Kelli Trei Elected Secretary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Executive Committee

Kelli Trei, Biosciences Librarian at the University Library and Associate Professor for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been elected to serve as Secretary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Executive Committee. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

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Lynne M. Thomas Nominated for Hugo Award

Lynne M. Thomas, head of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, has been nominated for the Hugo Award, which is considered science fiction’s most prestigious award. Thomas is already a nine-time Hugo Award winner, most recently taking home a Hugo Award last year for Best Semiprozine (a non-professional periodical publication) for Uncanny Magazine. Thomas has been a Hugo Award finalist nineteen times in the past decade.

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Pionke Awarded 2021 MLA President’s Award

The Medical Library Association (MLA) has awarded, the MLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force, of which JJ Pionke, Applied Health Sciences Librarian & Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UICU), is a member, the 2021 MLA President’s Award. This award celebrates and recognizes those individuals who have displayed a noticeable impact on the association in the past year and who have furthered the purposes of health sciences libraries and health sciences librarianship.

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Sarah Christensen Awarded 2021 CAPE Award

CAPE 2021 award winner Sarah Christensen      CREDIT: UI NEWS BUREAU/FRED ZWICKY

Sarah Christensen, Visual Resources and Outreach Specialist for the department of Research and Information Services at the University Library, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE). The CAPE is designed to recognize and celebrate “the importance of contributions made by academic professionals” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It is also a signal of high esteem in which their colleagues hold them. This prominent award was presented to Christensen and five other individuals from across campus for their outstanding contributions to the university community and beyond.

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