Beverly Lynch, professor of information studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS) at UCLA, has received the 2015 Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association (ALA). On behalf of Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society, Lynch was awarded $1,000 for her distinguished service to librarian education.
Professor Lynch’s teaching and research interests include complex organizations and change, measurement and evaluation of libraries and library services, libraries as organizations, and academic and research university libraries. Lynch has been the director of the Senior Fellows Program at UCLA for the last 25 years. The three-week professional development program combines management, strategic thinking, and theory and practice surrounding the current issues facing academic institutions and their libraries.
Professor Lynch is responsible for founding the California Rare Book School located at the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She was elected the 100th vice president/president-elect of ALA in 1985. Four years later, she was selected dean of what was then the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UCLA.
Read the complete announcement in Ampersand, the GSEIS news magazine.
