ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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than two weeks following the close of the ALA 
Midwinter Meeting. The program or programs 
to receive the award will be selected by the 
time of, and announced at, the following an­
nual conference.

Units of the Association eligible for grants 
under the award are: ALA committees, ALA 
joint committees, ALA divisions, ALA round 
tables, and ALA chapters. Applications for 
grants from units within a division must be 
approved by the governing board of the di­
vision. The chairman is Mary V. Gaver, Pro­
fessor, Graduate School of Library Service, 
Rutgers, The State University, New Bruns­
wick, New Jersey 08903.

The Melvil Dewey Award, consisting of an 
engraved medal and a citation, is presented 
annually to an individual or a group for re­
cent creative professional achievement of a 
high order, particularly in those fields in which 
Melvil Dewey was actively interested, notably 
library management, library training, catalog­
ing and classification, and the tools and tech­
niques of librarianship. Donated by Forest 
Press, Inc. Deadline for nominations, January 
15, 1968. Send five copies of nominations to 
the jury chairman, Dr. Richard M. Dougherty, 
Associate Director of Libraries, University of 
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80302.

The Joseph W. Lippincott Award is an 
award made to a librarian, consisting of $1,000, 
an engraved medal, and a special citation, made 
annually to honor outstanding participation in 
professional library associations, notable pub­
lished professional writing, or other significant 
activity in the profession. Donated by Joseph W. 
Lippincott. Deadline for nominations, January 
15, 1968. Send five copies of nominations to 
the jury chairman, Robert E. Thomas, Librar­
ian, Salt Lake City Public Library, 209 East 
Fifth Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.

The Margaret Mann Citation is an annual 
citation, awarded by the Cataloging and Clas­
sification Section of the Resources and Tech­
nical Services Division made to a cataloger 
an d /o r classifier, not necessarily an American, 
for his outstanding professional achievement 
in the areas of cataloging and classification, 
either through publication of significant pro­
fessional literature, participation in professional 
cataloging associations, introduction of new 
techniques of recognized importance, or out­
standing work in the area of teaching within 
the past five years. Deadline for nominations, 
January 1, 1968. Send nominations with resumé 
of achievement on which nomination is based 
to the committee chairman, Miss Marion Kes­
selring, Assistant Chief Catalog Librarian, 
Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode 
Island 02912.

The Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation is 
given at the annual conference of the ALA

Candidates for ACRL offices in 1968 have 
been announced, and are: For Vice President 
and President-Elect:

Page Ackerman, University of California, Los 
Angeles.

Philip J. McNiff, Boston Public Library.
For Directors-at-Large (1968/72) (two to be 
elected, one from each bracket)

Frances Kennedy, Oklahoma City University.
David Weber, Stanford University Libraries.
J. Richard Blanchard, University of Califor­
nia, Davis.
Norman Tanis, Kansas State College of Pitts- 
burg.
Section and Subsection nominations will ap­

pear in a later issue of CRL News.

to a person who has made a distinguished con­
tribution to reference librarianship. This con­
tribution may take the form of an imaginative 
and constructive program in a particular li­
brary; the writing of a significant book or 
articles in the reference field; creative and in­
spirational teaching of reference service; ac­
tive participation in professional associations 
devoted to reference services; or other note­
worthy activities which stimulate reference li­
brarians to more distinguished performance. 
Send nominations to the chairman, A. Kathryn 
Oiler, Graduate School of Library Science, 
Drexel Institute, 32nd and Chestnut Streets, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, by March 16, 
1968.

The Herbert Putnam Honor Award is pre­
sented at unstipulated intervals as a grant-in- 
aid to an American librarian of outstanding 
ability, for travel, writing, or other use that 
might increase his usefulness to the library 
profession or to society. The award was made 
possible by friends and associates of Dr. Put­
nam, Librarian of Congress, 1899-1939, in re­
membrance of his distinguished services to his 
profession and his country. The ALA Awards 
Committee will serve as jury for this award. 
The winner will be announced and the award 
will be presented at a general session during 
the annual ALA conference in Kansas City.

The Scarecrow Press Award for Library 
Literature is a cash award of $500 made to 
an American librarian to recognize an outstand­
ing contribution to library literature issued 
during the calendar year preceding the presen­
tation. Deadline for nominations, January 15, 
1968. Send nominations to the jury chairman, 
Robert F. Delzell, Administrative Assistant, 
University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois 
46990.

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