Three of York's librarians have won prestigious awards over the last several months. Here's an overview of their achievements.
Mary Kandiuk wins CAUT national award
Mary Kandiuk, visual arts, design & theatre librarian at the Scott Library, has received the Academic Librarians’ Distinguished Service Award for her contributions in "leadership and professionalism that have advanced the status of academic librarians at York" from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
The CAUT also cited Mary’s "sustained involvement and service in YUFA and in her work as an academic librarian".
Mary is currently completing her second book, Caribbean and South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bibliography of their Works and of English Criticism (Scarecrow Press Inc., Forthcoming). Her first work, published in 1990, was French-Canadian Authors: A Bibliography of their Works and of English- Language Criticism (Scarecrow Press).
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Ilo Maimets wins OCUFA award
Steacie Science and Engineering librarian Ilo Maimets has received the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations’ (OCUFA) Academic Librarianship Award in a province-wide competition. “OCUFA’s Awards Committee was impressed by how critical Ms. Maimets has been considered to the evolution of York’s School of Nursing during a period of rapid growth,” said OCUFA President Michael Doucet.
OCUFA’S Awards Committee also noted that “faculty members consider her a true colleague, and students consider her faculty – both consider her a valuable resource.”
Ilo has recently created instructional film clips to teach distance education students to search CINAHL. Currently she is developing instructional materials to increase online searching proficiency for nursing students and, in collaboration with faculty, designing assignments with a dual focus on nursing content and the process of finding and evaluating information.
Norda Majekodunmi wins OCULA Award
Norda Majekodunmi, reference librarian at the Scott Library, is the first recipient of the new Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) Award for Graduating Students/New Professionals.
Candidates for the annual OCULA Award are either graduating students from a Master's program in library/information studies in Ontario with an interest in academic libraries or new professionals in the academic library field in Ontario who have been working for no more than two years.
Applicants are asked to submit a proposal for an OCULA conference session for the Ontario Library Association Super Conference, covering a topic that would be particularly meaningful or helpful for new academic librarians. Norda’s proposed session is entitled: The 3 Ps of Academic Librarianship: Projects, Publications and Presentations and will be one of the OCULA sessions at the OLA Super Conference in February 2006.
