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Linda Zellmer, government information and data services librarian at Western Illinois University in Macomb, received the Geoscience Information Society’s 2017 Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award.
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Patricia Swift Blalock, former director of Selma–Dallas County (Ala.) Public Library, was inducted posthumously into the Alabama Social Work Hall of Fame September 22. She was as a social worker before her career as a librarian and worked to integrate the library in the early 1960s. She died in 2011.
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Hartford (Conn.) Public Library awarded the Caroline M. Hewins Scholarship to Danielle D. Valenzano, a library assistant in the children’s department at Milford (Conn.) Public Library. The $4,000 scholarship is given to an individual who plans to specialize in library work with children.
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Margaret Lincoln, district librarian for Lakeview School District in Battle Creek, Michigan, received a Special Tribute Certificate from the Michigan Legislature in recognition of the library’s Legacy Book Project.
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Deirdre “Dee” Brennan, executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System, was inducted into the Illinois Library Luminaries by the Illinois Library Association Executive Board.
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Ben Hunter, associate dean of the University of Idaho Libraries, has been named 2017 Idaho Library Association Librarian of the Year.
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Kathleen Rauth, media specialist at Indianapolis Public Schools’ School 2 and School 27, was named the system’s teacher of the year June 5.
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Jennea Augsbury, lead library technician for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas, was named the Federal Library and Information Network’s Federal Library Technician of the Year May 5.
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Vivian Davidson Hewitt, retired chief librarian for the Rockefeller Foundation, librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and librarian and instructor at Atlanta University’s School of Library and Information Science, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh May 21.
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Alice Knapp, president of Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut, received the Fairfield County Bar Association’s Liberty Bell Award for outstanding community service by a
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Amy Mars, research and instruction librarian at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, has received the Minnesota Academic Innovators Award from the Academic and Research Libraries Division of the Minnesota Library Association.
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Safi S. M. Safiullah, manager of Salt Lake City Public Library’s Marmalade branch, was named Librarian of the Year by the Utah Library Association May 18.