The 2009 AASL Conference Awards Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of our two travel awards.
Rina Vecchiola, recipient of the Frances Chen AASL Travel Award is the Art & Architecture Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis. She has a M.L.I.S. from UCLA and a MA of Art & Architecture History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rina has previously worked as a librarian at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and completed an internship at the Getty Research Institute. She learned about AASL by attending the Architecture Section meeting at the ARLIS/NA conference last year. She is excited to attend her first AASL conference and is looking forward to contributing as a committee member, and/or officer and conference presenter.
Rachel Juris is the recipient of the AASL Student Conference Travel Award. She will be graduating in May from the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois. Rachel received her BA in Art History, with a concentration in Architectural History from Bard College. She spent a year studying in Europe through the Shape of Two Cities program offered through Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. She is fluent in German and French. Rachel’s professional goals include working as a cataloger and/or reference librarian and collection manager in a library with an architecture focus.
Please extend your congratulations and give a warm welcome to Rina and Rachel in Portland.
Judy Connorton, Margaret Boylan, Cathy Carpenter
AASL Conference Travel Awards Committee
