ACRL-Oregon is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Award for Excellence. The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence is given in recognition of a project that demonstrates excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship. This year, the Award for Excellence Committee is excited to announce that it has selected two winning projects to receive awards.
One of this year’s winners for the ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence is Angie Beiriger, Director of Research Services, Reed College, for her project Getting Students Back into the Library: Management and Advocacy for Increased Outreach and Engagement to Students. Angie and her colleagues at the Reed College Library are honored for their efforts to “re-welcome” students to the library through student centered programming and original outreach initiatives. Angie’s advocacy and support of librarians’ outreach activities, spaces, and exhibits has led to increased student library use, and increased numbers of attendance for events. Her dedication to making the library a space for all users has increased overall student satisfaction of services and library space.
Also honored with an Award of Excellence this year is the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) at Oregon State University. Their project, Anti-Racist Description Activities in SCARC, demonstrates their ongoing commitment to anti-racist archival practices by engaging in educational opportunities and ongoing conversations. SCARC worked to identify and change harmful language and imagery in the department’s finding aids and collections and demonstrated its commitment to using inclusive, anti-racist, non-derogatory language in newly created items. Led by project manager Natalia Fernández, the team included Chris Petersen, Anne Bahde; Anna Dvorak; Rachel Lilley; Tiah Edmunson-Morton; Kevin Jones; and Karl McCreary, all from OSU Libraries and Press, along with student support from Grace Knutsen, Margot Pullen, Olivia Dever, and Maxine Deible.
Please join us in congratulating Angie and OSU SCARC for their excellent work! Their hard work on these excellent projects not only benefit their own libraries and communities, but will serve to inspire others to implement similar projects.
The winners will be honored with a recognition at this year’s OLA conference, an engraved plaque, and a stipend to defray the cost of the next ACRL-OR conference registration.
