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ACRL honors the 1994 award winners

Pam Spiegel is assistant editor of C&RL News and production editor of Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

Gregor named winner of Atkinson Award

Dorothy Gregor, university librarian at the Uni- versity of California (UC), Berkeley, is the 1994 recipient of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award rec- ognizes outstanding ac- complishments of an academic librarian who has worked in the ar- eas of library automa- tion or library manage- ment, and has made contributions (including risk taking) towards the improvement of library services, or to library development or research.

Gregor’s 26-year career in librarianship includes positions as university librarian at UC- San Diego; chief of the Shared Cataloging Division of Processing Services at the Library of Congress; associate university librarian for technical services and head of the Serials Department at UC-Berkeley; and reference librarian at the University of Hawaii. She has been a member of the OCLC Board of Directors since 1988 and the Center for Research Libraries Board of Directors since 1990.

Willis M. Hubbard, chair of the award committee, said, “Choosing Dorothy Gregor to receive this prestigious award reflects her visions of automated services in libraries. She is recognized for her work in cataloging simplification, advocacy of bibliographic standards, and her early work with machine-readable cataloging. Her pioneering efforts to provide information to all users of a library through innovative uses of technology are consistent with the leader- ship of Hugh Atkinson.”

Dorothy Gregor

The award, $2,000 and a citation, will be presented during the 1994 ALA Annual Confer- ence in Miami at the ACRL Awards Reception on Monday, June 27, 4:30-6:30 p.m. The Faxon Company also awards a gold giraffe pin de- signed by Tiffany’s to recognize the “sticking your neck out” aspect of this award.

The award is jointly sponsored by ACRL, the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), the Library and Informa- tion Technology Association (LITA), and the Association for Collections and Technical Ser- vices (ALCTS), four divisions of ALA.

Oberman wins Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian Award

Cerise Oberman, director of libraries at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, is the 1994 winner of ACRL’s Miriam Dudley Biblio- graphic Instruction Li- brarian Award. The award, honoring the woman whose pioneer- ing efforts in the field of BI led to the forma- tion of ACRL’s Biblio- graphic Instruction Sec- tion (BIS), recognizes an individual librarian who has made an especially significant contribution to the advance- ment of BI in a college or research institution.

Cerise Oberman

Hoadley receives ACRL's highest honor

Irene Braden Hoadley, director of the Ster- ling C. Evans Library Capital Campaign, Texas A&M University, has been named the 1994 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Hoadley will receive the award ($3,000 cash and a citation) at a re- ception given in her honor on June 27, 1994, during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami.

The reception will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Baker & Taylor Books spon- sors the reception and donates the cash award and citation.

Irene B. Hoadley

In nominating Hoadley, her colleagues said, “Over the past twenty years, her profes- sional activities on both the state and national levels and her development of library services at Texas A&M Univer- sity have provided significant leadership in the implementation of new ser- vices and the application of new technolo- gies for other academic librarians. She was one of the first library directors in a state- supported research institution to recognize the importance of private gifts to enrich hold- ings and services.”

In selecting Hoadley for the association’s highest honor, committee chair Wendy Lougee said, “The committee recognized Dr. Hoadley’s remarkable range of contributions to the profession. Her leadership has been evident in her involvements in state and national groups, in her risk-taking activity in program development, and her extensive publication record. Notable, too, has been her strong commitment to academic status and professional development, particularly her outstanding ability to mentor and challenge staff. Her early recognition of the importance of fundraising and positioning the library for the future has served as a model for others in the profession as well.”

Hoadley’s career over the last 33 years has included positions as head of the Circulation Department at Kansas State University, librarian for general administration/research and assistant director of libraries (administrative services) at Ohio State University, and direc- tor of the Evans Library at Texas A&M Uni- versity.

She was an early innovator in the area of information technology. Her colleagues said,

“Under her leadership, the Texas A&M University Li- brary moved aggressively into the information age, fre- quently testing new products and services. The library be- came one of the largest CD- ROM and end-user reference services in the U.S. She was also instrumental in develop- ing one of the largest aca- demic microcomputer facili- ties which has won inter- national attention.”

In her relatively new po- sition as director of the Evans Library Capital Campaign, she administers funds raised for services, col- lections, and technology. She is also holder of the Sterling C. Evans Endowed Chair in Library Administration.

Professionally active, Hoadley has served two terms on the ALA Council, as president of the OCLC Users Council, and in various capacities in AMIGOS, ARL, and several state library associations. Within ACRL she has served on the Publications Committee, the Standards and Accreditation Committee, the Academic Status Committee, and the College & Research Libraries Editorial Board.

She received the Scarecrow Press Award for Library Literature (1971); the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of Michigan School of Library Science (1976); and the Texas Librarian of the Year Award (1990).

The Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award is given annually to recognize an individual who is making an outstanding contribution to academic or research librarianship and library development. Previous winners have included: William Moffett (1993); Carla Stoffle (1992); Richard De Gennaro (1991); Patricia Battin (1990); John P. McGowan (1989); Edward G. Holley (1988); Duane Webster (1987); Margaret Beckman (1986).

Sharon Mader, chair of the award commit- tee, said of Oberman, “Cerise has made excep- tional and lasting contributions to BI and li- brarianship through her publications, research, presentations, teaching, mentoring, and lead- ership in national organizations. The influence of her presence has permeated our profession since the early days of her career. She has been a mentor for many and a model for all in bib- liographic instruction.”

Oberman’s professional positions include public services planning officer and head of reference and research services at the Univer- sity of Minnesota, as well as head of the Refer- ence Department and assistant reference librar- ian at the College of Charleston. She led the way in the use of concept-based education, guided design, active learning, and question analysis, and her book Theories for Biblio- graphic Education: Designs for Teaching (New York: Bowker, 1982) is a seminal work in the field. In the 1970s she spearheaded the South- eastern Conference on Approaches to Biblio- graphic Instruction, and most recently was the organizing force behind the groundbreaking “Russian-American Seminar on Critical Think- ing and Libraries” held in Moscow in 1992.

The award, $1,000 and a plaque, is donated by Mountainside Publishing Company on be- half of its journal Research Strategies. It will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami at the ACRL Awards Reception, Mon- day, June 27, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Atkinson wins K.G. Sαur Award

“Networks, Hypertext, and Academic Informa- tion Services: Some Longer-Range Implications,” (May 1993) by Ross Atkinson, assistant university librarian for collec- tion development at Cornell University, is the winner of the 1994 K.G. Saur Award for best article in College &

Research Libraries.Fo- cusing on the future implications of com- puter networks, the ar- ticle explores their ef- fects on scholarly com- munication, higher education, and the relationship between readers and writers. James Williams, chair of the award committee, said of the article, “It is well-writ- ten, extremely relevant, and exceptionally wellinformed.

Ross Atkinson

It has wide appeal and is likely to have a lasting impact, especially in its philo- sophical implications. It is thoughtful and deals with some of the most important issues.”

Atkinson will receive $500 and a plaque, donated by the K.G. Saur publishing company, at the ACRL Membership Meeting, Saturday, June 25, 1:00-2:00 p.m., during the ALA An- nual Conference in Miami.

Collins receives EBSS Award

Mary Ellen Collins, associate professor and edu- cation bibliographer/instructional services librarian at Purdue University, West Lafayette,

Indiana, has been named winner of the 1994 Distinguished Education and Behav- ioral Sciences Librarian Award. This award hon- ors a distinguished aca- demic librarian who has made an outstanding contribution as an edu- cation and/or behav- ioral sciences librarian through accomplishments and services to the profession.

Laurene Zaporozhetz, chair of the award committee, said, “Mary Ellen Collins has been an active member of the [Education and Behavioral Sciences] section, holding various committee appointments since 1985. Her publications within education and the behavioral sciences are classics within the field.”

Professionally, Collins has also served as assistant professor of library science at Ball State University (1980-1983), and as reference librarian at Glenville State College (1971-1980).

Her publications include articles in RQ and Reference Librarian, and the book Education Journals and Serials: An Analytical Guide (Greenwood Press, 1988).

The award (a citation) is sponsored by ACRL and EBSS and will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami at the EBSS Program on Monday, June 27, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Lee-Smeltzer receives Lαzerow Fellowship

Kuang-Hwei (Janet) Lee-Smeltzer, catalog librarian at Oregon State University, is the winner of the 1994 Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Acquisitions or Technical Services in an Academic or Research Library.

Mary Ellen Collins

Donated by the Institute for Scientific Infor- mation, the award fosters advances in acquisi- tions or technical services by providing fellow- ships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields.

Lee-Smeltzer’s travel/writing project pro- posal, “Library Automation in Taiwan: Explor- ing the Potential for Cooperative Cataloging of Chinese Language Ma- terials on an Interna- tional Basis,” will pro- vide an opportunity to investigate the development of library automa- tion in the National Central Library and some of the major re- search and academic li- braries in Taiwan. The significance of the project is twofold: to provide much-needed information in this area to foster future research interest, and to serve as a basis and framework for establishing co- operative cataloging activities between research and academic libraries in the U.S. and Taiwan.

Julia Gammon, chair of the award commit- tee, said, “The committee felt that this proposal facilitated international cooperation in a spe- cialized area of cataloging and that it could be a potential bridge to further developments in the future.”

Janet Lee-Smeltzer

The award, $1,000 and a citation, will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami at the ACRL Membership Meeting, Saturday, June 25, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Lehmann wins Nijhoff Award

Stephen Lehmann, humanities bibliographer at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the Martinus Nijhoff West European Specialists Study Grant for 1994. The grant of 10,000 Dutch guilders covers air travel to and from Europe, transpor- tation in Europe, and lodging and board in selected sites for a pe- riod not to exceed 14 consecutive days.

Lehmann plans to research and publish an article “on the out- standing features of journal publishing in Ger-

Stephen Lehmann

man academic librarianship.” He will interview “leading figures in German library journals to explore issues relating to editorial and finan- cial policies, the relationship of the journals to the institutional structures of German librarian- ship, recruitment of authors,” and other relevant issues. The implications of this research to American academic librarianship are many- sided: to inform German bibliographers about “the variety and quality of German journals in librarianship,” to increase the awareness of such publications, to create new points of contact between American and German academic li- brarians, and to offer new perspectives and ideas for publishers of U.S. academic library journals.

Lehmann has been active in ACRL’s West- ern European Specialists Section, serving as chair of the Newsletter Subcommittee, among other activities. He has also been editor of Col- lege & Research Libraries and the Multicultural Review.

The award will be presented at the WESS Membership Meeting on Sunday, June 26, dur- ing the ALA Annual Conference in Miami.

Community College Awards go to Book and Rivenburgh

Imogene L. Book, dean of learning resources at Denmark Technical College (DTC), Denmark, South Carolina, has won the 1994 EBSCO Community College Learn- ing Resources Achieve- ment Award for Lead- ership. Book has served as librarian/director at Mt. Vernon Community College, Mt. Vernon, Il- linois; library director at Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois; and direc- tor of learning resources at DTC. Lois Marriott, chair of the award committee, said, “Imogene Book has been an ac- tive participant in ACRL/CJCLS for a number of years serving as CJCLS chair twice; compiling the first Policies and Procedures Handbook for the section; mentoring and encouraging new members to become active section members; serving as CJCLS archivist and historian; and assisting section officers and committees wher- ever and whenever needed. Imogene has not only provided continuity to the Community and Junior College Libraries Section for many years, but she also willingly shares her expertise and experience with colleagues in helping to lead and guide the profession into the future.”

Imogene L. Book

Ed Rivenburgh, director of the Division of Instruc- tional Services at Finger Lakes Community College,

The cover of the honorable mention winner in division three of the Exhibition Catalogue Awards, submitted by Harvard University.

New York, has won the 1994 EBSCO Community College Learning Re- sources Achievement Award for Program Devel- opment. Rivenburgh has also served as coordinator of media services at Sim- mons College, and was awarded the 1991 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in

Professional Service for recognition of campus and universitywide contribution and leadership. Lois Marriott said of Riven-burgh, “As a result of Ed’s leadership, SUNY is currently equip- ping the majority of its 32 community college libraries with automated public access catalogs and circulation systems. This necessitated that Ed not only convince SUNY in the early plan- ning stage … to make the Library Automation Implementation Project a universitywide initia- tive that would include both two- and four- year institutions, but also that he organize and encourage the directors of SUNY’s community colleges to promote the effort aggressively.” The awards, $500 and a plaque, are donated by EBSCO Subscription Services. They will be presented at the ACRL Community and Junior Col- lege Libraries Section’s Membership Meeting on Saturday, June 25, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami.

The cover from the winner in division three of the Exhibition Catalogue Awards, submitted by the University of Chicago.

Catalogs recognized by Leab Awards

The winners of the Kath- arine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards for 1994 are in three divisions—ex- pensive: “Reconstructing a Medieval Library: Frag- ments from Lambach,” sub- mitted by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (division one); moderate: “Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page,” submitted by the Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt- Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania (di- vision two); and inexpensive: “Picturing Brit- ain: Time and Place in Image and Text, 1700-1850,” submitted by Special Collections, University of Chicago Library (division three). In addition, an honorable mention was awarded in division three to “About Faces: Historic and Contemporary Issues in Type Design,” submit- ted by the Printing and Graphic Arts Depart- ment of Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Elaine Smyth, chair of the award commit- tee, noted that 65 catalogs were submitted this year by Canadian and U.S. institutions. “Choosing among the many fine entries was difficult for the committee members, but the hours spent reading the catalogues in prepa- ration for the judging were quite enjoyable. The catalogues reflect the excellence of current exhibi- tion work being done using spe- cial collections materials.’

Printed citations, given by ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, will be presented to the winners at the RBMS program on Sunday, June 26, during the ALA Annual Conference in Miami.