Randy Hensley Recieves:
Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award
ACRL Special Presidential Recognition Award
Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award:
Randall Burke Hensley, public services division head at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries, is the winner of the ACRL Instruction Section's (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award.
This award recognizes a librarian who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment.
"Randy Hensley's outstanding commitment to leadership, service, and teaching has enhanced the professional lives of many colleagues," said Karen Williams, chair of the IS Dudley subcommittee.
"He is a talented and inspired educator, with a vision of how information literacy can enrich the lives of students everywhere."
Hensley currently chairs the ACRL Effective Practices Committee and has been a faculty member for the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program since 1999.
The Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award is sponsored by Elsevier Science on behalf of its journal Research Strategies. A check for $1,000 and a plaque will be presented to Hensley during the ALA Annual Conference at the IS Program on Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 1:30 p.m.
Association of College and Research Libraries Award:
Randy Hensley is a recipient of the Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) Special Presidential Recognition Award as a founding
Immersion faculty member. This award comes at the tenth anniversary of
the founding of the Immersion Program which has offered professional
development in information literacy teaching and program development for
over 1500 academic librarians around the United States, Canada, Europe,
and Australia. Hensley was presented with a certificate of
recognition as part of the award ceremony at the ACRL Conference. The
certificate reads: "in recognition of exemplary efforts to advance
information literacy in higher education on the ten-year anniversary of
the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program". For more
information please see
here.