The 2025 Winners of the IACRL People's Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing

Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries Forum (IACRL)

May 22, 2025

The results are in, and we want to congratulate this year's winners of the People's Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing! 

First Place Title: “Along for the Journey: Graduate Student Perceptions of Research” Authors: Alissa Droog, Northern Illinois University; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo; Francis Brady, National Louis University

Second Place Title: “Change What You Can, Teach What You Can’t: A Usability Study of Primo VE at an Academic Library" Authors: Christina Norton and Michelle Nielson Ott, Bradley University; Elizabeth Bloodworth, Illinois Wesleyan University

Third Place (tied) Title: “It All Started with Etienne: Developing Fine Arts Outreach with Unique Archival Collections” Author: Robert Ridinger, Northern Illinois University

Title: “Consulting with an Embedded Librarian: Student Perceptions on the Value of Required Research Meetings” Authors: Susan R. Franzen, Caitlin Stewart, and Joshua Newport, Illinois State University; Mallory Jallas, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thank you all for voting, and stay tuned for news about a webinar featuring this year's winners.

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