Kathryn Deiss, ACRL content strategist, awarded the John Jacob Astor Award for Library and Information Science
Contact: Kathryn J. Deiss
ACRL
312-280-2529
kdeiss@ala.org
For Immediate Release
March 6, 2007
Kathryn Deiss, ACRL content strategist, awarded
the John Jacob Astor Award for Library and Information Science
CHICAGO - Kathryn Deiss, content strategist for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), has been awarded the 2007 John Jacob Astor Award for Library and Information Science by the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
She has been selected for her extensive work with all types of libraries and for the leadership development contributions she has made to the profession – particularly those contributions made in countries other than the United States. Her contributions include numerous workshops on the topics of library management and leadership, change, creativity, and innovation in the United States, Canada, Austria, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand.
The award will be presented to Deiss in Berlin on April 25, 2007.
About the John Jacob Astor Award
Since the 240th birthday of John Jacob Astor in 2003, the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation has annually awarded the John Jacob Astor Award in Library and Information Science, in cooperation with the Initiative Fortbildung für Wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V. (Continuing Education Initiative for Special Research Libraries and Related Institutions e. V.).
The award enables German or American persons who have made a special contribution to transatlantic knowledge transfer to come to Berlin for a special professional conference. At this bilateral workshop, librarians and information specialists from throughout the German educational and research field are given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the latest developments in the field and to pass these on within their institutions.
The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation seeks, through this award and the associated workshop, to achieve a strong collaborative effect in which German information specialists are able to learn from the considerable methodological and technological advances of their American colleagues in the field, while narrowing the transatlantic divide.
The Association of College & Research Libraries is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.