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In September the South Dakota Library Association awarded Kathleen Slocum, accessible library services manager at South Dakota State Library in Pierre, its 2023 Distinguished Service Award.
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Rachel Grover, librarian at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Virginia, received the Virginia Association for School Librarians’ 2023 School Librarian of the Year Award November 3.
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September 26 Alyssa Coleman, digital services librarian at Luzerne County (Pa.) Community College, was named 2023 New Librarian of the Year by the Pennsylvania Library Association.
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In August the Special Libraries Association (SLA) awarded its 2023 John Cotton Dana Award, recognizing lifetime achievement and exceptional service to SLA and the library and information profession, to Tom Rink, an instructor for library services at the Broken Arrow campus of Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
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Lesley Farmer, professor of library media at California State University, Long Beach, and Valerie Perry, director of University of Kentucky’s Science and Engineering Library in Lexington, received the Special Libraries Association’s 2023 Rose L. Vormelker Award, which recognizes mid-career members for teaching and mentorship.
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April 16 Sheri Massey, library media specialist at Cabin John Middle School in Potomac, Maryland, was named School Librarian of the Year by the Maryland Association of School Librarians.
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The New Jersey Library Association named Martha Hickson, librarian at North Hunterdon High School in Clinton Township, its 2023 Librarian of the Year June 1.
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In August, Ohio Library Council named director of Euclid (Ohio) Public Library, its 2022 Librarian of the Year. Armstrong—who is being recognized for her efforts to curb learning loss during the pandemic, provide more afterschool activities, and recruit minority librarians, among other achievements—is the first Black woman to receive this honor.
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Arianne Johnson Quinn, music special collections librarian at Florida State University’s Warren D. Allen Music Library in Tallahassee, received the inaugural Noël Coward Fellowship from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Noël Coward Foundation in February. She will spend the 2022–2023 academic year in New York City with direct access to never-before-seen Coward artifacts for research.
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St. Louis County (Mo.) Library received an Outstanding Local Government Achievement award from the East-West Gateway Council of Governments November 17 for its Pandemic Response through Collaboration of Community Resources project.
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In October the Ohio Library Council named recently retired Dayton Metro Library Executive Director Tim Kambitsch its Hall of Fame Librarian of the Year.