GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

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The mission of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is to (1) To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents; (2) to provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of documents; (3) to increase communication between documents librarians and other librarians; (4) to contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of documents librarians.

Learn more about GODORT on the ALA website.

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2011 GODORT Awards Winners

  • 1.  2011 GODORT Awards Winners

    Posted Mar 21, 2011 04:26 PM

    All -

    Please join me in congratulating the 2011 GODORT Awards recipients.  The complete citations are listed on our wiki at:  http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Announcing_the_2011_GODORT_Awards_Winners   
    but the short list of names is below.

    We will be celebrating these people at the (GODORT) reception at ALA in New Orleans on June 26.  Keep your eyes open for that schedule!

    • James Bennett Childs Award - Tim Byrne, Senior Outreach Librarian at the US Dept of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information
    • Proquest/GODORT/ALA Documents to the People Award - Lou Malcomb, Head of Government Information, Kent Cooper Services (ET2) and Geosciences Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.
    • Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award  - Laura Harper, Head, Government Information Services and Regional Depository Librarian at the John Davis Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.
    • W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship - Laurie Aycock, graduate student in the Library and Information Science Program at Valdosta State University, in Valdosta, Georgia, and works as the Government Documents associate at the University of West Georgia
    • Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award - George Dehner, Assistant Professor of History at Wichita State University for the article, WHO Knows Best? National and International Responses to Pandemic Threats and the “Lessons” of 1976 which was printed in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, October 2010, vol. 65, no. 4, pgs 478-513.

    Many thanks to the Awards Committee for their hard work, and to Laura Sare for her service in managing our wiki!

    -Andrea Sevetson
    2010-11 GODORT Awards Committee Chair
    asevetson@hotmail.com