Entrepreneurial Promise Award

CBG Entrepreneurial Award

The C. Berger Group, Inc. Entrepreneurial Promise Award was established by CBG in 2000 at the University of Illinois to honor a student who exhibits unusual creativity, reflects innovative spirit and shows the most promise for an outstanding career in a special library, non-traditional library setting or as an entrepreneur. Carol Berger, Chairman of the CBG Board and CBG's Manager, Marketing Communications is a former special librarian herself. She initiated the gift there and at selected other library schools to encourage an interest in special librarianship as a career option for students and to focus on the qualities and skills needed to succeed in this area. The award was sponsored by CBG for the first time in 2003 at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest.

The CBG Entrepreneurial Promise Award is one of several prizes CBG funds or sponsors annually for professional librarians and support staff of distinction nationwide. They include the Librarian of the Year, for the Illinois Library Association each fall, the Karen J. Switt Leadership Award for the Leadership and Management Division of the Special Libraries Association in June, and the Library Assistant Award at Reaching Forward South each September.

Entrepreneurial Award Winners
Year	Name	School
2008	Jason Gretencord	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2008	Molly Beverstein	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2008	Dan Braun	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2007	Judi Bikel	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2007	Alexis Braun Marks	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2007	Kelly Quinn	Dominican University
2006	Kyle Naff	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2006	Alycia Sellie	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2006	Patricia Smolin	Dominican University
2005	Susan E. Sutherland	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2005	Dorothea Salo	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2005	Lauren Collen	Dominican University
2004	Carissa Holler	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2004	Kerri Canepa	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2004	Catherine Webb Saum	Dominican University
2003	Kaye Crampton	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2003	Beth Leitz	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2003	Karen D. Miller	Dominican University
2002	Leslie Owen	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2001	Avi Janssen	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign