[Libs-Or] 2024-25 ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Winners

[ACRL Oregon]

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 is Angie Beiriger, Director of Research
Services, Reed College Library. Angie was nominated for her project
'Getting Students Back into the Library: Management and Advocacy for
Increased Outreach and Engagement to Students'. Angie is being honored for
her efforts to “re-welcome” students to the library after the pandemic
closure and a library construction project, through student centered
programming and original outreach initiatives. Angie’s advocacy and support
of librarians’ outreach activities, redesigned spaces, and new 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, has
increased student satisfaction of services and library spaces.

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.

ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Committee
Beth Caldwell, Community Colleges Representative
Lori Walmsley, Member at Large
Summer Steele, Communications Coordinator
Jane Nichols, President

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