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October 17 Durham County (N.C.) Library Director Tammy Baggett won the North Carolina Library Association’s Roundtable for Ethnic Minority Concerns Roadbuilders’ Award for Public Librarianship for 2013.
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June 28 Corinne Hill, director of the Chattanooga Public Library, was honored at the 2013 Urban Libraries Council Annual Forum. Hill received the Joey Rodger Leadership Award, which provides $5,000 for a director or senior manager to strengthen skills through a structured professional development program.
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June 28 Susan Adkins, longtime board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation, was honored at the 2013 Urban Libraries Council Annual Forum. Adkins received the Urban Player Award in recognition of her civic leadership on behalf of the library as well as her commitment to expanding learning services, particularly for children.
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May 1 Carol D. Fiore received the Florida Library Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for more than 30 years of service, including significant contributions to library services for youth in Florida and across the United States.
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May 24 Beverly Lynch was named the 28th Illinois Library Luminary by the Illinois Library Association. Luminaries comprise ILA’s Roll of Honor.
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June 12 Frederic C. Pachman, director of the Altschul Medical Library at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey, received the 2013 Susan G. Swartzburg Preservation Award from the New Jersey Library Association.
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Susan Livingston, former librarian at South Florida State College in Avon Park, received a Librarian Emerita certificate on May 2 before her retirement on May 6.
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Kathleen D. Roe, director of archives and records management operations at the New York State Archives, has been elected vice president/president-elect of Society of American Archivists for 2014-2015, effective August 1.
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McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland awarded 12 full scholarships for library science master’s degree students who are currently teachers in underserved regions of the state. Scholarship winners were: Brittany Richards (Allegany County), Talibah Chikwendu (Dorchester County), Michele Tota (Dorchester County), Michelle Phillips (Kent County), Donna Dick (Prince George’s County), Jacob Gerding (Prince George’s County), Kimberly Long (Prince George’s County), Diane Acosta-Bell (Talbot County), Jennifer Lungociu (Washington County), Gina Payne Deal (Wicomico County), Brittany Powers (Wicomico County), and Brandy Taylor (Wicomico County).
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In March, Diane Kelly, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, received the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Karen Spärck-Jones Award 2012. The award was presented in Moscow during the annual European Conference on Information Retrieval.
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Kim McNeil Capers, youth counselor at Queens (N.Y.) Library for Teens, was named a winner of the PASEsetter Award by the Partnership for After School Education. The award celebrates “afterschool educators whose commitment, energy and creativity have had an indelible impact on the children and youth of New York City.”
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Marjorie M. K. Hlava, a pioneer in the information management industry and founder and chair of Access Innovations, Inc., in New Mexico, was honored as a 2013 Woman of Influence by Albuquerque Business First. Hlava was awarded in the technology category for her leadership, community service, and mentoring of women professionals.