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<i>Have you or do you know of an individual or group who has made an </i><i><span style="color:black">outstanding professional achievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, or the tools and techniques of librarianship?</span></i></p>
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The Melvil Dewey Medal is an annual award consisting of $2,000, a Dewey Medal, and a 24k gold-framed citation to an individual or group for recent creative leadership of high order, particularly in those fields in which Melvil Dewey was actively interested:
library management, library training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship. The 2015 award winner was Hwa-Wei Lee, former chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.</p>
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ALA is currently accepting nominations for the Melvil Dewey Medal award: <a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/44/apply" id="LPlnk570867" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline" title="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/44/apply
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http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/44/apply</a>. The online application is to be submitted to ALA by December 1, 2015. For additional information, contact Ben Hunter, Award Jury Chair,
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bhunter@uidaho.edu</a> or Cheryl Malden, ALA Governance Office, <a href="mailto:cmalden@ala.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline">
cmalden@ala.org</a>.</p>
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An annual award consisting of a bronzed medal and a 24k gold-framed citation of achievement for recent creative leadership of high order, particularly in those fields ...</div>
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