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NEWS
For Immediate Release
February 2, 2010
Madsen receives 2010 ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship award
CHICAGO – Christine Madsen, librarian and DPhil candidate, Oxford Internet
Institute (OII), University of Oxford, has been awarded the 2010 Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
for her proposal "Library Futures: Building a New Knowledge Architecture in
Academic Libraries." The fellowship, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, fosters
research in academic librarianship by encouraging and supporting
dissertation research.
The award of $1,500 and a plaque will be presented during the joint ACRL /
Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) Awards Program at 8:30
a.m., Saturday, June 26, at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington
D.C.
"This project stood out in a very competitive field because of its
originality and timeliness," said Brian Doherty, chair of the selection
committee and dean of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library at the University of
South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee. "Madsen's concept of examining digitization
projects in the humanities from the perspective of impact on the way
scholarship is done opens up a new and important field of research."
Madsen came to OII from the Harvard University Library where, as manager of
the Open Collections Program, she designed a methodology and procedures for
digitizing Harvard's historical library collections and opening them to the
world. Prior to her appointment at Harvard, she served at the Art and
Architecture Library at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as
manager of digital image reserves and slide production manager. She also
served as a technical consultant on several large-scale digitization and
metadata mapping projects, including ArtSTOR. Recently, she has worked with
One Laptop per Child in an effort to create a model for identifying and
aggregating content for young learners in developing countries.
Madsen received her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts with a concentration in
the History of Photography from UCSD in 1995. In 2002, she earned her Master
of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing
more than 12,500 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.
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at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email:
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