​Beta Phi Mu Scholarships & Fellowships Recipients Archive

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​2021 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients​
 
Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members

March winners: 
           Amanda Click, Beta Beta Zeta Chapter
           Jamie Luedtke, Alpha Chapter
           Jennifer Taylor, Beta Psi Chapter
           Cindy Tian, Alpha Chapter
           Liza Palmer, Beta Beta Epsilon Chapter

          September winners:
          Lori Bello, Rutgers School of Communication & Information, Omicron Chapter
          Araceli Hintermeister, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
          Ariel Barnes, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
          Regina Pagani, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
          Heather Healy, Emporia State University, Beta Epsilon Chapter
 
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
 
Stephen Abrams, Queensland University of Technology/San José State University
“A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success”
Elizabeth Campbell, Drexel University
“A Framework for Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Electronic Health Record Data: A Case Study in Childhood Obesity Incident”
Yi-Yun Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies”
Julaine Clunis, Kent State University
“Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes”
Lo Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Exploring Information Behavior of Hobbyists and the Making Process of Arts and Crafts”
Rongqian Ma, University of Pittsburgh
“Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists”​

2020 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Tobias Paul
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Nicole Pereversoff
  University of Western Ontario
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
• Erin Eldermire, Head of the Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library, Cornell University Library.
  For a project to research and create guidance for best practices in searching the grey literature for evidence syntheses (ES) in agriculture and searching scholarly literature originating in Latin America, as well as learning about support that currently exists for information specialists and researchers in Latin America conducting ES, and/or the support that they need for further ES capacity development.
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
  March winners: Heather Arrington (Wayne State, At-Large)
  Laurie Fuentes (Texas Woman's University, Beta Lambda Chapter)
  Sarah Cruz Mendoza (University of South Florida,  Beta Phi Chapter)
  Sara Quashnie (University of Illinois, Alpha Chapter)
  Katy Sternberger (Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter). 
  September winners: Gerard Collins, San Jose State University, Omega Chapter
  Kathleen Cummings, University of Toronto, At-Large
  Raymond Pun, CUNY – Queens College, At-Large
  April Shaw, University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter
  Jodi Shippee. Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Houda El mimouni, Drexel University
  “Robotic Telepresence in the Classroom and Values”
  *****
  Jiangen He, Drexel University
  “Predictive and Visual Analytics of Scientific Development”​
  *****
  Wenqing Lu, Simmons University
  “Using Social Media Tools for Collaborative Learning: An Mixed-Method Study on Academic Group Work by Worldwide iSchool Students”
  *****
  Lassana Magassa, University of Washington
  “'I am Not Computer Savy': A Look into the Everyday Digital Literacy Level of Formerly Incarcerated People Using a Novel Holistic Digital Literacy Framework”​
  *****
  Martin Nord, University of Western Ontario
  “Documents and the Positioning of the Moral Self: The United Church of Canada's Reconciliation Documents”
  *****
  ​Bonnie Tulloch, University of British Columbia
  “Do the Ends Justify the Memes? Exploring the Relationship between Youth, Internet Memes, and Digital Citizenship”

​2019 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Ruth Mahaffy Emporia
  State University
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Rachel Hatcher
  San Jose State University 
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Christopher Hollister
  Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo.
  To conduct an ethnographic study of practicing librarians from thirteen non-North American geographic regions around the world.
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
  March winners:  Joy Banks (Clarion University, At-Large), Anne Mlod (Syracuse University, Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter), Megan De Armond (Pratt Institute, Theta Chapter), Cristina Ramirez (Catholic University, Iota Chapter), and Laura Litwer (University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter).
  September winners: Ann Chiu (University of Illinois, Alpha Chapter), Hilary Swett (San Jose State University, Omega Chapter), Kayla Kuni (University of South Florida,  Beta Phi Chapter), Joshua Avery (SUNY Albany, At-Large), Alison Gregory (Clarion University, At-Large).

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Jessica Lapp, University of Toronto
  "The Provenance of Protest: An Exploration of Feminist Activist Archiving"
  *****
  Emily Maemura, University of Toronto
  “Logics of Order and Aggregation in Web Archiving Systems”
  *****
  J Elizabeth Mills, University of Washington
  “Never the Same Storytime Twice: An Exploration of the Nature and Role of Reflection in Public Library Storytime Assessment”
  *****
  Adèle Paul-Hus, Université de Montréal
  “Acknowledgements and Their Functions within the Reward System of Science”
  *****
  Laura Ridenour, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  “Examining the Notion of the Boundary Object in Information Systems: The Transdisciplinary Oeuvre of Cognitive Science”
  *****
  Megan Threats, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  “The Influence of Information Behaviors and Technologies on the Adoption of HIV Protective and Risk Reduction Behaviors among Young, Black Men Who Have Sex with Men”

2018 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Gloria Acosta
  Emporia State University
  *****
  Joanna Smith
  University of California, Los Angeles
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Rebekah Craig
  ​Valdosta State University 
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Emily Drabinksi
  Long Island University Library
  To support original research into the politics of cataloging and classification in the academic libraries of former colonies of the United States.
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
  March winners: Alexa Hirsch Lalejini (Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter, Syracuse University); Adriene Galindo (Beta Beta Chapter, Simmons College); Kristin Hall (Beta Beta Xi Chapter, St. Catherine University); James Clark (Beta Phi Chapter, University of South Florida); and Monica Rudzinski (At-Large, Kent State University).
  September winners: Sara Zettervall (Beta Beta Xi Chapter, St. Catherine University); Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem (Beta Omega Chapter, University of South Carolina); Patricia Carroll (At Large, Dominican University); Sharon McQueen (Beta Rho Chapter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); and Laura Doan (Sigma Chapter, Drexel University). 

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Brian Dobreski
  Syracuse University
  “Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)”
  *****
  Jamila Ghaddar
  University of Toronto
  “Archives, Third World Futurities and the Making of a Global Order: UNESCO in the Middle East”  
  *****
  Philipp Jordan
  University of Hawaii
  “A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research”
  *****
  Hyoungjoo Park
  University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
  “The Impact of Research Data Sharing and Re-Use on Data Citation in STEM Fields”
  *****
  Jennifer Pierre
  University of California, Los Angeles
  ​“One Big Digital Family: Examining Social Media and Social Support in the Development of “At-Risk” Youth”
  *****
  Mei Zhang
  University of Wisconsin- Madison
  ​ “What Counts as a Good Selection? E-book Product Selection in U.S. Academic Libraries”

2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Yalonda Green 
  University of Kentucky
  *****
  Mallory Nygard 
  Indiana University, Bloomington
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Chelsea Brantley
  East Carolina University
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Julie Edwards, Alpha Chapter 
  To pursue a certificate in Sustainable Community Development through Village Earth/Colorado State University

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Christopher Hollister, Librarian at the University Libraries, University of Buffalo
  To will support a project involving collaborating with the University at Buffalo's partner institution in Singapore to mitigate the costs of course textbooks

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Kathy Brennan
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: “Loan Me the Money: How Cognitive Abilities and Financial Knowledge Influence Consumers' Online Searching Behaviors”
  *****
  Karen Kaufmann
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/San Jose State University (SJSU)
  ​Dissertation Title: “Socio-Cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Academic Work”
  *****
  Emily Lawrence
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: “Reading for Democratic Citizenship: A New Model for Readers' Advisory”
  *****
  Andrea Thomer
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: “The Role of Data Collection Protocols and Practices in Site-Based Research and Curation”
  *****
  Emily Vardell
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions”
  *****
  Yongjun Zhu
  Drexel University
  Dissertation Title: “Graph-based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems”

2016 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Jennifer Dixon
  Pratt Institute
  *****
  Ayoola White
  Simmons College
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Emily Fischer
  University of Iowa
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Alyson Gamble, Beta Zeta Chapter 
  To obtain a Council of Science Editors (CSE) Publication Certificate.

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Natalie Baur 
  To help underwrite her work with a digital cultural heritage archive in Ecuador

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Sarah Buchanan 
  University of Texas
  Dissertation Title: "A Provenance Research Study of Archaeological Curation”
  *****
  Rachel Clarke
  University of Washington
  ​Dissertation Title: “It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship”
  *****
  Wei Jeng
  University of Pittsburgh
  Dissertation Title: “Factors Influencing Qualitative Data-Sharing Practices in Social Sciences”
  *****
  Jinseok Kim
  University of Illinois
  Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from Big Scholarly Data”
  *****
  Robert Montoya
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Dissertation Title: “Articulating Composite Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification of Biodiversity Databases”
  *****
  Min Sook Park
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: “Exploring Social Semantic Relationships in Knowledge Representation in Health through Mining Unstructured Textual Data on Social Media”

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2015 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Rebecca Greenstein
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  *****
  Alena Principato
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Kathryn Shaw
  University of Alabama

• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  DawnMarin Dell
  Electronic and Instruction Services Librarian, Texas Tech University School of Law Library

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Elizabeth Cramer
  Coordinator of Bibliographic Services and Professor, Appalachian State University
  For the study of international library development in India

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Tiffany Chao
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research for Reuse
  *****
  Morgan Currie
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Dissertation Title: Tracing Technologies of Openness
  *****
  Noah Lenstra
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: The Community Informatics of an Aging Society: A Comparative Case Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers
  *****
  Teresa Prendergast
  University of British Columbia
  Dissertation Title: Early Literacy in the Lives of Children with Disabilities: Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Parents and Public Library children’s Librarians
  *****
  Nicholas Weber
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Dissertation Title: A Framework for Analyzing the Sustainability of Science Commons
  *****
  Ayoung Yoon
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: Toward Trusted Data Curation: Data Reuse and Users’ Trust Judgement

2014 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Gennie Gebhart
  University of Washington
  Information School
  Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
  University of Maryland
  College of Information Studies

• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Hailey Watkins
  Pratt Institute
  School of Information and Library Science

• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Hayley Johnson
  Nicholls State University’s Ellender Memorial Library
  For attending a workshop on “Program Development and Proposal Writing” offered by the American Grant Writers Association

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Katie McNirney
  UNC Chapel Hill
  For the study of digital libraries in Zambia and Malawi

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Rhiannon Gainor
  McGill University, Canada
  Dissertation Title: Measuring Competitive Intelligence Outcomes
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Katherine Howard
  Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  Dissertation Title: The GLAM* Convergence: Implications for the education of Cultural Heritage Information Professionals in Australia 
  (*Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Aisha Johnson
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: Developing Southern Libraries to Influence the Life of the African-American User: An Exploratory, Archival Analysis
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Lorraine Dong
  The University of Texas at Austin
  Dissertation Title: The Social Ecologies of Mental Institution Records
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Amelia Acker
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Dissertation Title: Born-Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Kyle Jones
  University of Wisconsin
  Dissertation Title: Any data we can get our hands on: A contextual study of learning analytics and related issues of student privacy
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Kaitlin Costello
  University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  Dissertation Title: Investigating information seeking and disclosure in online support groups for chronic kidney disease

2013 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Melanie Carden
  University of Alabama
  School of Library and Information Studies
  Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Lora Worden
  Emporia State University
  School of Library and Information Management

• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Meera Garud
  University of Hawaii, Manoa
  Library and Information Science

• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Amy Roberson
  Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certification

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  John Hickok
  “A Qualitative Analysis of Library Conditions & Services in Asia to Better Serve Asian International Students in U.S. Universities.”

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Elisabeth Jones
  University of Washington
  Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Jinxuan Ma
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: Interacting with Health Information for Self-Care: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Health Information Literacy 
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Claudia Serbanuta
  University of Illinois
  Dissertation Title:Voices from the Other Side of the Wall: The Case of Romanian Public Libraries of the 1970s and the 1980s
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Miriam Sweeney
  University of Illinois
  Dissertation Title: Servants of Cyberspace: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Adam Worrall
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: The Roles of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within and Across Social and Information Worlds
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Erjia Yan
  Indiana University
  Dissertation Title: Towards a Systematic Approach for Studying Scholarly Communication through Scholarly Networks

2012 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Ariel Deardorff
  University of Washington
  Jackson School of International Studies
  Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Daniela Rovida
  University of Arizona
  School of Information Resources and Library and Science

• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Laura Browning
  Florida State University

• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Margaret Swanson
  ACRL Training

• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Nic Weber

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  C. Sean Burns
  University of Missouri
  Dissertation Title: Free or Open Access to Scholarly Documentation: Google Scholar or Academic Libraries
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Laura Christopherson
  University of North Carolina
  Dissertation Title:Understanding Online Communication: Developing a Lexicon to Support Search, Capture, and Use
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Marianne Martens
  Rutgers University
  Dissertation Title: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Multiplatform Books: Technologies of Production, User-Generated Content, and Economics of Immaterial and Affective Labor
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Xi Niu
  University of North Carolina
  Dissertation Title: Beyond Text Queries and Ranked Lists: Faceted Search in Library Catalogs
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Sarah Roberts
  University of Illinois
  Dissertation Title: Behind the Screen: The Hidden Digital Labor of Video Content Moderators
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Ji Yeon Yang
  University of Michigan
  Dissertation Title: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Information Mediation in the Workplace

2011 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Sofia Athenikos
  Drexel University
  Dissertation Title: Enabling Entity Retrieval by Exploiting Wikipedia as a Semantic Knowledge Source
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Amber Cushing
  North Carolina
  Dissertation Title: Possession and Self Extension in Digital Environments: Implications for Maintaining Personal Information
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Keisuke Inoue
  Syracuse
  Dissertation Title: Investigation of the linguistic properties of information-seeking computer-mediated communication, through discourse analysis of digital reference interview logs and machine learning experiments.
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Amy VanScoy
  North Carolina
  Dissertation Title: Exploring the Meaning of Reference Work for Librarians in Academic Research Libraries
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Hollie White
  North Carolina
  Dissertation Title: Experimentally influenced study of the organizing issues associated with scientific data sets
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
  Yong Yi
  Florida State
  Dissertation Title: Consumer health information behavior in public libraries: A mixed methods study
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Kalsang
  Smith College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School of Library and Information
  Science
  Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Eric Ambler
  University of Southern California, University of Southern Mississippi, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
  Jennifer Colby
  University of Michigan
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Natalia Ermolaev
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
  Santi Thompson
  DigCCurr Professional Institute at the University of North Carolina

2010 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Kim Anderson
  UCLA Department of Information Studies
  Dissertation Title: Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn to Appraise Through Social Interaction
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Jeanette de Richemond
  Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
  Dissertation Title:  What is “enough information?”
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Carolyn Hank
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science
  Dissertation Title:  Scholars and their Blogs:  Characteristics, Preferences and Perceptions Impacting Digital Preservation
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Kyungwon Koh
  Florida State University, School of Library and Information Studies
  Dissertation Title:  Proposing a Theoretical Framework for Digital Age Youth Information Behavior Building upon Radical Change Theory
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Ellen Pozzi
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
  Dissertation Title:  The Public Library in an Immigrant Neighborhood:  A Case Study of Italian Immigrants’ Literacies in Newark (NJ), 1889-1919
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Ellen Rubenstein
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
  Dissertation Title:  Ethnography of an Online Breast Cancer Support Group
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship for Beginning Professional Education
  Aaron G. Prosser
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Media
  Katharine St. Laurent
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Dorian Lange
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education
  Samantha Schmehl Hines

2009 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Bradley Wade Bishop
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: Chat reference and location-based questions: A multi-method evaluation of a statewide chat reference consortium
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Jennifer Crispin
  University of Missouri
  Dissertation Title: Discovering the social organization of school library work
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Linda R. Most
  Florida State University
  Dissertation Title: The Rural Public Library as Place in North Florida: A Case Study
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Zhixian (George) Yi
  Texas Woman’s University
  Dissertation Title: The Management of Change in the Information Age: Approaches of Academic Library Directors in the United States
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Naomi Schemm
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
  Christine J. Hartigan
• Harold Lancour Scholarship
  Jessie A. Howell
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
  Joshua Finnell

2008 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Serhiy Polyakov
  University of North Texas
  Dissertation Title: Performance of Interactive Information Retrieval System Based on Latent Semantic Labeling
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Xiaoli Huang
  University of Maryland
  Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: A Conceptual Analysis of Topical Relevance Relationships
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Yong-Mi Kim
  University of Michigan
  Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: The Role of Tags in Information Retrieval Interaction
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Maria Souden
  University of Michigan
  Dissertation Title: Information Work in the Context of the Experience of Chronic Illness
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Mary Jo Venetis
  University of North Texas
  Dissertation Title: Identification of Remote Leadership Patterns in the LIS Field
  Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Pengyi Zhang
  University of Maryland
  Dissertation Title: Supporting Sense-Making with Tools for Structuring a Conceptual Space
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Emma Carbone
  Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
  Jennifer Lynn Ventura
  University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science
• Harold Lancour Scholarship
  Cristina Dominguez Ramirez
  Virginia Commonwealth University
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
  Sarah E. Wessel

2007 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Donghua Tao
  University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Erin Macauley
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
  Lisa Ree Anfield
  Kent State University
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Theodore Patrick Milas
  Florida State University, College of Information

2006 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Bethany Letalian
  University of Texas at Austin
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Dave Harmeyer
  Pepperdine University
  Dissertation Title: Online Virtual Chat Library Reference Service: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Rachel Delaney
  University of Kentucky
• Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
  Tana Shinn
  University of South Florida
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Maria E. Gonzalez
  University of Texas
• Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
  Susannah Benedetti
  University of North Carolina Wilmington

2005 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

• Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Brian Arbogast de Hubert Miller
  Florida State University
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
  Marcia A. Mardis
  Eastern Michigan University
• Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
  Rachael Holovach
  University of Maryland
• Blanche Woolls Scholarship
  Maria L. Muhlbauer
  SUNY-Buffalo
• Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
  Tatiana Nikolova-Houston
  University of Texas at Austin
• Frank B. Sessa Continuing Professional Education Scholarship
  Allaina M. Wallace
  National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology in Boulder, Colorado
• Elfreda Chatman/Beta Phi Mu Minority Doctoral Student Scholarship Award
  Min Song
  Drexel University