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

[Brendan Gallagher]

Congratulations!!! Very well deserved indeed!

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Duke, Pat <Duke at wilsonvillelibrary.org>
wrote:

> Congratulations Dierdre.  Very well deserved.
>
>
> pat duke
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> Buzzy Nielsen, OLA President <olapresident at olaweb.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:30:21 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Libs-Or] Oregon’s Dierdre Conkling wins ACRL’s Women and
> Gender Studies Section Career Achievement Award
>
> 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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>> Email:  acrlorcommunication at olaweb.org
>> Website:  http://acrloregon.org/
>>
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