<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi Oregon Librarians - </div><div><br></div><div>Do you know someone (or a group of someones) that has significantly improved Oregon academic libraries or librarianship in the past few years? If so, please consider <a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_169666" target="_blank">nominating them for the ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence</a>! See below for more information:<br>
</div></div><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></font><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What it is:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence is given annually to an individual or group whose project or ingenuity has significantly improved Oregon academic libraries or librarianship.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The award will be presented at the ACRL-Oregon/Washington Fall Conference in Menucha on Oct. 23-24, 2014, and the winner(s) will also be recognized at the Oregon Library Association Annual Conference Award Ceremony in April 2015. The winner(s) receive registration to the ACRL Oregon/Washington Joint Fall Conference and an engraved plaque.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Who can be nominated:</font></b><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Any individual or group that includes at least one employee of an academic library in Oregon may apply/be nominated. Nominations are kept active for two years, so an individual/group that is nominated this year, but does not win, will be considered again next year unless withdrawn by the nominator. The initiative or project that is the basis of the nomination must have occurred in the previous three years. This is not a lifetime achievement award and ACRL-OR membership is not required to win this award. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000">Nomination form:</font></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_169666" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_169666</font></a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Deadline:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Nominations must be received by Friday, July 18, 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Questions:</b> Please contact <span style="white-space:nowrap">Anne-Marie Deitering</span>, ACRL-Oregon Past President,</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="mailto:anne-marie.deitering@oregonstate.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">anne-marie.deitering@oregonstate.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);white-space:nowrap">Best,</span><br>
</div><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80);white-space:nowrap">The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Committee</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Anne-Marie Deitering</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80);white-space:nowrap">Isaac Gilman</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80);white-space:nowrap">Tom Larsen</span><div>
<font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Elizabeth Brookbank<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Elizabeth Brookbank</div><div>Instruction Librarian, Assistant Professor</div>
<div>Hamersly Library, Western Oregon University</div><div>345 N. Monmouth Ave.<br>Monmouth, OR 97361<br></div><div>(503) 838-8657</div><div><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="mailto:brookbanke@wou.edu" target="_blank">brookbanke@wou.edu</a></u></font> </div>
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