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State Library receives 16th Keppel Award
Awards presented at annual Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) Professional Development Conference December 6, 2006
State Librarian Mary Wegner and State Library Consultant Gerry Rowland were notified that Iowa has been awarded the 2006 Keppel Award for submitting prompt, complete and high-quality public library data. Thirty-four states were presented the award in 2006.
Iowa is the only state to have won the award for 16 years. Rowland was one of only four state data coordinators to receive the first award at the 1992 annual training workshop.
FSCS is a cooperative program of the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. It has been in operation since 1988. The purpose of the FSCS annual Professional Development Conference, where the awards are presented, is to improve the annual collection and use of national public library data. Participants included data coordinators from all states and territories.
Iowa Commission of Libraries Meeting