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Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award

The ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic or research librarianship and library development.

Award

Plaque and $5,000 award. Sponsored by YBP Library Services.

Criteria

This award recognizes and honors achievement in such areas as:

• Service to the organized profession through the Association of College and Research Libraries and related organizations
• Significant and influential research on academic or research library service
• Publication of a body of scholarly and/or theoretical writing contributing to academic or research library development
• Planning and implementing a library program of such exemplary quality that it has served as a model for others

Submissions

Electronic submissions are required.   Nominations should include documentation (a letter) that indicates:

• your name, address, e-mail and phone number, plus the name, address, e-mail and phone number of the person you are nominating
• a letter from you supporting the nomination
• a current vita for the person being nominated, and
• as many letters as you wish from other librarians supporting the nomination.

Individuals may nominate themselves or others.  E-mail the nominating package to Megan Griffin at mgriffin@ala.org.  If sending multiple files, each file name must include the nominee's name.

Submission Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2008

Information & Assistance

Questions or requests for assistance in compiling a nomination should be directed to the chair, TBA or Megan Griffin, mgriffin@ala.org.

Previous Recipients

2008 – Peter Hernon
2007 – Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson
2006 – Ray English
2005 – Ravindra Nath (R.N.) Sharma
2004 – Tom Kirk
2003 – Ross Atkinson
2002 – Shelley E. Phipps
2001 – Larry Hardesty
2000 – Sharon Hogan
1999 – Hannelore B. Rader
1998 – Allen B. Veaner
1997 – James G. Neal
1996 – Ralph Russell
1995 – Joseph Boisse
1994 – Irene Braden Hoadley
1993 – William A. Moffett
1992 – Carla Stoffle
1991 – Richard DeGennaro
1990 – Patricia Battin
1989 – John P. McGowan
1988 – Edward G. Holley
1987 – Duane Webster
1986 – Margaret Beckman
1985 – Jessie Carney Smith
1984 – Richard D. Johnson
1983 – Richard Dougherty
1982 – William Budington
1981 – Beverly Lynch
1980 – Evan Farber
1979 – Henriette Avram & Frederick G. Kilgour
1978 – Keyes D. Metcalf and Robert B. Downs

Sponsorship provided by YBP Library Services