Keith Kuhn named Sullivan Award winner
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For Immediate Release
April 27, 2007
Keith Kuhn named Sullivan Award winner
CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce Keith Kuhn as the recipient of the 2007 Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. This award, donated by Peggy Sullivan, honors an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to children while having general management/supervisory/administrative responsibility that has included public library service to children in its scope.
Kuhn is the library services director of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, located in Cincinnati. He was selected for his leadership role in making children’s services an organizational priority for the library system, according to jury chair Tim Grimes, Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library.
Under Kuhn’s direction, a Children’s Services Council was created for the system; this five-member panel established a mission, goals and priorities for children’s library services. The success of this Council led to the establishment of other such work groups in the library and also received state and national attention as the focus of several key programs at the Public Library Association (PLA) National Conference and the Ohio Library Council (OLC) Children’s Services Conference.
“Keith Kuhn was and continues to be an administrator concerned with children’s services, because he cares about the quality of the lives of children. Keith wants the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County to take a leadership role in developing healthy, literate children,” said Lisa Hamrick, nominator, of Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Kuhn has served on numerous professional boards and committees, including the ProQuest Advisory Board and the Macmillan/Scribner’s Advisory Board. He received a B.A. from Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, and a M.L.S. from the Indiana University, Bloomington.
Other members of the 2007 Sullivan Award jury were Barbara W. Cole, State Library of Pennsylvania; Michael Golrick, I.E. Phillips Memorial Library (Wis.); Dora Ho, Los Angeles Public Library; and Kitty Lyons, Westport (Conn.) Public Library .
The 2007 Sullivan Award For Public Library Administrators Supporting Services To Children Award will be presented at the ALA Award Ceremony and Reception, Tuesday, June 26, 2007, during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
The deadline for submissions of applications for the 2008 Sullivan Award For Public Library Administrators Supporting Services To Children is December 1, 2007. Guidelines and application forms are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsbucket/sullivanaward/sullivanaward.htm.
