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ICPSR Representative Tristan Draper Receives Innovation in College Libraries Award from American Library Association
ICPSR Representative Tristan MK Draper has received the ACRL Innovation in College Libraries Award for work on the Librarians Spill the Tea podcast.
Draper, Student Success & Engagement Librarian at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, shares the award with Mary Elizabeth Schiavone, Student Success & Engagement Librarian and Federal Depository Coordinator, also at Beloit College.
The award recognizes library workers at small to mid-sized college or university libraries who demonstrate innovation in library services related to the ACRL Plan for Excellence. Draper and Schiavone were honored for using podcasting as a creative way to connect with students and support information literacy education.
“The CLS Awards Committee recognized the Librarians Spill the Tea podcast as a unique way to connect with students and to provide information literacy education in an engaging format,” said Kathleen Baril, chair of the CLS Awards Committee. Baril also noted that the committee was impressed by the team’s efforts to share the podcast’s development and implementation through conference presentations and meetings with other library professionals.
Congratulations to Tristan Draper on this innovative recognition. Read the announcement from the American Library Association.
ICPSR Representative and Council Member Lynda Kellam wins Library Journal’s Community Builders Movers and Shakers award in Library Journal
Lynda Kellam, ICPSR Representative and Council Member, has been named one of Library Journal’s 2026 Movers & Shakers in the Community Builders category. Kellam is recognized for her leadership in preserving public data and advancing access to government information.
Kellam, Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, helped organize and coordinate the volunteer-powered Data Rescue Project when federal datasets related to public health, the environment, gender identity, census research, and diversity initiatives began disappearing from government websites in January 2025. Drawing on her previous work with the Preservation of Electronic Government Information project, Kellam and collaborators quickly mobilized librarians and data workers to identify and preserve at-risk federal data.
The Data Rescue Project backs up files along with metadata and documentation, making them freely accessible through the DataLumos repository. As of March 2026, volunteers had preserved more than 2,500 datasets from over 90 federal agencies and offices.
“We’re really committed to this idea of public data as a public good,” Kellam told Library Journal. Read the Library Journal profile: Lynda Kellam | Movers & Shakers 2026—Community Builders.
ICPSR Representative Sarah Young Wins Outstanding Professional Development Award From American Library Association
ICPSR Representative Sarah Young has received the American Library Association’s University Libraries Section (ULS) Outstanding Professional Development Award as part of the team behind the Evidence Synthesis Institute program.
Young, Social Sciences Librarian and Director of the Evidence Synthesis Program at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, shares the award with Matthew Kibbee, Evidence Synthesis Coordinator at Cornell University Library; Megan Kocher, Science & Evidence Synthesis Librarian at University of Minnesota Libraries; and Amy Riegelman, Social Sciences & Evidence Synthesis Librarian at University of Minnesota Libraries.
The ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award recognizes library, archives, and museum workers whose contributions to professional development opportunities for academic libraries have been especially noteworthy or influential. The Evidence Synthesis Institute was honored for its impact on scholarly research and academic librarianship, particularly in helping library professionals build skills related to evidence synthesis methods and services.
Moushumi “Mou” Chakraborty, chair of the ULS Awards Committee, said the committee was “extremely impressed with the breadth and depth of the measurable impact the ESI has contributed to the field of scholarly research and academic librarianship.”
Congratulations to Sarah Young and her colleagues on this national recognition. Read the announcement from the American Library Association.