Book and media awards
John Newbery Medal
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Newbery Medal winner
Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron, author of The Higher Power of Lucky, won the 2007 John Newbery Medal, awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Published by Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson, The Higher Power of Lucky is an account of the California desert community of Hard Pan (population 43) and of 10-year-old Lucky Trimble, who eavesdrops on 12-step program meetings from her hiding place behind Hard Pan’s Found Object Wind Chime Museum & Visitor Center. Eccentric characters and quirky details spice up Lucky’s life just as her guardian Brigitte’s fresh parsley embellishes her French cuisine. “Lucky is a perfectly nuanced blend of adventure, survival (emotional and physical) and hilarious character study . . . as well as a blueprint for a self-examined life,” said Jeri Kladder, Newbery Medal Committee chair. Patron is the juvenile materials collection development manager at the Los Angeles Public Library. Lucky is illustrated by Matt Phelan. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), an ALA division, awards the Newbery Medal, named for 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery.
Randolph Caldecott Medal
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Caldecott Medal winner
David Wiesner, Flotsam |
The 2007 Randolph Caldecott Medal, given each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States during the previous year, was awarded to David Wiesner, illustrator of Flotsam. A cinematic unfolding of discovery, Flotsam relates how a vintage camera washed up on the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of fantastical images from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to lens-eye, readers see a frame-by-frame narrative of lush marinescapes ebbing and flowing from the real to the surreal. “Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages,” said Janice Del Negro, Caldecott Medal Committee chair. “Wiesner’s wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor.” The Caldecott Medal, named for 19th-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is also awarded by the ALSC. Flotsam was published by Clarion.
Coretta Scott King Awards
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Coretta Scott King Award winner
Sharon Draper,
Copper Sun |
Coretta Scott King
Award winner
Kadir Nelson, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Sharon Draper, author of Copper Sun, and Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, are the winners of the 2007 Coretta Scott King Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults.
In Copper Sun, 15-year-old Amari’s struggle with the evils of slavery will resonate with today’s teens. Amari is brutally dragged from her home in Africa, forced onto a slave ship, and eventually sold as a gift for a plantation owner’s son. She forms an unlikely alliance with an indentured servant and a young slave boy, and the three escape and set off on a treacherous journey of hope and survival. In Moses, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, the strong emotional impact of Nelson’s illustrations combine with rich sensory language to make a work of art. Nelson’s bold and expressively detailed paintings capture the essence of Harriet Tubman’s treacherous journey toward freedom. Double-page spreads use shades of blues, browns, and golds to portray Tubman as a larger-than-life historical figure while maintaining her full humanity.
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Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner
Traci L. Jones, Standing Against
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Traci L. Jones, author of Standing Against the Wind, won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, which is awarded only occasionally and offers visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustrations at the beginning of a career as a published children’s book creator. Standing Against the Wind introduces readers to 13-year-old Patrice as she is uprooted from her comfortable home in Georgia just before her mother goes to jail. In this, her debut novel, Jones captures Patrice’s sense of alienation and strong self-determination. The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
All the winners, including the authors of Honor Books, were recognized at the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast held June 26, and about 60 local children received a package of the winning titles. Also at the breakfast, author Andrea Davis Pinkney was introduced as the chair of the public awareness campaign for the King Book Award, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2009.
The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of the ALA’s Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table.
Michael L. Printz Award
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Michael L. Printz Award winner
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang won the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award for his graphic novel American Born Chinese. Drawing from American pop culture and ancient Chinese mythology, Yang’s three-part story, expertly told in words and pictures, follows a Chinese American teenager’s struggle to define himself against racial stereotypes. Yang, who began drawing comics in the fifth grade, is a high school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area. American Born Chinese is the first graphic novel to be recognized by the Michael L. Printz Committee. The annual award for literary excellence is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and is sponsored by Booklist magazine. The award, first given in 2000, is named for the late Michael L. Printz, a Topeka, Kans., school librarian known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults. American Born Chinese is published by First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership.
Robert F. Sibert Medal
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Robert F. Sibert Award winner
Catherine Thimmesh, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | Catherine Thimmesh, author of Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, won the 2007 Robert F. Sibert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for children published in 2006. With heart-stopping prose and stunning NASA photographs, Thimmesh celebrates the men and women who solved a series of unfolding crises that threatened the mission of Apollo 11. The animated text lets the reader experience the tension of the mission from multiple vantage points and takes the reader along as an active participant. Personal interviews and oral histories help recreate the immediacy of the event for a new generation. The book is published by Houghton.
Three Sibert Honor Books were named: Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, written by Ann Bausum and published by National Geographic; Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, written by Sy Montgomery with photographs by Nic Bishop, published by Houghton; and To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel, written by Siena Cherson Siegel with artwork by Mark Siegel, published by Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson (hardcover) and Simon & Schuster/Aladdin.
Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., of Jacksonville, Ill., established the award together with the ALSC in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the company’s longtime president.
Alex Awards The Alex Awards, administered by YALSA, are given each year to 10 adult books that appeal to young adults. The 2006 winners are: John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things, Simon & Schuster/Atria; Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season, Harcourt; Michael D’Orso, Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska, Bloomsbury; Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, Algonquin; Pamela Carter Joern, Floor of the Sky, University of Nebraska; John Hamamura, Color of the Sea, Thomas Dunne; Michael Lewis, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Norton; David Mitchell, Black Swan Green, Random House; Ron Rash, The World Made Straight, Henry Holt; and Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale, Simon & Schuster/Atria.
Stonewall Book Awards
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table of the ALA chose the winners of the 2007 Stonewall Book Awards, as follows: Andrew Holleran, author of Grief (Hyperion), won the Barbara Gittings Book Award in Literature; and Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin), won the Israel Fishman Book Award for Nonfiction.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
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Edwards Award winner
Lois Lowry | Lois Lowry, author of The Giver, won the 2007 Margaret A. Edwards Award for her outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens. Published more than 20 years ago by Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company, The Giver explores a future in which differences have been erased and strict rules govern society. The novel tells the story of Jonas, a young man designated as the new “receiver of memory” for his community. Little by little, Lowry reveals what is absent from Jonas’s life: color, pain, and love; and readers, along with Jonas, discover that lack of freedom is too heavy a price to pay for security. The Giver was one of the most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2000, according to the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. The Margaret A. Edwards Award is sponsored by School Library Journal and presented by YALSA.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 
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Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner
Laura McGee Kvasnosky,
Zelda and Ivy:
The Runaways |
Author-illustrator Laura McGee Kvasnosky won the 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for her book Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways. Administered by the ALSC, the award is given each year to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as books for beginning readers published in the United States during the preceding year. Zelda and Ivy is published by Candlewick Press.
Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Award honors an author or illustrator for the artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
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Schneider Family Book Award winner
Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois,
The Deaf Musicians
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Pete Seeger and poet Paul DuBois Jacobs were the 2007 winners in the young children’s category for their book, The Deaf Musicians, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons (2006). After losing his hearing, jazzman Lee learns to make music in a new way. The book’s upbeat narrative, along with its bright colors, teaches the reader that there is more than one way to do everything, to never give up on your dreams and that music can be enjoyed by all.
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Schneider Family Book Award winner
Cynthia Lord, Rules |
Cynthia Lord won in the middle school category for Rules (Scholastic Press, 2006) and its realistic depiction of 12-year-old Catherine’s quest to find her place in a family consumed by her autistic brother David’s needs. Catherine copes by developing rules for herself and for David. She tries to adhere to these rules until she meets Jason, a non-verbal paraplegic teen, who teaches her that rules are sometimes just excuses.
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Schneider Family Book Award winner
Louis Sachar, Small Steps |
Louis Sachar was the winner in the teen category for Small Steps, published by Delacorte Press (2006). Armpit’s humorous adventures portray the unexpected friendship between a recently released juvenile delinquent and 10-year-old Ginny, who has cerebral palsy, as they help each other take incremental steps towards a brighter future. Small Steps shows that friendship comes in many shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities.
Sophie Brody Medal 
Daniel Mendelsohn won the 2007 Sophie Brody Medal for his book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, published by HarperCollins. Administered by the Reference and User Services Association and funded by Arthur Brody and the Brodart Foundation, the Brody Medal is awarded to encourage, recognize, and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature.
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
The 2008 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer will be David Macaulay, author and illustrator of the Caldecott Medal–winning Black and White (1990) as well as other renowned books for children, including Shortcut (1999), Cathedral (1973), Castle (1977) and Mosque (2003). Each year, an individual of distinction in the field of children’s literature is chosen to write and deliver this lecture, one that will make a significant contribution to the world of children’s literature. The award is administered by the ALSC, and will be presented in Madison, Wis., on April 17.
The 2007 Lecture was presented by Caldecott Medalist and Newbery Honoree Kevin Henkes in Lexington, Ky., on March 4.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
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Mildred L. Batchelder Award winner
Jean-Claude Mourlevat,
The Pull of the Ocean |
Delacorte Press is the winner of the 2007 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a foreign language and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States. The winning book, The Pull of the Ocean, originally published in France in 1999 as L’enfant Océan, was written by Jean-Claude Mourlevat and translated by Y. Maudet. This contemporary version of the Tom Thumb story follows charismatic Yann, youngest and smallest of seven brothers, as he silently leads his siblings across the rain-soaked French countryside. Their harrowing flight from abusive parents is described through the recollections of the boys themselves and through the distinctive voices of those who witness or abet their journey.
Two Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: The Killer’s Tears, published by Delacorte Press, and The Last Dragon, published by Hyperion/Miramax.
The award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former ALSC executive director, and is administered by the ALSC.
Library awards and honors
Four receive ALA’s highest honor The ALA inducted four new Honorary Members at the 2007 Annual Conference. The ALA’s highest honor was bestowed on David Cohen, Alice L. Hagemeyer, Anita R. Schiller, and Alphonse F. Trezza.
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David Cohen |
Cohen, professor emeritus, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York, was nominated for his contributions to multicultural librarianship and intellectual freedom in a career stretching over seven decades. As a school library media specialist and professor, Cohen inspired generations of library school students to initiate library programs and build library collections reaching out to the broadest possible range of ethnic and multicultural populations.
Cohen worked within both the ALA and the New York Library Association to create and support intellectual freedom committees and round tables. He has served as chair of the ALA’s Committee on the Treatment of Minorities in Library Materials and on the ALA Minority Concerns Committee. He was co-founder and coordinator of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table’s Task Force on Ethnic Materials, which later became the Ethnic Material and Information Exchange Round Table (EMIE). Within the EMIE, he was the founding member of the Jewish Librarians’ Caucus and the founding editor of the EMIE Bulletin.
Cohen was a charter member of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a trustee of the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund, and a co-founder of the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship. In 2004, in celebration of his 95th birthday, the ALA Council presented Cohen with a proclamation honoring his lifetime achievement in multiculturalism and intellectual freedom.
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Alice L. Hagemeyer | Hagemeyer, the first librarian for the deaf community at the District of Columbia Public Library, was nominated for her passionate, lifelong interest in promoting information about the language, culture, and achievements of deaf individuals. Through her leadership, she has brought the library community and the deaf community together to expand the concept of diversity to include both deaf individuals and people with disabilities.
Early in her career, responding to a scarcity of books written about deaf experiences, Hagemeyer created The Red Notebook, a comprehensive resource on deaf issues used by libraries nationwide to encourage deaf people to be resourceful in using their library. The Red Notebook is now available electronically as “Deaf Awareness Begins @ your library.”
In 1980, Hagemeyer founded a unit within the ALA now known as the Library Service to People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Forum, of the Libraries Serving Special Populations Section, of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies. She also is the founder of Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action. Hagemeyer has worked with several committees that focus on deaf issues within the ALA and the National Association of the Deaf. She chaired the NAD’s Task Force for National Deaf History Month and served as co-coordinator of the Center for the Book’s first celebration of National Deaf History Month at the Library of Congress. She is currently outreach coordinator for the National Literary Society of the Deaf.
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Anita R. Schiller | Schiller, librarian emerita, University of California, San Diego, was nominated for her groundbreaking efforts to enhance the status of women in librarianship. Through her accomplishments as a researcher, writer, speaker, and mentor, Schiller has had a profound impact on the profession.
Schiller first documented a pervasive pattern of gender inequality within the library profession in her 1968 study “Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Libraries.” The publication of this study galvanized a generation of women in librarianship to address the inequalities in the profession. Schiller continued to research and document salary disparities between male and female librarians in the 1960s and 1970s, disseminating her findings in studies, reports, articles, seminars, speeches, and conference programs.
An active ALA member throughout her career, Schiller has served as a member of the ALA Council, the Social Responsibilities Round Table Feminist Task Force, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and the President’s Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity for Library Workers. In 1985, Schiller was awarded the ALA Equality Award for an outstanding contribution towards promoting equality between men and women in the library profession.
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Alphonse F. Trezza | Trezza, professor emeritus of the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies, was nominated for his accomplishments in fostering resource-sharing among libraries and the development of cooperative library systems, and in library education, library association management, and library management and leadership at the state and national levels.
Trezza has served as executive director of the Catholic Library Association; associate executive director of the ALA; executive secretary of the ALA’s Library Administrative Division (now the Library Association and Management Association); director of the Illinois State Library; and executive director of the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, where he masterminded the early planning for the White House Conference on Library and Information Services.
At the ALA, Trezza served as staff liaison for the design, funding, and staffing of the Seattle and New York Library USA World’s Fairs. He was instrumental in establishing the ALA–American Institute of Architects Library Buildings Awards Program.
At the Illinois State Library, Trezza’s efforts led to the establishment of a statewide system of all types of libraries, still recognized as one of the best models in the country. He provided leadership and attracted funding to support recruitment of minorities to librarianship, library education, and development of a sound research program.
Trezza served on the ALA Council and the ALA Executive Board. He was president of the Florida Library Association and of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange.
Honorary membership in the ALA may be conferred upon a living citizen of any country whose contribution to librarianship or a closely related field is so outstanding that it is of lasting importance to the advancement of the whole field of library service. The designation is intended to reflect honor upon the ALA as well as upon the individual. Honorary Members are elected for life by vote of the ALA Council upon recommendation of the ALA Executive Board.
Joseph W. Lippincott Award
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Winston Tabb | Winston Tabb, dean of University Libraries and director of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, was the 2007 recipient of the ALA’s Joseph W. Lippincott Award, given annually to an individual for distinguished service to the profession. Tabb was chosen for his significant and enduring contributions to the library profession, both nationally and internationally. During a long and distinguished career at the Library of Congress, culminating as associate librarian of Congress, Library Services, he had an enormous impact on libraries, librarians, the profession as a whole, and on library users in the United States. The award, founded in 1938, consists of a 24K gold-framed citation and $1,000 donated by the award founder’s grandson, Joseph W. Lippincott III.
James Madison Award
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Paul K. McMasters |
Paul K. McMasters was the recipient of the ALA’s 2007 James Madison Award, named for President James Madison and presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor those who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public’s right to know. McMasters was chosen for his tireless work toward openness in government. From his establishment and direction of the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center to his work as First Amendment Ombudsman, he has demonstrated a genuine devotion to Madison’s ideals.
Three receive Diversity Research Grant awardsThe ALA Office for Diversity made three $2,500 awards in the 2007 round of the Diversity Research Grant program. Projects funded were “The relationship between social identity(ies) and role performance among academic librarians,” Karen E. Downing, University of Michigan; “(Re)envisioning diversity and multicultural librarianship and pedagogy in the post 9/11 context,” Mark Winston and Allison Rainey, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; and “Archival and grey literature use patterns in library and information science journal articles with a focus on the African American experience (1986–2006),” Allison M. Sutton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Office for Diversity began sponsoring this program in 2002 to address critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science and as part of the ALA’s continuing commitment to diversity.
SirsiDynix–ALA-APA Awards
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SirsiDynix–ALA-APA Award winners and jury: Front row: Barbara J. Ford (jury) and Connie V. Dowell and Theresa McMahan (winners); back row: Sol Hirsch (director, Alachua County Library District, winner), John Jessee and Peter McDonald (jury); and Jim Wilson (sponsor). | ALA-APA: the Organization for the Advancement of Library Employees awarded the 2007 SirsiDynix–ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers to the Alachua County (Fla.) Library District, Connie Vinita Dowell of San Diego (Calif.) State University, and Theresa McMahan of the Sullivan County (Tenn.) Library System. The Alachua County Library District conducted a detailed compensation study that resulted in salary adjustments for all staff. Dowell, dean of the SDSU Library and Information Access Department, worked to find ways to reward and recognize employees who took on additional duties and responsibilities during hard economic times. McMahan pushed for raises for librarians, catalogers, and part-time staff by informing the Board and County Commissioners about the duties of her staff, raising their status, and laying the groundwork for the increases after a county-initiated salary study. Alachua County received $2,500, Dowell $1,500, and McMahan $1,000 in recognition of their work on improving salaries in their libraries.
Illinois school wins inaugural Sara Jaffarian Award
Central Elementary School Library in Wilmette, Ill., was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Sara Jaffarian School Library Program Award for Exemplary Humanities Programming, presented by the Public Programs Office in cooperation with the American Association of School Librarians. Jaffarian established the award in 2006 through a donation to the ALA Cultural Communities Fund to recognize and promote excellence in humanities programming in elementary and middle school (K–8) libraries. Barbara Ungar, library media teacher at Central Elementary, developed and submitted the winning program, entitled “Central School Third Grade Virtual Museum—A Day in the Neighborhood.” Participating students explored the American immigrant experience through primary source research, visits to museums and ethnic neighborhoods, discussions of local history, literature, writing activities, art, music, and dance. The $4,000 award was presented in June during the Opening General Session of the 2007 ALA National Conference.
Utah library trustee receives first Gordon Conable Award
The Public Library Association presented the first Gordon M. Conable Award to Ken Verdoia, former trustee of the Salt Lake County (Utah) Library Services Board of Directors, at the ALA 2007 Annual Conference. The award was established to honor a public library, a staff member, or a trustee who has demonstrated a commitment to intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights. The award consists of a $1,500 honorarium and a commemorative plaque. Library Systems & Services, LLC (LSSI), where Conable was executive vice president at the time of his death in January 2005, sponsors the award.
AL Direct wins “E-newsletter” award
The American Society of Business Publications Editors awarded AL Direct first prize in 2007 in its “E-newsletter” category. Produced by the American Libraries staff, AL Direct goes to nearly 50,000 opt-in ALA members every Wednesday and features U.S. and international news, news of the Association and its divisions and round tables, notices of library-related surveys and reports, videos produced for the AL Focus Web site, and selected reviews from Booklist Online, as well as informative and entertaining tidbits from news sources around the Web.
ACRL awards recognize individuals, institutions
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Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson receives her award, flanked by (from left) Mary Ellen K. Davis, ACRL executive director; Ann-Marie Breaux, vice president of academic service integration, YBP Library Services; an unidentified YBP representative; Linda Gagnon, YBP senior vice president of sales and marketing; and ACRL 2007 President Pamela Snelson. | Twenty-seven outstanding individuals and institutions received Association of College and Research Libraries awards in 2007. The ACRL’s top honor, the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award, went to Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, dean of the University Libraries at the University of Washington, for her pioneering contributions to librarianship, particularly in the areas of information literacy, collaboration, and assessment. Wilson was honored during the opening keynote session at the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore.
The ACRL continued to present the Excellence in Academic Libraries Awards for programs that deliver outstanding services and resources to further the educational mission of their institution. 2007 recipients were Hostos Community College/City College of New York in the community college category, Trinity University (San Antonio, Tex.) in the college category, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in the university category. The award is sponsored by the ACRL and Blackwell’s Book Services.
LITA awards
 The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) recognized five individuals who demonstrated excellence in one of four areas: entrepreneurship, research, communications, and writing.
In entrepreneurship, the 2007 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award winners were Annette Bailey and Godmar Back. Bailey is the digital assets librarian at the Virginia Tech University Libraries, and Back is an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Computer Science Department; in 2005, they jointly developed an open-source Firefox browser extension, LibX. The LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award recognizes exemplary entrepreneurship by providing an innovative product or service designed to meet the needs of the library world. The award is sponsored by Thomson Gale and LITA
Richard Pearce-Moses won the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2007. The award is sponsored by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and LITA. Pearce-Moses is director of digital government information at the Arizona State Library. Among Pearce-Moses’ achievements is the Arizona Model for preservation and access of Web documents.
Priscilla Caplan has been named the winner of the 2007 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald and LITA sponsor the award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in communicating to educate practitioners within the library field in library and information technology. Caplan has served as assistant director, Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation, since 1999. Her work and leadership have made important contributions to the library community’s understanding of complex issues in such diverse and critical areas as standards, metadata, digital preservation, and repositories and have resulted in significant advancement of the state of knowledge regarding the maintenance of digital resources over the long term
Timothy Dickey, enrolled in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent (Ohio) State University at the time, was named the winner of the 2007 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award, sponsored by Ex Libris Group and LITA. Dickey’s paper, "FRBRization of a Library Catalog: Better Collocation of Records, Leading to Enhanced Search, Retrieval, and Display," examines the challenges and benefits of reorganizing an online public access catalog (OPAC) to take advantage of the functional requirements for bibliographic records, known as FRBR. The LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award recognizes outstanding writing on a topic in the area of libraries and information technology by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited library and information studies graduate program. The winning manuscript was published in Information Technology and Libraries.
Five receive ALCTS Presidential Citations
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services honored several of its members with Presidential Citations for outstanding service to the ALCTS and the library community. They were Edward Swanson, University of Minnesota, book review editor for Library Resources & Technical Services; Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester, for her work with the development of Resource Description and Access and as the ALA’s representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2 JSC); Beth Picknally Camden, University of Pennsylvania, for her leadership on the Non-English Access Task Force and authorship of its report; and Christine Taylor and Julie Reese, ALCTS staff members, for outstanding contribution to the ALCTS.
LAMA awards
Julie Todaro, Director of Library Services, Austin (Texas) Community College, received the Library Administration and Management Association Leadership Award for her years of service to LAMA and for her many presentations to LAMA members. The LAMA President’s Award went to the American Institute of Architects in recognition of their partnership with LAMA and the prestigious Building Award. The LAMA Group Achievement award was presented to the ALA-International Interior Design Association Award Committee in recognition of the team responsible for developing a new interior design award jointly sponsored by the IIDA and the ALA through LAMA.
ALSC Distinguished Service Award
 Caroline Ward, youth services coordinator at the Ferguson Library, Stamford, Conn., is the 2007 recipient of the ALSC Distinguished Service Award, which honors an ALSC member who has made significant contributions to, and had an impact on, library service to children and to the ALSC.
Ward’s career has taken her from Vermont, where she helped rural libraries foster the very best in children’s services, to Nassau County (N.Y.), where she set high standards for library services, programs, and cooperative activities, to the Ferguson Library. Ward has made a significant difference in each library community she has served.
Ward has also served with distinction on many ALSC committees and task forces, on the board of directors, and as president. In addition, she launched the School-Age Programs and Service Committee and served as chair of the first (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award Committee, as well as chair of the (John) Newbery Award Committee. She has worked passionately to heighten visibility of the Pura Belpré Award, in collaboration with REFORMA, and spearheaded and chaired the Belpré Endowment Task Force. Ward is also a winner of ALA’s Grolier Foundation Award.
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