I am pleased
to announce Tari Keller as the winner of the Paul A. Willis Outstanding Faculty
Award.
Perhaps our
greatest responsibility as librarians is to ensure students, faculty, and
members of the community have access to the information they need to study,
teach, research, and grow intellectually.
As a cataloger and systems librarian in UK Libraries Tari has spent
three decades doing just that. She has
been indispensible to the university and the Commonwealth of Kentucky as UK and
other libraries transitioned from card catalogs to different versions of
computerized catalogs and online searching.
In addition
to the leadership, creativity, and innovation she has brought to her library
career, Tari’s nominator highlighted her spirit of service, saying, “Along with
being a consummate professional, and an expert Systems Librarian, I cannot say
enough about what a thoughtful, giving, conscientious person Tari Keller
is. We certainly are lucky to have her
at the University of Kentucky and the state of Kentucky has benefited greatly
by her expertise, professionalism, and by her generosity of spirit.”
I hope you
will all join me in congratulating Tari, and urge you to do so as well at the
UK Libraries Annual Dinner April 11 where we will officially recognize Tari’s
accomplishments. The 2014 UK Libraries
Annual Dinner will be held at the Marriott Griffin Gate on the evening of April
11. A cocktail hour will be followed by a full dinner, punctuated by
recognition of Intellectual Achievement Award winner Karl Raitz of UK Arts and
Sciences Department of Geography in addition to recognizing Tari.
Tickets for
faculty, staff, and their guests are available for the discounted price of $30.
Contact Carrie Poll, cpoll3@uky.edu, for more information.
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