Recent College of Information doctoral students Linda Most and Annette Goldsmith received awards at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2009 Conference in Denver during January.

ALISE honored Linda Most with the Norman Horrocks Leadership Award as “the new member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in its professional activities.” Linda joined ALISE as she began her doctoral studies at the College in late 2004. She became active in the organization soon after joining, serving on the 2006 doctoral student recruitment initiative. In 2007 and 2008, she served as a convenor the Doctoral Student Special Interest Group. She co-chaired the 2008 Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition.

Linda’s doctoral research focus is on “the library as place.” Her study looked at how a predominantly African American and blue collar rural community used the public space provided by its library system.

Annette Goldsmith received honorable mention in the 2009 Jeanne Teague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Contest. Her research, “Found in Translation: A Mixed Methods Study of Decision-Making by U.S. Editors Who Acquire Children’s Books for Translation,” attempts to make sense of the limited amount of children’s books that are translated for the U.S. market.

Annette is chair of the 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Committee and has been appointed to the Outstanding International Books Committee of the United States Board on Books for Young People.