Jan Merrill-Oldham receives Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Jan Merrill-Oldham has
won ALA/ALCTS's Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award for her
outstanding contributions to library preservation and conservation.
Below is the official announcement from the Award Jury:

"Jan Merrill-Oldham has actively worked in the area of preservation
since 1975, achieving both a national and international reputation
in her field.   Until September 2010, Ms. Merrill-Oldham served as
the Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian at Harvard University
Library, directing the Weismann Preservation Center at Harvard
University and the Preservation and Imaging Services Department at
Harvard College.

She has participated actively in ALCTS since 1980 with committee
appointments ranging from the Legislation Committee, Nominating
Committee, and Membership Committee to the ALCTS Board of Directors
and the Preservation Microfilming Committee.  Merrill-Oldham has
also served in PARS from 1980, where she developed a well-earned
reputation as one of the preservation community's foremost leaders.
Her involvement in PARS includes having served as vice-chair/chair
of the Section, chair of the PARS Nominating Committee, chair of the
Task Force on Preservation Digitizing, chair of the Task Force to
Initiate Further Action on Alkaline Paper Legislation, co-chair of
the Photographic and Recording Media Committee, and member of
numerous other PARS committees.

Merrill-Oldham has made extensive and substantive contributions to
the literature of preservation, including four books "Preservation
Program Models: A Study Project and Report," "Guide to the
ANSI/NISO/LIB Library Binding Standard," "Guide to the Library
Binding Institute Standard for Library Binding," "Conservation and
Preservation of Library Materials," chapters in numerous other books
on preservation, conference proceedings, and articles in domestic
and international journals.  Her presentations on preservation at
conferences, meetings, and workshops read like a travelogue ranging
from Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco to Quebec, Ontario, The
Hague, Stockholm, and Uppsala.

She is a recipient of two major ALCTS awards, the 1990 Esther J.
Piercy Award and the 2004 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation
Award.

In making our choice, the Jury also uses the award not only to honor
a worthy candidate, but to mark this as a time to highlight the
importance of preservation, both of traditional materials and of the
new digital materials being created today."

The award will be presented at ALA Annual's awards banquet on June
28, 2011 in New Orleans.

Tara Kennedy
ALA/ALCTS/PARS Chair
Preservation Field Services Librarian
Preservation Department
Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203-432-4335 (Voice)
Fax: 203 432 9900


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