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

[Amy Hofer]

Congratulations to the award winners! This is well-deserved recognition for
outstanding library work :) Amy


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> 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.
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> 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 Fern?ndez, 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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Amy Hofer (she/her)
Statewide Open Education Program Director
Open Oregon Educational Resources <http://openoregon.org>
Schedule a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/hofera>
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