2022 Recipients
Behind the Scenes
- Acquisitions Accounting and Serials Unit, Raimonda Margjoni, Michelle McCLure Elneil, Verna Bedford, Laura Feder, and Mark Allender
Behind the Scenes
- Paula Bickford Cline
Customer Service
- LibGuide Accessibility Task Force, Sakuna Saengow, Danielle Johnson, Gus Clifton, Will Chaney, and Matthew Daley
Customer Service
- Gregory Krueger
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Michelle Nolan
Innovation
- Digital Development Team & Digital Services, Cliff Richmond, Douglas Gordon, Julio Muñoz, Dustin Durden, Jeremiah Cummings, Laura Perry, and Alexis Charnas
Innovation
- Hao Ye
Instruction and Training
- Digital Partnerships, Shelia DeRoche and Jake Goodson
Instruction and Training
- Aida Miro-Herrans
Outreach
- Neil Weijer and Bridget Bihm-Manuel
Outreach
- Jim Liversidge
2022 Nominees
Behind the Scenes (Group)
- Alexis Charnas, Dustin Durden, and Cliff Richmond of Digital Development and Digital Services for updating the NDNP processor for ingest of digital newspapers and conversion of microfilmed newspapers to digital formats
- Evan Wack, Patricia Ruwell, and Cynthia Bowker for migrating our desktop computing environment to the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager system
- Accounting and Serials Unit; Raimonda Margjoni (unit head), Michelle McClure, Verna Bedford, Laura Feder, and Mark Allender for transferring the library budget into ALMA, maintaining subscriptions and orders, and developing new tools for selectors and fund managers
- Website Working Group: Michelle McClure, Laura Feder, Eric Gumbayan, April Helena, and Pauline Bickford Cline for creating and launching the new and enhanced Acquisitions website
Behind the Scenes (Individual)
- Victoria Miller for crucial work ensuring evening hour operation of the Health Sciences Library
- Bridget Bihm-Manuel for designing and implementing the Florida history bar coding project and inaugurating a new Florida Federal Writers’ Project website
- Pauline Bickford Cline for contributions to the usability testing of the new library website and overseeing analysis the transcripts of Ask-a-Librarian
- Tara Cataldo for leadership in collection management in the sciences and processing of the John Ingram book collection on orchids
Customer Service
- Sakuna Saengow (AFA), Danielle Johnson (MSL), Gus Clifton (LTS), Will Chaney (LTS), and Matthew Daley (LTS) for developing ideas and creating guidelines for the improvement of our LibGuides
- Greg Krueger for exemplary customer service to the libraries
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Katiana Bague, CJ Gott, Michelle Nolan, Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, Barrett Uhler, and Kestrel Ward or the Pride Month exhibit Transcend: Beyond the Gender Binary
- Hao Ye and Jane Morgan-Daniel for crafting the mission and value statement for the Health Science Library
- CJ Gott for creativity in designing and producing culturally relevant buttons for students, including Beijing Olympics buttons and Arab-American heritage buttons
- Betsy Bemis for adding to the inclusiveness of voices and perspectives in the Panama Canal Museum Collection through use of oral history
- Michelle Nolan for this past year’s services to Chemistry and STEM and supervising a student-built guide to the Smathers Libraries
Innovation
- Digital Development Team (Dustin Durden, Doug Gordon, Jeremiah Cummings, Julio Muñoz, and Cliff Richmond) and Digital Services (Laura Perry and Alexis Charnas) for updating the NDNP processor for ingest of digital newspapers and development of the new UFDC, dLOC, and the new Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Hao Ye for model work in the field of reproducibility librarianship and assistance to student researchers
- Matt Kruse for opening access to Special Collections and making the collections discoverable and accessible
- Jake Goodson for improving the rate at with VIDs can be added to the UF Digital Collections
Instruction and Training
- Shelia DeRoche and Jake Goodson for the training and assistance they provided to partner institutions in the Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Information Literacy Committee (Brittany Kester, Natercia Valle, Lisa Campbell, Matthew Daley, Mary Edwards, Neil Weijer, Michelle Nolan, Carol McAuliffe, April Hines, and Alexandrea Glenn for creating new Videos teaching students how to use features of the Libraries, including searching of Primo and use of the VPN
- Jake Goodson also for training and assistance provided to partner institutions in the Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Jane Morgan-Daniel for her role in mentoring new faculty
- Aida Miro Herrans for building in and teaching bioinformatics sessions in university coursework and designing and teaching the course Genomics Research Experience
Outreach
- Maggie Ansell, Lauren Adkins, Mary Edwards, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Hannah Norton, and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig for their COVID-related public health survey looking at vaccine hesitation and creation of vaccine information kits
- Neil Weijer and Bridget Bihm-Manuel for the Storied Books Project in Special Collections
- Laura Marion and Casey Wooster for leadership in the creation of Resilience: Black Heritage in St. Augustine, a year-long celebration of the history and culture of Black Americans in St. Augustine, and preparation the exhibit Presence/Erasure: Black History in St. Augustine
- Tracy MacKay-Ratliff for her design work with Source magazine and as designer and partner in Cuba: Delivering Cuba through the Mail – Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes by Emilio Cueto
- Jim Liversidge for processing of the Bob Hope Collection and design and hosting of its public events
2021 Recipients
Behind the Scenes (Group) – Storage and High Density Facility Unit at ALF/ILF: Clinton Dailey, Dee Hawes, Cindy Mclean, Jared Nash, Coty Collins
Behind the Scenes (Individual) – Sakuna Saengow
Behind the Scenes (Individual) – Gerald Langford
Customer Service (Group) – Borland Library, Jacksonville – Cynthia Ellison and Garfield Simmons
Customer Service (Individual) – Joe Piazza
Diversity Equity & Inclusion (Group) – Health Science Center Library Language Inclusivity Sub-Group – Jane Morgan-Daniel, Matthew Daley, Mary Edwards, Lori Eubanks, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Hannah Norton
Innovation (Individual) – Cliff Richmond
Instruction and Training (Individual) – Neil Weijer
Outreach (Group) – Governor’s House Library, St. Augustine – Laura Marion and Casey Wooster
Special Recognition Award – Price Library Challenge Grant, Rebecca Jefferson
2021 Nominees
Behind-the -Scenes (Group)
Archive Space: Matt Kruse, John Nemmers, Andy Hunn, Chris Nicolich, Cliff Richmond, and Gus Clifton
Digital Development Team: Dustin Durden, Doug Gordon, Julio Muñoz, and Cliff Richmond
Marston Safety Protocols Team: Michelle Nolan, Melody Royster, and Jean Bossart
Storage and HDF Unit at ALF/ILF: Clinton Dailey, Dee Hawes, Cindy Mclean, Jared Nash, and Coty Collins
Misty Colson and Lela Johnson
Behind-the-Scenes (Individual)
Gerald Langford
Sakuna Saengow
Jody Hewitt
Joe Piazza
Erin Gallagher
Matt Kruse
Mary Edwards
Customer Service (Individual and Group)
Special & Area Studies Collections Public Services: Michele Wilbanks and Steve Hersh
Cynthia Ellison and Garfield Simmons
Web Team: Gus Clifton, Matthew Daley, and Will Chaney
Public Services: Thiago de Andrade, Keith Manuel, Jennifer Farrington, Paul Kirk, and Meredith Kite
Todd Digby
Joe Piazza
Sakuna Saengow
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Individual and Group)
Live Captioning Work Group: Kestrel Ward and Twanna Hodge leading, Lisa Campbell, and Keith Manuel; Matthew Daley and Nancy Schaefer, contributing
DEI Finding Aid Revision Working Group: Nelissa Caraballo, Steve Hersh, and Matt Kruse
Bonnie Smith, Tina Litchfield, Joe Piazza, and Juliana Rojas
HSCL – Language Inclusivity Sub-groups: Jane Morgan-Daniel, Matthew Daley, Mary Edwards, Lori Eubanks, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, and Hannah Norton
Randall Renner
Matt Kruse
Ginessa Mahar
Innovation
Cliff Richmond
Neil Weijer
Instruction and Training (Individual and Group)
Sakuna Saengow and Christy Shorey
Library Training Program Staff: Cynthia Digby and Juliana Rojas
Nancy Schaefer, Maggie Ansell, Mary Edwards, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Michele Tennant, and Hannah Norton
Christine Yip
Perry Collins
Christy Shorey
Jason Heckathorn, Angela Gaines, and Enrico Gumbayan
Neil Weijer
Outreach (Individual and Group)
Tara Cataldo, Vanessa Jewett, Sarah Prentice, Melody Royster, Suzanne Stapleton, and Barrett Uhler
Governor’s House Library – Laura Marion and Casey Wooster
Chloe Hough & Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Katiana Bague
Chelsea Johnston
2020 Recipients
Behind The Scenes – Facilities and Security Department: Brad Hatch, Bill Hanssen, Joe Hitzler, Jun Tolentino, Peter Miller, Brian Word
Behind the Scenes – Library Technology Services Department: Thomas Bielicke, Cynthia Bowker, Willie Chaney, James Clifton, Matthew Daley, Donald David, Todd Digby, Donald Gordon, James Hunn, Julio Munoz, Christopher Nicolich, Robert Phillips, Clifford Richmond, Patricia Ruwell, Laurie Taylor, John Thrasher, Michael Tyler, Evan Wack
Customer Service – Summer Doorside Pickup Team: Lisa Bailey , Katiana Bague, Ashley Beard, Elizabeth Carr, Kyle Chamblee, Michael Dietz, Tiffany Esteban, Robin Haskins, Paulina Kalantarov, Tram Lai, Victoria Miller, Sakuna Saengow, Scott Sills, Kestrel Ward, Debra Woodward, Ashley Vaught
Customer Service – Larisa Dumich
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – ClimateQUAL Advisory Group: Jason Heckathorn, Trey Shelton, Bonnie Smith and Laura Spears
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Library Technology Services Department Web Team: Will Chaney, James Clifton, and Matthew Daley
Innovation – Randell Duggins
Innovation – The Practicing Kindness in Crisis Team: ( Perry Collins, Twanna Hodge, Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, and Chelsea Johnston)
Instruction and Training – Robin Fowler
Instruction and Training – Support and Enforcing Masking and Social Distancing Guidelines Team: Katiana Bague, Greg Clayton, Janice Dees, Michael Dietz, Cynthia Digby, Jennifer Farrington, Chloe Hough, Keith Manuel, Victoria Miller, Sakuna Saengow, Joanna Tuskey, Michele Wilbanks, Christine Yip
Outreach – COVID-19 LibGuide Team: Margaret Ansell, Stephanie Birch, Lisa Campbell, Mary Edwards, Twanna Hodge, Ginessa Mahar, Michelle Nolan, Hannah Norton, Nancy Schaefer
Outreach – “Facilities Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries” Project Team: Lauren Adkins, Margaret Ansell, Susan Harnett, Jane Morgan-Daniel, Melissa Rethlefsen
2020 Nominees
Behind the Scenes – Groups
- Facilities Planning Dept. – for outstanding assistance helping staff and reconfiguring buildings to adjust to COVID-19
- Library Technology (IT) – for setting up remote work and for diligent completion of our web migration
- Access Support, Acquisitions, and Scholarly Communications – for opening patron access to electronic resources
- Matthew Daley and Gus Clifton – for their work and help in guiding everyone through web migration
Behind the Scenes – Individuals
- Michael Dietz – for his leadership in helping colleagues adjust to working under COVID
- Sakuna Saengow – for creating and coordinating the book pick-up service
- Matthew Daley – for carefully identifying older library web pages and incorporating them into web migration
- Anne-Marie Hollingshead – for her dedication to helping staff with honoraria, travel, and other fiscal needs
- Larisa Dumich – for her onsite work during home shelter scanning and fulfilling ILL requests in Health Sciences during a time of great need
- Jennifer Farrington – for her scanning of needed materials from Special & Area Studies Collections (4,000+ pages) during COVID
- Ashley Monahan – for increasing the speed of document delivery and for the design of the Access and Resource Sharing website
- Moxy Moczygemba – for addressing student and research needs and outreach through social media
Customer Service
- Human Resources – for guiding staff into a smooth transition to remote work
- Library West Summer Door-Side Pick-Up Team (Lisa Bailey , Katiana Bague, Ashley Beard, Elizabeth Carr, Kyle Chamblee, Michael Dietz, Tiffany Esteban, Robin Haskins, Paulina Kalantarov, Tram Lai, Victoria Miller, Sakuna Saengow, Scott Sills, Kestrel Ward, Debra Woodward, Ashley Vaught) – for ensuring that patrons could obtain materials during a time of limited access to the libraries
- Facilities Planning Dept. – for outstanding dedication to adapting operations and creating staff work places in response to COVID
- Larisa Dumich– in recognition of handling phone reference, scanning, and ILL patron needs at Health Sciences throughout the home shelter period
- Paul McDonough – for his dedicated service to patron requests and coordination of more than 20,000 requests for course reserve materials
- Colleen Seale – in recognition from her colleagues for her leadership and mentoring in the libraries
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Website Team (Gus Clifton, Matthew Daley, and Will Chaney) – for re-designing the Libraries websites to incorporate best practices for accessibility by all users
- Climate Quality Advisory Team (Jason Heckathorn, Trey Shelton, Bonnie Smith, and Laura Spears) – for support of positive organizational change and for discussion across the Libraries about steps forward
- Laurie Taylor – for advocacy and promotion of inclusiveness
- Hao Ye – for drafting the HSCL’s Statement on Systemic Racism and Injustice and for his advocacy in confronting racism
Innovation
- Library Technology (IT) – for problem-solving our needs for remote work, web migration, and IT adaptations to re-opening the Libraries
- Janice Dees and Brittany Kester – for creative adaptation of remote work in social media, creating new children’s content, and improvement of metadata on YA literature at the Education Library
- Michael Dietz, Ashley Vaught, and Kyle Chamblee – for streamlining the review and relocation the Library West Oversize Collection
- Practicing Kindness Team (Perry Collins, Twanna Hodge, Chelsea Johnston, Bob Lockwood, Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, Hannah Norton, Ariel Pomputius, Terry Selfe, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Laurie Taylor, Michele Tennant) – for bringing our library community together through programming, safe spaces, and team-building activities
- Christine Yip – for spear-heading the re-opening of the Marston Science Library
- Randell Duggins – for developing and producing protective equipment for the Libraries, UF researchers, Shands, VA and NFRMC hospitals.
- Joe Piazza – for guiding staff smoothly through the remote work process
Instruction & Training
- Rules on Masking and Social Distancing Team (Katiana Bagué, Greg Clayton, Janice Dees, Michael Dietz, Cynthia Digby, Jennifer Farrington, Chloe Hough, Keith Manuel, Victoria Miller, Sakuna Saengow, Joanna Tuskey, Michele Wilbanks, Christine Yip) – for overseeing safety protocols for re-opening of the Libraries
- Health Science Center Libraries Faculty –for transitioning to online workshops and offering double the usual number in order to meet the needs of faculty, graduate students and professionals in Summer and Spring 2020
- Twanna Hodge – for leadership in critical community building work, building and fostering trust, mentoring, and advancing the Libraries’ resources and services to be inclusive and welcoming
- Ann Baird – for outstanding outreach and teaching to 80+ first-year majors in Design, Construction & Planning
- Robin Fowler – for mentoring and training of 45 additional librarians and supervision of an expanded Smathers’ Ask-A-Librarian service, now meeting the highest number of requests in the state
- Michelle Leonard – for hosting UF Research 2020 Summer Seminar Series: Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) (22 sessions and 300 registrants)
Outreach
- Michael Dietz, Christine Yip, Sakuna Saengow – for overseeing plans on how to re-open the Libraries in Fall Semester
- Practicing Kindness in Crisis web series and digital book (Perry Collins, Twanna Hodge, Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, and Chelsea Johnston) – for leadership in ways to express compassion towards ourselves and each other, to be a supportive community
- Cross COVID LibGuide Team (Margaret Ansell, Stephanie Birch, Lisa Campbell, Mary Edwards, Twanna Hodge, Ginessa Mahar, Michelle Nolan, Hannah Norton, Nancy Schaefer) – for creation of a COVID-19 guide that is now one of the information resources that UF Health recommends to those that have been exposed to COVID.
- Fall Festival Committee (Robin Fowler, co-chair; Sara Gonzalez, co-chair; Valerie Minson; Jeanne Ewert; Pauline Bickford-Duane; Anne Baird; Hao Ye; Alexandrea Glenn; Barbara Hood; Safraz Sattaur; Moxy Moczygemba; Twanna Hodge; Jennifer Farrington; Neil Weijer; Sarah Coates; Scott Sills; Matthew Daley) – for the success of the virtual Festival that garnered 1,400 visits from the UF community
- Health Science Center Libraries (Jane Morgan-Daniel, Lauren Adkins, Margaret Ansell, Susan Harnett, Melissa Rethlefsen) – for public service to Okeechobee County through its program for “Facilitating Rural Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries”
2019 Recipients
Behind-The-Scenes – Michael Dietz
Customer Service – Robert (Bob) Lockwood
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Individual) – Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Group) – HSCL Diversity & Inclusion Team (Lead: Jane Morgan-Daniel; Members: Lauren Adkins, Greg Clayton, Matthew Daley, Mary Edwards, Chloe Hough, Hannah Norton, Garfield Simmons, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Michele Tennant)
Innovation – Raimonda Margjoni and Michelle McClure
Instruction & Training – Suzan Alteri
Outreach – Nancy Schaefer and Sara Meyer
2019 Nominees
Behind-The-Scenes
- Misty Colson
- Tracy MacKay-Ratliff
- Bill Hanssen
- Brianne Nilsen
- Michael Dietz
- Laurie Perry
- Christine Yip
- Sarah Coates
- Lori Eubanks
- Library Technology Service department’s Enterprise and Support Unit (Evan Wack, Cynthia Bowker, Donald David, Debra Fetzer, Patricia Ruwell, John Thrasher, and Mike Tyler)
Customer Service
- Brianne Nilsen
- Perry Collins
- Steve Hersch
- Chelsea Johnston
- HR Department (Brian Keith, Bonnie Smith, Joe Piazza, Tina Litchfield, Danielle Sessions, Cynthia Digby)
- Bob Lockwood
- Barrett Uhler
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Margarita Vargas Betancourt
- HSCL Diversity & Inclusion Team (Lead: Jane Morgan-Daniel; Members: Lauren Adkins, Greg Clayton, Matthew Daley, Mary Edwards, Chloe Hough, Hannah Norton, Garfield Simmons, Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Michele Tennant)
Innovation
- Sarah Meyer
- Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba
- Shelia DeRoche
- Ernie Williams and Jean Bossart
- Raimonda Margjoni and Michelle McClure
- Janice Dees
- Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Instruction and Training
- Suzan Alteri
- Gerald Langford
- Ariel Pomputius
- Laurie Taylor & Helene Huet
- Michael Dietz
- Haven Hawley, (Women’s Studies liaison), Paul McDonough, and Alyssa Zucker (undergraduate coordinator/associate chair, Women’s Studies), Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig (history of medicine), Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (iconography and colonization of Mexico), Carol McAuliffe (cartography), Suzan Alteri (science education for children), Florence Turcotte (Zora Neale Hurston as anthropologist), Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (knowledge creation in museums), Barrett Uhler (curatorial assistance) Valrie Minson, Stephanie Birch
Outreach
- Laurie Taylor and Hélène Huet
- Michelle Leonard, Sam Putnam, and Melody Royster
- Digital Resource Showcase (by Melissa Jerome, with Stephanie Birch, Lisa Campbell, April Hines, Hélène Huet, and Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba)
- Nancy Schaefer and Sarah Meyer