MURFREESBORO — A member
of the MTSU community has been awarded one of the state’s highest honors for
librarians.
Kathy Boudreau-Henry received the Frances Neel Cheney Award
on April 17 at the Tennessee Library Association’s annual conference in
Knoxville, Tennessee. The award recognizes “a significant contribution to the
world of books and librarianship through the encouragement of the love of books
and reading,” according to www.tnla.org.
Boudreau-Henry has been library science program coordinator at
MTSU’s James E. Walker Library for the past 18 years and will be retiring May
31. The crowning achievement of her tenure is the approval of a master’s degree
in library science for MTSU, the culmination of years of hard work. Three
students graduated this academic year with MLS degrees.
Prior to this achievement, Boudreau-Henry guided more than
150 graduate students toward acquiring master’s degrees in education with
concentrations on library science. About 140 of her former students are employed
in libraries in the Middle Tennessee area.
Her devotion to her profession further includes 10 years of
service as co-chair of the Volunteer State Book Awards Committee and board
membership service for Murfreesboro’s Linebaugh Public Library; the Williamson
County Library; the Stones River Regional Library; and Tenn-Share, a consortium
of Tennessee libraries dedicated to group purchasing power and sharing existing
resources.
For more information about MTSU’s Master of Library Science
degree, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/programs/library-science-mls/index.php.
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