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West Virginia University College of Law professor and director of the Law Library Caroline Osborne is the 2023 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. This national award recognizes leaders in law librarianship who demonstrate continued efforts to improve and advance the profession. The Hicks Award was established in 2000 and is awarded annually by the Academic Law Libraries SIS of the American Association of Law Libraries. Professor Osborne joins an impressive list of distinguished librarians, scholars, and teachers. This much-deserved award acknowledges her accomplishments and commitment to innovation in law librarianship.

Find Professor Osborne's scholarship on SSRN and on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne and librarian Stephanie Miller recently presented a webinar sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries on the topic of assessment as decision-making tools. The webinar was part of AALL's "Coffee Talk" series and was presented on April 25, 2023.

From the program description:

West Virginia University College of Law Professor Caroline Osborne and Librarian Stephanie Miller won the Outstanding Article Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section for their article: "The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar's Work". The article was published in volume 39 of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal.

From the abstract:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Caroline Osborne recently presented on the topic of scholarly impact and the discoverability of legal scholarship at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. The program, titled Maximizing Your Faculty's Scholarly Impact: Techniques to Increase Findability, was presented with Carol Watson and T.J. Stiepe of the University of Georgia School of Law.