RUSA’s Newest Achievement Award: The Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant

Abstract

The family and friends of Gail Schlachter have endowed a research grant award in her honor and hosted it with the Reference and User Services Association, where Gail served as president from 1988 to 1989. Gail was also the editor for Reference and User Services Quarterly from 1997 to 2000 and had an abiding interest in LIS research that started in the early 1970s with her publication Library Science Dissertations (which ran from 1925–1972). The Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant will be awarded yearly to encourage and enrich the research in library science.