The Creative CoLab Awards

2025 TDL Award for Excellence, Texas Digital Library

Awarded: The Creative CoLab for the ART | library deco project

TDL Awards honor Texas-based individuals and groups that have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of digital libraries. The Excellence Award honors a specific project that demonstrates overall excellence in one or more areas of digital curation or digital scholarship practice.

2024 The Vattemare Award Honorable Mention, Library Juice Press

Awarded: The Relational Possibilities Project

Given annually by Library Juice Press, the Vattemare Award recognizes contributions in the LIS field that are marked by originality, creative energy, and novel combinations of ideas.

2023 - 2024 LEADING Fellowship Drexel University

Awarded: Dana Reijerkerk and Dr. kYmberly Keeton

The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) fellowship is a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) National Digital Infrastructures and Initiatives project, supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), to prepare a diverse, nation-wide cohort of 50 LIS doctoral students and early to mid-career librarians for data science endeavors.