Doug Archer received the 2018 Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award which was presented at the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference in June. This prestigious award is the culmination of Archer's four decades of service to the cause of intellectual freedom, both at the national level in ALA and at the state level in the Indiana Library Federation. Doug Archer
Archer, the peace studies, global affairs and political science librarian at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries, has been passionate about intellectual freedom since the early 1980s and has dedicated his work to serving this community.
Over the past four decades, Archer has served on most of the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) committees. He was a chair of the IFRT; a member of its publication committee; a Board of Director; and an editor of the IFRT Report.
He served on the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee for a decade, including three terms as its chair. During that time, he led working groups in the development of many Library Bill of Rights interpretations. He also prepared statements for use by the ALA president in response to public events and participated in the drafting of several resolutions for consideration by the ALA Council.
For fifteen years, Archer was an active member of the Indiana Library Federation’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and was its chair for eight years. During that time, the committee sponsored dozens of presentations and workshops at area and state conferences and convinced the Indiana Library Federation Board to join ALA in its challenge to the Children’s Internet Protection Act. In addition, he has written and presented extensively on First Amendment issues.
Archer has served as liaison to, and a member of, the Freedom to Read Foundation Board of Directors. He is now serving as a trustee of the Leroy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund and recently completed a term as ALA councilor-at-large.
Archer holds a BA in religion from Duke University (1964), an MDiv from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (1972), and an MSL from Western Michigan University (1981). He is also an actively ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.
Thurston Miller received the 2018 Special Library Association’s (SLA) Physics - Astronomy - Mathematics Achievement Award which was presented at the SLA Annual conference in June. This award recognizes Miller’s dedication and significant contributions to the community of physics, astronomy, and mathematics librarians over the past 25 years. Thurston Miller
Miller, the chemistry and physics librarian at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries, has been an active member of SLA and the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division since 1993.
Starting in 1994, Miller served three consecutive years as the PAM Bulletin Editor and was appointed as the PAM Hospitality Chair for the 1998 SLA Annual Conference in Indianapolis. From 1998-2000, he served as the PAM vendor liaison between PAM and INSPEC. In 2001, he took on the role as moderator for the PAM Physics Roundtable. In 2002, Miller returned to the PAM Bulletin as the Assistant Bulletin Editor. In 2007, he became the vendor liaison between PAM and Turpion, a publishing company which produces English translations of Russian scientific journals.
In addition to these many accomplishments, Miller was appointed as the PAMnet owner for 11 years. PAMnet is an incredibly important resource for PAM and the entire field. He took on this role in 2005 and remained until August 2016 when the University of Notre Dame handed-off PAMnet to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Miller’s 11-year contribution exemplifies his invaluable dedication to physics, astronomy, and mathematics librarianship and to the PAM Division.
Miller has worked at Notre Dame for over 25 years. His colleagues describe him as a highly knowledgeable co-worker who routinely goes well beyond the call of duty to collaborate with them on their research endeavors.
Miller is also well respected by the Notre Dame students who take his chemistry seminar class which he teaches every fall semester. In 2017, Miller was honored with the Rev. Paul J. Foik Award — an award given annually to a library faculty member who has contributed significantly to library service, to the Notre Dame community, or to the library profession through personal scholarship or involvement in professional associations. He was nominated for the award by his students.