David Guilliams wins BRASS Thomson Financial Student Travel Award

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For Immediate Release


March 5, 2003

David Guilliams wins BRASS Thomson Financial Student Travel Award

David W. Guilliams, library clerk, business and technology section, Wichita (Kan.) Public Library, is the recipient of the 2003 Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) Thomson Financial Student Travel Award. BRASS, a section of the Reference and Users Services Association (RUSA), presents the award to the candidate who has demonstrated an interest in pursuing a career as a business reference librarian and the potential to be a leader in the profession.

A cash award of $1,000 is donated by Thomson Financial, part of the Thomson Corporation, to enable a student enrolled in an American Library Association (ALA) -accredited master's program to attend the ALA Annual Conference.

"The travel award committee is pleased to support a paraprofessional applicant who is interested in pursuing a career as a business librarian in the public library community," said Sharmon H. Kenyon, the award committee chair. "He is also our first distance education award winner."

Guilliams is a student at Emporia State University who will complete his degree in December 2003.

The award will be presented at the RUSA Awards Ceremony on June 23, 2003, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Toronto.

RUSA is a division of ALA.