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Mary Greenberg/Marguerite Howland Personnel Development Award

Letters of application and any accompanying materials for 2013 may be sent to selection committee via Jackie German, between the opening date (March 1, 2013) and the closing date (March 20, 2013) at 5 pm.

If you are interested in serving on the selection committee please call 744-7331.

Emeritus librarian Jill Holmes upon her retirement from the OSU Library in 1992 established this award to honor Mary Greenberg & Marguerite Howland, former library employees. The award is given to full-time library employees for work-related higher education tuition, workshop and seminar registration fees and conference expenses. Recipients are invited to an awards lunch and are honored at the Edmon Low Library Staff Association's Spring Meeting

Requests for funds must be work-related and are considered in this order:

  1. library science or work-related post-secondary course tuition;
  2. workshop and seminar registration fees.
  3. conference expenses.

All things being equal, awards are made with preference given in this order: classified staff, administrative & professional staff, and library faculty.

Past Award Winners include

2012

  • Deb Hull, Acquisitions
  • Kyle Fortney, Systems
  • David Peters, SCUA
  • Bonnie Ann Cain-Wood, Dean's Office

2011

  • Matthew Benbennick, Documents
  • Shirley Tatum, MMR
  • Deb Hull, Acquisitions
  • David Peters, SCUA
  • Kathleen Swinnea, Dean's Office

2010

  • Jon Hall, Access Service
  • Matthew Benbennick, Documents
  • Shirley Tatum, MMR
  • Melissa Beezley Fitzgerald, Cataloging
  • Hannah Fortney, Cataloging
  • Valerie Trammell, Dean's Office

2009

  • Shirley Tatum, MMR
  • Melissa Beezley, Cataloging

2008

  • Amie Allen, CML

2007

  • Amie Allen, CML

2006

  • Kate Blalack, SCUA
  • David Peters, SCUA

2005

  • Tom Steele, Cataloging
  • Bonnie Ann Cain, Dean's Office
  • Shauna Clark, CML

2004

  • Bonnie Ann Cain, Dean's Office
  • Misty Smith, Bindery

2003

  • Misty Smith, Bindery

2002

  • Emily Williams, CML

2001

  • Louisa Payne, Acquisitions

2000

  • David Peters, Map Room

1999

  • Kiem Dung Ta, Systems Department. She will use this award for her A+ Computer Specialist Certification Exam.

1998

  • Jennifer Paustenbaugh, The Dean's Office

1997

  • Kim Seagraves, Library Systems
  • Holli Seery, Humanities & Social Sciences