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DU Library Instructor Receives Dissertation Award

River Forest , IL – Debra Mitts-Smith, a resident of Woodstock and an instructor for  Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, has received the 2007 Berner-Nash Memorial Award from the University of Illinois. Mitts-Smith joined the Dominican University faculty in August 2006.

The annual Berner-Nash Award is presented to a University of Illinois (UIUC) doctoral candidate in recognition of his or her outstanding doctoral dissertation. Mitts-Smith’s dissertation, “What Is a Wolf: The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Scientific Knowledge in Children’s Books,” uses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding an icon of widely varied meaning and nearly universal significance in children’s books and fairy tales. The $1,500 Berner-Nash Award was established by a group of UIUC graduate students in the early 1970s in honor of two University of Illinois graduates, Dr. Bill Berner and Dr. Bill Nash, who were killed in an automobile accident. 

Accredited by the ALA, Dominican University’s GSLIS has been educating future library leaders and information professionals since the 1930s. The school offers master’s degrees in library and information science and in knowledge management.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 17 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2007 issue of America’s Best Colleges , U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the ninth consecutive year.