[Libs-Or] Oregon’s Dierdre Conkling wins ACRL’s Women and Gender Studies Section Career Achievement Award

[Buzzy Nielsen, OLA President]

You're amazing, Dierdre! So well-deserved.

Cheers!
Buzzy

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 8:22 AM, ACRLOR Communication <
acrlorcommunication at olaweb.org> wrote:

> CHICAGO – Diedre Conkling, director of the Lincoln County Library District
> <http://lcldinfo.wikispaces.com/>, has been selected as the 2018 winner
> of the Association of College and Research Libraries
> <http://www.ala.org/acrl/> (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section
> <http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/wgss/acr-wgssec>
>  (WGSS) Career Achievement Award
> <http://www.ala.org/acrl/awards/achievementawards/wssachievement>. 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 Duke University Press
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/>, will be presented to Conkling at a WGSS
> event during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans
> <https://2018.alaannual.org/>.
>
> “Diedre Conkling has been the linchpin that holds together the collective
> women’s groups in ALA, including WGSS, the Feminist Task Force
> <http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt/feminist-task-force>(FTF), the Committee on
> the Status of Women in Librarianship
> <http://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-coswl> (COSWL), and the Library
> Leadership and Management Association <http://www.ala.org/llama/> (LLAMA) Women
> Administrator’s Discussion Group
> <http://www.ala.org/llama/llama-women-administrators-discussion-group>,”
> said award chair Dolores Fidishun, head librarian at Penn State Abington
> <https://libraries.psu.edu/abington>. “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.”
>
> “As a longtime member of ALA Council
> <http://www.ala.org/aboutala/governance/council> and the Social
> Responsibilities Round Table <http://www.ala.org/rt/srrt>(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.”
>
> “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.”
>
> Conkling received her M.L.S. from the University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign <https://ischool.illinois.edu/>.
>
>
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>
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