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<b>ACRL-Oregon Solicits Nominations for the 2024-25 Award for Excellence</b></div>
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Do you know of a project in Oregon academic libraries that has had an impact on its community? Did you personally work on a project that has had an impact on a community or communities? If so, consider nominating the project for the 2024-2025 ACRL-Oregon Award
 for Excellence. Self nominations are supported and encouraged!</div>
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Submit nominations here: <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" title="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7</a></u></span><a href="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" title="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" target="_blank"> </a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">What does the award acknowledge?</span></div>
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The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence shall be given to recognize a project that demonstrates excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Who is eligible?</span></div>
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Any individual or group in Oregon may apply or be nominated. Individuals or groups that include at least one employee of an academic library are given priority consideration.</div>
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Initiative or project that is the basis of the nomination must have occurred in the previous three years (2023-present).</div>
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This is not a lifetime achievement award.</div>
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ACRL-Oregon membership is NOT required.</div>
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Nominee or nominated group may include a member of the ACRL-Oregon Board; however they must recuse themselves from the voting process.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">What does the award cover?</span></div>
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An engraved plaque</div>
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Recognition at the 2025 OLA Conference </div>
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A stipend of up to $150 to assist with defraying the cost of the next ACRL-OR conference registration</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">How will nominations be evaluated?</span></div>
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Nominations will be evaluated for the following: </div>
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Impact or potential impact on Oregon academic libraries, librarianship, or library community</div>
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Ability of project to be adapted by others</div>
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Project has been or will be assessed</div>
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Project connects to the ACRL-OR Mission: </div>
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<i>ACRL-Oregon seeks to support academic libraries and librarians; to foster communication among academic librarians; to promote the development of Oregon academic libraries; to sponsor educational programs of interest to academic librarians; and to serve as
 liaison between academic librarians and various other academic and library constituencies. </i></div>
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More information and past winners can be found on the ACRL-Oregon website: <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">
<u><a href="https://acrloregon.org/awards-scholarships/award/" title="https://acrloregon.org/awards-scholarships/award/" target="_blank">https://acrloregon.org/awards-scholarships/award/</a></u></span></div>
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THE NOMINATION PERIOD WILL CLOSE AT 11:59pm on March 31st, 2025.</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u><a href="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" title="https://forms.gle/eLHBv1cWTDGbUE3R7" target="_blank">Submit a nomination now</a></u></span>.</div>
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For questions, please contact: Jane Nichols at <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">
<u><a href="mailto:acrlor@olaweb.org" id="m_3196375434120179970OWA77d67487-11f0-ac78-266f-41e4b190f5b4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">acrlor@olaweb.org</a></u></span> </div>
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Summer Steele</div>
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Jane Nichols<br>
Lori Wamsley</div>
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ACRL-Oregon Awards Committee</div>
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