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Sandy Hester, director of Coastal Plain Regional Library System in Tifton, Georgia, was named Public Librarian of the Year by Georgia Public Library Service.
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Kim Howell, librarian at Stockwell Place Elementary School in Bossier City, Louisiana, was named School Librarian of the Year at the Louisiana Library Association conference March 14.
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Sherry Noon, youth and family services manager at Anderson Public Library in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, received the Kentucky Library Association’s “Miss Pickle” Award for excellence in developing and providing children’s library services.
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Gwinnett County (Ga.) Public Library and San José (Calif.) State University School of Information named Stephanie Ann Rawlins, director of Pike County (Ind.) Library, winner of their inaugural Innovative Librarians Award March 7.
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Chi Wang, head of the Chinese and Korean section of the Library of Congress until his retirement in 2004, received a tribute in the Congressional Record January 15 in recognition of his work to expand the library’s Chinese collection and improve mutual understanding between the two countries.
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December 12 Melanie Huggins, executive director of Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina, received One Columbia Arts and History’s 2018 Stephen G. Morrison Visionary Award, recognizing Columbians who support the growth and vitality of the city.
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In October Jennifer Gordon, librarian at Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received the 2018–2019 Milken Educator Award, which recognizes early- and mid-career education professionals.
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The Jefferson County (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce named Jennifer Cesta, public relations coordinator for the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County, as Ambassador of the Year in October.
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Rebekah Walker, digital humanities and social sciences librarian at Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology received a scholarship to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Vancouver in June.
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Rebecca Wisniewski, interlibrary loan manager at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, received a campus Outstanding Work Performance award.
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Clara Stanton Jones was posthumously inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame October 18. Stanton Jones became the first African-American leader of a major-city public library when she became director of Detroit Public Library (DPL) in 1970, and she was elected the first African-American president of the American Library Association (ALA) in 1976. She established DPL’s The Information Place service, providing guidance through social, legal, and governmental agencies, which became a model of informa-tion provision for other libraries.
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Michael Buckland, emeritus professor of the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, was honored as a research fellow at École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques in Villeurbane, France, in May. Additionally, his book Information and Society (MIT Press) was named Best Information Science Book by the Association for Information Science and Technology in August.