ALA - The American Library Association: Gail Schlacter (center) of Reference Service Press with Jenny Bossaller and Denice Adkins, co-authors of this year's winning article for the Reference Service Press award. Not pictured: co-author Kim Thompson.
ALA - The American Library Association: Award committee chair Meg McArdle with 2011 Louis Shores Award winner Bill Ott of ALA's Booklist.
ALA - The American Library Association: Lucy Hurston, niece of Zora Neale Hurston, presents the 2011 Zora Neale Hurston Award to Theresa Venable
ALA - The American Library Association: RSS 2010-11 Section Chair Joe Thompson with 2011 RSS Service Achievement Award winner Susan Ware.
ALA - The American Library Association: Danielle Salomon, 2011 BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award winner with David Forman of Gale Cengage Learning.
ALA - The American Library Association: Award committee chair Kim Vassiliadis with 2011 MARS My Favorite Martian Award winner Linda Keiter.
ALA - The American Library Association: 2011 Genealogical Publishing Company/History Section Award winner is Mary Mannix (right).
ALA - The American Library Association: Suzanne Kaller, 2011 Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award winner with Camille O'Connor of Morningstar.
ALA - The American Library Association: Ed Rivenburgh accepts the Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL Librarian Award from Katie Birch of OCLC.
ALA - The American Library Association: Diane Zabel, winner of the 2011 Mudge Award, with David Forman of Gale Cengage Learning.
ALA - The American Library Association: Award committee chair Barbara Bibel presents Christian Purdy with this year's Dartmouth Medal on behalf of Oxford University Press for "Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion" and the online Berg Fashion Library.
ALA - The American Library Association: North Carolina State Library Mary Boone (center) with Michelle Czaikowski, accepting the 2011 Gale Cengage Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Services on behalf of the Government and Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina for NCPedia.
ALA - The American Library Association: Theresa Venable, winner of the 2011 Zora Neale Hurston Award, with Lucy Hurston.
ALA - The American Library Association: Harry Barfoot of ABC-CLIO presents this year's ABC-CLIO Online History Award to Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton and Graham White, all of University of Sydney, Australia.
ALA - The American Library Association: Peter Jasco (rear) and Diane Campbell (right), winners of the Emerald Research Grant awards, with Ruth of Emerald.
ALA - The American Library Association: Nicolette Warisse Sosulski, 2011 Gale Cengage Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship winner with David Forman of Gale Cengage.
ALA - The American Library Association: Joyce Saricks is the 2011 winner of the Margaret Monroe Award.
ALA - The American Library Association: Micquel Little, 2011 STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring Award winner with John Brunswick of Atlas.
ALA - The American Library Association: Jason Neely of Russell Library with Jennifer Dorning of the DPE/AFL-CIO. Russell Library's Business & Career Programs is the 2011 John Sessions Award winner.
ALA - The American Library Association: Award committee chair Ed Kownslar with 2011 Sophie Brody Medal winner Judith Shulevitz ("The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time").