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On September 25, New York State Senator William J. Larkin presented a legislative resolution honoring Marilyn McIntosh, executive director of the Monroe Free Library, on her retirement after 33 years of service.
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Kathleen Hickey Green, a trustee at Massillon (Ohio) Public Library and a retired school librarian at Washington High School and Longfellow Junior High in Massillon, received the Ohio Library Council’s Trustee Award of Achievement October 7.
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The South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association has named Paula Craig, head librarian at Northwestern State University College of Nursing and Allied Health in Shreveport, Louisiana, as its Librarian of the Year.
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Lisa C. Wemett, president of the Friends of Libraries Section of the New York Library Association, received the first NYLA Above and Beyond Award at the association’s 2014 annual conference. Additionally, NYLA’s Youth Services Section has named its annual spring conference scholarship in Wemett’s honor.
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Tom Bober, librarian at R.M. Captain Elementary School in Clayton, Missouri, has been named a 2015-16 Teacher-in-Residence at the Library of Congress.
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The Northeast Florida Library Information Network awarded Betsy Simpson, chair of the Cataloging and Metadata Department at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries in Gainesville, its Distinguished Career Award.
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Denise Beaubien Bennett, engineering librarian at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, received RUSA’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship at Annual in June.
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Peter McKay, business librarian at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries in Gainesville, received the Gale Cengage Learning Excellence in Business Librarianship Award at Annual in June.
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Charles Edwin Hockersmith, librarian at Delcastle Technical High School, in Wilmington, Delaware, was inducted in May into the Hall of Fame of the Delaware Army National Guard, from which he retired as command chief warrant officer in 2008.
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Hannah Martinez, concierge at Anythink Wright Farms in Thornton, Colorado, received the 2015 Lucy Schweers Award for Excellence in Paralibrarianship from the Colorado Association of Libraries in August.
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The Indianapolis Business Journal named Debra Champ, IT director at Indianapolis Public Library, as one of its Chief Technology Officers of the Year August 12.