Tony Stankus Receives Distinguished Member Award from Professional Organization
Tony Stankus, Life Sciences Librarian at the University Libraries, received the 2011 Distinguished Member Award of the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association on Tuesday, June 14, at its 102nd international convention.
The honor is never announced in advance of the annual business meeting, and is conferred by an Awards Committee composed of past winners and national division officers. Stankus was chosen for the honor from the more than 11,000 members of the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division for having published more than 70 articles on biology librarianship, for having almost 50,000 hits on his DBIO blog for biology librarians, for having successfully held successive national offices for the DBIO Division, for having previously won two of the association's highest awards (the Rose Vormelker Award for Mentoring in 2005, and Fellow of the SLA in 2009), and most importantly for having given another standing-room-only presentation at this year's national convention—based on a study he co-authored with fellow librarian Amy Hardin—describing the ranking of America's universities in terms of the number of articles they contributed to the professional literature of subject-specialized librarianship from the period of 2000-2010 (Arkansas came in 19th, tied with Yale and the University of Arizona).
Details on this study will be published in the July/August issue of Information Outlook, the official trade magazine of the Special Libraries Association.
Contacts
Molly Boyd, public relations coordinator
University Libraries
575-2962,
mdboyd@uark.edu
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