Teaching Awards

There will be a call for 2012 nominations in early 2013.

Teaching Excellence Annual Award

The University Libraries Annual Teaching Excellence Award honors one person who has created and delivered exemplary and innovative instruction programs over a single year. To apply, complete a Teaching Portfolio form detailing your instructional activities and behaviors. All librarians who engage in teaching are encouraged to apply. The Committee will collect and judge applications based on criteria outlined in the teaching portfolio. Recommendations for the award recipient will be sent to the director for a final decision. A plaque and monetary award will be presented to the recipient.

How to apply: Submit a Teaching Portfolio (Word document)

Recipients: Carol Powell, Health Sciences Library, 2003-04 Tina Schneider, Lima Campus Library, 2004-05 Karen Diaz, Instruction Librarian, 2005-06 Danny Dotson, Subject Specialist, 2006-07 Beth Kattelman, Special Collections Curator, 2008 Miriam Conteh-Morgan and Maureen Donovan, Subject Specialists, 2009 Eric Johnson, Associate Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 2010 Danny Dotson, Mathematical Sciences Librarian, Science & Engineering Library, 2011 (in photo)

Danny has accomplished a lot in 2011 in regards to teaching. He continues to support nearly 1,000 first year engineering students through an engineering version of the Make the Leap Program that he adapted and helps to maintain. He continued as a member of the InfoLit Toolkit working group and now is part of the ongoing team to keep the toolkit active and growing. Danny was selected as a participant of the Instructor Development Program for 2011-12 and is developing some search skill building games as part of that program. And finally Danny organized a working group and began working towards revising net.TUTOR to give it a facelift, additional content, and more multimedia.

The Virginia Tiefel Achievement in Teaching Award

The Achievement Award recognizes contributions to instruction in the Libraries over many years. It will be awarded if and when there is a successful nominee presented in a given year. The recipient of the Achievement Award will be chosen from a group of peer nominations. Librarians are encouraged to nominate a colleague who they deem especially worthy of this distinction. The Committee will collect nominations and recommend the award recipient to the director for a final decision. A plaque and monetary award will be presented to the recipient.

Nomination Instructions (PDF)

Recipients: Nancy O'Hanlon, Instruction Librarian, 2003-04 Ted Riedinger, Latin American Studies, 2004-05 Gerry Greenberg, Subject Specialist, 2005-06 Katherine Webb, Subject Specialist, 2006-07 Anne Fields, Subject Specialist, 2008 Karen Diaz, eLearning Librarian, 2009 Carol Powell, Health Sciences Library, 2010  Fred Roecker, Instruction Librarian, 2011 (in photo)

This award recognizes contributions to instruction in the Libraries over many years and is chosen from a group of peer nominations. 

Fred's position with the libraries for 23 years has been in the area of instruction and not only has he filled this role through voluminous teaching responsibilities, but he has also done so as a skilled classroom teacher and an important contributer to a variety of innovative programs run through the office. These programs stretch back to The Gateway to Information, hiring the librariean to develop net.TUTOR, contributing to the conversion of the pencil and paper UVC 100 library assignment to the Make the Leap program, and as part of the team that developed the HeadHunt orientation game. His classroom presentations are too numerous to name, including 80 sessions in the last 5 years alone. He received letters of support from the instructor lead for the ESL 108 program he has contributed so greatly to, and from Virginia Tiefel herself.

Please direct questions regarding the awards to any member of the committee.