This page is a list of student awards presented at GSLIS Convocation in May
of each year.
Award Name |
Brief Description |
| Best Paper Award, ITS Minor |
The ITS Best Paper award is given to the author of a paper or project completed as part of the requirements for one of the LIS courses in the undergraduate Information Technology Studies (ITS) minor. Papers are nominated by instructors of the courses, with each instructor identifying the best paper from their course. These nominations are evaluated by a committee established by the faculty of Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Recipients |
| Bryce
Allen Award for Reference Services |
This
award is presented to an outstanding GSLIS student showing
excellence and interest in the area of reference services.
Bryce Allen was a GSLIS faculty member from 1989 to 1995.
In 2001, he retired to Nova Scotia from his faculty position
at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Information
Science and Learning Technologies. Bryce was devoted to his
students and LIS education. With Professor Linda Smith, he
developed the LIS 404 Reference and Information Services course
and he contributed the chapter on "Evaluation of Reference
Services" to all three editions of the Smith and Bopp
text, Reference and Information Services: An Introduction.
Bryce was so interested in both teaching and practice that
he spent a semester working at the Main Library Reference
Desk so that he could ensure he kept in touch with the sources
and services he taught. In the fall of 1996, Bryce taught
the first LEEP 380 Information Organization and Access class
from his desktop in Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Allen died unexpectedly
on April 27, 2003.
Recipients
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| C.
Berger Group Entrepreneurial Promise Award |
This
award is given to a student who exhibits unusual creativity,
reflects an innovative spirit and shows the most promise for
an outstanding career in a special library, non-traditional
library setting or as an entrepreneur. Sponsor of the award
is C. Berger Group, Inc., Carol Stream, IL.
Recipients
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| Berner-Nash
Memorial Award |
The
Berner-Nash award is given to the person writing an outstanding
doctoral dissertation. The Award was established by graduate
students in the early 1970's in honor of two graduates, Mr.
Bill Berner and Mr. Bill Nash, who were tragically killed
in an automobile accident.
Recipients |
| Anne
M. Boyd Award / Beta Phi Mu |
For
many years Miss Anne M. Boyd was a distinguished and beloved
member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science. In her honor the Alpha Chapter of Beta
Phi Mu presents an award to the one MS graduate each year
who, by vote of the faculty, is judged to be outstanding.
Students, by virtue of a grade point average of 4.0 and graduation
in August, October, January or May, are to be considered for
nomination for the Boyd Award. Additional criteria to be considered
are:
- Commitment to the profession of librarianship.
- Ability to relate to other people.
- Contributions to the School through
participation in organizations and activities.
- Potential
leadership qualities.
Recipients |
| Jane
B. and Robert B. Downs Professional Promise Award |
The
Jane B. and Robert B. Downs Award is given in honor of Dean
Emeritus Robert B. Downs to the MS candidate with the greatest
professional promise.
Mr. S.
R. Shapiro, a New York book dealer, established this award
to remind people of Dr. Robert B. Downs' many contributions
in the areas of librarianship and in library science publishing.
Recipients |
| Faculty
Special Award of Merit |
The
GSLIS community culture encourages students to become involved
in the life of the School. Threaded through coursework, research
projects, assistantships, student professional groups, lab
time and social activities are many opportunities to add value
to the educational experience of others as well as enhance
and refine one's own personal skills and characteristics.
From
time to time, a student adds some special contribution to
GSLIS that may not be within the scope of a previously established
award but deserves public recognition. To honor such a student,
the faculty voted in May 1999 to give a Faculty Special Award
of Merit, with criteria open to allow such special recognition
each year when warranted.
Recipients |
| Herbert
Goldhor Award for Public Librarianship |
The
Herbert Goldhor Award for Public Librarianship is sponsored
by The Friends of the Urbana Free Library to recognize an
outstanding GSLIS student showing excellence and interest
in entering the area of public librarianship.
Recipients |
| Peggy
Harris Award |
The
Peggy Harris Award was established in 1995, in memory of Peggy
Harris, a former staff member. It is given to the individual
who most exemplifies the spirit of volunteerism, and a concern
for others and for the welfare of the School.
Recipients |
| Health Sciences Information Management Award |
The
Health Sciences Information Management Award was established
in 1992 by Dr. Prudence Dalrymple, a former faculty member,
in honor of her father, to recognize an outstanding GSLIS
student showing excellence and interest in entering the area
of health sciences librarianship.
Recipients |
| Information
Systems/Technologies Award |
Established
in 1995 by the faculty in recognition of the most significant
achievement in information systems or application of information
technologies by a student.
Recipients |
| Frances
B. Jenkins Award |
Dr.
Frances B. Jenkins taught science reference and bibliography
and directed the Bio-medical librarianship program at the
School for a number of years. Upon her retirement, her friends
and colleagues established a fund, the income from which is
used to provide an award each year to the master's degree
student who exhibits the greatest potential as a science librarian.
Other criteria to be considered are:
- Prior outstanding academic and/or work
experience in the sciences.
- Personal commitment to the field of science
librarianship.
- Academic excellence in course work as a
candidate for the MS degree.
- Potential
for professional success in science librarianship.
Recipients |
| The
Library School Alumni Association Student Award |
This
award recognizes a student who "caught the spirit" of the
library and information science profession while employed
in a library setting and so chose to enter the masters program.
This student must have a strong commitment to return to a
professional position in a library setting and help others
"catch the spirit."
Recipients |
| Alice
Lohrer Award for Literature and Library Services for Youth |
This
award, named in honor of M. Alice Lohrer who is a graduate
(BS 37, MS 44) and served as a member of the faculty from
1941 to 1974, is given annually to a student who shows outstanding
promise in the field of literature and library services for
youth. The award is funded by ten alumni and friends of Miss
Lohrer. The recipient will receive a certificate and a gift
of $100.
Recipients |
| Hazel
C. Rediger Award |
Given
to a student who demonstrates strong intellectual curiosity
and interests both in the classroom and outside it. The award
is given by Jana R. Bradley (Ph.D. '91) in honor of her mother,
Hazel C. Rediger, who exemplifies in the highest degree a
spirit of enthusiastic intellectual questioning and questing
and a commitment to libraries as institutions essential to
intellectual vitality.
Recipients |
| Joseph
Rediger Librarian as Humanist Award |
Given to a student who, in the opinion
of the faculty, best exhibits the characteristics of a humanist,
broadly defined.
The award is established by Jana R. Bradley (Ph.D. '91) in memory of Joseph
Rediger (1898-1994).
Recipients |
| Social
Justice Award |
The
surest way to a just society is through literacy and universal
access to information. This award of $100 is given to a student
who has shown a special interest in providing or enhancing
library and information services to groups whose needs fall
outside the parameters of traditional services. Lionelle Elsesser
(MS 67) sponsors this award.
Recipients
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