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ACRL honors the 1995 award winners

By Pam Spiegel

Recognizing professional contri- butions and scholarly research

Eaton wins Atkinson Award

Nancy L. Eaton, dean of library services at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, has been named the winner of the 1995 Hugh

C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award rec- ognizes outstanding ac- complishments of an academic librarian who has worked in the areas of library automation or library management, and has made contributions (including risk-taking) towards the improvement of library services, or to library develop- ment or research.

The chair of the award committee, Thomas W. Leonhardt, said, “Ms. Eaton was chosen because of her leadership locally and nationally and for her successful efforts in diversifying the workplace. She is the author of the final report of the National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project and has served on the OCLC Users Council and Executive Board since 1989 ”

Eaton’s 27-year career has included service as director of libraries then director of libraries and media services at the University of Vermont; automation librarian at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and catalog librarian, supervisor of the MARC Cataloging Unit, and assistant to the university librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nancy L. Eaton

She has been active in ALA, OCLC, the Cen- ter for Research Libraries, and many other or- ganizations.

The award, $2,000 and a citation, will be presented during the 1995 ALA Annual Confer- ence in Chicago at the ALCTS Awards Presen- tation on the morning of Monday, June 26. The Faxon Company also awards a gold giraffe pin designed 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 Asso- ciation (LAMA), the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), and the Asso- ciation for Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), four divisions of ALA.

Wilson named Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian

Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, associate director of libraries for public services at the University of

Washington, is the 1995 winner of the ACRL Bib- liographic Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian Award. The award, honoring the woman whose pioneer- ing efforts in the field of BI led to the formation of ACRL’s Bibliographic Instruction Section (BIS), recognizes an individual librarian who has made an especially signifi- cant contribution to the advancement of BI in a college or research institution.

Lori Arp, chair of the award jury, said of Wilson’s selection, “Betsy’s outstanding and

Betsy Wilson

Pam Spiegel is assistant editor ofC&RL News and production editor of/Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship continued contributions to the field of biblio- graphic instruction have informed an entire generation of BI librarians. Her work reflects the true spirit and intent of the Miriam Dudley Award. She serves as a model to those in the field of BI through her work in all of the award’s categories… . Through her dedication, intelli- gence, and energy she has led the way in groundbreaking theory and practice and en- couraged growth and development within the field.”

In her 16 years as a librarian, Wilson has also served as assistant director of libraries for undergraduate and instructional services, head of the Undergraduate Library, coordinator of online catalog user services, assistant under- graduate librarian, and assistant architecture and art librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a member of ACRL, she served as chair of BIS (1990–91), chair of the Activity Sections Council (1990–91), and on many other committees.

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 Chicago at the BIS program, Sunday, June 25, at 2:00 p.m.

Schwartz receives K.G. Saur Award

Charles A. Schwartz, social sciences and hu- manities bibliographer at Rice University, has been named winner of the 1995 K.G. Saur Award for best article in College & Research Li- braries for his article titled “Scholarly Commu- nication As a Loosely Coupled System: Reas- sessing Prospects for Structural Reform” (March 1994).

James F. Williams, chair of the award committee, said, “Mr. Schwartz’s article was chosen because it provided a seasoned analysis of the organizational dynamics sun'ounding a complex issue. It was a wonderful critique of the field from a colleague.”

Schwartz has been in his current position since 1987. A graduate of Denison University, he received his MLS from Indiana University and his Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.

Schwartz will receive $500 and a plaque, donated by the K.G. Saur publishing company, at the ACRL Membership Meeting, Monday, June26, 4:00-4:30 p.m., following the joint ACRL/ LITA President’s Program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Charles A. Schwarta

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship awarded to Danuta A. Nitecki

Danuta A. Nitecki, associate director for public services at the University of Maryland, College

Park, has been awarded the 1995 ACRL/ISI Doc- toral Dissertation Fellow- ship for her dissertation titled “An Assessment of the Applicability of SERVQUAL Dimensions As Customer-Based Cri- teria for Evaluating Qual- ity of Services in an Aca- demic Library.”

Lawrence J. McCrank, chair of the award committee, said, “The committee found this pro- posal to merit support because of its timeliness in an era of accountability and emphasis on assessment in higher education other than the traditional model of library inventoiy data, and current focus on customer satisfaction based largely on qualitative factors.”

Nitecki’s career has included positions as coordinator of Illinois research and reference activities at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; and coordinator of automated information retrieval services, head of the Interlibraiy Services Department, and interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Tennessee.

The award, $1,000 and a plaque, is donated by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and will be presented at the ACRL Membership Meeting, Monday, June 26, 4:00–4:30 p.m., following the joint ACRL/LITA President’s Program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Schmidt receives Lαzerow Fellowship

Karen A. Schmidt, acquisitions/binding librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 1995 Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Acquisitions or Technical Services in an Academic or Research Library.

Donated by the Institute for Scientific Information, the award fosters advances in acquisitions or technical services by providing fellowships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields.

Danuta A. Nitecki

Schmidt’s research project proposal, “Mar- keting to Libraries,” will be conducted in two parts. Part One will in- clude in-depth discus- sions with publishers to verify the various tech- niques they use to mar- ket their books to librar- ies. Part Two will use the results of those discus- sions to formulate a sur- vey that will be sent to 1,200 libraries.

Julia Gammon, chair of the award committee,said, “The committee felt that this proposal was significant in that it will collect empirical data concerning the way publishers can best mar- ket books to libraries. Little has been previ- ously written in this area and most is anecdotal evidence.”

Schmidt has also served as assistant acquisitions librarian and head of the Bibliographic Searching Unit at Illinois State University; head of regional campuses technical services, Latin American bibliographer and cataloger, and head of the Latin American Reading Room at Ohio State University. She authored Understanding the Business of Acquisitions (ALA, 1990).

The award, $1,000 and a citation, will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago at the ACRL Membership Meeting, Monday, June 26, 4:00-4:30 p.m., following the joint ACRL/LITA President’s Program.

Karen A. Schmidt

EBSS Award goes to Hannelore Rader

Hannelore B. Rader, director of the University Library at Cleveland State University, has been named winner of the 1995 Distinguished Edu- cation and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award. This award is sponsored by ACRL and its Education and Behav- ioral Sciences Section (EBSS) and honors a dis- tinguished academic li- brarian who has made an outstanding contribution as an education and/or behavioral sciences librarian through accom- plishments and services to the profession.

Hannelore B. Rader

Laurene E. Zaporozhetz, chair of the award jury, said, “Hannelore B. Rader was instrumen- tal during a critical stage of development of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section [of ACRL], During the late ’70s and early ’80s her leadership assisted in documenting the history and founding of the section, standardizing re- porting mechanisms, beginning long-range planning procedures, and overseeing ties to sister sections… . Her publications on instruc- tion and orientation have assisted education and behavioral sciences librarians in their daily in- teractions with library users.”

Rader’s career has included positions as di- rector of the Library/Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside; and coordi- nator of the Education/Psychology Division, orientation librarian and head of the Orienta- tion Program, and assistant humanities librar- ian at Eastern Michigan University.

An active member of ACRL, she served as its president in 1986-87, and as chair of EBSS in 1981–82.

The award (a citation) will be presented during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago at the EBSS meeting on Monday, June 26, 8:00-9:00 a.m.

HAlporn wins Nijhoff Award

Barbara Halporn, head of the Collection De- velopment Department at Harvard University’s

Widener Library, has been awarded the Martinus Nijhoff West European Specialists Study Grant for 1995. The grant of 10,000 Dutch guilders covers air travel to and from Eu- rope, transportation in Europe, and lodging and board in selected sites for a period not to exceed 14 consecutive days.

Halporn plans to use the grant to travel to Basel, Switzerland, and Mainz, Germany, to complete research and manuscript preparation of The World of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in Its Social Context.

James Spohrer, chair of the award committee, said, “The Western European Studies Section (WESS) viewed the research proposed by Dr. Halporn as a valuable contribution to scholarship in Western European book and publishing history, and an important addition to our knowledge of the sociology of the spread of literacy in the 15th and 16th centuries.”

Barbara Halporn

Before joining the Widener Library at Har- vard, Halpom served as librarian for history and philosophy of science, classics, and psychol- ogy at Indiana University.

The award will be presented at the WESS Membership Meeting on Monday, June 26,1995, 11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Oberly Award goes to Bell and Rhodes

George H. Bell and Diane B. Rhodes have won the 1995 Oberly Award for Bibliography in the

Agricultural Sciences for their book called A Guide to the Zoological Literature: The Animal Kingdom (Libraries Un- limited, 1994).

Bell is science refer- ence librarian at Arizona State University (ASU). His other positions have included information re- search and support ser- vices librarian at ASU;manager of the Pharmaceutical Research Library and pharmaceutical librarian/information spe- cialist at William H. Rorer Co. in Pennsylvania; and acting head of the Science Reference De- partment at ASU.

Rhodes is life sciences librarian at ASU. Her previous positions include catalog librarian at ASU, rare books cataloger at Juanita College, and monograph cataloger at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mike Haddock, chair of the award committee, said, “The Oberly Com- mittee was highly im- pressed by the quality of this title and by the amount of loving care that appeared to have gone into its creation. The compilers of the bib- liography personally examined and provided evaluative annotations for each of the 1,650 titles included. This is a very well-crafted and ex- ecuted bibliography.”

The award, given in odd-numbered years, includes a cash prize and citation donated by the Oberly Endowment Fund. It will be pre- sented at the Science and Technology Section program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Monday, June 26, 1995, 8:00 a.m.

George H. Bell

Diane B. Rhodes

Jacobson and Jacobson win BIS Publication of the Year Award

Frances F. Jacobson and Michael J. Jacobson are the recipients of the ACRL Bibliographic

Instruction Section’s 1995 Bibliographic Instruction Publication of the Year Award, which recognizes their article “Representa- tive Cognitive Learning Theories and BI: A Case Study of End User Searching,” (Research Strategies, summer 1993).

Frances F. Jacobson is University Laboratory High School librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her previous positions include refer- ence librarian and user education coordinator at UIUC; and reference/instruction librarian, and circulation/reserve librarian at Western State Col- lege of Colorado.

Michael J. Jacobson is visiting assistant professor in educational psychology and instructional technology at UIUC. His other positions there include post-doctoral research associate and a research assistant in the Center for the Study of Reading. At Western State College of Colorado he served as Computer Science Department coordinator and instructional computing coordinator, and as an instructor of music.

Lori Arp, chair of the award committee, said, “This article presents a groundbreaking merger of three theories of cognitive learning which are then applied within the environment of bibliographic instruction. Jacobson and Jacobson present a flexible example which can be emulated in programs of instruction at all levels. Their synthesis of recent developments in learning theory is masterful, yet easily comprehended within the context of current theory in instruction. This article serves as a model for excellence in both arenas—theory and practice— and demonstrates that it is indeed possible to ‘practice what you preach.’”

The award, a citation, will be presented at the BIS dinner during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Friday, June 23, 1995.

Frances F. Jacobson

University of Washington project wins BIS Innovation Award

The UWired Freshman Interest Groups (FIGS) project at the University of Washington (UW) Library, Seattle, is the winner of the 1995 Bib- liographic Instruction Section Innovation in Bibliographic Instruction Award.

Led by the library team of Paula Walker, Andrea Bartelstein, Theresa Mudrock, and Anne Zald, with help from Betsy Wilson (associate director of libraries for public services), the UWired FIGS is a collaboration between the University Libraries, undergraduate education, and computing and communications at UW. Its primary goal is to integrate information navi- gation skills and electronic communication into teaching and learning. Targeting a selected group of students and faculty for a year-long pilot, UWired is serving as a prototype for inte- grating information and technology use across the disciplines of higher education.

Lori Arp, chair of the award committee, said, the “UWired Freshman Interest Group project is a unique, exciting experiment in collabora- tion through the use of electronic technology. The depth, breadth, and sheer ambition of the pilot has created a rich and informative model which has implications in part or as a whole to many institutions of learning at all levels. In the UWired FIGS program, the importance of technology is placed in the context of utilizing it for academic purposes rather than teaching it as an end in itself.”

The award, a citation, will be presented at the BIS dinner during the ALA Annual Confer- ence in Chicago, Friday, June 23, 1995.

Community College awards go to Roark and Hisle

Derrie E. Roark, associate vice-president of learning resources services at Hillsborough

Community College in Tampa, Florida, has been chosen to receive the 1995 EBSCO Community College Learning Re- sources Program Devel- opment Award spon- sored by ACRL’s Com- munity and Junior Col- lege Libraries Section (CJCLS) and EBSCO In- formation Services.

Charles R. Peguese, chair of the award jury, said, “Ms. Roark has

Derrie E. Roark

Anne Zald, Theresa Mudrock, Paula Walker, and Andrea Bar telstem lead the UWired FIGS project at the University of Washington.helped create a state-wide automation system that is the envy of community colleges across the country. Her work with the College Center for Library Automation Advisory Board suc- ceeded in putting in place a statewide automa- tion network.”

Roark’s career has included service as di- rector of the Office of Inservice Training and Development at Pensacola Junior College, learn- ing resources specialist at Odessa College, and assistant to the librarian in the Louisiana & Rare Book Rooms at Louisiana State University.

W. Lee Hisle, director of learning resource services at Austin Community College, has been chosen to receive the EBSCO Community Col- lege Learning Resources Leadership Award.

Peguese said of Hisle, “Lee has been an ac- knowledged leader within the Community and Junior College Li- brary Section (CJCLS) and the National Coun- cil for Learning Re- sources (NCLR). He truly deserves this national recognition for his out- standing leadership.”

Hisle’s career includes service as director of learning resource services at Austin Community College’s Rio Grande Campus; library director/librarian at Lexington Technical Institute; and librarian/media specialist at Henderson Community College. He was cofounder of NCLR, an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges, and served as chair of CJCLS from 1989 to 1990, and is currently ACRL’s councillor.

The awards, $500 and a plaque, are donated by EBSCO Subscription Services and will be presented at the CJCLS business meeting dur- ing the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Saturday, June 24, 1995, 8:00-9:30 a.m.

Oram wins award for best article in RBML

Richard W. Oram, librarian of the Harry Ran- som Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Aus- tin, is the winner of the 1995 Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (RBML) Award for best article appearing in the preceding two vol- umes of RBML. In citing his article, “The New Lit- erary Scholarship, the Contextual Point of View, and the Use of Special Collections” (volume 8:1,1993), Joe Springer, chair of the award committee, said, “Oram’s thoughtfully presented article is a careful examination of his topic and a useful assessment of its implications for the practice of special collections librarianship. It meets well all the criteria of the award: signifi- cance, originality, thoroughness, timeliness, and pertinence to issues relating to the theory and practice of special collections librarianship.”

Oram has also served as director of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections at the University of Toledo, and special collections librarian at Washington & Lee University. As a member of ACRL he currently serves as a member of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s (RBMS) Executive Committee and as chair of the RBMS Publications Committee. He previously served as chair of the RBML Award Committee (1992-93) and as a member of the RBMS Exhibition Catalogue Awards Committee (1986-90).

The award, $1,000 and a certificate donated by Christie, Manson & Woods, Inc., will be presented at the RBMS program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Sunday, June 25, 1995.

Exhibition catalogs recognized by Leab Awards

There are two winners, one honorable mention, and one special award for the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards for 1995. In Division One (expensive) the winner is “History in Deed: Medieval Society and the Law in England, 1100-1600,” by Carol Symes, submitted by the Harvard Law School Library. Elaine B. Smyth, chair of the award committee, said, “This catalog takes what is inherently a very specialized topic … and gives it broader appeal by showing how the materials can be used by researchers in diverse fields. What could have been a very dry subject is enlivened and handsomely presented.”

Richard W. Oram

In Division Three (inexpensive) the winner is “Eric Gill: The Cell of Good Living,” by Mar- garet L. Smith, submitted by the Houghton Li- brary at Harvard University, Department of Print- ing and Graphics. Smyth said, “This compact and inexpensively produced catalog makes beautiful and appropriate use of the type and art created by its subject. … It packs a lot of information into a slight, easy-to-handle format.” An honorable mention in Division One (ex- pensive) was given to “J. K. Lilly Jr., Biblio- phile,” by Joel Silver, submitted by the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Smyth said, “The committee felt this catalog merited honorable mention because of its excellent marriage of content and design. Thoroughly researched, well written, and handsomely produced, it is a model of its kind.”

A Special Award of Merit was given to the Huntington Library for “The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America” by John H. Rhodehamel and Thomas

F. Schwartz. Smyth said, “This catalog thoroughly records what may well have been the largest and most comprehen- sive exhibition of original Lincoln ma- terials to date. The Special Award of Merit recognizes the remarkable achieve- ment of the Hun- tington Library in garnering and coordinating private, institutional, and corporate support for the exhibition cata- log and extensive educational programs that it organized.”

Printed citations given by ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), will be presented to the winners at the RBMS program during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Sunday, June 25, 1995, 2:00 p.m.

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