[Libs-Or] Oregon’s Dierdre Conkling wins ACRL’s Women and Gender Studies Section Career Achievement Award

[ACRLOR Communication]

CHICAGO – Diedre Conkling, director of the Lincoln County Library District
<http://lcldinfo.wikispaces.com/>, has been selected as the 2018 winner of
the Association of College and Research Libraries <http://www.ala.org/acrl/>
 (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section
<http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/wgss/acr-wgssec>
 (WGSS) Career Achievement Award
<http://www.ala.org/acrl/awards/achievementawards/wssachievement>. The
award honors significant long-standing contributions to women and gender
studies in the field of librarianship over the course of a career.  A
plaque and $750 award, donated by Duke University Press
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/>, will be presented to Conkling at a WGSS
event during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans
<https://2018.alaannual.org/>.

“Diedre Conkling has been the linchpin that holds together the collective
women’s groups in ALA, including WGSS, the Feminist Task Force
<http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/feminist-task-force>(FTF), the Committee on the
Status of Women in Librarianship
<http://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-coswl> (COSWL), and the Library
Leadership and Management Association <http://www.ala.org/llama/> (LLAMA) Women
Administrator’s Discussion Group
<http://www.ala.org/llama/llama-women-administrators-discussion-group>,”
said award chair Dolores Fidishun, head librarian at Penn State Abington
<https://libraries.psu.edu/abington>. “Over the years, as the coordinator
of FTF, she has partnered with chairs of WGSS and COSWL to plan and present
the annual Introduction to Women’s Issues program.”

“As a longtime member of ALA Council
<http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/council> and the Social
Responsibilities Round Table <http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt>(SRRT), Conkling
has continuously brought women’s issues to the forefront of our
organization,” continued Fidishun. “She has served as an inspiration and
mentor to many of us in the association. Through her activism she has
demonstrated the power of women’s voices in ALA and in the world, always
asking the important questions and looking for ways to move women’s agendas
forward in ALA.”

“As one nominator wrote, ‘In whatever position she held at the moment –
COSWL chair, FTF coordinator, SRRT coordinator, or simply committed
librarian – she worked to bring together academic, public, school, and
other librarians and library workers who shared a desire to focus on
women’s issues in ALA and in libraries,’” said Fidishun. “For her
leadership in bringing light to women’s and gender issues in our
profession, we are proud to honor her with the WGSS Career Achievement
Award.”

Conkling received her M.L.S. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign <https://ischool.illinois.edu/>.


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Email:  acrlorcommunication at olaweb.org
Website:  http://acrloregon.org/
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