Valerie Perry receives Besant Professional Award

Valerie Perry

Valerie Perry, director of Branch Libraries head of the Agricultural Information Center and interim head of the Science Library, received the 2014 Special Libraries Association Kentucky Chapter Larry Besant Professional Award at the SLA Fall meeting in Louisville. She was recognized as the first Kentuckian to serve on the SLA Board of Directors and for meritorious past service to the association and the profession. The Besant award is given for “continuing excellence and commitment to the field of librarianship or a subject specialty within.”