Special Collections and Archives

The winner does not need to be a member of ALA, RUSA, or BRASS but preference will be given to those that are, indeed members. Applicants should be an academic librarian with five or fewer years of experience in business librarianship or be a new (less than five years) member to BRASS.

To nominate a deserving candidate, download and complete the nomination form, and follow the submission instructions therein.
For more information, contact the committee chair via phone or e-mail.

Winner will receive a citation and $1250 to support travel to ��ƵAnnual Conference.
*Monetary award amounts are subject to change without notice and are contingent upon donor funding supplied at the time the award is presented. Questions about these awards should be directed to the committee chairperson or to Leighann Wood, RUSA awards program coordinator, at lwood@ala.org.

Date Began

2012

Established in 2012, this award presents a citation and $1,250 to an individual new to the field of academic business librarianship in order to support attendance to the ��ƵAnnual Conference.

Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award

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Name Sort

Hoduski Founders Award Bernadine Abbot

Opportunity Type

Professional Recognition

Special Collections and Archives

About

Bernadine Abbott Hoduski retired in 1997 after serving as professional librarian/staff member for the Joint Committee on Printing for nearly 25 years. Prior to joining the Joint Committee on Printing she served as Head Librarian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City and as guest lecturer at Central Missouri State University and the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Library Schools.

Bernadine received her M.A. in Librarianship in 1965 from the University of Denver, Colorado. She was awarded the EPA Bronze Medal for Commendable Service in 1973. Bernadine was a charter member of the Advisory Council to the Public Printer on Depository Libraries, 1973-1975 and she organized the first Federal depository regional seminar in Kansas City in 1973.

Bernadine founded the Government Documents Round Table in 1972. She has been the conscious and standard bearer for the Federal depository library program, documents librarian and "documents to the people" for more than a quarter century. She has served as Chair of GODORT, as co-editor of the Documents to the People, and as a member of editorial boards of Government Publications Review and Index to U.S. Government Periodicals. She was awarded the James Bennett Childs Award for distinguished contributions to documents librarianship in June 1977.

Although retired Bernadine continues her active involvement in ensuring public access to government information. During 1998/1999 she has been a member of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Revising Title 44. In Spring 1999 Bernadine was elected GODORT's first Councilor to the ��Ƶ.

Portions of the above taken from DttP, v.5, no.5 (Sept.1977)

Annual

Next Deadline

December 2, 2013

Criteria

Achievements in state, international, or local documents librarianship will receive first consideration.
Criteria may include:
Major contributions may be special contributions that cannot be characterized as specific projects and are of benefit not only to the institution but to the profession. The Awards Committee of the Government Documents Round Table is authorized to make no award in a year, when, in its opinion, no outstanding achievement is brought to its attention.

Nominations are due December 2, 2013.
Please submit the completed nomination form to the Awards Committee Chair:
Beth Clausen
b-clausen@northwestern.edu(email submission only, please)
Letters in support of the nomination are due December 9, 2013.

Application Link

Notification

The award winner will be announced following the ��ƵMidwinter meeting. Awards will be presented at the GODORT Reception at the ��ƵAnnual conference.

Contact

Rosalind Reynolds

Date Began

1994

Date Terminated

The Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award recognizes documents librarians who may not be known at the national level but who have made significant contributions to the field of state, international, local, or federal documents. This award recognizes those whose contributions have benefitted not only the individual's institution but also the profession.

ProQuest/GODORT/��Ƶ"Documents to the People" Award

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Name Sort

Documents to the People

Opportunity Type

Professional Recognition

Special Collections and Archives

Annual

Next Deadline

December 2, 2013

Criteria

The Awards Committee of the Government Documents Round Table is authorized to make no award in a year when, in its opinion, no outstanding achievement is brought to its attention.

Nominations are due December 2, 2013. Please submit the completed nomination form to the Awards Committee Chair:
Beth Clausen
b-clausen@northwestern.edu
(email submission only, please).

Letters in support of the nomination are due December 9, 2013.

Application Link

A framed plaque with the individual's name and achievement plus a $3,000 monetary prize to be assigned to a project of the recipient's choice.

Obligation

The recipient is responsible for any travel expenses to attend the ��ƵAnnual Conference.

Notification

Award may be announced as soon as ProQuest and the recipient have been notified. Presentation will be made at the GODORT Membership Reception during the ��ƵAnnual Conference.

Contact

Rosalind Reynolds

Date Began

1977

Date Terminated

The ProQuest/GODORT/��Ƶ"Documents to the People" Award is a tribute to an individual, library, institution, or other non-commercial group that has most effectively encouraged the use of government documents in support of library service.

James Bennett Childs Award

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Name Sort

Childs Award James Bennett

Opportunity Type

Professional Recognition

Special Collections and Archives

External Link

About

Mr. James Bennett Childs was honored by the Government Documents Round Table as the recipient of the first GODORT award for distinguished contribution to documents librarianship. In his honor, the award was named after Mr. Childs.

Mr. Childs, reappointed to a fourth three year term as honorary consultant in government documents bibliography at the Library of Congress, celebrated his eightieth birthday earlier this summer [1976]. This is not the first time an ��Ƶaward has been presented to Mr. Childs. In 1971 he was given the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation for Distinguished Contributions in Reference Librarianship.

At the Library of Congress since 1925, Mr. Childs is the author of numerous books and articles. Outstanding in the list of his writings is Government Documents Bibliography in the United States and Elsewhere (3rd edition, 1942) and the more recent article titled "Government Publications (Documents)" which appeared in volume 10 of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.

The following are Remarks of Donald F. Wisdom, Chief, Serial Division, Library of Congress, at the ��Ƶ, Government Documents Round Table meeting held in Detroit, Michigan, June 21, 1977, published in DttP v.5 no.5, (Sept. 1977)

James Bennett Childs, Specialist in Government Document Bibliography at the Library of Congress, died at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 14, 1977 at the age of 80. During a career which encompassed 55 years of service, Mr. Childs occupied a position of eminence in the library profession and was recognized as the principal authority in the field of government publications, not only in the United States but through out the world. His contributions to the acquisitions and organization of government documents enabled the Library of Congress, where he was continually in residence from 1925 until March of this year [1977], to become one of the world's greatest repositories of official publications.

Many librarians are acquainted with his major publications; including An Account of Government Document Bibliography in the United States and Elsewhere, of which three editions were published between 1927 and 1941; the Memorias of the Republics of Central America and the Antilles, published in 1932; the Guide to the Official Publications of the Other American Republics, 1945-1948 and many others. All of which were pioneering bibliographies. His most recent major contribution to the literature was a comprehensive survey article entitled, "Government Publications" published in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science in 1973.

James Bennett Childs was both a scholar and librarian. He was equally at home and interested in the eighteenth century as in the late twentieth century; on the one hand researching the documents of the first Congress of the United States, a subject that he wrote a notable article about, or on the other hand reviewing recently published documents from an Asian or Latin American country. As a scholar/librarian he was a unique type of individual that you only rarely come in contact with in today's world.

I can well remember the first bit of advice he gave me over twenty years ago. "Mr. Wisdom," he said, "if you really want to learn about government publications you've got to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty." Mr. Childs' admonition may sound rather simple and down to earth. The idea he was stressing was that a true documents librarian needed to know what is inside the many publications that passed through his hands and with that knowledge he or she could better serve the scholarly researcher. In truth, I have to say that I never saw Mr. Childs roll up his shirt sleeves, it was not his style; but no librarian I have ever met more thoroughly examined the research materials that regularly flow into the Library of Congress. And Mr. Childs was constantly sharing with others the information he gathered from a wide variety of sources. The personal reference experiences he enjoyed the most was when he could aid a scholar in locating elusive material. His pursuit of the difficult to find document was never confined by any boundaries.

Concurrent with his interest in serving the reference needs of scholarship, Mr. Childs dedicated a substantial amount of his time to the acquisitions of new additional research materials both to meet the needs of the present and future generation of researchers. In fact to his reference services and a vigorous acquisition program were inseparable. His vision of the resources the Library should acquire was very broad. He believed that a great library, such as the Library of Congress, should have comprehensive collections, including materials that may well be on the fringes of scholarship. His own acquisitions efforts clearly revealed a dogged determination that must have been at the heart of James Bennett Childs, the person. For example, he once old me the story of how he acquired a then complete set of the published proceedings of the Argentine Senate. According to Mr. Childs' account, he had obtained a list of members of the Argentine Senate and first wrote the President of that body inquiring as to how the Library could obtain its published proceedings. No reply was received, so Mr. Childs wrote the Vice- President of the Argentine Senate. Again no response. In total, Mr. Childs wrote eight letters to members of that legislature. The eighth member responded in a most positive manner and shortly thereafter the Library received a complete set. In concluding this story, Mr. Childs said "Sometimes you have to be damed persistent to get the material you need." There are a multitude of similar stories that could be told of Mr. Childs' successful efforts to strengthen the collections of the Library. He justly earned the reputation of an acquisitions specialist who made the Library of Congress one of the world's greatest repositories of official publications.

One other measure of the man was his relationships with his colleagues, both at the Library and throughout the world. During the period that I have known him, Mr. Childs sought to indoctrinate---and if indoctrinate seems like a very strong word, we should remember that James Bennett Childs was a strong personality--a new generation of librarians with his own broad vision of library resources and the extraordinary efforts needed for their creation. Despite the fact that his efforts were not always appreciated, he continually gave encouragement to those with whom he came in contact, both in person and through correspondence. His teachings of the new generation were marked by the same persistence as his scholarly pursuits, but tempered by a patience that also characterized the man. Certainly, he endowed some with his convictions and set a noteworthy example for us all.

Annual

Next Deadline

December 2, 2013

Eligibility

No restrictions.

Criteria

Contributions so honored may have been in any kind of documents service, in any area of documents work, in any kind, size or type of library; or for the production or publication of research tools for use in the documents field. The Awards Committee of the Government Documents Round Table is authorized to make no award in a year, when, in its opinion, no outstanding achievement is brought to its attention.

Nominations are due December 2, 2013. Please forward the completed materials and nomination form to the Awards Committee Chair:
Beth Clausenb-clausen@northwestern.edu(email submission only, please)
Letters in support of the nomination are due December 9, 2013.

Application Link

Notification

Award recipient will be announced as soon as all award recipients have been informed following the ��ƵMidwinter meeting. Awards will be presented at the GODORT Reception at the ��ƵAnnual conference.

Contact

Rosalind Reynolds

Date Began

1976

Date Terminated

The James Bennett Childs award honors an individual who has made a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship. Contributes may be based on stature, service, and publications in any or all areas of documents librarianship.

CIS/ALA/GODORT "Documents to the People" Award

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Name Sort

LexisNexis "Documents to the People" Award

Opportunity Type

Professional Recognition

Special Collections and Archives

About

Annual

Next Deadline

November 30, 2011

Criteria

The Awards Committee of the Government Documents Round Table is authorized to make no award in a year when, in its opinion, no outstanding achievement is brought to its attention.

Application Link

Contact

Rosalind Reynolds

Date Began

1977

Date Terminated

The CIS/GODORT/��Ƶ"Documents to the People" Award is a tribute to an individual, library, institution, or other non-commercial group that has most effectively encouraged the use of government documents in support of library service.

Special Collections and Archives

BRASS Academic Business Librarianship Travel Award

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Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award

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ProQuest/GODORT/��������Ƶ"Documents to the People" Award

James Bennett Childs Award

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CIS/ALA/GODORT "Documents to the People" Award

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LexisNexis

ProQuest/GODORT/��Ƶ"Documents to the People" Award