committee to understand the purpose, content, impact, and innovative aspects of the program.
Send nominations to the IS Awards Committee Co-Chairs, Emily Rogers, ecrogers@valdosta.edu and Elizabeth A. Kocevar-Weidinger, kocevarweidingerea@longwood.edu.
Note: Electronic submissions are required. Send the project by e-mail, and make it available via the Web, if possible.
Submission Deadline: Friday, December 3, 2010
Previous Recipients
2010 – Nancy Goebel and Dylan Anderson, University of Alberta Augustana Campus for developing WASSAIL, an information literacy assessment project.
2009 – The Bucknell University World War II Poster Project, developed by Abby Clobridge and David Willson Del Testa: http://www.paperandpixels.org
2008 – Susan Sharpless Smith, Wake Forest University for the Embedded Librarian Project
2007 – "Community Workshop Series" created by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library’s Instructional Services Department
2006 – Mary MacDonald, Jim Kinnie, Amanda Izenstark, Brian Gallagher, and Peter Larsen for "Issues of the Information Age: A Series of Continuing Public Forums at the University of Rhode Island."
2005 – The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research at the University of California, Berkeley
2003 – University Library, University of Michigan for Instructor College
2002 – Ross LaBaugh, California State University-Fresno for InfoRadio
2001 – Randy Burke Hensley, Margit Misangyi Watts, Ross Christensen, and Vicky Lebbin, University of Hawaii at Manoa for LIS 100 course, "Libraries, Scholarship and Technology"
2000 – Elizabeth Dupuis, Clara Fowler, and Brent Simpson, Digital Information Literacy Office, University of Texas at Austin for TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial)
1999 – Education Project Team (Laura Bender, Ann Eagan, Louise Greenfield,Cathy Larson, Claire Macha, Judy Marley, Jeff Rosen, and Karen Williams), University of Arizona for RIO (Research Instruction Online)
1998 – Nancy Adams, Lothar Spang, Nan Blackwell, Juliet Mullenmeister, and LaVentra Ellis, Shiffman Medical Library, Wayne State University for "Health Sciences Information Tools 2000" program
1997 – Debra L. Gilchrist and Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Pierce College for "An Abilities Model of Library Instruction" program
1996 – Patricia Carroll-Mathes, Macdonald DeWitt Library, Ulster County Community College for Collaborative Information Literacy Project
1995 – Paula Walker, Andrea Bartelstein, Theresa Mudrock, and Anne Zald, University of Washington for UWired Freshman Interest Groups (FIGS)