We are pleased to announce the ALISE 2009 Award Winners!
The individuals below have all demonstrated exceptional abilities in their respective fields.

ALISE Awards

• ALISE/Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award
  Michael Stephens, Dominican University.
  
  
• ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education
  Michael Eisenberg, University of Washington.
  
  
• ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the field of Library and Information Science Education
  Ann Carlson Weeks, University of Maryland
  
  
• ALISE/Norman Horrocks Leadership Award
  Linda Most, Florida State University
  
  

ALISE Research Awards/Grants

• ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition
  "What is Next for FRBR? A Delphi Study" by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, Kent State University
  
  
• ALISE/Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition
  "Supporting multiple information-seeking strategies in a single system framework" by Xiaojun Yuan, graduate from Rutgers University
  
  
• ALISE/Dialog Methodology Paper Competition
  "Studying Reference Encounters with the Pair Perception Comparison (PCC) Method" by Derek L. Hansen, University of Maryland
  
  
• ALISE/Linworth Youth Services Paper Award
  "Equal Opportunity? Poverty and Characteristics of School Library Media Centers" by Shana Pribesh, Old Dominion University, and Karen Gavigan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  
  
• OCLC/ALISE LISRG (Library and Information Science Research Grant) Competition
  "Folktales and Facets" by Kathryn La Barre, Carol Tilley, University of Illinois)
  "Addressing the 'metadata bottleneck' by developing and evaluating an online tool to support non-specialists to evaluate Dublin Core metadata records" by Michael Khoo, Drexel University
  "Investigating Gaze Behavior in Faceted Search Interfaces for Library Catalogs" by Bill Kules, The Catholic University of America
  
  

ALISE Annual Conference Awards/Grants

• ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition
  1st—"Digital libraries in schools: The best practices of nationally certified school library media specialists technological, and informational factors along with the moderating function of cultural trait" by Sheri Anita Massey, University of Maryland
  2nd—"Small world of nanoscience: Structural parameters of coauthorship networks" by Stasa Milojevic, University of California, Los Angeles
  3rd—"The organization of knowledge and classification in early nineteenth century America" by Katherine Wisser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Honorable Mention—"Found in translation: A mixed methods study of decision-making by U.S. editors who acquire children's books for translation" by Annette Y. Goldsmith, Florida State University
  
  
• University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award
  Eric M. Meyers, University of Washington
  
  
• Doctoral Students to ALISE Grant
  Shelagh Genuis, University of Alberta and Marc Kosciejew, University of Western Ontario