ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: LJ's Teacher of the Year Is Honored

ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting - American Library Association - Library Journal

By Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 01/17/2010

Rebecca Knuth, a professor in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa (UHM), was honored yesterday for winning the Library Journal Teaching Award for 2009.

LJ Editor-at-Large John Berry said he was blown away by Knuth's attitude, exemplified by her belief that "instructors and students form communities in which to share the learning.”

That sense of community was invoked by CEO Marty Kahn of ProQuest, which sponsors the award, which includes a $5000 honorarium.

And Knuth, when it was her time for brief remarks, also invoked community. "In Hawai'i, we have the word 'ohana," she said, defining it as "a loosely knit community that supports each other."

"I think ProQuest and LJ and library education... are part of the same community," she said, stating that "it was a pleasure" to come from sunny Hawai'i to chilly Boston for the ceremony.

(Photos by Michael Rogers, from LJ's Flickr page.)




(LJ Executive Editor Rebecca Miller, Knuth, ProQuest's Marty Kahn)