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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>“Way to go” Dierdre!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'>Ruthanne Boyer Lidman, former Lincoln County Library District Board President and founding member of the ALA SRRT, now retired <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Libs-Or [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ACRLOR Communication<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br><b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] Oregon’s Dierdre Conkling wins ACRL’s Women and Gender Studies Section Career Achievement Award<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>CHICAGO – Diedre Conkling, director of the <a href="http://lcldinfo.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Lincoln County Library District</span></a>, has been selected as the 2018 winner of the <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Association of College and Research Libraries</span></a> (ACRL) <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/wgss/acr-wgssec" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Women and Gender Studies Section</span></a> (WGSS) <a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/awards/achievementawards/wssachievement" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Career Achievement Award</span></a>. 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 <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Duke University Press</span></a>, will be presented to Conkling at a WGSS event during the <a href="https://2018.alaannual.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“Diedre Conkling has been the linchpin that holds together the collective women’s groups in ALA, including WGSS, the <a href="http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/feminist-task-force" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Feminist Task Force</span></a>(FTF), the <a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-coswl" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship</span></a> (COSWL), and the <a href="http://www.ala.org/llama/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Library Leadership and Management Association</span></a> (LLAMA) <a href="http://www.ala.org/llama/llama-women-administrators-discussion-group" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Women Administrator’s Discussion Group</span></a>,” said award chair Dolores Fidishun, head librarian at <a href="https://libraries.psu.edu/abington" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Penn State Abington</span></a>. “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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“As a longtime member of <a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/council" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>ALA Council</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>Social Responsibilities Round Table</span></a>(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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Conkling received her M.L.S. from the <a href="https://ischool.illinois.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#105CB6'>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Communications Coordinator, ACRL-Oregon<br>Email: <a href="mailto:acrlorcommunication@olaweb.org" target="_blank">acrlorcommunication@olaweb.org</a><br>Website: <a href="http://acrloregon.org/" target="_blank">http://acrloregon.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>