ACRL is proud to announce the 2008 award winners:

Division Award Winners Excellence in Academic Libraries Award (Donor: Blackwell’s Book Services) University: McMaster University Libraries, Hamilton, Ontario College: Laurence McKinley Gould Library at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. (My Alma Mater!) Community College: Shatford Library at Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Calif. Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award (Donor: YBP Library Services) Peter Hernon, Simmons College Samuel Lazerow Fellowship (Donor: Thomson Scientific) Ping Situ, University of Arizona, and Shuyong Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, for their research project on vendor-provided records and the experience of a research library in outsourcing cataloging service for its Chinese language materials, including its backlogs Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Donor: Thomson Scientific) Donghua Tao, University of Missouri - Columbia School of Information Science & Learning Technology, for her proposal, “Using Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) in Understanding Selection and Use of Information Resources: An Information Resource Selection and Use Model”