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Megan
Griffin



ACRL honors the 2009 award winners, 
Part 2 
A recognition of professional achievement 

Kenley
Neufeld
Photograph
by
Cindi
Trainor


Kenley Neufeld wins CJCLS Leadership 
Award 
Kenley Neufeld, library director at Santa Bar­
bara City College, is winner of the Community 

and Junior College Li­
braries Section (CJCLS) 
EBSCO Community Col­
lege Learning Resources 
Leadership Award. The 
award honors signifi cant 
achievement in advoca­
cy of learning resources, 
as well as leadership in 
professional organiza­
tions that support the 
missions of community, 

junior, and technical colleges. 
The $500 award and plaque, donated by 

EBSCO Information Services, will be presented 
to Neufeld at the ALA Annual Conference in 
Chicago during the CJCLS dinner. 

“Kenley Neufeld’s leadership and technol­
ogy innovations have benefi ted Santa Barbara 
City College and the community at­large,” said 
José Aguiñaga, CJCLS award committee chair 
and librarian at Glendale Community College. 
“Kenley is an outstanding librarian role model 
that all should emulate in their daily library 
interactions.” 

Neufeld’s nominators praised his signifi ­
cant achievements in the advocacy of library 
programs and services and noted that since 
his arrival at Santa Barbara City College in 
2005, many dramatic and positive changes 
in the content of the library programs and in 
the atmosphere of the facility have occurred. 
They attribute these changes to his energy, 
insight, and effort. 

Neufeld has served on numerous ACRL 
committees, including a term as CJCLS chair 
in (2007–08). 

Diana Fitzwater wins CJCLS Program 
Award 
Diana Fitzwater, reference librarian at the Col­
lege of DuPage, is the recipient of the Commu­
nity and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) 
EBSCO Community College Learning Resources 
Program Achievement Award. 

The $500 award and plaque, donated by 
EBSCO Information Services, will be presented 

to Fitzwater during the 
CJCLS dinner at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

“Diana Fitzwater’s 
initiative to coordinate 
the information literacy 
program at the College 
of DuPage is quite wor­
thy of this award,” said 
award committee chair 
José Aguiñaga, librarian 

at the Glendale Community College. “What 
she has achieved since 1982 at her institution 
is outstanding. Her involvement with embed­
ding information literacy as a general education 
competency within the College of DuPage cur­
riculum demonstrates her signifi cant program­
matic contribution to the college, on behalf of 
the library.” 

Fitzwater was praised for single­handedly 
taking on the role of information literacy expert 
on campus, not only because she felt the library 

Diana
Fitzwater



Megan Griffin is ACRL program coordinator, e-mail: 
mgriffi  n@ala.org 

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contributed to the educational mission of the 
institution, but also because she believes in the 
potential of all community college students and 
has dedicated her career to their success. 

Fritts named DLS Haworth Press 
Distance Learning Librarian Conference 
Sponsorship Award winner 
Jack E. Fritts Jr., director of library services at 
Benedictine University, has been named the 
recipient of the Distance Learning Section (DLS) 
Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian 
Conference Sponsorship Award. This annual 
award, sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Fran­
cis Group, honors an ACRL member working 
in the field of, or contributing to the success of, 
distance learning librarianship or related library 
service in higher education. 

Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group will 
present the $1,200 award and plaque during 
the DLS discussion group meeting at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

“The committee chose Jack Fritts as this 
year’s award recipient due to his impressive 
record of accomplishment through more than 
20 years of service to distance learners,” said 
Jerilyn Marshall, chair of the DLS award com­
mittee and head of the Reference and Instruc­
tional Services Department at the University of 
Northern Iowa’s Rod Library. “He has served 
in a variety of roles throughout his career: as 
a librarian, director, educator, technologist, 
and consultant. His mentoring skills and his 
interest in seeing distance learning librarians 
and librarianship develop and succeed were 
mentioned several times in the nomination 
letters we received. 

“Jack has long been involved as an active 
participant in the Distance Learning Section of 
ACRL and its predecessors,” Marshall continued. 
“Most recently he was one of the leaders in the 
successful effort to develop ACRL’s new ‘Stan­
dards for Distance Learning Library Services.’” 

Prior to becoming director of library services 
at Benedictine University in 2002, Fritts was ex­
ecutive director of the Southeastern Wisconsin 
Information Technology Exchange (SWITCH) 
from 1997 to 2002. He also worked at the 
National­Louis University Library in Evanston, 

Illinois, where he served at assistant university 
librarian for library technology (1996–97), assis­
tant university librarian for public services and 
automation (1992–96), coordinator of public 
services (1990–92), and public services librarian 
and coordinator of interlibrary loan (1988–90). 

Fritts has served as a consultant for the 
Technology Continuum, where he conducts 
workshops to train teachers on how to use 
the Web collaboratively. He also worked with 
the North Suburban Library System as a trainer 
during his tenure at National­Louis University 
and taught adult education courses at National­
Louis University, Rosary College, and Oakton 
Community College. 

Gary Lare named EBSS Distinguished 
Librarian 
Gary Lare, former head of the curriculum re­
sources center at the University of Cincinnati, is 
the recipient of the Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Educa­
tion and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award. 
This award honors a distinguished academic 
librarian who has made an outstanding con­
tribution as an education and/or behavioral 
sciences librarian through accomplishments 
and service to the profession. 

A prize of $1,500, donated by John Wiley 
and Sons, Inc., will be presented to Lare during 
the EBSS Program at the ALA Annual Confer­
ence. 

“Dr. Gary Lare has had a long history of ser­
vice to ALA, ACRL, and the library profession,” 
said award committee chair Paula McMillen, 
education librarian at the University of Nevada­
Las Vegas. “The committee was particularly 
impressed with his generous mentorship of 
librarians new to the fi eld.” 

Lare cochaired the EBSS committee that 
developed the first set of ALA guidelines for cur­
riculum materials centers in academic libraries 
and several significant publications followed, 
including his books Acquiring and Organizing 
Curriculum Materials: A Guide and Directory 
of Resources, which went to a second edition 
in 2004, and Social Studies Teaching Activities 
Book: An Annotated Resource Guide, which 
came out in 2006. 

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“Dr. Lare also promoted his specialty in 
education librarianship through his job,” said 
McMillen. “He developed three education facili­
ties, including a Curriculum Materials Center 
(CMC), at Oral Roberts University, as well as a 
CMC and an education library at the University 
of Cincinnati. Letters of support to recognize a 
lifetime of service to the field came from for­
mer winners of this award and several former 
chairs of the ACRL Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Section chairs, attesting to his reputa­
tion and impact.” 

Lare retired as head of the curriculum re­
sources center at the University of Cincinnati in 
2007, after 32 years in that position. He previ­
ously served as assistant professor and head 
of the curriculum media center at Oral Roberts 
University (1971–75). 

Rice Database 
receives STS Oberly 
Award 
The International Rice 
Research Institute’s 
Rice Database has been 
selected as the recipi­
ent of the Science and 
Technology Section 
(STS) Oberly Award 
for Bibliography in the 
Agricultural or Natu­
ral Sciences. The cash 
award and plaque will 
be presented at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

Formerly known as the Rice Bibliography, 
the Rice Database is a comprehensive bibli­
ography of technical rice literature covering 
all aspects of rice research, produced by 
scientists from around the world. It is avail­
able online at ricelib.irri.cgiar.org:81/screens 
/opacmenu.html. 

“The Rice Database is a highly unique, but 
desperately needed, resource for both devel­
oping and developed countries,” said award 
committee cochairs Marianne Stowell Bracke 
and Martin Kesselman. 

The Oberly Award was established in 1923 
in memory of Eunice Rockwood Oberly, li­

IS
 Ilene
 Rockman
 Publication
 of
 the
 Year
 Award

winners
 Joseph
 A.
 Salem
 Jr.,
 Carolyn
 Radcliff
,
 Julie

A.
 Gedeon,
 and
 Kenneth
 J.
 Burhanna
 (Kent
 State

University
librarians).


brarian of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 
States Department of Agriculture, from 1908 to 
1921. Oberly was the Bureau of Plant Indus­
try’s representative to the Congressional Joint 
Commission on Reclassification of Government 
Employees and was instrumental in gaining a 
fairer recognition of library activities. 

This biennial award is given in odd­
numbered years for the best English­language 
bibliography in the field of agriculture or a 
related science. 

IS presents Ilene F. Rockman Publication 
of the Year Award 
“A Practical Guide to Information Literacy As­
sessment for Academic Librarians” has been 
chosen as the winner of the ACRL Instruction 
Section (IS) Ilene F. Rockman Publication of 
the Year Award. 

Written by Kent 
State University librar­
ians—Carolyn Radcliff, 
professor and refer­
ence and instruction 
librarian; Mary Lee Jen­
sen, former head of 
instructional services; 
Joseph A. Salem Jr., 
associate professor and 
head of reference and 
government informa­
tion services; Kenneth 
J. Burhanna, assistant 
professor and head of 

instructional services; and Julie A. Gedeon, 
assistant professor and coordinator of assess­
ment—the guide provides information on the 
evaluation of both students and library instruc­
tion programs. 

The annual award honors Ilene F. Rock­
man’s professional contributions to academic 
librarianship in the area of information literacy 
by recognizing an outstanding publication 
related to instruction in a library environment 
published in the preceding two years. Em­
erald Group Publishing Limited, sponsor of 
the award, will present the $3,000 award and 
plaque during at the IS program at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

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Lee
Jensen



“‘A Practical Guide to Information Literacy 
Assessment for Academic Librarians’ provides 
a comprehensive treatment of assessment tools 
for instruction, including their costs and ben­

efits, and addresses how 
each tool can be applied 
within academic libraries,” 
said Susan Beck, IS awards 
committee cochair and col­
lection development coor­
dinator at the New Mexico 
State University Library. 
“This book is innovative in 
the extent of its coverage, 

original in its accessibility to librarians at all 
levels of institution and experience, and timely 
in its response to the nation­wide emphasis on 
outcomes assessment in higher education.” 

World War II Poster Project wins IS 
Innovation award 
The Bucknell University World War II Poster 
Project, developed by Abby Clobridge, librar­
ian and digital initiatives group leader, and 
David Willson Del Testa, assistant professor 
of history, at Bucknell University, has been 
chosen to receive the Instruction Section (IS) 
Innovation award. Sponsored by Lexis­Nexis, 
the annual award recognizes a project that 
demonstrates creative, innovative, or unique 
approaches to information literacy instruction 
or programming. 

A prize of $3,000 and a plaque will be 
presented to Clobridge and Del Testa during 
the IS program at the ALA Annual Conference. 

“The IS Awards Committee chose the 
Bucknell University World War II Poster Project 
because of its creative and collaborative ap­
proach to research, information literacy, and 
technological skills within the context of an 
introductory history course and a special col­
lection,” said award committee cochair Emily 
Rogers, assistant professor and reference librar­
ian at Valdosta State University. 

“Students worked hands­on with original 
World War II­era posters from the university’s 
archives to develop proficiency at describing, 
researching, analyzing, digitizing, and catalog­
ing them,” said Rogers. “This project helped 

students to understand the importance of ar­
ranging and describing information, to develop 
richer understanding of visual representations 
of history, and to appreciate collaboration 
among teaching and library faculty and staff. In 
the words of Diane Graves, university librarian 
at Trinity University, ‘Not only did the project 
introduce students to research tools and meth­
ods, it also brought them face to face with the 
reasons we do these things: to preserve and 
describe materials for the historical record—and 
for generations to come.’” 

In an effort to fi nd cre­
ative ways to develop stu­
dents’ research, information 
literacy, and technology 
skills within the context 
of a course, Del Testa and 
Clobridge developed the 
World War II Poster Proj­
ect as a six­week learning 
module embedded in an 
introductory history course, History 100: Think­
ing about History, the focus of which for this it­
eration was “World War II.” For the culmination 
of this project, students wrote papers and built 
a small, publicly available repository of digital 
images of the posters and notes about their 
research. The best student papers are included 
in a digital library (www.paperandpixels.org). 

The World War II Poster Project has led to 
the development of two distinct pedagogical 
models, both of which can be adapted by 
library staff at other institutions, independent 
of the posters themselves. 

While developing the unit, Clobridge and 
Del Testa mapped the unit’s instructional activi­
ties to the ACRL information literacy standards 
and the regional accreditation standards for 
information literacy as put forth by the Middle 
States’ Commission on Higher Education. 

Sara Marcus wins Samuel Lazerow 
Fellowship 
Sara Marcus, electronic resource/Web librarian 
at Queensborough Community College, has 
been selected to receive the Samuel Lazerow 
Fellowship for Research in Technical Services 
or Acquisitions. Marcus was selected for her 

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Willson


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research project on the change of terms and 
terminology over several editions of the Sears 
List of Subject Headings. 

Sponsored by Thomson Reuters, the $1,000 
award fosters advances in collection develop­
ment and technical services by providing fel­
lowships to librarians for travel or writing in 
those fields. The award and a plaque will be 
presented during the ACRL President’s Program 
at the ALA Annual Conference. 

“While similar research has been done on 
the terminology used in LCSH, such as that of 
Sanford Berman, there has been very little to 
no research done on the terminology used in 
Sears,” said Jacqueline Samples, chair of the se­
lection committee and continuing and electronic 
resources librarian at North Carolina State Uni­
versity. “This study should have broad appeal 
in the cataloging and educational communities.” 

Lynne M. Rudasill named Marta Lange/ 
CQ Press Award winner 
Lynne M. Rudasill, associate professor of library 
administration and global studies librarian at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign 
(UIUC), has been named the recipient of the 
Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta 
Lange/CQ Press Award. The award, established 
in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law 
librarian who has made distinguished contribu­
tions to bibliography and information service in 
law or political science. CQ Press, sponsor of 
the award, will present the $1,000 award and 
plaque during the ALA Annual Conference. 

“As the first and only global studies librarian 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Cham­
paign, Lynne has made a number of contribu­
tions to the library profession through articles 
published in books, peer reviewed and general 
academic library journals, and through a host 
of presentations both at home and abroad,” 
said Leslie Homzie, chair of the award com­
mittee and senior reference librarian at Boston 
College. “Through her Web site created for the 
Global Studies Library at UIUC, she continues 
to engage users in international studies.” 

Rudasill’s research interests include the 
exploration of human­computer interaction 
through Web page design in order to facilitate 

access to library resources. She is currently 
researching the effects of government policies 
on the informational aspects and resources of 
nongovernmental organizations. 

In addition to her position as global studies 
librarian, Rudasill serves as half­time subject 
specialist for political science and speech com­
munication in the Education and Social Science 
Library at UIUC, where her duties include col­
lection development, instruction, and reference. 
She previously worked as assistant education 
and social science librarian and reference 
coordinator at UIUC (1998–2003), where she 
also served as assistant librarian for instruction 
and educational technology (1997–98), and 
was reference/instructional services librarian 
at Eureka College (1991–97). 

Gordon Bruce Anderson named WESS 
Coutts Nijhoff International West 
European Specialist Study Grant winner 
Gordon Bruce Anderson, coordinator for arts, 
humanities, and area studies collections and 
librarian for Scandinavian and Slavic studies at 
the University of Minnesota, has been selected 
to receive the Western European Studies Sec­
tion (WESS) Coutts Nijhoff International West 
European Specialist Study Grant. 

Sponsored by Coutts Information Services, 
the grant provides $3,000 to support a trip to 
Europe. The primary criterion for awarding 
the grant is the significance and utility of the 
proposed project as a contribution to the study 
of the acquisition, organization, or use of library 
materials from, or relating to, Western Europe. 
Anderson will receive his award check at the 
WESS general membership meeting during the 
ALA Annual Conference. 

After consulting with scholars and librar­
ians in Scandinavian­American history and 
bibliography, Anderson will work toward the 
completion of a long­standing project, the Sven­
skamerikanska Bibliografi [Swedish American 
Bibliography]. Known as the SWAM, this open 
access database, searchable via the Swedish 
Royal Library’s LIBRIS national union catalog, 
is a catalog of chiefly U.S. and Canadian im­
prints published primarily in Swedish over the 
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American Bibliography, and the accompany­
ing digitally accessible research collection of 
Swedish American imprints, will serve a much 
broader audience and be a valuable, open re­
source for scholars, writers, and researchers of 
this important chapter in America’s immigration 
history and culture. 

“Anderson’s excellent proposal to bring to 
term a valuable project touching on nearly all 
aspects of Scandinavian studies, and nearing 
completion at a juncture in which time is of 
the essence, is highly worthy of support,” said 
award committee chair Sarah Wenzel, bibliog­
rapher for Romance and English literatures at 
the University of Chicago. 

Linda Krikos receives WSS Career 
Achievement Award 
Linda Krikos, faculty emeritus at Ohio State 
University Libraries, has been selected as the 
Women’s Studies Section (WSS) Career Achieve­
ment Award. The award, sponsored by Green­
wood Publishing Group, Inc., honors signifi cant 

long­standing contributions 
to women’s studies in the 
field of librarianship over the 
course of a career. 

A cash prize of $1,000 
and a plaque will be pre­
sented to Krikos during the 
WSS Program at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

“In addition to leading 
one of the nation’s finest women’s studies li­
braries from 1990–2007, Linda conducted and 
published research that made it possible for 
other women’s studies librarians to do their 
jobs effectively,” said Jennifer Gilley, chair of 
the WSS award committee and head librarian 
at Penn State University’s Elisabeth S. Blissell 
Library. “She reviewed the major women’s stud­
ies periodical indexes, advocated for women’s 
studies bibliographic instruction, and ultimately 
coedited the third edition of Women’s Studies: A 
Recommended Bibliography as well as writing 
several of its chapters. Linda is an active and 
devoted member of WSS and a leader in the 
field of women’s studies librarianship, both in 
her practice and her research.” 

Linda
Krikos


Ken Middleton wins WSS Signifi cant 
Achievement Award 
Ken Middleton, user services librarian at 
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), 
is the winner of the Women’s Studies Sec­
tion (WSS) Award for Signifi cant Achieve­
ment in Woman’s Studies 
Librarianship. The award, 
sponsored by Routledge/ 
Taylor & Francis Group, 
honors a significant or 
one­time contribution to 
women’s studies librari­
anship. 

Middleton will re­
ceive a $1,000 award and 
plaque during the WSS program at the ALA 
Annual Conference. 

“Ken’s latest impressive achievement in 
women’s studies librarianship is his database 
Discovering American Women’s History 
Online, which brings together 405 digital 
collections of primary sources in women’s 
history in a format that has multiple browse 
and search options,” said Jennifer Gilley, 
chair of the WSS award committee and head 
librarian at Penn State University’s Elisabeth 
S. Blissell Library. “Each collection is an­
notated and assigned subject headings to 
make it more accessible to women’s studies 
researchers. The award committee predicts 
widespread use for this amazing resource.” 

Discovering American Women’s History 
Online is available at library.mtsu.edu/digi­
talprojects/womenshistory.php. 

Middleton has been a user services li­
brarian at MTSU since 1993. He developed 
a strong interest in women’s history while 
completing his M.A. in history at MTSU. He 
has been developing women’s history Web 
sites since 1997. Two of these sites, “Ameri­
can Women’s History: A Research Guide” 
and “American Women Through Time,” have 
been “highly recommended” in Choice. 

In addition to teaching bibliographic 
instruction sessions for women’s history 
courses, Middleton has reviewed women’s 
history databases and reference books for 
American Reference Books Annual. 

Ken
Middleton


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