sept11b.indd C&RL News September 2011 462 For more than three quarters of a century, ACRL has been committed to celebrating the achievements of deserving academic and research librarians through the presentation of awards, grants, and fellowships. Every year ACRL extends recognition and honor to the winners of its awards. Thanks to generous corporate sponsorship that provides nearly $35,000, ACRL has, and will continue to, nominate, select, and honor the very best in academic librarianship. ACRL mem- bers are an in- tegral part of our successful awards program. Please consider acknowledging those who have influenced your thinking, your practice, and your growth as an academic or research librar- ian. We urge you to nominate col- leagues whose work you ad- mire, and whose contributions merit recog- nition by the profession. Your nominations will ensure that the pool of candidates for each award remains both competitive and distinguished. Complete information about the ACRL awards program, including nomination pro- cedures, past winners, criteria, and contacts, is available in the “Awards and Scholarship” section of the ACRL Web site at www.acrl.org. December 2, 2011, is the deadline for most of the awards to be presented in 2012. A brief description of each award is listed here. Achievement and distinguished service awards • Excellence in Academic Libraries Award (sponsored by YBP Library Services): $3,000 for each type of library award (college, community college, and university). Recog- nizes academic libraries that are outstand- ing in furthering the educational missions of their institutions. • Academ- i c / R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i a n o f t h e Ye a r Award (spon- sored by YBP Li- brary Services): $5,000 award. Recognizes an o u t s t a n d i n g member of the academic or re- search library profession. • Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award (sponsored by ACRL, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services [ALCTS], Library Leadership and Management As- sociation [LLAMA], Library and Information Technology Association [LITA]): Cash award. Megan Griffin ACRL’s 2012 Awards Program Honoring outstanding achievements in academic librarianship Megan Griffin is ACRL program officer, e-mail: mgriffin@ ala.org © 2011 Megan Griffin Janice Welburn, 2011 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award winner, with 2010–11 ACRL President Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, and Mark Kendall, senior vice president of sales for YBP Library Services. September 2011 463 C&RL News Recognizes outstanding achievements (in- cluding risk-taking) in the areas of library automation, management, or development and research. • Law and Political Science Section Marta Lange/CQ Press Award (sponsored by CQ Press): $1,000 award. Recognizes a librarian who has made distinguished con- tributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science. • Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award (sponsor pending): Recognizes an in- dividual librarian for significant contributions to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment. • Instruction Section Innovation Award (sponsored by ProQuest): $3,000 award for librarians who have implemented innovative approaches to information literacy at their respective institutions or in their communities. • College Libraries Section ProQuest Innovation in College Librarianship Award (sponsored by ProQuest): $3,000 award for librarians who demonstrate a capacity for innovation in working with or serving undergraduates or instructors in the areas of programs, services, and operations; or creating innovations for library colleagues that facilitate their ability to better serve the library’s community. • Community College Learning Re- sources Leadership/Library Achievement Awards (sponsored by EBSCO Information Services): $500 for each of two awards rec- ognizing outstanding achievement in library programs or leadership. • Routledge Distance Learning Librari- anship Conference Sponsorship Award (sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group): $1,200 conference sponsorship award to honor any individual ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success of distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education. • Distinguished Education and Behav- ioral Sciences Librarian Award (sponsored by John Wiley & Sons): $2,500 award to honor outstanding contributions to education and behavioral sciences librarianship through ac- complishments and service to the profession. • Innovation in Science and Tech- nology Librarianship Award (sponsored by IEEE): Awards $3,000 in recognition of creative, innovative approaches to solving problems or improving products and services in science and technology librarianship. • Women and Gender Studies Section Award for Career Achievement (sponsor pending): Recognizes career achievement in the area of women’s studies and gender stud- ies librarianship. •Women and Gender Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement (spon- sor pending): Honors a distinguished academic librarian who has made outstanding contribu- tions to women and gender studies through ac- complishments and service to the profession. Publications • Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Catalogue Awards (spon- sored by Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab, American Book Prices Current): Recognizes outstanding catalogs published by American or Canadian institutions in con- junction with library exhibitions. Deadline: October 15, 2011. • Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Pub- lication of the Year Award (sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Limited): $3,000 to recognize an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the last two years. • Science and Technology Section Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Ag- ricultural or Natural Sciences: This biennial award is given in odd-numbered years for the best English-language bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science. If you would like more information about the ACRL 2012 Awards Program, visit the “Awards and Scholarships” section of our Web site at www.acrl.org or contact ACRL Program Officer Megan Griffin at mgriffin@ala.org. We welcome your nominations and look forward to celebrating achievements in aca- demic librarianship in 2012.