MEDIA RELEASES

Oak Lawn resident Dan Braun has received the 2008 C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award from Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS).

Braun has served as a leader in local and professional organizations while studying for his master’s degree in library and information sciences at Dominican University. He was nominated for the role of vice-president of the Metropolitan Library System's C.L.A.S.S. (Children's Library Association of the South Side) organization and has presented and moderated programs on console gaming in libraries at conferences for the Illinois Library Association and the American Library Association. Braun has been employed at the Worth Public Library since 2002.

The annual entrepreneurial award was initiated in 2002 and is sponsored by the C. Berger Group, Inc. It includes a $100 cash award.

Accredited by the American Library Association, 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. In the 2008 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 tenth consecutive year.