MOUG Distinguished Service Award
This award recognizes and honors someone who has made significant professional contributions to music users of OCLC. The MOUG Executive Board selects a recipient based on nominations received from the MOUG membership.
Eligibility for nomination is as follows:
- Nominees must have made professional contributions that significantly address the needs and concerns of music-oriented users of OCLC’s products and services.
- Nominees may be MOUG members, but membership in the organization is not a requirement.
The award recipient receives an engraved plaque containing an inscription recognizing his or her special contribution to the field, complimentary registration for the MOUG meeting at which the award is being presented, and a lifetime complimentary membership to MOUG.
Past recipients of this award are listed below.
Award Recipients
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2023 — Peter Lisius and Ralph Hartsock
2021 — Casey Mullin
2020 — No award.
2019 — Gary Strawn
2018 — Mark V. Scharff
2017 — Robert Cunningham
2016 — Neil Hughes
2015 — No award given
2014 — Paul Cauthen
2013 — Matt Montgomery
2012 — Phyllis Jones
2011 — Alice LaSota
2010 — no award given
2009 — Michelle “Mickey” Koth
2008 — no award given
2007 — Charles M. “Chuck” Herrold, Jr.
2006 — Bettie Jean Harden
2005 — A. Ralph Papakhian and Sue Ellen Stancu
2004 — Jay N. Weitz
2003 — Judy A. Weidow
2002 — Kathryn E. Burnett