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Infinite Mile Awards, 2002

Individual | Team

Back row:Tracy Gabridge, Margaret Bloom, Walter Powers, Ellen Duranceau, Robin Deadrick
Front row: Carol Frederick (Ann Wolpert) Eileen Dorschner

Results, Outcome and Productivity | Innovation and Creativity | Communication and Collaboration | Community

Results, Outcome and Productivity Awards:

Margaret Bloom, for reducing re-shelving time in the Humanities’ basement stacks to fewer than 24 hours, single-handedly shifting the entire Humanities Reference collection, and taking the initiative to acquire reference and information service skills that lie outside her position’s job description. "Quite simply, it is the large quantity and excellent quality of her work that distinguishes Margaret Bloom."

Tracy Gabridge, for her work on the indexing strike force and the OPAC customization group, assisting the 3rd Barton Transition Team. She "has accomplished, with astonishing effectiveness and a minimum of fanfare, work of high complexity, sophistication, and value."

Innovation and Creativity Awards:

Eileen Dorschner, for extraordinary creativity and steadfast leadership in the Aero/Astro Library renovation. Her performance "exemplifies the best the MIT Libraries have to offer."

Communication and Collaboration Awards:

Robin Deadrick, for consistency and resiliency in the face of almost continuous change since her arrival almost twenty years ago, as personnel administrator for the Libraries. "This nominee has had a growing responsibility for the coordination of some of the most important aspects of our work lives."

Ellen Duranceau, for her pivotal role in the libraries' shift from print to electronic resources. This nominee "is one of the most dedicated professionals I've ever worked with. Her commitment to providing excellent service is absolute."

Community Awards:

Carol Frederick, for fostering a sense of community, particularly with foreign and minority students, making a real difference in the lives of students she has touched. "Those many occasions when she went above and beyond the call of duty do not go unnoticed or unappreciated." "She is a wealth of information, just like Barker Library in which she presides."

Walter Powers, for guiding the MIT Libraries’ Softball team "The Bibliotechs" through many years in the MIT Community Soft Ball League and to the 1995 Kentucky Fried League's Extra-Krispy Division championship.