ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


274 / C&RL News ■  April 1998

C o l l e g e  & R e s e a r c h  L i b r a r i e s

ACRL honors the 1998 
award winners

Recognizing professional contributions and scholarly research
by Jack B rio d y

Hirsh o n  n am ed  w in n e r o f A tk in so n  
A w ard
Arnold Hirshon, vice provost for Information 
Resources at Lehigh University, is the 1998 
recipient o f the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial 
A w ard . T h e  a w a rd , 
$2,000 and a citation, rec­
ognizes outstanding ac­
complishments of an aca­
demic librarian who has 
worked in the areas of 
library automation or li­
brary management and 
has made contributions 
(including risk-taking) 
toward the improvement 
o f library services or to A rn o ld  H irsho n

library development or research. The Faxon 
Company also provides for the winner a gold 
giraffe pin from Tiffany’s, symbolizing the 
“sticking-your-neck-out” aspect of the award.

Jennifer Cargill, chair of the selection com ­
mittee, cited his clear thinking and implemen­
tation of innovative ideas significant to the pro­
fession as major factors in the committee’s se­
lection. Cargill said, “His leadership role in fo­
cusing today’s libraries toward new efforts [in] 
outsourcing …  as well as his statewide efforts 
in networking projects [are among his chief 
contributions].”

Prior to his current position Hirshon served 
as university librarian at Wright State Univer­
sity, 1990-95; associate director o f University 
Library Services at Virginia Commonwealth 
University, 1983-90; and assistant head of the

Cataloging Department at Duke University, 
1978-83.

While at Wright State University, Hirshon 
oversaw the development of a Netscape-based in­
tegrated electronic access system to all resources, 
developed electronic text and imaging projects, 
and outsourced all cataloging. At Lehigh Univer­
sity, Hirshon has provided leadership for a re­
structuring initiative to merge the library and 
computer center and also a university-wide ef­
fort to better employ the enterprise-wide in­
formation systems.

Building on his involvement in the early 
stages of the OhioLINK program, he is a found­
ing m em ber and currently serves as chair of 
the Executive Committee (1 9 9 6 -9 9 ) o f the 
Pennsylvania Academic Library Connection 
Initiative (PALCI). Both projects are state-wide 
initiatives to provide wide access to library col­
lections throughout each state.

Within ALA he has been active in the Asso­
ciation for Library Collections & Technical 
Services (ALCTS) and served as their presi­
dent (1 9 9 1 -9 2 ), on the Board o f Directors 
(1 9 8 7 -8 9  and 1 9 7 9 -8 5 ), chaired the ALCTS 
Budget and Finance Committee (1986-89), and 
has held other positions on ALCTS and ACRL 
committees.

The award is jointly sponsored by the Asso­
ciation o f College and Research Libraries 
(ACRL), the Library Administration and Man­
agement Association (LAMA), the Library and 
Information Technology Association (LITA), 
and the Association for Library Collections & 
Technical Services (ALCTS).

About the author

Jack Briody is the ACRL award program coordinator; e-mail: jbriody@ala.org.

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Veaner named Academic/Research Librarian of the Year

Allen B. Veaner, adjunct assistant professor in 
the School of Library Science at the University 
o f Arizona, has been named the 1998 ACRL 
Academic/Research Librarian o f the Year 
Award winner, the highest honor 
in academic librarianship. The 
award, which includes a citation 
and $3,000 donated by Baker & 
Taylor Books, will be presented 
to Veaner at a reception in his 
honor on Monday, June 29,1998, 
from 5 to 6:30 p.m., at the ALA 
Annual Conference in Washing­
ton, D.C.

C o m m itte e  c h a ir  V ic k i 
Gregor said, “The value of Allen 
Veaner’s seminal work as a path­ A lle n  B. 
finder for the generation o f in­
formation professionals that has come of age in 
the 1980s and 1990s cannot be overestimated. 
The 40 years of his career in librarianship has 
evinced accelerated change in the field, and his 
work has been critical in ensuring that the ap­
plication o f technologies and the resultant 
transformation of the library of yesterday to 
the information center of today and tomor­
row has been and will continue to be accom­
plished grounded upon a solid, scholarly-based 
theoretical foundation.”

In nominating him, Veaner’s colleagues 
cited his success as an administrator, author, 
editor, speaker, consultant, and educator. 
Veaner’s published works include more than 
a dozen books and some 140 articles cover­
ing personnel administration, accreditation, 
technical services, autom ation, com puter 
software, and the nature and future o f the 
library profession itself. His book A c a d e m ic  
L ib r a r ia n s h ip  in  a  T r a n s fo r m a t io n a l A ge: 
P rog ram , Politics, a n d  P e r so n n e l (G . K. Hall, 
1990) is widely used in library schools for 
courses in academ ic librarianship. In 1985 
he completed a survey for ACRL, “1985-1996: 
The Next Decade in Academic Librarianship,” 
(C&RL, May and July, 1985) that stimulated 
much debate in the profession.

On receiving the award Veaner said, “The 
ACRL Award is especially meaningful to me 
because throughout my professional career I 
have always b een somewhat o f a maverick, 
scarcely ever following the beaten path and

rarely moving with the crowd. The library of 
the future will not— cannot— be the library of 
the past or even the present. To create an ever 
new concept o f the library means always to 

look for the unexpected, to chal­
lenge received wisdom, to de­
part from the conventional, and 
to take risks. I like to think I 
have contributed modestly in 
encouraging our profession to 
do exactly that.”

Prior to forming Allen B. 
Veaner Associates, a Toronto- 
based library and information 
con su ltin g  serv ice, in 1983 
Veaner was university librarian 

V eaner at the University o f California, 
Santa Barbara (1 9 7 7 -8 3 ); at 

Stanford he was assistant director for technical 
services (1970-77), assistant director for auto­
mation (1 9 6 7 -7 0 ), and ch ief librarian in the 
acquisitions department (1964-67). He also held 
positions at Harvard University (1 9 5 7 -6 4 ).

Colleagues also cited his role in ushering in 
library automation as one of his contributions 
to the profession. While at Stanford he served 
as the principal investigator of the BALLOTS 
Project, which helped form the Research Li­
braries Information Network (RLIN). As li­
brary director at the University of California, 
Santa Barbara, he introduced both OCLC and 
RLIN services, as well as an automated circula­
tion system.

Veaner is a life member o f ALA and has 
served three terms on Council in addition to 
serving on and chairing a number o f commit­
tees. His numerous awards include the Special 
Libraries Association President’s Award for Ex­
ceptional Service in 1988 and distinguished 
alumni awards from Gettysburg College in 
1991 and Simmons College in 1981.

The Academic/Research Librarian of the Year 
Award is given annually to recognize an indi­
vidual who is making an outstanding contribu­
tion to academic or research librarianship and 
library development. Previous winners include: 
James G. Neal (1997); Ralph Russell (1996); J o ­
seph Boissé (1995); Irene Braden Hoadley (1994); 
William A. Moffett (1993); Carla Stoffle (1992); Rich­
ard DeGennaro (1991); and Patricia Battin (1990).

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The award will be presented on Monday, 
Ju ne 29, 1998, at 5 p.m., at the ACRL Awards 
Reception during the American Library Asso­
ciation (ALA) Annual Conference in Wash­
ington, D.C.

K le in e r and H am aker rece ive K. G. 
S au r A w a rd
Jane P. Kleiner, head of collection development 
at Louisiana State University (LSU) Libraries, 
and Charles A. Hamaker, head o f technical 
services at the University of North Carolina, 
Charlotte, (UNC-C) have been named winners 
of the 1998 K. G. Saur Award for best article, 
“Libraries 2000: Transforming Libraries Using 
Document Delivery, Needs Assessment, and 
Networked Resources,” in C ollege & R esearch  
L ibraries (July 1997).

William G. Jones, chair of the award com ­
mittee, said “The authors’ clear explanation of 
a set of creative research projects surrounding 
a timely topic of concern resulted in this best- 
of-year article and provides a model that can be 
applied in a number of different academic li­
brary settings. The article describes several 
projects that were undertaken at the Louisiana 
State University Libraries to control journal 
subscription expenditures while at the same 
time ensuring the maintenance of a high qual­
ity o f service in document delivery. The au­
thors demonstrate that careful planning can be 
effectively utilized to stretch library resources 
in times of reduced funding and rapid change.”

Kleiner has been head of collection develop­
ment at LSU since 1997 and served as head of 
remote document ser­
vices and grants prior to 
that (1 9 9 3 -9 7 ). She has 
also been selected to re­
ceive the 1998 Refer­
ence User Services Asso­
c ia t io n  M a rg a re t E. 
Monroe Award for out­
standing contributions 
in adult library services 
and received the 1992 

Jane P. K le in e rReference Service Press 
Award, sponsored by Reference Service Press, 
Inc., for an article in RQ.

Prior to his position at UNC-C Hamaker 
served as assistant dean for collection develop­
ment at LSU (1 9 8 6 -9 8 ). In 1991 he received 
the Association for library Collections & Tech­
nical Services Serials Section Bowker-Ulrich

Serials Librarianship Award for contributions 
to serials librarianship and received the 1991 
Brigham Young University Library School 
Alumni Award.

The award, $500 and a plaque, donated by 
the K.G. Saur publishing company, will be pre­
sented at the ACRL Award Reception, Mon­
day, Ju n e 29, at 5:00 p.m., during the ALA 
Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

ISU ’s D ily s M orris La ze ro w  
F e llo w sh ip
Dilys E. Morris, assistant director of technical 
services at Iowa State University, has been 
awarded the 1998 Samuel Lazerow Fellowship 
for Research in Acquisitions or Technical Ser­
vices in an Academic or Research Library for 
her work as principal investigator for the 
project “Technical Services Time and Cost 
Analysis: Development o f Methodology to 
Compare Among Libraries.”

Sponsored by the Institute for Scientific In­
formation (LSI), the award fosters advances in 
acquisitions or technical services by providing 
fellowships to librarians for travel or writing 
in those fields.

The project is a cooperative effort to iden­
tify and track staff technical services’ time and 
costs in different libraries to help identify areas 
where collaboration and greater information 
technology support can reduce costs and increase 
services. The current project expands on an ear­
lier study at Iowa State University (LSU) and will 
apply the ISU model to four institutions’ techni­
cal services to help create a time and cost analy­
sis tool for a multi-institution environment.

The other investigators involved in the 
project are Cecily Johns, associate university 
librarian at the University of California, Santa 
Barbara; Flow Wilson, associate university li­
brarian at Vanderbilt University; Christian 
Boissonnas, director of central technical ser­
vices at Cornell University; and Brenda 
Dingley, assistant director for technical services 
at the University o f Missouri, Kansas City.

Tia Gozzi, chair o f the award jury, said, 
“Committee members liked the overall co n ­
cept for the research project, acknowledging 
the difficulty of establishing reliable compara­
tive cost data for technical services functions, 
and the benefit to all o f doing so. The g eo ­
graphical and institutional diversity of the par­
ticipants was impressive and should add to the 
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O a k to n  C o m m u n ity  C o lle g e ’s L ib ra ry  S ta ff (fro m  L t o  R): 
J u d ith  M ayzel, B arbara Keeley, Sandra W ittm a n , B everly 
D rick, Joan C ichon, Susan M altese, and  Gary N ew house.

The award, $1,000 and a citation, will be 
presented at the ACRE Award R eception, 
Monday, June 29, at 5:00 p.m., during the ALA 
Annual C onference in W ashington D.C.

F ra d k in  a n d  O a k to n  C o m m u n ity  
C o lle g e  re ce iv e  C o m m u n ity  C o lle g e  
a w ard s
Bernard Fradkin, dean o f learning resources at 
the College o f DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illi­
nois, has been chosen to receive the EBSCO 
C om m unity C o lleg e Learning R eso u rces 
Leadership Award sp o n so red  by ACRE’S 
Community and Junior College Libraries Sec­
tion (CJCLS) and EBSCO Information Services.

Theresa Byrd, chair o f the award jury, 
said, “Dr. Fradkin is a visionary leader and 
a strong advocate for community colleges. 
He is acknow ledged by his colleagues for 
promoting technology and for creating and 
directing national teleconferences, especially 
teleconferences for library assistants.”

Fradkin’s career includes service as dean of 
instructional services at Bloom sburg Univer­
sity o f Pennsylvania, di­
rector o f the center for 
instructional develop­
ment at the Evergreen 
Valley College in San 
Jose, as well as positions 
at San Jo s e  State Uni­
versity and at the City 
U n iv e r s ity  o f  N ew  
York. Fradkin has been 
involved with local and 
state groups in Illinois, B e rn a rd  F ra d k in
the North Central Ac­
creditation Association, is a co-founder and 
served as chair o f the National Council for 
Learning Resources, and currently serves on 
the ACRL Board o f Directors. He is also an

active member o f CJCLS and has 
been instrumental in the develop­
ment and delivery o f more than 
twenty national teleconferences 
for professionals and para-profes­
sionals including “Dancing with 
Change” and “Soaring to E xcel­
lence.”

The Oakton Community Col­
lege Library has been chosen to re­
ceive this year’s EBSCO Commu­
nity College Learning Resources 
Program Development Award for 

its Internet training program.
The C ollege’s Internet training program 

was started in 1993 when the college re­
ceived a grant to provide Internet access. 
Since that time the library has developed a 
campus-wide Internet/World Wide Web pro­
gram that has expanded from faculty edu­
cation to student w orkshops and assisting in 
developing resources to be integrated into 
classwork and evaluating resources on the Web.

The program has been developed by the li­
brary staff, which includes the Director o f Li­
brary and Media Services, Gary Newhouse; 
Department Chair, Barbara Keeley; and full­
time faculty librarians Jo a n  Cichon, Beverly 
Drick, Susan Maltese, Judith Mayzel, and 
Sandra Whittman.

The library staff has also created a page “Life 
Beyond Y ahoo, Finding Information on the 
W o rld  W id e W e b ,” h t tp :/ / a c s .o a k t o n . 
edu/-w ittm an/find/finding.htm  that p ro ­
vides directory-style listings o f resources in a 
number of subject areas as well as basic instruc­
tion on search engines, evaluating Web sites, 
and “Citing the Internet.”

The awards, $500 and a plaque, are donated 
by EBSCO Subscription Services and will be 
presented at the CJCLS business meeting dur­
ing the ALA Annual Conference in Washington 
D.C., Saturday, June 27, 8:00 a.m.

K ie w it t  se le c te d  f o r  E B S S  A w a rd
Eva L. Kiewitt, library consultant and librar­
ian emeritus at Regent University in Virginia 
Beach, Virginia, has been named winner of the 
1998 Distinguished Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Librarian Award. This award, sp on­
sored by ACRL and its Education and Behav­
ioral Sciences Section (EBSS), honors a distin­
guished academic librarian who has made an 
outstanding contribution as an education and/

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or behavioral sciences librarian through accom­
plishments and services to the profession.

Leslie Bjorncrantz, chair of the award jury, 
said, “Eva Kiewitt has had a long and distinguished 
c a re e r in e d u ca tio n  
librarianship … .  her 
early work with the 
ERIC system on vocabu­
lary review, redesign, 
and ev alu atio n ; her 
contribution as found­
ing co-editor of the D i­
rectory o f  C u rricu lu m  
M aterials Centers-, and 
her dedication to the 
improvement of librar­ Eva K ie w itt

ies both in the U.S. and abroad were chief fac­
tors in her selection her for EBSS’s highest 
award.”

Kiewitt previously served as associate dean 
of libraries at Regent University (1981-1994), 
and associate professor (1973-81) and head of 
the education library (1967—73) at Indiana 
University, Bloomington. She has held com ­
mittee positions in EBSS and served as Chair 
(1980-81) and Secretary (1975-77) of the sec­
tion. In 1997 she received the Association of 
Christian Librarians’ Emily Russell Award, rec­
ognizing outstanding contribution to Chris­
tian librarianship.

The award (a citation) will be presented 
during the ALA Annual Conference in Wash­
ington D.C. at the EBSS program, Friday, June 
29, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Jefferson Build­
ing o f the Library of Congress.

W ayne S ta te  U n iv e rsity  p ro g ra m  
w in s IS In n o v a tio n  A w a rd
The “Health Sciences Information Tools 2000” 
program at Wayne State University, Vera

W ayne State's H ealth Sciences In fo rm a tio n  Tools 2000 
te a m  (fro m  L to  R): Nancy Adam s, J u lie t M u lle n m e iste r, 
Nan B lackw ell; w ith  students: Taleia Richardson, Sarneisa 
Harris, A u re lia  Coker; and s ta ff m e m b e r L o th a r Spang.

Shiffman Medical Library, is the winner of the 
1998 Instruction Section (IS) Innovation in In­
struction Award.

The program is run by the library team of 
Nancy E. Adams, lead instructor; Lothar Spang, 
p racticu m  c o o rd in a to r; Nan B la c k w e ll, 
practicum supervisor; Juliet Mullenmeister, in­
structor; and La Ventra Ellis, graduate student/ 
instructor. The program was first instituted as 
a cooperative effort betw een the library and 
the Detroit Public Schools’ Crockett Career 
and Technical Center to provide instruction to 
11th- and 12th-grade students in using tools 
and resources to find, evaluate, and present 
health-related information.

Trudi Jacobson, chair of the award commit­
tee, said, “Nancy Adams and her instructional 
team have developed a model program that en­
ables vocational school students to use an aca­
demic library as the setting for developing in­
formation literacy skills. The program recog­
nizes the critical need to prepare students for 
the workforce of the 21st century.”

The Information Tools 2000 program is 
funded by the American Honda Foundation in 
Torrance, California, and has been expanded 
to provide instruction in Michigan’s recently 
created Health Education and Related T ech ­
nology (HEART) Academy.

The award, a citation, will be presented 
at the IS dinner during the ALA Annual Con­
ference in Washington, D.C., Friday, Ju ne 
26, 1998.

A rp  nam ed D u d le y  In stru ctio n  
Librarian
Lori Arp, head of Central Reference and Me­
dia Libraries at the University of Colorado 
(UC) at Boulder, is the 1998 winner o f the 
Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Instruc­

tion Librarian Award. The award, 
honoring the woman whose pioneer­
ing efforts in the field o f library in­
struction led to the formation of 
ACRL’s Instruction Section, recog­
nizes an individual librarian who has 
made an especially significant contri­
bution to the advancement of library 
instruction in a college or research 
institution.

Loanne Snavely, chair o f the 
award jury, said, “Arp has been a key 
player in shaping the issues facing in­
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ears, and has made significant contributions 
in all four areas o f the Dudley award criteria: 
program development, publication, professional 
leadership, and education. Her presentations 
and publication have gained national and inter­
national recognition. These, along with her 
programmatic innovations and leadership in 
the Instruction Section, have had a wide rang­
ing impact”

Arp is currently an associate professor at 
UC and previously served as coordinator o f 
instruction services (1 9 8 5 -9 0 ) and deputy as­
istant director and CARL user representative 
1989) at the University o f Colorado at Den- 
er/Auraria Library; 
nd assistant professor 
f library administra­

ion at the University 
f Illinois at Urbana 
1 9 8 2 -8 5 ). Within the 
LA she has served on 
 n u m b e r o f  ACRL 
o m m ittees, ch aired  
he ACRL Leadership 
etention Task Force 

Lori A rp
1 9 9 5 -9 7 ), served on 
nd chaired committees within IS, and served 
s chair of the IS Executive Committee (1993— 
4), in addition to holding other elected posi­
ions within the section. In 1996 she was named 
olorado Librarian o f the Year by the Colo­

ado Library Association.
The award, $1,000 and a plaque, is donated 

y JAI Press on behalf o f its journal R e s ea r c h  
Strategies. It will be presented during the ALA

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the IS program, Sunday, Ju n e 28, at 2:00 p.m.

G a sa w a y  w in s  M arta Lange/CQ  
A w ard
Laura N. “Lolly” Gasaway, director o f the law 
library and professor o f law at the University 
o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), 
has been named the 1998 recipient of the Marta 
Lange/CQ Award. The award is administered 
by ACRL’s Law and Political Science Section 
(LPSS) and sponsored by C on gression al Q u ar­
terly in honor o f former LPSS chair Marta 
Lange.

Rosemary Allen Little, chair o f the award 
committee, said, “Professor Gasaway has e x ­
celled at mastering complex law-related subjects 
and engaging a wide variety o f audiences lo­
ca lly  and n a tio n w id e  w ith h e r su p e rb  
demystifying presentations.”

Among Gasaw ay’s contributions cited by 
the comm ittee and her 
c o lle a g u e s w ere her 
workshops and publica­
tio n s  on c o p y rig h t, 
w o m e n  in th e law , 
sexual harassment, and 
cyberspace law. She has 
also b een  active in the 
American Association 
o f Law Libraries, the 
Special Libraries Asso­ Laura N. Gasaway
ciation, the American 
Association of Law Schools, and the American 
Bar Association.

Prior to coming to the UNC-CH in 1985, 
she served as director o f the law library and 
professor of law at the University of Oklahoma 
(1 9 7 5 -8 4 ) and as law librarian and assistant 
professor o f law at the University o f Houston 
(1 9 7 3 -7 5 ).

The award, $1,000 and a citation, is donated 
by C o n g r e s s io n a l Q u arterly  and will be pre­
sented at the LPSS lunch, Sunday, Ju n e 28, at 
12:30 p.m., during the ALA Annual Confer­
en ce in Washington D.C.

E x h ib itio n  c a ta lo g s  re c o g n iz e d  b y 
Le a b  A w a rd s
There are three winners for the 1998 Katharine 
Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab A m e ric a n  B o o k  
Prices C u rren t Exhibition Catalogue Awards. In 
category one (expensive), the winner is The R ef­
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tion, by Jaroslav Pelikan and David Price with 
Valerie Hotchkiss, submitted by the Bridwell 
Library, Southern Methodist University.

In selecting the catalog the committee said, 
“This impressive exam ple o f scholarly thor­
oughness not only represents what will be a 
lasting contribution to the study o f the B ib le  
and the Reformation, but the fundamental ge­
nius of library exhibitions to reveal the essen­
tial relationship of the artifact and intellectual 
valorization.”

In category two (moderate), the committee 
selected The Library of the Jewish Theological 
Seminary of America’s K ehillat H a-K odesh: Cre­
a tin g  th e S a c r e d  C om m u n ity: The R oles o f  th e 
R a b b i, C an tor, M o h el a n d  S h o h et in  J e w is h  
C o m m u n a l Life. The committee said, “The text 
of the catalog is fascinating and original, com ­
posed with a clear narrative gift, and thus ac­
cessible to a broad range of readers. Every reader 
will learn much about how community spirit is 
fostered by these four central figures o f Ju d a­
ism. The catalog beautifully reproduces every 
broadside, engraving, portrait, document, book, 
and manuscript within the exhibition— many 
on view for the first tim e.”

In category three (inexpensive), F o r  love o f  
Ruth by the University o f Arizona Library, 
Special Collections, is this year’s winner. The 
committee cited the catalog as “a winning ex­
ample of a library exhibition that sheds a warm 
light on the relationship o f special collections 
and a special donor, Ruth Chasteney, a former

managing editor o f the journal The A r c h ite c ­
tu ral F oru m . The small format conveys direct­
ness and intimacy, subtly intensified by the re­
peated image o f Ruth Chasteney’s ‘ladder to 
the moon' woodcut bookplate, and, more di­
rectly, by the personal essays by Robert 
Chasteney, with whom she shared a lifelong 
love of books.”

Printed citations given by ACRL’s Rare 
Books and Manuscripts Section will be pre­
sented to the winners following the RBMS pro­
gram during the ALA Annual Conference in 
Washington D.C., Sunday, Ju n e 28, 1998, at 
4:00 p.m.

G a rre tt re ce iv e s th e  M a rtin u s N ijh o ff 
W est E u ro p e a n  S tu d y  G ra n t
Jeffrey Garrett, bibliographer, western lan­
guages and literatures at Northwestern Uni­
versity in Evanston, Illinois, has been awarded 
the Martinus Nijhoff West European Special­
ists Study Grant for 1998. The grant o f 10,000 
Dutch guilders, covers air travel to and from 
Europe, transportation in Europe, and lodging 
and board in selected sites for a period not to 
exceed 14 consecutive days.

Garrett will use the grant to travel to 
Munich to do research on “The End of Monas­
tery Libraries in Bavaria and the Birth o f Mod­
ern Library Science, 1 8 0 2 -1 8 1 4 .”

Diana Chlebek, chair of the award commit­
tee, said “Garrett’s proposal outlines a well-con­
ceived research project that will make a valuable 
and insightful scholarly contribution to the his­
tory o f librarianship relating to Western Eu­
rope.”

The focus of Garrett’s study will be on “the 
fate of confiscated Bavarian monastic libraries 
between 1802-14, their incorporation into the 
collections of the Bavarian Staatsbibliothek, and 
the impact of these events on the founding of 
modern library science.”

The award will be presented at the WESS 
m embership meeting on Monday, Ju n e 29, 
1998, at 11:30 a.m. during the ALA Annual 
Conference in San Francisco.

Award nominations
Guidelines and submission information for 

ACRL’s aw ards are av ailab le at http:// 
www.ala.org/acrl/award2.html or by contacting 
Jack Briody at (800) 545-2433, ext 2516 or 
jbriody@ala.org. Most awards have a December 1 
submission deadline.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/award2.html
mailto:jbriody@ala.org


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