Professional Awards and Honors

• ABC-CLIO America: History and Life award for best historical article in library history, 1990, Nominee
• American Library Association Council Member, Nominee, 1999.
• American Library Association GLBTF Gay Book Award, 1999. Nominee
• Beta Phi Mu, Honorary Society of Librarians and Information Specialists, Member
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, School of  Information and Library Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
• Franklin M. Garrett Award, best article in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, 1989-91 biennium, Atlanta Historical Society
• Library and Information Services Today: The Yearly Chronicle, 1991 Edition (Chicago: American Library Association, 1991), p. 179, Professional Sketch
• Louis Round Wilson Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1985
• Louis Round Wilson Award, best article in The Southeastern Librarian, 1986-88 biennium, Southeastern Library Association
• Outstanding Young Men of America (Jaycees), 1980, 1981, Recipient
• Promoted to Full Professor, March 2003.
• School of Information and Library Science, Distinguished Alumnus Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997
• Ray Moore Award, best article in North Carolina Libraries, 1993-95 biennium, North Carolina Library Association
• Ray Moore Award, best article in North Carolina Libraries, 1991-93 biennium, North Carolina Library Association
• School of Education Teaching Excellence Award, 1999, 2000. Nominee
• Summer Research Excellence Award, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1992
• Standing Ovation Award, Department of Disabled Students, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996.
  
  Biographical Sketches:
  Who's Who in the South and Southwest 1997-98; 1998-99.

  Who's Who in America, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.

  Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, [International: Cambridge, UK] 2000.

  Dictionary of International Biography, 28^th ed. (March/April 2000)

  Outstanding Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century (UK), 2000, 2001.

  Lester Pearson Library Humor Award (Library Quarterly), 2001.