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Award Winning Reference Services Research

Past award-winning Reference Service Press Award articles, which appeared in the Reference and User Services Quarterly (RUSQ) are available on the Awards webpage.

This award is sponsored by Reference Service Press to recognize the most outstanding article published in RUSQ during the preceding two-volume year. The article is selected on the basis of originality, timeliness, relevance to RUSA areas of interest and concern, and quality of writing.

The research articles posted on the website are from 1986 to 2006, and include a variety of timely topics such as “Flying a Light Aircraft: Reference Service Evaluation from a User's Viewpoint.”

You can visit the web page to read the research articles, http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaawards/rspawardwinning/rspawardwinning.htm

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Friendly reminder: RUSA/MARS still wants to hear from you

If you have not completed the RUSA/MARS survey we'd like to hear from you. 

 

The survey will be available on the MARS Website through Monday, October 22:

http://www.ala.org/MARSmainTemplate.cfm?Section=MARS.

 

If that site is too busy, try:

http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/mars/marsce.html

 

If you have already completed the survey or will do so now, thanks for

helping MARS move forward.

 

Linda Keiter 

 

MARS Task Force on Continuing Education and Publications 

Linda Keiter, Chair:  linda.keiter@utah.edu 

Becki Whitaker: becki@incolsa.net

Leilani Freund: leifreu@uflib.ufl.edu 

Lisa Horowitz: lisah@mit.edu

Marcella Stark: mstark@smu.edu 

Carolyn Larson: clar@loc.gov 

Natalie McDonough: NMcDonough@sals.edu 

Kathleen Kern (Executive  Board Liaison): katkern@uiuc.edu 

Mary Popp (Consultant):  popp@indiana.edu

Pat Riesenman (Consultant): riesenman@indiana.edu 

Ann Viles (exofficio):  vilesea@appstate.edu

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Second Call for the Louis Shore Greenwood Publishing Award

In August, the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) issued its annual call for nominations for a range of RUSA Awards.

 

Among the prestigious awards that RUSA offers is the Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award. This award is given to an individual, group, editor, review medium, or organization that has made a distinguished contribution to helping librarians make selection decisions through book or media reviewing. The award will be presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in 2008 and includes a citation and a $3,000 cash award.

 

This is the second call for nominations. If you or someone you know deserves extraordinary recognition for contributions to book or media reviewing please consider making a nomination to the Louis Shores-Greenwood Publishing Group Award Committee.

 

The committee is seeking to identify individuals or groups (librarians, editors, reviewers, review sources, or organizations) who have accomplished significant achievement in the book reviewing process.

 

All kinds of reviewing are considered, from a library review blog, to a significant body of work as a reviewer, to those employed as book review editors and publishers. Online and in-print work is considered equally.

 

To submit a nomination, please send a letter to:

 

RUSA

Eileen Hardy/The Louis Shores Award

The American Library Association

50 E. Huron

Chicago, IL 60611

 

The letter should outline the nominee's contribution to the reviewing of books and other materials for libraries. Please include examples, links, and other supporting documentation if possible.

 

Additional information is available online:  

http://www.ala.org/RUSATemplate.cfm?Section=rusaawards&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=136889

 

All letters and documentation must be received by December 15, 2007.

 

Please pass this message on to all interested colleagues.

 

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Call for Nominations for the 2008 Genealogical Publishing Company Award

Call for Nominations

Nominations are solicited for the ALA History Section/Genealogical Publishing Company Award, 2008.  The award, established in 1992, consists of $1,500 cash, with a citation, to a librarian, library, or publisher who has achieved excellence in historical reference and research librarianship.
Sponsored by Genealogical Publishing Company, this award may be a career achievement award for persons who have made ongoing contributions to the local history and genealogy fields over many years and who have been active in the History Section.  Current membership in RUSA and the History Section is required.  The nominations will be evaluated for exceptional accomplishment in such fields as bibliography, book reviewing, indexing, professional association leadership, programs, and training.  The list of previous winners can be viewed at

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=54578

To nominate an individual, please follow the format below, detailing the individual's accomplishments and service to the field.  The GPC Award Committee understands that not all fields may be relevant for all nominees.
Nominations must be received by December 15, 2007.  Nominations should be sent via mail to the Chair:

Lou Vyhnanek
Humanities and Social Sciences Collection Development Manager and History Subject Specialist
Holland and Terrell Libraries
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5610

or via email to:

louv@wsu.edu
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Name of nominee:

Present title:

Present employer:

Contact information:

Past positions:

Service to History Section:

Service to RUSA:

Service to ALA:

Service to allied organizations:

Awards received:

Publications:

Anything else the Committee should know:

Nominator:

Nominator's Contact Information:

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 Accompanying materials are welcomed.   Nominations will remain active for

 two years. Individuals nominated this year who do not receive the award

 will automatically be reconsidered for the 2009 award.