Charles J. Popovich named Thomson Gale/BRASS Business Librarianship Award recipient
Eileen Hardy
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For Immediate Release
February 10, 2005
Charles J. Popovich named Thomson Gale/BRASS Business Librarianship Award recipient
CHICAGO - Charles J. Popovich, associate professor and head of the Business Library at Ohio State University (Columbus), is the recipient of the 2005 Thomson Gale Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship administered by the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
The award, a citation and $3,000 donated by Thomson Gale, is given to an individual for distinguished activities in the field of business librarianship.
"It is as the editor of the
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship that Charles J. Popovich has made his greatest contribution to business librarianship," said Bobray Bordelon, award committee chair.
"His attention to assemblage of an outstanding editorial board and editors, and his systematic quest for authors and articles for the journal have provided business librarians with a primary place to publish and to obtain related research.
He has mentored the profession through his leadership as one of the early chairs in the predecessor to BRASS and in many executive roles over several decades in the Business and Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association."
The award will be presented at RUSA Awards Ceremony on June 27, 2005, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
