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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Announcing the GODORT 2017 Award Winners!

  • 1.  Announcing the GODORT 2017 Award Winners!

    Posted Mar 28, 2017 04:33 AM

    Please join the GODORT Awards Committee in congratulating this year’s GODORT award winners!  




    • James Bennett Childs Award - Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida






    • ProQuest/GODORT/ALA “Documents to the People” Award - Florida State University Libraries Government Documents Depository and Mohamed Berray, Coordinator for Government Information at FSU






    • Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award - Philip Yannarella, Government Documents Librarian at Northern Kentucky University






    • Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award - Sarah Potvin and Laura Sare, Texas A&M University Libraries






    • NewsBank/Readex/GODORT/ALA Catharine J. Reynolds Research Grant - Hayley Johnson of Nicholls State University and Sarah Simms of Louisiana State University




    • W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship - Stephani Rodgers, an MLIS student at the University of South Carolina and  Depository Coordinator at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries




    • Larry Romans Mentorship Award - Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign




    Additional information about the awards and awardees can be found on the GODORT wiki at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Announcing_the_2017_GODORT_Awards_Winners.


    Our award winners will be recognized at the upcoming GODORT Awards Reception, which will be held on Sunday, June 25th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on the downtown campus of the Loyola University Chicago. The Reception is tentatively scheduled in the Corboy Law Center at 25 E. Pearson Street, but may have to move a few doors down to Lewis Towers at 111 E. Pearson Street.


    Many thanks go to this year’s Award Committee:  Adam Clemons, Rebecca Hyde, Ann Marshall, and Cass Hartnett!


    Kelly Smith and Kirsten Clark, Co-chairs, Awards Committee