OCLC erkent prijswinnaars van 2026 tijdens ALA Annual Conference

Tijdens de ALA Annual Conference van 2026 in Chicago, Illinois, erkende OCLC verschillende winnaars van door OCLC gesponsorde prijzen. OCLC's toewijding aan onderzoek en onderwijs omvat het bevorderen van het bibliotheekwezen en het ondersteunen van onderscheidingen voor prestaties.

OCLC erkent met trots deze prijswinnaars van 2026:

LJ's 2026 Librarian of the Year Award – Kelvin Watson, Executive Director, Las Vegas–Clark County Library District

ALA Medal of Excellence – Amy Mikel, Senior Director of Customer Experience, Brooklyn Public Library

Core Career LIFT Award – Irina Stanishevskaya, Associate Professor, Head of the Collection Management Services, Metadata Librarian for Electronic Resources, UAB Libraries, The University of Alabama in Birmingham 

Core Career LIFT Award - Maddie Sharpe, Downtown Campus Librarian, North Dakota State University

Humphry/Forest Press Award for International Librarianship – Michael Dowling, Retired Director, International Relations and Chapter Relations, ALA

Margaret Mann Citation – Danny Joudrey, Professor en Director of Libraries and Librarianship Concentration aan Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA

Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL Librarian Award – Brynne Norton, Head of Resource Sharing & Reserves, University of Maryland Libraries