Dear Colleagues – Please consider nominating one of your
collections/technical services colleagues for this great award
and please note the nominee needs to have been in the field
for less than 10 years.

Esther J. Piercy Award – Deadline extended to Dec. 15, 2007

This award, a $1,500 grant and citation donated by YBP,
Inc., recognizes contributions to library collections and technical
services by a librarian with **no more than 10 years** of professional
experience who has shown outstanding promise for continuing
contribution and leadership. Winners will be chosen based on
accomplishments related to technical services and resources in such
areas as: leadership in professional associations at local, state,
regional or national level; contributions to the development,
application or utilization of new or improved methods, techniques and
routines; significant contribution to professional literature; and
conduct of studies or research in the technical services.

****Send nominations** including, a statement giving the reasons for
nomination, the date your nominee entered his or her first professional
position and a resume or narrative career outline to:
Eleanor Cook, chair, Piercy Jury, cookei@appstate.edu

Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Acquisitions Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei@appstate.edu