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OCLC Recognizes 2010 Award Winners

July 2nd, 2010 Kelly Bayee

OCLC recognizes 2010 award winners

DUBLIN, Ohio, July 1, 2010—Part of OCLC’s commitment to research and education includes furthering the advancement of librarianship.  OCLC does this not only through its Office of Research and Innovation Lab, but also by financially supporting awards and scholarships.  OCLC is proud to announce the following 2010 awards that recognize innovation and creativity in the library community.  The recipients were acknowledged June 28 during the OCLC President’s Luncheon at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference.

OCLC/LITA Minority Scholarship in Library and Information Technology
Sofia Becerra Licha, University North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Margaret Mann Citation
Olivia Marie A. Madison, Dean of the library, Iowa State University

John Ames Humphry/OCLC Forest Press Award for International Librarianship
Jordan Scepanski and Lea Wells, Principals, Jordan Wells Associates

American Library Association’s Melvil Dewey Medal
Brian Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego

Virginia Boucher—OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian
Cherié Weible, Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology
Dr. John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and Founder of the Public Knowledge Project

More information about OCLC annual awards and scholarships can be found at www.oclc.org/community/careerdevelopment.

About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs.  More than 72,000 libraries in 171 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials.  Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they need it.  OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources.  Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org.  For more information, visit www.oclc.org.

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