宾州大学公园. ——埃莉莎·斯特恩·卡霍伊, education librarian and director of the 宾夕法尼亚图书中心, 还有Tom Reinsfelder, head librarian at 蒙特中音校园图书馆, 有 received the title of Distinguished Librarian in the 大学图书馆 for their outstanding academic, research and service contributions.
Cahoy and Reinsfelder were nominated by 大学图书馆 colleagues, reviewed by a 大学图书馆 Distinguished Librarian Selection Committee and approved by Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi following a recommendation by Executive Vice President and Provost Justin Schwartz.
“Ellysa and Tom both 有 lengthy and exemplary records of academic research achievement and service to the field of librarianship at Penn State, 在宾夕法尼亚和其他地方,菲娅. Chadwell, dean of 大学图书馆 and Scholarly Communications, said. “The distinguished librarian title was created to recognize scholars of their caliber, and I’m so pleased their faculty colleagues 有 chosen to honor them in this way.”
Distinguished librarians and distinguished professors are special academic titles “intended to recognize a limited number of outstanding [faculty] for whom endowed chairs or professorships are otherwise unavailable,根据… 其学术政策. They are considered “recognition that can be awarded to qualified faculty members upon recommendation of their peers and the administration.” These titles are made for a period of five years and subject to a performance review process at five-year intervals.
Cahoy joined the 大学图书馆 in 2001 as information literacy librarian. 2013年,她获得了 Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section, the nation’s highest recognition in instruction librarianship. Her record of research has been honored multiple times nationally, including receiving the 门户:图书馆 & 学院 2015年度最佳文章奖 for her co-authored work with Smiljana Antonijevic, “Personal library curation: An ethnographic study of scholars' information practices.” She now serves as that journal’s editor. 她还获得了 二安德鲁W. 梅隆 基金研究资助, both centered on exploring and optimizing faculty and graduate students’ information management workflows. After serving as its assistant director from 2011 to 2022, she recently was named director of the 宾夕法尼亚图书中心, an affiliate of the Library of Congress sponsored by the 大学图书馆.
Reinsfelder joined Penn State in 2003 and was named head librarian of the 蒙特中音校园图书馆 in 2018. In 2012 he co-founded the open access journal 宾西法尼亚 Libraries: Research & 实践 and served as co-editor through 2020. In 2013 he began coordinating and expanded the 大学图书馆’ 向图书管理员咨询服务, a role he continues to hold as the current co-director of reference services. In 2021 his research co-authored with Jacob Moore was awarded Best Publication Award from the Engineering Library Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Reinsfelder earned a doctoral degree in administration and leadership studies from Indiana University of 宾西法尼亚 in 2012 and served as president of the 宾夕法尼亚州图书馆协会 in 2021.
Cahoy和Reinsfelder加入 穆瑟琳达的负责人。 弗莱彻L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, as the 大学图书馆’ three faculty members holding distinguished librarian titles. Musser was named a distinguished librarian during the 2008-09 academic year.