Faculty and Staff Accolades (2020-21)

Kathleen Bell, Head, Assessment and Planning

  • Member, Communications Committee, 2021 Conference on Academic Library Management

Ashley Blinstrub, Student Success and Inclusion Librarian

  • Member, Library Accessibility Alliance's Steering Committee (March 2021)
  • Co-Presenter, "Raising Each Other Up: Using Instructional Communities of Practice to Collaborate and Grow," ACRL 2021 (April 2021)

Melanie Bopp, Head, Access Services

  • Member, Logistics Committee, 2021 Conference on Academic Library Management

Jessica Bowdoin, Head, Resource Licensing and Delivery

  • Member, VIVA's Resource Sharing Committee (March 2021)

Lynn Eaton, Director, Special Collections Research Center

  • Coordinator, "The Pandemic's Impact on Serving Special Collections," Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (March 2021)

Stephanie Grimm, Art & Art History Librarian

Maoria Kirker, Lead, Teaching and Learning Team

  • Member (Appointed), National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Information Literacy Module Review Task Force, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2020-2022
  • Co-founder, 2021 Conference on Academic Library Management
  • Co-Presenter, "Raising Each Other Up: Using Instructional Communities of Practice to Collaborate and Grow," ACRL 2021 (April 2021)
  • Recipient, Adjunct Teacher of Distinction Award, George Mason University (April 2021)

Margaret Lam, Physical Sciences and STEM Data Librarian

  • Member, VIVA's Outreach Committee (March 2021)

Carl Leak, Life Sciences Librarian

  • Co-recipient, grant from National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region (NNLM SEA) for "Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices"
  • Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals, Medical Library Association (March 2021)

David Lemmons, Instruction Coordinator

  • Co-Presenter, "Raising Each Other Up: Using Instructional Communities of Practice to Collaborate and Grow," ACRL 2021 (April 2021)
  • Presenter, "Applying EDI Values to Collection Assessment," Partnership for Shared Book Collections Annual Meeting (June 2021)

Valerie Linsinbigler, Online Learning Specialist

  • Co-Presenter, "Zotero - Citations Made Simple: Assessing Student Learning in a New Online Workshop Format," ACRL Distance and Online Learning Section Instruction Committee's annual Virtual Poster Session (April 2021)

Christopher Lowder, Online Learning Assistant

  • Co-Presenter, "Zotero - Citations Made Simple: Assessing Student Learning in a New Online Workshop Format," ACRL Distance and Online Learning Section Instruction Committee's annual Virtual Poster Session (April 2021)

Tricia Mackenzie, Head, Metadata Services

  • Member, Program Planning Committee, 2021 Conference on Academic Library Management

Kimberly MacVaugh, Policy and Government Librarian

  • Member, ACRL Liaisons Assembly Committee - appointed as Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section liaison to the American Political Science Association, 2020-2023
  • Member, Graduate Education Reimagine Task Force, George Mason University (March 2021)

Wendy Mann, Director, Digital Scholarship Center

  • Co-recipient, grant from National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region (NNLM SEA) for "Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices"
  • Recipient, 2021 Distinguished Library Faculty Award, George Mason University Libraries (May 2021)

Janna Mattson, Online Learning Coordinator and Instruction Librarian

  • Recipient, Outstanding Supervisor Award, George Mason University (March 2021)
  • Co-Presenter, "Raising Each Other Up: Using Instructional Communities of Practice to Collaborate and Grow," ACRL 2021 (April 2021)
  • Co-Presenter, "Zotero - Citations Made Simple: Assessing Student Learning in a New Online Workshop Format," ACRL Distance and Online Learning Section Instruction Committee's annual Virtual Poster Session (April 2021)

Arthur Rouner, Director, Mason Publishing Group

  • Member, Open Virginia Advisory Committee, State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (March 2021)

Amy Sullivan, Head of Preservation Services

  • Co-teacher, ALA CORE's Fundamentals of Preservation course (April 2021)
  • Panelist, Preservation Week discussion, Adelphi University (April 2021)

Trevor Watkins, Teaching and Outreach Librarian, Teaching and Learning Team

Robert Vay, Technology and Exhibitions Archivist

  • Recipient, David W. Rossell Quill Award, George Mason University (March 2021)

John Zenelis, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian

  • Member, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools - Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), Substantive Change Committee: University of South Florida (Winter 2020-2021).
  • "Foreword" (with Lynn Eaton), The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James M. Buchanan from the Archives, Peter L. Boettke and Alain Marciano, eds. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University (2020).
  • Panelist, "Change Management Webinar Series: Supporting the Workforce," National Information Standards Organization (October 2020).
  • Panelist, "Sustainable Scholarship Virtual Forum," Virginia Research Libraries (October 2020).