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* Jim Cheng, head librarian at the University of California at San Diego's International Relations and Pacific Studies Library, has received a FuIbright Scholar grant to research a book on Taiwan film studies for three months. * Janet Fowler, supervisor of library media operations for Wichita Public Schools, has won the Kansas Library Association's Presidential Award for Meritorious Service. * Susan R. Gilmont, library technician at Oregon State University's Guin Library in Corvallis, has been named 2009 Oregon Library Association Employee of the Year. * Library consultant Cindy Hill has received the John Jacob Astor Award in Library and Information Science from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation in Berlin. * The Texas Library Association has presented its first Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbara lmmroth, professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Information. * Sarah T. Roberts, recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison's School of Library and Information Studies, has been selected as one of 14 Google Policy Fellows.