ALCTS Acquisitions Award

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Date:  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:19:16 -0500
From:  Charles Wilt (ALCTS) <cwilt_at_ala.org>
Subject:  ALCTS Acquisitions Award

For Immediate Release Contact: Charles Wilt
February 19, 2008 Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
cwilt_at_ala.org <mailto:cwilt_at_ala.org>

   /Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award presented to/

   / Karen Darling/

CHICAGO—The Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected Karen Darling,
head of acquisitions at the University of Missouri, to receive the 2008
Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. The award will be presented on
Sunday, June 29, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2008 American
Library Association (ALA) meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

The Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award, sponsored annually by
Harrassowitz, is given to a librarian to recognize contributions and
outstanding leadership in the field of acquisitions and includes a
$1,500 gift.

Darling has a strong record of dedicated service to all of the
institutions in which she has worked and the associations with which she
has been active. She brings a global perspective to her work in Missouri
through her international affiliations (and through the fact that she
earned her advanced degree in London). Darling has demonstrated
leadership in developing electronic collections at Missouri and has, in
the words of one of her nominators, “helped faculty see librarians as
moving the campus forward in electronic access, leading change rather
than defending the status quo.”

Darling has had a long and distinguished career. She is currently the
head of the acquisitions for the University of Missouri Libraries at
Columbia and has held positions at the University of Oregon, the
University of Texas at Austin and also the University of Arizona.
Darling has presented many papers at ALA and at IFLA on serials and
acquisitions management. She has been involved with ALCTS for many years
in both the Acquisitions and Serials sections. Most recently, she has
served on the ALCTS Board as director at large. She has also served on
the ALCTS nominating and membership committees. In addition to being
active in ALCTS, she has been on IFLA committees dealing with serial
publications and has been a valued member of the North American Serials
Interest Group (NASIG).

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is
the national association for information providers who work in
collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging,
collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital
and print formats.

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.

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