Camila Alire, dean of libraries at Colorado State University, received the University of Colorado Medal in tribute of her years of dedication to higher education and to her community.

Partridge and Mulvane Public Libraries have been recognized by the South Central Kansas Library System as 1997's "Outstanding Small Public Libraries."

Mabel Brown, historian, writer and lecturer, donated her extensive collection of western history books to the Weston County (Wyoming) Library.

Kansas State Historical Society's Library & Archives Division was awarded the Interlibrary Loan Development Program grant from the Kansas Library Network Board. Through it, Kansas family history researchers will gain access, via microfiche, to 25 rare books.

Iowa City Public Library received a $60,000 grant from the Roy Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine to help fund the library's new automated system.

Patti Bateman, from the Aurora Public Library, has been named Colorado Librarian of the Year by the Colorado Library Association.

The Reading is Fundamental program conducted by the Friends of the Natrona County (Wyoming) Public Library was awarded a Steele-Reese Foundation grant for outstanding service in motivating youngsters to read.

Derby (Kansas) Public Library celebrated its 40th anniversary in April.

The Decorah (Iowa) Public Library received the 1997 Gale Research Company Financial Development Award recognizing its $1 million fund-raising campaign.

University of Colorado Science Library has been recognized as a Chemical Abstract Service Signature Library, one of the select research libraries in the world to subscribe to Chemical Abstracts since its inception.

Meeteetse (Wyoming) Library was awarded a Libri Foundation Books for Children grant to buy new books.

Tami Chumbley of the Bettendorf Public Library received the Quality Time Award from the Children and Young People's Forum of the Iowa Library Association.

The Iowa City and Davenport public libraries have been awarded Gates Library Foundation Grants.

Carl Manning, reporter for the Associated Press, has written a feature article about Kansas' 250 communities' home pages on the Blue Skyways web site. The Wichita Eagle published the article in its June 14 edition. See it on the web at www.wichitaeagle.com/technology/ skyways0614_txt.htm.

Membership in the Colorado Library Association is climbing. The total of individual, institutional and corporate members is up 27 percent from last year.

Carol White, associate librarian at the University of Wyoming Libraries, has received the 1998 Agnes Milstead Distinguished Librarianship Award.

Kay Runge, Davenport Public Library director and former BCR Board of Trustee member, was named president of the Iowa Humanities Board.

The East Library and Information Center of the Pikes Peak Library District now has a Young Adult Advisory Board composed of youths ages 12-18 years from all over Colorado Springs. Its members help decide and execute such tasks as selecting new books and magazines for the library's Young Adult section.

Wyoming State Library has received an award from the Wyoming Public Health Association for creating a partnership in diabetes information accessibility and public awareness. The State Library endorsed the diabetes project to library directors, facilitated the ordering of books and videos, provided cataloging records and prepared news releases.

University of Iowa received an award of $73,348 from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition for its "Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th Century."

Lori Arp, head of central reference and media libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was named the 1998 winner of the ACRL Instruction Sections' Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award.

The Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center, a special service of the Cedar Rapids Public Library, launched its new web site: isaic.cedar-rapids.lib.ia.us. The site provides Internet access to the ISAIC journal database of more than 18,000 journal and newsletter articles on substance abuse and gambling.

Camila Alire, dean of libraries at Colorado State University, and Orlando Archibeque, social sciences bibliographer at the Auraria Library, have co-authored a guide on Latino library services: Serving Latino Communities: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.

New Libraries

Iowa -- The new Musser Public Library will be in a renovated and expanded U.S. Post Office building. Iowa Gov. Branstad honored the Oskaloosa Public Library Building Committee with the Best New Development/Construction award. The new Council Bluffs Public Library celebrated with an August 6 open house at which columnist Will Manley spoke. In May, Fort Dodge voters approved a $2.6 million bond issue to construct a new public library.

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