Thursday,
May 4, 2017
4:26pm
Worthington Memory wins Online History Award from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
RUSA's History Section selected Kara Reuter and Stefan Langer as the 2017 winners of the award, stating:
This initiative in community history centers on the history and people of Worthington, Ohio and has applied time and thought to digitization standards, organization, and design questions confronting community history and memory. Given the importance of outreach and community buy-in not only in gathering data but processing it, the efforts of Worthington Memory in leveraging such participation is a huge success. Because of the thorough thematic organization, the impact of this and similar projects could go beyond local history to generate ideas about how people reacted to larger national phenomena.
The award encourages "the development of freely available, sustainable online history resources by singling out innovative projects and the individuals who created them."
Meredith Southard will accept the award in June at the RUSA Achievement Awards Ceremony and Reception at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.