NCSU Special Collections Staff Member Wins Several Prestigious Awards

Posted by Jennifer on 19 June, 2008 in Awards, Library News, Preservation

Judy Allen Dodson, the Administrative Support Associate in the NCSU Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center, has been awarded the Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Minority Students by the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC). The scholarship provides financial assistance to students pursuing graduate education in archival administration and encourages ethnic diversification of the profession. The award is a scholarship of $750 and a one-year complimentary membership to MAC, the nation’s largest regional professional association for archivists.

The award is named for the late Archie Motley, who served as the MAC’s first president between 1972 and 1975 and enjoyed a distinguished career at the Chicago Historical Society. He was highly regarded in the field, serving as a mentor and guide to countless colleagues and researchers from the 1950s through the 1990s.

Allen Dodson has also been awarded a scholarship to attend the 49th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference, “Rare and Special Bytes: Special Collections in the Digital Age,” which will be held from June 24 to 27, 2008, in Los Angeles, California. This competitive scholarship offers complementary registration as well as a stipend.

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), plays a leading role in local, national, and international special collections communities. This year’s annual preconference will address various aspects of special collections in the digital environment, including intellectual property issues, using digital special collections in the classroom, and mass digitization.

Furthermore, Allen Dodson has been selected to represent North Carolina Central University in the Student-to-Staff Program at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, from June 26 to July 2, 2008. She will complete an assignment with Cognotes, the daily newspaper of the conference, which draws more than 10,000 attendees from the library profession to its more than 2,000 committee meetings and events and 300 educational programs.

This announcement is posted on the NCSU Libraries’ news blog (including a photo of Ms. Allen Dodson).

SOLINET congratulates Judy Allen Dodson on her award and contributions to the librarian profession.