C&RL News September 2019 448 Every year, ACRL celebrates the opportunity to honor the outstanding achievements of academic and research librarians across North America. These inspiring innovators from our community have continued to demonstrate the notable impact librarianship has in the academic landscape. Made possible by generous corporate support, the annual presentation of our prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships to these deserving individuals and institu- tions enables ACRL to honor the very best in academic librarianship. This year, ACRL once again seeks to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of our peers. ACRL members are an integral part of our successful awards program. Please consider acknowledging those who have influenced your thinking, your practice, and your growth as an academic or research librarian. We urge you to nominate colleagues whose work you admire, and whose contributions merit recognition by the profession. Your nominations will ensure that the pool of candidates for each award remains both competitive and distinguished. Complete information about the ACRL awards program, including nomination pro- cedures, past winners, criteria, and contacts, is available in the Awards & Scholarships section of the ACRL website at www.acrl.org. December 6, 2019, is the deadline for most of the awards to be presented in 2020. A brief description of each award is listed below. Achievement and distinguished service awards • Excellence in Academic Libraries Award (sponsored by GOBI Library Solu- tions from EBSCO): $3,000 for each type of library award (college, community college, and university). Recognizes academic librar- ies that are outstanding in furthering the educational missions of their institutions. • Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award (sponsored by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO): $5,000 award. Recog- nizes an outstanding member of the academic or research library profession. • Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award (sponsored by ACRL, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Library Leadership and Management Association, Library and Information Technology Associa- tion): cash award. Recognizes outstanding achievements (including risk-taking) in the areas of library automation, management, or development and research. • Community College Learning Re- sources Leadership/Library Achievement Awards (sponsored by EBSCO Information Services): $750 for each of two awards rec- ognizing outstanding achievement in library programs or leadership. • College Libraries Section Innova- tion in College Librarianship Award (sponsored by SCELC): $1,000 award. Hon- ors librarians who demonstrate a capacity for innovation in working with or serving undergraduates or instructors in the areas of programs, services, and operations or create Chase Ollis is ACRL program officer for professional development, email: collis@ala.org © 2019 Chase Ollis Chase Ollis ACRL’s 2020 Awards Program Honoring outstanding achievements in academic librarianship mailto:collis%40ala.org?subject= September 2019 449 C&RL News innovations for library colleagues who facili- tate their ability to better serve the library’s community. • Distinguished Education and Be- havioral Sciences Librarian Award: (sponsored by the American Psychological Association): $2,500 award. Honors outstand- ing contributions to education and behavioral sciences librarianship through accomplish- ments and service to the profession. • Instruction Section Innovation Award (sponsored by EBSCO Information Services): $3,000 award. Honors librarians who have implemented innovative approach- es to information literacy at their respective institutions or in their communities. • Miriam Dudley Instruction Librar- ian Award (sponsored by the ACRL Instruc- tion Section): $1,000 award. Recognizes an individual librarian for significant contribu- tions to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment. • Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section Marta Lange/SAGE- CQ Press Award (sponsored by SAGE-CQ Press): $1,000 award. Recognizes a librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science. • Routledge Distance Learning Li- brarianship Conference Sponsorship Award (sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group): $1,200 conference sponsor- ship award to honor any individual ACRL member working in the field of, or contrib- uting to the success of, distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education. • University Libraries Section Out- standing Professional Development Award (sponsored by Library Juice Acad- emy): $1,000 award. Recognizes librarians, archivists, or curators whose contributions to providing professional development op- portunities for librarians have been especially noteworthy or influential. • Women and Gender Studies Section Award for Career Achievement (spon- sored by Duke University Press): $750 award. Recognizes career achievement in women and gender studies librarianship. • Women & Gender Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement (sponsored by Duke University Press): $750 award. Honors a distinguished academic librarian who has made outstanding con- tributions to women and gender studies through accomplishments and service to the profession. Research awards and grants • ESS De Gruyter European Librarian- Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, 2019 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, accepting her award at the ACRL 2019 Conference. C&RL News September 2019 450 ship Study Grant (sponsored by the Walter de Gruyter Foundation for Scholarship and Research): €2,500 grant. Supports research in European studies with an emphasis on librarianship, the book trade, resource docu- mentation, and similar information-science related topics. Publications • Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Catalogue Awards (spon- sored by Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab, American Book Prices Current): recognizes outstanding catalogs published by American or Canadian institutions in con- junction with library exhibitions. Deadline: October 15, 2019. • Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Pub- lication of the Year Award: (sponsored by Carrick Enterprises): $1,000 award. Recog- nizes an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the last two years. • Science and Technology Section Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences: This bi- ennial award is given in odd-numbered years for the best English-language bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science. For more information about the ACRL Awards Program, visit the Awards & Scholar- ships section of our website at www.ala.org/ acrl/ or contact ACRL Program Officer Chase Ollis at collis@ala.org. We welcome your nominations and look forward to celebrating achievements in aca- demic librarianship in 2020. ment new ideas and create social change in the futures of underserved students. Looking forward to 2020 and beyond, the BOSS initiative will take a radical step with the creation of BOSS in a Box, a portable STEM literacy tool. An extension of the BOSS program, BOSS in a Box will enable BOSS to continue to branch out and impact the college and career options for students. It will provide a way to more directly influence students and teachers with a visual learning package that sets out to create experiential learning for students pursuing STEM majors and careers. It will help students achieve customized learning experiences through a multitude of available programs and expansive options to enable them to move forward after the initial lesson. In the future, it is our hope that BOSS will continue to grow and implement new concepts to increase students’ interest in STEM. Notes 1. Lisa M. Frehill, Nicole M. Di Fabio, and Susan T. Hill, “Confronting the ‘New’ American Dilemma—Underrepresented Minorities in Engineering: A Data-Based Look at Diversity,” National Action Council for Minorities in Engi- neering, 2008. 2. Tsui Lisa, “Effective Strategies to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields: A Review of the Re- search Literature,” Journal of Negro Education 76, no. 4 (2007). 3. Christopher Ball et al., “Invaluable Val- ues: An Expectancy-Value Theory Analysis of Youth’s Academic Motivations and Intentions,” Information, Communication, & Society 19, no. 5 (2016). 4. Kenya Flash et al., “Stem Bridges: Evolu- tion of an Academic Library Stem Outreach Program,” Journal of Library Administration 57, no. 8 (2017). 5. Ibid. 6. Tracey A. Overbey, Daniel S. Dotson, and Molly Myers LaBadie, “Public Libraries and Higher Education Combining Efforts to Create Quality Stem Children’s Pro- grams,” Public Library Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2018). 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