Category: Awards, Grants, and Scholarships (non-HSLI)

(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Do you have a colleague doing great work in an Illinois library? Nominate the person for an award! The deadline for Illinois Library Association award nominations is this Sunday, May 15. This includes the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year, as well as many other awards. The nomination process is simple…

Dr. Clara M. Chu, Director and Distinguished Professor at UIUC’s Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) Distinguished Service Award. The award, which is given annually, is the highest recognition granted by the organization. It recognizes an individual who has displayed exceptional leadership…

(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Know someone who has planned a great tech. services program? What about an awesome tech. services leader? Is there anyone who stands out for excellent service to a regional, state, or national organization? Then nominate them! Think it’s you? Nominate yourself! Make sure your nominee meets the criteria, listed here (must…

(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President) Tracy Seneca, Clinical Associate Professor and Digital Programs and Services Librarian, was awarded the Center for Research Libraries 2016 Primary Source Award in Access for her leadership of the Explore Chicago Collections initiative. Explore Chicago Collections is a web portal that enables researchers to freely search the special collections and archives of…

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced the winners of the first round of grants for the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Forty grants, totaling just over $13 million, have been awarded so far this year. The National Leadership Grants are given for…

(via Mark Sullivan, IDS Project Executive Director at SUNY Geneseo) Ed Rivenburgh is the founder of the IDS Project and has been the driving force behind the technological and pedagogical advances over the past decade. Even after his retirement in 2012, the impact of his ideas on mentoring and technology has continued to be felt…

(via Margaret W. Ellingson, Emory University) The Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) Innovation Award recognizes and honors an individual or institution for changes it has made to improve users’ access to information, through resource sharing in its library, consortium, state, province, or country. The purpose of the award is to showcase innovation in resource sharing and…