Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award to Cindy Hepfer
Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
NEWS
For Immediate Release
February 24, 2009
CHICAGO-Cindy Hepfer, head, electronic periodicals management department of the university library at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the recipient of the 2009 Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is sponsored by EBSCO Information Services and honors the recipient with $3,000 and a citation.  Hepfer will receive her award at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony, Sunday, July 12, during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
The Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award honors the memory of Ross Atkinson, a distinguished library leader, author and scholar whose extraordinary service to the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) and the library community-at-large serves as a model for those in the field.
Cindy Hepfer has been recognized by her colleagues as generous and committed in her work, having inspired a broad spectrum of constituencies, from students to administrators, from academicians to book jobbers and serials vendors, from library support staff to professional librarians, encouraging them to become active participants in an ongoing dialogue about library services. With many years of experience she could limit her activity to high level discussions but is known to always have time to help a newcomer understand complex issues. Expanding on her background emphasis in serials, Cindy is noted as one who can recognize issues beyond any one silo and knows the value of multiple points of view brought to the table.
Her contributions include an outstanding record of professional involvement in local, regional and national organizations.  ALCTS has benefited from her dedication and service for many years, in program planning, fundraising and publications. She served as Serials Section chair (1997 – 1998) and received the Bowker/Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award in 1997. She also received an ALCTS Presidential Citation for program planning in 2004. She served as President of NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) in 1993-1994 and in numerous other positions with that organization since its beginning. Cindy has a long list of publications and presentations, but special mention should be made of her years of work with the journal
Serials Review, resulting in dedication of the first issue of 2002 to her on occasion of her retirement as editor of the journal. Her engagement in standard related issues includes service on the executive committee of SISAC (Serials Industry Systems Advisory committee), as well as advisory work with the CONSER and OCLC activities. She currently is the ALA Voting Representative to NISO.
Hepfer holds a bachelor’s degree with distinction from Indiana University and an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh. Her early professional career included serving as assistant serials librarian at the Brockport State College (N.Y.), assistant serials librarian at Baylor University and union list librarian for the Western New York Library Resources Council. She then began serving as an information services librarian at the Butler Library of Buffalo State College. In 1985 she began her affiliation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, first in the health sciences library and most recently in central technical services in the Lockwood Library.  In 2005, she accepted her current position as head of the electronic periodicals management department.
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print formats.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
