I can answer this, as the current president of Core, which is the new division of ALA that incorporates ALCTS, LITA, and LLAMA. (ACRL is another division of ALA, not a separate entity, and their reasons for pausing awards was rather different than Core). As part of the merger process, all the awards were considered as a whole, and while a few of the awards came through unchanged, most of the awards have been rebranded and will relaunch this year. So keep an eye out for calls for nominees, coming soon--serials librarianship still very much included in the type of work these awards will recognize.
Margaret Heller Digital Services Librarian // Loyola University Chicago President // Core, a division of the American Library Association Chair // ELUNA Primo Working Group mhell...@luc.edu // 773-508-2686 // 1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60660 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Michelle Urberg Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2023 8:57 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award If ALA is doing the same thing as ACRL, they are completely rethinking awards and have stopped all committee work until those decisions are made. They are discussing what constitutes an award and whether industry sponsors are appropriate. Michelle Urberg On Sun, May 21, 2023, 2:53 PM Eric Lease Morgan < 00000107b9c961ae-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org> wrote: > Does anybody here know the status of the Ulrich’s Serials > Librarianship Award? It is/was an award given out for at least twenty > years, and the Web page describing it is... at a loss for words. See: > > https://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/crs/cmtes/ats-serawbowker > > Is the award defunct? > > -- > Eric Morgan >
