Nancy Newport has been selected to receive the 2017 Indiana Library Federation Outstanding Librarian Award. The Outstanding Librarian Award honors and recognizes excellence and innovative leadership in the development of library service and for remarkable service to the profession.
Nancy Newport serves as the Assistant Director for the Carmel Clay Public Library (CCPL) and in 2015 and 2016 served as the Interim Director for CCPL. She has also served as the Interim Business Manager at various times between 2003 and 2012 and is the manager of the Mobile Library. After receiving her MLS from Indiana University – Bloomington, Nancy started her career as the OCLC Cataloging Supervisor and original cataloger at Purdue University in West Lafayette. She then moved to North Carolina as the OCLC/SOLINET Coordinator, Assistant Head of Cataloging at East Carolina University where she was active in the North Carolina Library Association and the Pitt County Librarians Association. Returning to Indiana after five years, she was the Head of the INCOLSA Processing Center in Indianapolis until moving to the Indianapolis–Marion County Public Library as the Manager of the Cataloging Service Section. For 10 years, while working full-time at the above two organizations, she was also a part-time cataloger at Carmel Clay Public Library until hiring in as the Technical Services Manager at CCPL and less than a year later became the Assistant Director.
Nancy is a lifetime member of the American Library Association and has served on numerous ALA Committees, including the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access (CC:DA) as one of the nine voting members. Except for the five years spent in North Carolina, she has been an active member of the Indiana Library Association (now Federation) serving on many committees including chair of the Membership Committee and also the Technical Services Division. Nancy is a member of the Public Library Association; Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS); and, a lifetime member of the Indiana University Alumni Association. She has also served as the President and Treasurer of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) and with the support of IMCPL chaired the annual conference in 2000.
As a lifetime learner, Nancy has taken classes in sign language, accounting, data processing, various computer languages, management, supervision and Russian. While in North Carolina she pursued a degree in computer science. She has attended the IMCPL Management Academy I and II and was a coach for Management Academy I. She attended the Knowledge Management Seminar at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio, and participated in the Sara Laughlin and Associates Continuous Improvement for Libraries. She is a 2013 graduate of the Hamilton County Leadership Academy (HCLA).
Nancy has written several articles for ALA and the Journal of Academic Librarianship and two books with the ALA Commercial Technical Services Committee. She has made various presentations at numerous organizations including the American Library Association, Indiana Library Federation, INCOLSA, Pitt County Librarians and the North Carolina Library Association.
For fun Nancy enjoys the outdoors, reading and quilting. She and her husband, John, enjoy reading history and visiting National Battlefields. The Newports live in Carmel.
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