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Androski, Harper receive Librarian of the Year awards
By Katie Gilbert
Library Communications
Posted 4/19/2004
MADISON, Wis. -- Beth Harper and Helene Androski have been named the 2004 Librarians of the Year by their peers in the UW-Madison Librarians' Assembly. They received the award at the libraries' annual High Tea, held April 15 in Lathrop Hall.
Two Librarian of the Year awards are given to unclassified staff members each spring to recognize their contributions to the General Library System. One award is granted to someone who has worked in the GLS for more than 10 years and the other to a staff member who has been with the GLS for 10 years or fewer. These awards were created in 1989 to recognize librarians who have made exceptional contributions to the libraries.
Harper, who received the award for 10 years of service or less, is the government documents reference librarian at Memorial Library, a position she has held since 1997. She works with federal, United Nations, European Union and British Parliamentary documents and teaches classes on finding UN documents pertaining to women's issues among other topics. She also offers staff training on finding government documents and manages a Web site of Memorial Library's government documents.
According to one nominator, "her knowledge in the area of documents, and the pleasantness with which she imparts it, make Beth invaluable. . . . Beth routinely spends long periods of time with patrons helping them track down exactly the information they need, teaches classes and contributes positively to departmental discussions on various matters."
Androski, who received the award for those with more than 10 years of service, is a senior academic librarian in the Memorial Library Reference Department and has been with the UW-Madison Libraries since 1981. She started out as a service assistant in Memorial Library's Circulation department. She coordinates Memorial Library's library instruction program and sits on the Library Instruction Co-ordinators Planning Group, which plans the campus-wide instruction program.
She also serves as Memorial Library’s co-ordinator for the Communication Arts A and B courses, developing lesson plans, handouts and schedules, and teaching some of the classes. She has designed a tutorial used in Psychology 225, which was included in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Internet Education Project.
"Her efforts as a reference and teaching librarian have gone a long way toward making our libraries more accessible to our users and more responsive to staff," according to one colleague who nominated her for the award.
