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Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award
The Association of College and Research Libraries invites nominations for the Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year Award, presented jointly by ACRL and the Baker & Taylor Company. Anyone wishing to submit nominations should request a nomination form from the ACRL office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.
Keyes D. Metcalf and Robert B. Downs shared the first Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award in 1978. Henriette D. Avram and Frederick G. Kilgour were named corecipients of the second Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award in 1979.
The Awards Committee selects persons to receive the award in accordance with the following guidelines:
PURPOSE: To recognize an individual member of the library profession who has made an outstanding national or international contribution to academic and research Iibrarianship and library development.
Criteria: Persons nominated should have demonstrated achievements in such areas as:
- Service to the organized profession through ACRL and related organizations.
- Significant and influential research on academic or research library service.
- Publication of a body of scholarly and/or theoretical writing contributing to academic or research library development.
- Planning and implementing a library program of such exemplary quality that it has served as a model for others.
- Nominee does not have to meet all four criteria stated above.
Rules: The award shall be made each year at a time and place to be determined by the ACRL Board of Directors. Announcement of the award shall be made by the ACRL president at a time and place to be determined by the ACRL Board of Directors. If, in the opinion of the Award Committee, no worthy candidate is nominated in a given year, the award will not be made that year.
Nominations: Nominations for the award must be returned to the chairperson of the Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee and must be postmarked no later than April 1, 1980. Nominations must be submitted in quintuplicate. Nominations must be complete on the application form. The presence of attachments will disqualify the nomination. Secondary letters will not be considered in the Award Committee’s deliberations.
Nature of the Award: The Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year Award shall consist of $2,000 and an appropriate citation. ■■
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