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GSLIS Student Award Recipients

Anne M. Boyd Award (Beta Phi Mu)

Presented to Annette Lesak by Dr. Betsy Hearne and Sue Searing at Convocation on May 14, 2006

A daughter of Polish immigrants, Annette made a 4-point average while holding assistantships at Central Circulation and Bookstacks, and at the Residence Hall Library System. But what really distinguishes Annette's work is the kind of insight revealed in her final Storytelling project, presented in a dynamic web site entitled, "Is the Library Really Sinking?: Campus Lore and Urban Legends at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign." This tour of folkloric UIUC concludes with these words:
"UIUC's undergraduate students, despite being blasted with technology, have not lost their sense of story--for story lives inside of us, and the need for it is as subconscious as the need for oxygen and…water. Story connects us with one another, and that is a basic human necessity."

Annette is a great connector, and fortunately for us, she will remain connected to GSLIS as she extends her educational experience with the CAS/K-12 Program in Summer '06.