Washington, DC - The 1999 Helen M. Eckard Award for Exemplary Use of FSCS Data was presented on Tuesday, March 28, 2000 by Data Use Subcommittee chair Keith Curry Lance to Edward Lakner, Assistant Director of the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his article, Optimizing Samples for Surveys of Public Libraries: Alternatives and Compromises, Library and Information Science Research, v. 20, n. 4, pp. 321-42 (1998). The Eckard Award, first presented in 1995, is named for an NCES staff member who provided outstanding leadership as a professional librarian for the support of the Library Statistics Program.
The 1999 Francis Keppel Awards were presented to 35 states and 1 territory during the annual FSCS Professional Development Conference on Tuesday, March 28, 2000 in San Antonio, Texas. The Keppel Award is named after Francis Keppel, a U.S. Commissioner of Education who served from 1962 to 1965. He also served as a distinguished member of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) from 1978 to 1983. Dr. Keppel was an early and enthusiastic advocate of reliable and regularly reported national, state, and local library statistics that would provide a basis for public policy formulation and the improvement of library services to the entire spectrum of the U.S. population. Dianne Carty, Chair of the FSCS Steering Committee presented the Award to 10 first-time individual winners.* The first Awards were earned by four states at the 1992 annual Training Workshop. To date, all but three territories have earned the Award.
The Award is presented each year to the qualifying Chief Officers (listed first) and Data Coordinators (listed second) of state library agencies. The Award is given for submitting prompt, complete, and high-quality public library data and is in the form of an abacus with a mounted engraved brass plate.
Following is a list of the 1999 Keppel Award recipients:
| ALASKA Karen Crane; Mary Jennings ARKANSAS John A. "Pat" Murphey; Carolyn Ashcraft CNMI Terry McLaughlin*; Paul Steere COLORADO Nancy Bolt; Keith Curry Lance CONNECTICUT Kendall Wiggin*; Leon Shatkin DELAWARE Tom Sloan; Tom Dunlop FLORIDA Barratt Wilkins; Sondra Taylor-Furbee HAWAII Virginia Lowell; Betty Kingery IDAHO Charles A. Bolles; Frank Nelson ILLINOIS Jean Wilkins*; Stanley E. Adams INDIANA C. Ray Ewick; Roberta Brooker IOWA Sharman Smith; Gerry Rowland KANSAS Duane Johnson; Roy Bird KENTUCKY James A. Nelson; Jay Bank LOUISIANA Thomas F. Jaques; Gretchen Fairbanks MAINE J. Gary Nichols; Felicia Kennedy* MARYLAND J. Maurice Travillian; Michael Osborne MASSACHUSETTS Keith M. Fiels; Dianne Carty |
MICHIGAN Diane Odrobina (acting)*; Naomi Krefman MISSISSIPPI John Allen Pritchard; Lynn Shurden MONTANA Karen Strege; Diane Gunderson NEBRASKA Rod Wagner; Kathleen "Kit" Keller NEW HAMPSHIRE Michael York*; John Barrett NEW YORK Janet Martin Welch; Judy Peters* NORTH CAROLINA Sandra Cooper; Tracy Casorso* NORTH DAKOTA Mike Jaugstetter; Carol S. Boganowski OHIO Michael Lucas; Darla Cottrill OREGON James Scheppke*; Christopher Rumbaugh* RHODE ISLAND Barbara Weaver; Ann Piascik SOUTH CAROLINA James B. Johnson, Jr.; Libby Law TEXAS Robert Martin; Patty Davis UTAH Amy Owen; Sandi Long WASHINGTON Nancy Zussy; Karen Goettling WEST VIRGINIA David Price; J.D. Waggoner WISCONSIN Calvin Potter; Alan Zimmerman WYOMING Lesley Boughton*; Joe French* |
* Number of Keppel Awards Received
| Alabama * Alaska **** Arizona ***** Arkansas ***** California **** CNMI ** Colorado ***** Connecticut ****** Delaware ******** District of Columbia ** Florida ****** Georgia **** Guam * Hawaii ***** Idaho ******* Illinois ****** Indiana ***** Iowa ********* Kansas **** Kentucky ******* Louisiana ******* Maine ***** Maryland ****** Massachusetts ****** Michigan ****** Kansas **** Minnesota **** |
Mississippi ******* Missouri **** Montana ******* Nebraska ****** Nevada **** New Hampshire ****** New Jersey * New Mexico ***** New York **** North Carolina ******* North Dakota ******* Ohio ******** Oklahoma **** Oregon First Award Pennsylvania ****** Rhode Island ******** South Carolina ******** South Dakota * Tennessee ******* Texas ****** Utah ******** Vermont ****** Virginia **** Washington ******** West Virginia ******* Wisconsin ******* Wyoming ****** |
FSCS is a cooperative program of the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science that has been in operation since 1988. The purpose of the Professional Development Conference is to improve the annual collection, reporting, and use of national public library data. Participants included Data Coordinators from all of the States and Territories.
"The purpose of the National Center for Education Statistics shall be to collect, analyze, and disseminate statistics and other data related to education in the United States and in other Nations." - Section 406(b) of the General Education Provisions Act, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1221e-1).
The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science is a permanent, independent agency of the Federal government charged by Public Law 91-345 to advise the President and Congress on national and international library and information policies and plans.