Kelly Jensen of University of Texas at Austin wins second annual award

United Kingdom, May 15, 2008 – Emerald Group Publishing Limited is thrilled to announce the winner of the second annual Emerald MLS Student Best Paper Award. Kelly Jensen from the University of Texas at Austin is the 2008 winner for her paper titled “Network building: using web 2.0 for collection development”.

Ms. Jensen will receive a check for $1,200 toward a student membership in the American Library Association (ALA), conference registration to the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, and travel-related expenses. She will be presented with the award during an Emerald reception at the ALA Annual Conference. Her paper will undergo the normal peer-review process with the prospect of publication in the Emerald journal Collection Building.

“I am grateful to Emerald for offering this opportunity to Information/Library students, and to my professor, Dr. Lynn Westbrook, for supporting my research,” said Ms. Jensen. “I was excited to submit my paper after discovering there had yet to be published an account of how 2.0 technologies could be utilized for collection development. I hope my insights are useful for the field as we become more comfortable with these technologies”.

The Emerald MLS Student Best Paper Award is sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing as part of its Welcome to Emerald Program for ALA-accredited graduate schools in North America.

In addition, Emerald recognizes two other submissions with Honorable Mentions: Jill E. Anderson, also from the University of Texas at Austin for her paper entitled “Using professional forums to assess historians' E-Resource needs”, and Amanda Rose Horsman from Dalhousie University for her paper entitled “Capitalizing on collections: Fostering social capital through library collections”.

Kelly Jensen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and English from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and just completed her first year at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She is employed at the Archives of the Episcopal Church as an archives assistant and the Center for American History as a research intern. She looks forward to a career in the special library field.