University's Stevenson receives American Library Association award

8:35 a.m., April 6, 2015--The University of Delaware Library has announced that John A. Stevenson, associate librarian in the Multimedia Collections and Services Department, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the James Bennett Childs Award by the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).

The James Bennett Childs Award is a tribute to an individual who has made a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship.

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• Outstanding student teachers
• Library recognition

The award is based on stature, service and publication, which may be in any or all areas of documents librarianship. 

In 1976, James Bennett Childs was honored by the Government Documents Round Table as the recipient of the first GODORT award for distinguished contributions to documents librarianship with an award named to honor him.

Childs served at the Library of Congress for over 50 years, authored numerous books and articles, and stressed that a true documents librarian needs to know what is inside the many publications that pass through his or her hands and use that knowledge to better serve the scholarly researcher

The award includes a plaque with the likeness of Childs that will be presented to Stevenson at the GODORT awards reception during the annual conference of the American Library Association in San Francisco on Sunday, June 28.