ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 3 0 6 / C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 College & research Libraries news ACRL honors the 2000 award winners The second installment of winners by Meredith Parets Ed. note: The first installment o f aw ard w in­ ners appeared in the March issue. K u h lthau named D udley Instruction Librarian Carol Collier Kuhlthau, Rutgers University pro­ fessor in the School of Communication, Infor­ m a tio n a n d Library Studies, is the 2000 winner of the ACRL In­ struction Section’s (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruc­ tion Librarian Award. Carol Collier K u h lthau The award, nam ed in honor of the wom an whose pioneering ef­ forts in the field of library instruction led to the formation of IS, recognizes an individual librarian w ho has made an especially signifi­ cant contribution to the advancement of in­ struction in a college or research library en­ vironment. Mary Jane Petrowski, chair of the Dudley Subcommittee of IS, said of Kuhlthau, “Her many publications, notably Teaching the Li­ brary Research Process (1994) and Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library a n d Inform ation Services (1993), have helped in­ struction librarians to develop more informed and creative approaches to teaching and ref­ erence service delivery.” Kuhlthau has pre­ viously been awarded the Educational Me­ dia Association of New Jersey’s President’s Award for Outstanding Service and Contri­ bution to the Profession and the ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for Outstanding Research Paper. D u rin g h e r 26 y ea rs as a lib ra ria n , Kuhlthau has served as an educator at the K- 12 and the post-secondary levels. She joined the faculty of the Rutgers University School of Communications, Information and Library Studies in 1984, and is currently chair of the Library and Information Science Department. She has been an active member of ALA’s American Association for School Librarians, and currently serves on the Board of Direc­ tors of the Association for Library and Infor­ mation Science Education (ALISE). The award, $1,000 and a plaque, is do­ nated by Elsevier Science, Ltd., and will be presented at the IS Conference Program dur­ ing the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Sunday, July 9, 2000, at 2:00 p.m. Meyer receives K. G. Saur Aw ard Richard W. Meyer, director of the Maddux Library at Trinity University, has been named winner of the 2000 K. G. Saur Award for most outstanding article in College & Research Li­ braries. Meyer’s winning article, “A Measure of the Impact of Tenure,” appeared in the March 1999 issue of the journal. Marie Kascus, chair of the award commit­ tee, said, “Meyerl’s] article is a well-written About the author Meredith Parets is the ACRL program assistant e-mail: mparets@ala.org mailto:mparets@ala.org C&RL News ■ A pril 2000 / 307 p ie c e o f qu an titative research . C on n ectin g tenure with institution quality is important not only for librarians, but for the entire academic com m unity at a time when the value o f ten ure for all faculty is b e ing questioned. The re Richard W . M eyer sults reported in this ar ticle begin to provide proof that tenured librarians are a valuable asset to colleges and universities.” Meyer has been an active mem ber o f ALA, and was a founding Board m em ber o f the Higher Education Network Association o f South Carolina. As a mem ber o f ACRL, he has served on the Executive Committee of the University Libraries Section. In the early 1990s he chaired the Academic Library Sta tistics Committee, and more recently he has served as a m em ber o f the Committee on the Status o f Academic Librarians. Meyer has been director o f the Maddux Library since 1991. The award, $500 and a citation, is donated by K. G. Saur publishing company, and will b e presented during the ALA Annual Confer en ce in Chicago at the ACRL President’s Pro gram, Monday, July 10, at 2:00 p.m. Banerjee receives Lazerow Fellowship Kyle Banerjee has b een chosen to receive the Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Collections and Technical Services in Aca demic and Research Libraries for his project, “Developing a Procedure for Processing Elec tronic Theses and Dissertations.” The award, sponsored by the Institute for Scientific In formation, fosters advances in collection de velopm ent or technical services by provid ing fellow ships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields. Banerjee is currently a cataloging librar ian at Oregon State University. He is the au thor o f several articles, including “Is Data Min ing Right For Your Library?” ( Computers in Libraries, Nov./Dec. 1998) Karen Schmidt, c h a ir o f th e aw ard c o m m itte e , said o f Baneη'ee’s winning proposal, “This project addresses an area o f critical importance to academic libraries. Electronic theses and dis sertations represent an emerging issue that affects collections, technical services, and our users.” The fellowship will fund B anerjee’s travel to West Virginia University (WVU) to meet with members o f its Electronic Theses and Dissertations committee. Currently, WVU is o n e o f only two institutions to require elec tronic submission o f all theses and disserta tions. The award, $1,000 and a citation, will be presented at the ALA Annual Conference, during the ACRL President’s Program on Mon day, July 10, at 2:00 p.m. TILT w ins IS Innovation Award The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) has b een chosen to receive the 2000 Instruc tion Section’s Innovation in Instruction Award. TILT was developed by Elizabeth Dupuis, Clara Fowler, and Brent Simpson o f the Digi tal Information Literacy Office at the Univer sity o f Texas at Austin. The annual award honors librarians w ho have developed and im p le m e n te d innovative ap proaches to inCredit: struction, with Henry an e m p h a s is o n c r e a tiv ity a n d in n o v a tion. Stokes Madeline A. Copp, chair of ( L e f t t o r ig h t ) : C la r a the IS awards F o w le r, B r e n t S im p so n , and Elizab eth Dupuis committee, de scribed TILT as “The current model for interactive, Web-based tutorials,” saying, “Among the many excep tional features o f TILT, the … Committee members were especially impressed with the following features: 1) TILT successfully re flects sound learning theory based on Bloom ’s Taxonom y o f Education Objectives; 2) TILT is not limited to a specific institution or re source so [it] can be, and is, used by many other libraries; 3) TILT successfully allows for transferability o f research and critical think ing skills; 4) TILT is flexible and provides a truly interactive and personalized learning en vironment; and 5) TILT includes w ond erful .. . appropriate use o f graphics and humor de signed for its target audience.” TILT has been highlighted in the ACRL Internet Education Project (http:/,/www. libraries .rutgers .edu/is/ 308 /C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 iep/index.html), and has received the award for “B est Educational Site” at the 1999 South by Southwest Interactive Web Competition. Dupuis has contributed articles to Refer en ce Services Review and the Internet Refer en ce Services Quarterly, and has served as head librarian o f the University o f Texas Digi tal Information Literacy O ffice (DILO) since 1995. Other staff contributing to the success ful d evelopm ent o f TILT include Content Leader Clara Fow ler and Web Designer Brent Simpson. The three developers presented a session entitled “Avoiding Culture Shock: Strategies for Successful Partnerships in Li brary Instruction at the 1999 LOEX Confer e n c e in H ouston. TILT c an b e foun d at http://tilt. lib .utsystem. edu. T h e aw ard, a p laq u e, w ill b e p resen ted at the ACRL In stru ction S e ctio n d in ner on Ju ly 7, during the Annual C o n feren ce in C hicago. L¡ndauer w in s IS Publication of the Y ear Aw ard B onnie Gratch Lindauer, coordinator o f In structional Services for the City College o f S a n F r a n c is c o , h as b e e n named the 2000 recipient o f the ACRL Instru ction S e c tio n ’s Publication Award for h er article “D efining a n d M e a su rin g th e L ibrary’s Im p a c t on C a m p u s -w id e O u t com es” (College & Re search Libraries, No Bonnie Gratch Lindauer v e m b e r 1 9 9 8 ). T h e award recognizes an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the preceding two years. Madeline Copp, chair o f the awards com mittee, said, “Publications for the IS award are based on relevance to the field o f in struction in academ ic or research libraries, originality, timeliness, and quality o f writing. Lindauer’s article addresses how and why we need to b e participants in our cam pus’ as sessm ent and accreditation processes. B ased on sound research m ethodology and a thorough literature review, Lindauer’s article provides an excellent tool for use by librarians to help them b eco m e true players in their institutions’ assessm ent and accreditation processes. Information literacy is ide ally a campus-wide phenomenon, and assess ment o f instruction programs must b e under stood by all members o f the campus. Lindauer gives us the means to achieve this goal.” Lindauer has been an active m em ber o f ACRL for 20 years. She is a current m em ber o f the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Task Force and is active in the California Academic and Research Libraries Association. In 1999 she received the ACRL K. G. Saur Award for best article in College & Research Libraries. The award, a plaque, will be presented at the Instruction Section dinner on Friday, July 7, dur ing the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Searing w ins new WSS/Greenwood Publishing Aw ard Susan Ellis Searing, library and information science librarian at the University o f Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has been named the first winner o f the A w ard fo r C a r e e r A c h ie v e m e n t in W o m e n ’s S tu d ie s L ib r a r ia n s h ip . T h e award, which is admin istered by th e ACRL W om en’s Studies Sec tion (WSS) and spon sored by Greenw ood Publishing Group, hon ors significant, lo n g Susan Ellis Searing standing contributions to the profession over the course o f a career. Marlene Manoff, chair o f the W om en’s Studies Section, said, “Searing has b e e n in strumental in the creation, development, and recognition o f W om en’s Studies librarianship as a field. Through her truly exemplary schol arship and her dedication to and passion for the field, she has served and continues to serve as a role model for m any.” Searing co-authored “W om en’s Studies: A R ecom m en d ed Core Bibliog rap h y, 1 9 8 0 - 1985” and authored “Introduction to Library Research in W omen’s Studies” in 1985. She was the 1992 recipient o f the ALA’s Scare crow Equality Award. The award, a cash prize o f $1,000 and a citation, will b e presented for the at the ALA’s Annual C onference in Chicago, during the WSS Program, Monday, Ju ly 10. http://tilt C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 / 309 Westbrook receives new WSS/ Routledge Award Lynn W estbrook, assistant professor in the Texas W om an’s University School o f Library and Information Stud ies, is the first winner o f the Award for Sig nificant Achievem ent in W o m e n ’s Studies Librarianship. S p o n s o r e d by th e ACRL W om en’s Studies Sec tion (WSS) and funded by R ou tled ge P ress, th e a w a rd h o n o r s Lynn W estbro ok Westbrook’s role in in creasing the visibility and accessibility o f documents relating to wom en’s issues through her research and writing. In the statement o f purpose for the award, the WSS expressed its desire to com m em o rate “W omen’s Studies librarians [who] have b e e n at the forefront o f both the grassroots and scholarly initiatives t h a t… contribute to the definitions o f W omen’s Studies.” Recognizing W estbrook’s achievem ent in academ ic writing, Marlene Manoff said, “The research presented by W estbrook in Inter disciplinary Information Seeking in Women’s Studies is a truly fine exam ple o f the kind o f scholarship this award was designed to rec ognize. This book provides information criti cal to any librarian involved in the support o f W omen’s Studies scholarship in an aca dem ic setting.” A cash prize o f $1,000 will b e presented to W estbrook at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, at the WSS Program on Monday, July 10. Exhibition catalogs recognized by Leab Aw ards There are two winners, two honorable m en tions, and one Award o f Special Merit for the K atharine Kyes Leab and D aniel J . Leab A m erican B ook Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards for 2000. In Division O ne (expensive), the winner is “Formatting the Word o f God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection,” submitted by the Bridwell Library o f Southern Methodist Uni versity. Diane Shaw, chair o f the awards com mittee, said o f the catalog, “[It] presents an overview o f Biblical texts from the earliest manuscripts up through digital editions o f the present day, covering an impressive breadth o f material. Beautifully produced, with de scriptions accessible and interesting to the general public as well as to a more special ized audience, the catalog was submitted in both print and CD-ROM formats.” In Division Tw o (moderately expensive), the w inner is “Mark Twain at Large: His Trav els Here and Abroad,” submitted by The Mark Twain Papers and Project o f the Bancroft Li brary, University o f California at Berkeley. Shaw described the catalog as “… a capti vating w ork that expresses the essence o f au thor Samuel Langhorne Clemens, w ho spent m uch o f his life traveling throughout the United States and around the world. … The catalog is delightful and totally absorbing; af ter reading it one can only hope to b e able to go som etim e to the Bancroft and browse in person through this wonderful collection o f p h o to g ra p h s , le tte rs, e p h e m era , and printed b o o k s.” Two honorable mentions w ere awarded in Division One, the first for “Stamped with a N ation al C h aracter: N in eteen th C entury American Color Plate B o ok s,” submitted by The Grolier Club. Shaw said, “… richly il lustrated … [and] attesting to the visual vari ety o f the period. … This exhibition catalog from The Grolier Club is certain to becom e a frequently consulted and cited reference work for special collections librarians and research ers.” The second honorable m ention was given to “Salts o f Silver, Toned with Gold: The Harrison D. Horblit Collection o f Early Pho tography,” submitted by T he Houghton Li brary Department o f Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard University. Shaw noted that “A particularly appealing aspect o f this catalog is the recognition it pays to the work done by the Houghton Library’s staff m em bers … throwing w elcom e light on the com plexities o f managing such rare materials as daguerreo types, album en prints, and other early types o f photographs for the service o f today’s re searchers.” Finally, a Special Award o f Merit was given to the Library and Archives, National Gallery o f Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, for its series, “Library and Archives Exhibition, No. 1-3: No. 1: Invading the Book: Recent Acquisitions o f Artists’ B o o k s and Multiples; No. 2: Rare 310 / C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 Canadiana; No. 3: P o esie: S e le c ted Works by Ian H am ilton F in lay .” Shaw d escribed the bilingual brochu res as, “… attractively d esign ed and uniform in form at, inclu ding a visually arresting cover, an essay o n the exh ib itio n , and a listing o f item s in the e xh ib itio n . … [T]he series is an e x c e lle n t ex am p le o f an in e x pen sive yet creatively d esign ed and p ro fession ally ap p earin g p u b lica tio n .” Printed citation s given b y ACRL’s Rare B o o k s and M anuscripts S e ctio n will b e aw arded at the RBMS program on the af tern o o n o f Ju ly 9, during the ALA Annual C o n feren ce in C hicago. C o m m u n ity C o lleg e A w a rd s go to K arr and th e Indian River C o m m u n ity C o llege Ju a n ita Karr, d irecto r o f the Learning R e sou rces C en ter at G reat B asin C olleg e in E lk o , N e v a d a , h a s b e e n se le c te d as the 2 0 0 0 w in n e r o f the Com m unity and Ju n ior C olleg e Libraries S e c t i o n ’s (C JC L S ) E B S C O C o m m u n ity C olleg e Learning Re s o u r c e s L e a d e rs h ip Award. T h e award h onors Ju an ita Karr s ig n ific a n t a c h i e v e m ent in the ad vocacy o f learn in g reso u rces, and lead ersh ip in professional organizations that support the m ission o f com m u nity, ju n ior and te ch n i cal c o lle g e s. Marcia O strow ski, ch air o f th e awards com m ittee, d escribed the leadership award as “p re s tig io u s,” and said o f Karr, “T h e com m ittee m em bers a ck n o w led g e Ju an ita for prom otin g te ch n o lo g y and fo r d ev el o p in g a CD-ROM netw ork . … B e c a u s e o f h er effo rts, library patrons in N evad a’s re m ote areas now have a c c e s s to a greater n u m b e r o f i n f o r m a t i o n r e s o u r c e s . ” O strow ski w en t o n to com m en d Karr for h er w o rk w ith the N ational C ou n cil for Learning Resources, the Nevada Library As s ociatio n , and th e ALA. K arr’s c a re e r in clu d es serv ice as b o th a high s ch o o l librarian and library c o o rd i nator for the Brow ning S ch o o l District in B row ning , M ontana. In 199 7 s h e receiv ed the Senatorial Librarian Award, and in 1998 sh e w as c h o se n by the E xecu tive B oard o f the Nevada Library A ssociation to receiv e its M eritorious Award. T h e Ind ian River C om m unity C olleg e (IR C C ) o f F o rt P ie r c e , F lo rid a , w h e r e P a t r ic i a P r o f e ta is h ead o f Library Ser vices, has b e e n c h o s e n a s t h is y e a r ’s w inner o f the EBSCO C om m u nity C o lleg e L earn in g R e s o u rc e s P r o g r a m A c h i e v e m en t Award. U nd er P ro fe ta ’s leadership, the IRCC d ev elo p ed Patricia Profeta an In ternet A.S. D e gree Program . T h e program allow s n ew and p ractic ing library p arap rofession als to earn an In struction al Services T ech n o lo g y A.S. D e gree via the In ternet. O strow sk i said the aw ards com m ittee w as “im p ressed that In dian River Com m unity C o lleg e is the first com m u nity c o lle g e in Florida to offer this program . … We re c o g n iz e the IRCC li brary s ta ff fo r p roviding lead ersh ip and su pport fo r integrating W eb reso u rces into the curriculum , and for b ein g on the cu t ting ed g e o f edu cating its users about te ch nology and lib rarian sh ip .” S h e a lso n o te d th a t IRCC r e c o g n iz e d th e p ro g ra m ’s e x c e p tio n a l n atu re, aw ard in g it th e IRCC In s tr u c tio n a l In n o v a tio n Award a n d th e IRCC P r e s id e n t’s P io n e e r Award. T h e aw ards, $50 0 and a citatio n (d o nated by EBSCO Inform ation Serv ices), are sp o n so red by th e CJCLS and EBSC O . T h ey will b e p resen ted at th e CJCLS M em ber ship M eeting o n Saturday, Ju ly 8, at 8 :0 0 a.m ., during the ALA Annual C o n feren ce in C hicago. Larson w in s N ijho ff A w ard Je ffry Larson, librarian for W estern E uro p ean R om ance Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, and Classics at Y a le University, has b e e n aw ard ed the M artinus N ijh off W estern E u ro p ean Specialists Study Grant for 2000. T h e grant o f 1 0 ,0 0 0 D u tch gu il ders cov ers air travel to and from Europe, C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000 / 311 tra n sp o rta tio n in E u ro p e, an d lo d g in g and b o a rd fo r a p erio d n o t to e x c e e d 14 c o n s e c u tiv e days. L arson plan s to u s e th e grant fo r travel to R om e an d Paris to g a th er re s e a rc h at th e V atican Library an d P arisian arch iv es fo r his study, “D o c u m e n tin g th e D issem i n atio n o f th e G reg o ria n C alen d ar R eform in F ra n c e D u rin g th e Wars o f R e lig io n .” Jo h n Cullars, ch a ir o f th e W estern Eu r o p e a n S p e cia lis ts S e c tio n (W E SS), said, “J e f f r y L a r s o n ’s is a f a s c in a tin g b i b li o g ra p h ica l study that w ill b e o f in terest to historian s o f th e R efo rm atio n and C ou nter- R efo rm a tio n an d o f R e n a is sa n c e F ra n ce, in clu d in g h isto rian s o f s c ie n c e an d o f s o c ia l a ttitu d e s , th e lib r a ria n s w h o a s sist th e m , a n d t h o s e w h o a s k th e m s e lv e s , ‘W h e re did th e m issin g te n days o f our ca le n d a r go?”’ H e has serv ed as th e ed ito r o f th e R o m a n c e L angu age s e c tio n o f R e feren ce R e views Europe, an d is th e fo rm er ed ito r o f the W ESS N ew sletter. T h e aw ard w ill b e p r e s e n te d at th e W E SS G e n e r a l M e m b e rs h ip M e e tin g o n M onday, Ju ly 10, at 1 1 :3 0 a.m . d uring the ALA A nnual C o n fe r e n c e in C h icag o . ■ ( “J o b Shadow Day … ” continued fr o m p a g e 296) a c tiv ities to a fo rm at that b e s t w ork s fo r them . • W ayne State U n iversity (WSU)— De troit. WSU’s undergraduate library hosted 60 middle- and high-school students. This initia tive is especially important for the Detroit area since current hiring data revels that minorities only represent 9% o f academic librarians and less than 12% o f all students enrolled in Li brary Science programs. The students spent the better part o f the day at the library. The librarians at the Under graduate Library thought this was such a suc cessful event that they are considering pre senting their summary in an extended format, such as a poster session at an ALA or ACRL conference. Jo b Shadow Day participant Kia Drake, a ninth grader at Detroit’s Martin Luther King high school said, “W hen MLKing’s 9th grade CPLA (College Prep Liberal Arts) students at tended the Wayne State Undergraduate Library trip, at first I thought it was going to b e boring, but w hen w e got there it was interesting to see all o f the college students at work. I learned (Why am I dream ing … continued fr o m p a g e 3 0 1 ) end . (S in c e you c h a n g e th e p a g e, it is easy fo r o th e rs to su g g est w o rk fo r y o u .) Finding a balance b etw een bein g over w helm ed in W ebm aster land, and actually thoughtfully improving the page is a difficult part o f the job. Check out our “perm anently unfinished product” at http://library.uncwil. edu. that the library is not just books and being quiet, but it is about learning new things. I learned how the library runs all o f the time and how much fun it would b e to work there. I had fun playing on the Internet looking for different references. This trip was fun and I would love to go again.” It’s not too early to start planning As the ALA Divisions Jo b Shadow Day contin ues to develop, w e hope that the groundwork shared by this year’s participants will b e use ful for an increasing group o f library partici pants. ACRL encourages all libraries to start plan ning n o w for n ex t y ear’s J o b Shadow Day on February 2. T h e J o b Shadow Day Plan ning Kit d ev elop ed for this y e a r’s partici pants will b e updated for 2001 and will re m ain o n our W eb site at www.ala.org/acrl/ jobshadow .pd f. Q uestions should b e directed to Margot Sutton, ACRL J o b Shadow Day coordinator, (8 0 0 ) 545-2433, ext. 2522; e-mail: m sutton@ ala.org. ■ A lth o u g h w e h a v e c h o s e n to ta k e a s lig h tly h u m o ro u s ta c k o n th is s u b je c t ( w e k n o w , y o u a re u n c e r ta in o f th e h u m o r ), it is r e a lly a g r o w in g a r e a o f s e r v ic e a n d d e s ig n in e v e r y a c a d e m ic l i b ra ry . P le a s e s h a r e w ith th e g r e a te r lib ra ry c o m m u n ity y o u r sto r ie s o f W eb s u c c e s s e s a n d fa ilu r e s s o th a t a ll c a n b e n e f it fro m y o u r w o rd s o f w isd o m . ■ http://www.ala.org/acrl/ http://library.uncwil 3 1 2 / C&RL News ■ A p ril 2000