ACRL’s 2018 Awards Program: Honoring outstanding achievements in academic librarianship

Awards: Outstanding TA Award

Game Theory Honoring Abraham Neyman's Scientific Achievements:

Eilon Solan (Tel-Aviv University) Stopping Games with Termination Rates Multiplayer stopping game with termination rates are continuous-time stopping games in which when some players stop at the time interval [t,t+dt), the game does not terminate with probability 1, but rather stops with some probability, which is of the order of dt and may depend on time and on the set of players who stop at t...

Outstanding Employees Honored With Awards for Excellence

Gisela Telis was recognized for making her mark ? online, on the radio and on television ? as a content producer for Arizona Public Media [4]. Telis has received Emmy Awards for her work bringing attention to mental health issues. In her nomination letter, Jack Gibson, director and general manager of Arizona Public Media, wrote that Telis' work "exemplifies the best and most meaningful aspects ...

[The outstanding achievements of Adolf Kussmaul].

BACKGROUND Adolf Kussmaul was born in Graben, close to Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 22,1822. He graduated at Heidelberg University in 1845 and he received his medical degree in 1855. He made original descriptions, such as the ophthalmoscope, the gastroscope or endoscope, and Kussmaul signs, besides the respiration named after him. He was the first to perform a thoracocenteses, peritoneal and...

The "Multihued Palette" of Academic Librarianship

223 " The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex issues. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. To Huxley's famous list of those prone to oversimplification given an appropriate platform, I fear we must add the occasional academic adminis...