Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award
This award, sponsored by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., honors a distinguished academic librarian who has made an outstanding contribution as an education and/or behavioral sciences librarian through accomplishments and service to the profession. Please remember to thank Wiley next time you speak with one of their representatives.
To read the award criteria and make a nomination, visit the ACRL/EBSS Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award Web page.
The Distinguished Librarian Award Committee develops, plans, and implements the EBSS Distinguised Librarian Award.
Current Recipient Spotlight - Dr. Gary Lare
Dr. Gary Lare has had a long history of service to ALA, ACRL and the library profession. Nominators particularly emphasized his generous mentorship of librarians new to the field. He served as co-chair of the EBSS committee that developed the first set of ALA guidelines for curriculum materials centers in academic libraries.Several significant publications followed, including his books Acquiring and organizing curriculum materials: A guide and directory of resources which went to a 2nd edition in 2004, and the Social Studies teaching activities book: An annotated resource guide which came out in 2006. Dr. Lare also promoted his specialty in education librarianship through his job. He developed three education facilities including a Curriculum Materials Center (CMC) at Oral Roberts University, as well as a CMC and an education library at University of Cincinnati. Letters of support to recognize a lifetime of service to the field came from former winners of this award and several former chairs of the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section chairs, attesting to his reputation and impact.
Dr. Lare was the head of the Curriculum Resources Center at the University of Cincinnati from 1975 to 2007. He was an Assistant Professor and the head of the Curriculum Media Center at Oral Roberts University from 1971 to 1975.
The award will be presented during the EBSS program at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 1:30 pm.
Previous Recipients
2009 - Dr. Gary Lare
2008 - Dr. John William Collins III
2007 - Dr. Patricia O'Brien Libutti
2006 - Elizabeth O. Hutchins
2005 - Kate Corby
2004 - Dr. Laurene E. Zaporozhetz
2003 - Ilene Rockman
2002 - Barbara Kemp
2001 - Charles Thurston
2000 - Leslie Bjorncrantz
1999 - Jo Ann Carr
1998 - Eva L. Kiewitt
1997 - Nancy P. O'Brien
1996 - Donald V. Osier
1995 - Hannelore B. Rader
1994 - Mary Ellen Collins