D. Michele Cash and Jerry Paar have received the Reference Service Press Award for publishing the most outstanding article in RQ, the official journal of the American Library Association's Reference and Adult Services Division, during the two volume years preceding 1990.
The award, consisting of a $500 cash prize and a plaque, is donated by Reference Service President, Gail A. Schlachter.
Cash is head of reference services and bibliographic instruction coordinator at Indiana University-South Bend. Paar is coordinator of labor studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
The winning article, "Labor Education and Libraries: A Survey of Current Practices," appeared in RQ in the Fall 1987 issue (Volume 27, no. 1). Want to read this award-winning article online? Click here.
"The article is an outstanding example of a skillful blending of library research and practice," said award committee chair Prudence Dalrymple. "It takes a careful and methodical approach to reference service in a special area and to a special group."
The Reference Service Press Award is given to an article that demonstrates excellence in writing, relevance, originality, timeliness and validity of methods used, and provides a valuable assessment of the sources used.
Source: American Library Association press release, July, 1990.
