Dr. Cheryl Knott Malone, SIRLS associate professor, has been awarded a 2009 Fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
James Nulick, a current SIRLS student, has published his novel Distemper. It has won several awards, including the New Times Best of Phoenix Award.
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Dr. Jana Bradley, SIRLS professor and former director, has been awarded the 2009 Library Leadership Award as well as the President's 2009 AzLA Conference Program Award by the Arizona Library Association.
Matthew Helmke's co-written book, VMware Cookbook: A Real-world Guide to VMware Use, was recently released.
Ruth Kneale, librarian blogger and SIRLS alumna, debunks librarian stereotypes in her new book You Don't Look Like a Librarian, which was featured at the 24th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference.
The Association of Research Librarians (ARL) has selected Jefferey Cruz as a 2009-2011 Diversity Scholar.
Jessica Hernandez, current SIRLS master's student and Knowledge River Scholar, has been awarded participation in the American Library Association's 2010 Class of Emerging Leaders.
Dr. P. Bryan Heidorn will join SIRLS in October 2009.
Dr. Heidorn has been a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1995. For the last two years he has served as a program manager of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation.
Matthew Helmke, a current SIRLS student, recently had a short story from his book Nowhere Else to Turn published in Dove & Snake, a local Tucson literary and cultural zine.
Eugenia Charles-Newton, a current SIRLS student, completed a Morris K. Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Internship this summer. She worked full-time for U.S. Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico.
