Susan Barribeau, left, and Vicki Tobias are both graduates of the School of Library and Information Studies. (Image courtesy UW-Madison Libraries)
Two graduates of the College of Letters & Science were named Librarians of the Year by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries earlier this month.
Susan Barribeau (BA'77, English; MA'91, Library and Information Studies), English language humanities librarian at Memorial Library, received the Librarian of the Year award given to a librarian who has worked more than 10 years at the UW-Madison Libraries.
Vicki Tobias (MA'03, Library and Information Studies), images and media archivist at University Archives in Steenbock Library, received the Librarian of the Year award that is given to those with 10 or fewer years of service to the Libraries.
Barribeau is the first person to receive the award a second time, having also won in 2000 as the Librarian of the Year with less than 10 years of service. She has held a number of positions in her 21 years with the Libraries, and has worked in her current role for nearly five years.
After graduating with her master's degree in library and information studies, Tobias began working for the Libraries in 2004 as a digital services librarian for the UW Digital Collection Center. Tobias has advocated for and been instrumental in the digitization of many collections across campus, such as the Aldo Leopold collection and the Oral History Program.
For more details, read the full story on the UW-Madison Libraries website.