Totten receives Dewey Medal from ALA

Herman L. Totten, Regents Professor and associate dean in the School of Library and Information Sciences, recently was named the winner of the 2001 Melvil Dewey Medal from the American Library Association. Totten will accept the national award June 19 at the ALA annual conference in San Francisco.

The Melvil Dewey Medal was first given in 1975. It is presented to members of the ALA who have excelled in the fields of library management and education, cataloging and classification, and tools and techniques of librarianship. The award is named for Melvil Dewey, the "father of modern librarianship" and the creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Dewey created the system in 1873 and it is now in use in more than 135 countries.

The award is given every year to recipients deemed worthy by a jury of ALA members.

"I am very humbled to win this award ," Totten says. "It is such an honor to receive it because of its history and the level of achievement associated with it."

Totten has served as a faculty member in UNT's School of Library and Information Sciences for the past 24 years.

BY ALLISON YEAMAN kreese@unt.edu

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