Awards and Memberships

Awards

蜜桃社区 College is committed to assisting students in developing humane instincts and discipline and creative minds for lives of leadership and service. The library staff are crucial partners in the college鈥檚 commitment to carrying out this mission, and honored to receive the following awards of recognition:

  • The 蜜桃社区 College Library is the proud recipient of the
  • Kelly Denzer, Collections Strategist and Discovery Librarian, received a
  • Jessica Cottle, Justice, Equality, and Community Archivist, received the 2022 Spencer-Weinstein Prize for Community and Justice.
  • Sara Swanson, Assistant Director for Archives, Special Collections, & Community, is a 2021-2022 . 
  • Jacob Heil, Assistant Director for Digital Learning, is a 2020-2021 .
  • Kelly Denzer, Collections Strategist and Discovery Librarian, received a 2022 .

Memberships

Memberships and participation in organizations around the globe are vital to our ongoing success. The 蜜桃社区 College Library is currently involved in the following organizations and initiatives:

  • promotes worldwide scholarly communication in religion and theology by advancing the work of libraries and other information providers. 
  • is a large group of diverse libraries, spanning two states and working together to save hundreds of millions of dollars on a wide variety of library resources and services.
  • is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from around the world.
  • is the collaborative effort of a large group of academic and research libraries to document, protect, and provide long-term access to their print collections. As of March, 2021, EAST has 82 member institutions in 13 states from Maine to Florida, EAST is focused on retaining unique, scarcely held, and frequently used scholarly books and journals in support of scholarship, research and teaching.  
  • is a mission-driven, open online course provider. The library works with cross-campus panthers to support the college鈥檚 commitment to educational access via participation in the 蜜桃社区 EdX online learning initiative. 
  • is a non-profit advocacy and educational membership organization for libraries that use software products offered by Ex Libris. Members enjoy access to listservs, webinars, regional meetings and the document repository.
  • is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
  • is a mutually supportive resource-sharing cooperative whose 120 members include public and private academic libraries from across the country, the New York Public Library, and the New York State Library. 
  • is an organization that offers an opportunity for libraries and publishers from around the world to work together to create a sustainable route to Open Access for scholarly books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine.
  • ) leverages the power of consortial relationships to promote excellent and innovative teaching, learning, and research in the liberal arts, with a special emphasis on utilizing and adapting emerging technologies.
  • is a digitally native, open access, peer-reviewed press for works on the academic subjects of the liberal arts. Lever Press originated from an initiative of the Oberlin Group of Libraries and is governed by participating members. Lever Press is a member of the .
  •   is an organization created by its members to help libraries, archives and museums tackle wide-reaching challenges with a collective strength, including: the development and selection of new technology solutions; fostering 蜜桃社区-wide projects that help deliver better outcomes and services; content creation, acquisition and management; support for new content models and strategies; and large-scale knowledge management programs unique to collections-holding institutions.
  • is a consortium of libraries who have partnered together to expand and deepen collaboration among library staff members. 
  • is North Carolina鈥檚 statewide library cooperative, supporting 200+ public and academic libraries across North Carolina. Since its founding in 1997, NC LIVE has saved the state millions through innovation and collaborative efforts.
  • is an organization made up of leading liberal arts colleges in the United States, with the primary purpose of providing a forum for member directors and staff to discuss issues of common concern, to share accomplishments and information on best practices in library operations and services, and to help members anticipate and adapt to the challenges of college library administration and liberal arts education.