Wellesley College Library receives Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
On May 15th, 2000, the Wellesley College Library was honored to be among the first class of recipients to receive the Excellence in Academic Libraries award. Larry L. Hardesty, President of ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) presented Mich Jedrey, Wellesley College VP for Information Services and College Librarian with the award. Pat Adams, Blackwell's Book Services Regional Sales Representative for the Northeast presented a check for $3000. This award sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Blackwell Books and Blackwell Information Services, recognizes the staff of a community college, a college and a university library for exemplary programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of their institution.
Wellesley College Library, winner in the college category, emphasized
its historical strengths through the use of its special collections to
support academic programs. Wellesley College Library also provided a model
with its analysis of journal use and its use of consortial relationships
to confront challenges that all academic libraries are now facing. Looking
to the future, Wellesley described how a reorganization, which included
the computing center staff, has successfully increased staff accountability,
collaboration and emphasis on customer service.
Larry Hardesty,
President of the Association of College and Research Libraries
Pat Adams,
Blackwell's Books Services
Diana Chapman Walsh,
President of Wellesley College
Lee Cuba,
Dean of the College
"This award is a splendid tribute to the entire library staff because it recognizes the valuable contribution that each person makes to the quality of the services we provide to the Wellesley College community," said Micheline Jedrey, library director at Wellesley College.
All members of the Wellesley College community
were invited to attend the ceremony and the reception.
Kim Marshall, principal of the Mather School in Dorchester, Massachusetts - the school with which Wellesley has had the longest teacher-preparation relationship - was presented with the $3000 cash award by Mich Jedrey. The Mather School administration and teachers are in the process of implementing a new curriculum framework, called the Early Literacy Learning Initiative (ELLI), which emerged out of the Reading Recovery research from New Zealand and was developed at Lesley College and Ohio State University. This new framework for teaching reading and writing has already been implemented for grades K-3 and will extend to the 4th grade next year. It will eventually extend to the other grades as the teachers are trained. Kim Marshall wrote to update us on their planning: “Our latest thinking on the $3,000 is that it will be used for kindergarten, first, second, and third grade classes to purchase science, math, and social studies related books (fiction and non-fiction) for each classroom.
This page contains excerpts from the ALA News Release February 2000 http://www.ala.org/news/archives/v5n14/2000excellenceacadlibraries.html
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