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The Book Industry Study Group presented its Award of Excellence to John Ingram, chair of Ingram Content Group of Nashville, at its annual meeting September 30.
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Christopher Prom, assistant university archivist and Andrew S.G. Turyn Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Kate Murray, IT specialist at the Library of Congress’s Technology Policy Directorate, have been named cochairs of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s and Digital Preservation Coalition’s Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives.
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Jennifer Lautzenheiser, director of Middle Georgia Regional Library System in Macon, received the Public Librarian of the Year Award from the Georgia Public Library Service January 7.
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Southern Methodist University’s Hamon Arts Library in Dallas has named Georgia Erger as the 2016 Curatorial Fellow for its Hawn Gallery.
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Mary M. Case, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Illinois at Chicago, became president of the Association of Research Libraries in September.
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Judy Cooper, coordinator of programs and publications at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, received the Chic Dambach Award for Service to the Literary Arts from Baltimore’s CityLit Project October 18.
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Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies and American Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee, has been named a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress January–May 2017.
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Deirdre “Dee” Brennan, executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System, received the Illinois Library Association’s Atkinson Memorial/Demco Award recognizing sustained activity and contributions that have a lasting impact on librarianship.
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At the Suffolk School Library Media Association Awards Ceremony May 18, Alice Robinson, West Babylon (N.Y.) Junior High School librarian, received a Dr. Joette Stefl-Mabry Honorarium Donation for creating a makerspace program at the school library.
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Ruth J. Person, chancellor emerita at Indiana University Kokomo, received an honorary doctorate from the university in May.
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Linda Holtslander, who retired in May as programming division manager for Loudoun County (Va.) Public Library, received the first Friends of Fulbright Finland Alumni Enrichment Award for her research and planning for Helsinki City Library during and since her 2008 Fulbright fellowship in Finland.
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Steve W. Schaefer, recently retired director of Uncle Remus Regional Library System in Madison, Georgia, was named Georgia’s 2015 Public Librarian of the Year by the Georgia Public Library Service.
