Congratulations to the 2013 winners of the Reference and User Services Association’s 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.

We’ll 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 d’oeuvres 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/

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The nomination period for 2014 awar ds will open in September.

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Achievement Awards:

● Margaret E. Monroe Award: Dr. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, professor emerita at the University of Western Ontario

● Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award: 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: Palo Alto College Library’s (Calif.) Library a la Carte

● Reference Service Press Award: “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: The Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries’ Special Collections

● ABC-CLIO Online History Award: “Community and conflict: The impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks,” 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: Collette G. Mak, head of resource access and delivery at the University of Notre Dame

● Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship: Collections and Reference Services Librarian Michael R. Oppenheim of the Rosenfeld Management Library at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

● Genealogical Publishing Company Award: Janice Schultz, manager of the Midwest genealogy center at the Mid-Continent Public Library (Mo.)

● MARS My Favorite Martian Award: Nancy A. Cunningham, director of academic services at the University of South Florida

● RSS Service Achievement Award: Larayne Dallas, engineering librarian at the University of Texas at Austin

Travel and Research Grant Winners:

● Gale Cengage History Research and Inno vation 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: Annette Buckley, research librarian for business at the University of California at Irvine

● BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award: Kelly LaVoice, graduate student of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, and current business librarian intern at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lippincott Business Library

● Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award: Salvatore DiVincenz o, business librarian at the Miller Center of the Middle Country Public Library (N.Y.)

● STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award: 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: Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital project coordinator, Library of Congress

● Louis Shores Award: The team behind NextReads, an e- newsletter tool for libraries from EBSCO’s NoveList

● Dartmouth Medal: “The Dictionary of American Regional English”, published by Belknap Press

● Sophie Brody Award: “The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible” by Matti Friedman (Algonquin)

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