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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:58:36 -0400 From: Sharon McQueen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Congratulations to the 2013 award winners from RUSA! Id like to note, this is the second time James Elmborg has received the Reference Service Press Award, an extraordinary achievement. Sharon McQueen, Ph.D. School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 205-2234 Fax: (608) 263-4849 https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/smcqueen/web/ On 4/4/2013 2:04 PM, Liz Markel wrote: > Congratulations to the 2013 winners of the Reference and User Services > Associations achievement awards, research and travel grants, which > encompass the most outstanding librarians, libraries and projects in the > field, and also highlight the promising leaders of tomorrow. > > Well be honoring them at the *RUSA Achievement Awards Reception and > Volunteer Appreciation Party*, which will be held from 5 6:30 p.m. > Sunday, June 30 at one of the ALA Annual Conference hotels in Chicago. > All conference attendees are invited to participate in this celebration, > which will include hors doeuvres an d a cash bar. Additional event > details will be available at the RUSA website in April. > > A basic list of winners is below. Learn more about each winner at the > RUSA blog: > http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2013/04/01/2013-rusa-achievementaward-winners/ > > Questions about RUSAs awards? Please contact Leighann Wood, awards > program administrator at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. > > /The nomination period for 2014 awar ds will open in September./ > > Learn more about RUSA at www.ala.org/rusa <http://www.ala.org/rusa>. > > *Achievement Awards:* > > Margaret E. Monroe Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/monroe>: Dr. > Catherine Sheldrick Ross, professor emerita at the University of Western > Ontario > > Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/mudge>: > Neal Wyatt, doctoral candidate of the media, art and text program at > Virginia Commonwealth University > > Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult > Services <http://ww w.ala.org/rusa/awards/referenceadultservices>: Palo > Alto College Librarys (Calif.) Library a la Carte > > Reference Service Press Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/rsp>: > Libraries as the spaces between us: Recognizing and valuing the third > space, authored by James Elmborg, associate professor at the School of > Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa > > John Sessions Memorial Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/sessions>: The Labor Archives of > Washington <http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/>at > the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections > > ABC-CLIO Online History Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/abcclio>: > <http://www.ozarkscivilwar.org/>Community and conflict: The impact of > the Civil War in the Ozarks <http://www.ozarkscivilwar.org/>, a project > headed by Brian Grubbs, local history and genealogy department manager > in the Springfield-Greene County (Mo.) Library District > > Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/boucher>: Collette G. Mak, head of > resource access and delivery at the University of Notre Dame > > Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/businesslib>: Collections and Reference > Services Librarian Michael R. Oppenheim of the Rosenfeld Management > Library at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management > > Genealogical Publishing Company Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/genealogicalpublishing>: Janice Schultz, > manager of the Midwest genealogy center at the Mid-Continent Public > Library (Mo.) > > MARS My Favorite Martian Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/martian>: Nancy A. Cunningham, director > of academic services at the University of South Florida > > RSS Service Achievement Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/service>: Larayne Dallas, engineering > librarian at the University of Texas at Austin > > *Travel and Research Grant Winners:* > > Gale Cengage History Research and Inno vation Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/history/research_award>: History and > Germanic Language and Literature Librarian Thea Lindquist of the > University of Colorado at Boulder > > BRASS Business Expert Press Award for Academic Business Librarians > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brass_business_expert_press_award>: > Annette Buckley, research librarian for business at the University of > California at Irvine > > BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/studenttravel>: Kelly LaVoice, graduate > student of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, and > current business librarian intern at the University of Pennsylvanias > Lippincott Business Library > > Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/publibsupport>: Salvatore DiVincenz o, > business librarian at the Miller Center of the Middle Country Public > Library (N.Y.) > > STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award > <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/mentoring>: Daniel Chesney, interlibrary > loan and acquisitions coordinator of Southern Nazarene University (Okla.) > > */The winners of several awards were previously announced as a part of > the RUSA Book and Media Awards Reception at the 2013 ALA Midwinter > Meeting in Seattle:/* > > Zora Neale Hurston Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/znh>: Lavonda > Kay Broadnax, digital project coordinator, Library of Congress > > Louis Shores Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/shores>: The team > behind NextReads <http://www.nextreads.com/>, an e- newsletter tool for > libraries from EBSCOs NoveList > > Dartmouth Medal <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/dartmouth>: The > Dictionary of American Regional English, published by Belknap Press > > Sophie Brody Award <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brody>: The Aleppo > Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith and the Pursuit of an Ancient > Bible by Matti Friedman (Algonquin) > > Liz F. Markel, M.A. > > Marketing & Programs Manager > > /Associa tion of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (*ASCLA*)/ > > /Reference and User Services Association (*RUSA*)/ > > The American Library Association // 50 E. Huron Street // Chicago, IL 60611 > > 800-545-2433 // p. 312-280-4398 // f. 312-280-5273 // e. [log in to unmask] > > Find our divisions online at *www.ala.org/rusa* & *www.ala.org/ascla* >