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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.
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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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The Society for Scholarly Publishing has awarded Frances Andreu, digital initiatives librarian at Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology, an Early-Career Fellowship.
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Author and former librarian Anne Pellowski is the subject of a documentary, Anne Pellowski: Storyteller to the World, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Frozen River Film Festival in Winona, Minnesota, in February.
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Rochester Regional Library Council has named Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology Libraries as its 2018 Academic Library of the Year.
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Micah Vandegrift, open knowledge librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, has been named a 2018–2019 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Fellow studying open research practices and infrastructure in the Netherlands and Denmark.
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Georgia Public Library Service has named Athens Regional Library System as Georgia’s Public Library of the Year.
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Mary Edwards, assistant university librarian at the University of Florida’s Health Science Center Libraries in Gainesville, received the Medical Library Association’s Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award.
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Alice Robinson, school librarian for the West Babylon (N.Y.) Union Free School District, was selected as 2018 Western Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services School Librarian of the Year and received the 2018 Follett Conference Scholarship to attend the 2018 New York Library Association Section of School Librarians Conference.
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Ben Hunter, associate dean of libraries at the University of Idaho in Moscow, was named the Idaho Library Association’s 2017 Librarian of the Year.
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Sue Polanka, associate university librarian for public services at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, received the Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Award from the Academic Library Association of Ohio October 27.
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Jean Weihs, retired director of the Library Techniques Program at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, was appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions to library science, particularly the standardization of nonbook cataloging.