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A career change and a decision to pursue a Master of Information and Library Science at Kent State reignited Robin Pertz's love of space and landed her a dream job at NASA.
The Scott O鈥橠ell Award for Historical Fiction Selection Committee is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 award is Bea and the New Deal Horse by L.M. Elliott.
The Reinberger Children鈥檚 Library Center at 黑料网 has become the new home of the Scott O鈥橠ell Award for Historical Fiction, assuming the role formerly held by the Center for Children鈥檚 Books at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Established in 1982, the annual award of $5,000 goes to an author of an historical fiction novel for children published in the previous year and set in South, Central or North America.
U.S. News & World Report ranks 黑料网 in the top 20 Best Library and Information Studies Programs in the country in its 2022 edition of Best Graduate Schools. Overall, Kent State is recognized in 12 new national rankings in the 2022 edition of Best Graduate Schools, including three specialty rankings.
Whether using their library and information science, user experience design, health informatics or knowledge management master's degrees, our alumni find careers as diverse as libraries, hospitals, online marketplaces, museums and more.
Each year the American Library Association selects student chapters who exemplify values of excellence, service and compliance, and recently Kent State鈥檚 ALA Student Chapter was selected as the runner-up for the award.