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Congrats to Dr. Marie Radford!
Photo by Victor Estrellado
What do these five people have in common?
- Marie Radford
- Joe Janes
- Anne Lipow
- Jim Rettig
- Carole Leita
If you guessed that they’ve all been honored for their distinguished contribution to reference librarianship by being selected for RUSA’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award you’d be right!
RUSA’s press release discussed why the awards committee selected Marie this year:
In selecting Radford for this honor, the committee cited her many accomplishments, including authorship of four books, among them “Conducting the Reference Interview (2nd ed.),” “The Reference Encounter: Interpersonal Communication in the Academic Library” and “Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing”; editorship of three other books, including “Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends”and “Academic Library Research”;numerous articles published in top library journals; and dozens of conference papers and presentations.
In addition to her publications, Radford brings high energy, deep passion and an interdisciplinary approach to the study of face-to-face and virtual reference. She has provided inspirational leadership in professional organizations such as RUSA, ALA, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Radford is currently co-chair of the conference program for the Reference Renaissance 2010 and co-chair of contributed papers for ACRL’s 2011 National Conference. She will be the keynote speaker for the upcoming 2010 REFolution Conference.
Marie, a hearty congratulations from your fellow Library Garden bloggers on this well-deserved recognition. It’s nice to see others in the profession noticing and celebrating what we in New Jersey have known for a long time — you are amazing!!
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