{"id":5331,"date":"2024-02-08T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2024-02-08T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:33:25","slug":"troy-awards-director-for-support-for-university-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/08\/troy-awards-director-for-support-for-university-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY awards director for support for University libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014Troy University recently honored a director who has dedicated his career to helping literature thrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director of Wiregrass Archives and History Professor Dr. Martin Olliff has spent countless hours among literature and teaching history to Troy University students. Tuesday, he received the University Libraries&#8217; Book Token Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was thrilled,&#8221; said Dean of University Libraries Christopher Shaffer. &#8220;Not only is Martin a colleague, he&#8217;s a very good friend. We&#8217;ve known each other about 20 years now. Back when I had hair and his wasn&#8217;t grey when he met me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Book Token Award is given annually to a faculty member who has shown exceptional support for the University Libraries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m flattered and thrilled as I&#8217;ve known other recipients of this award, so I am in what you would call August Company,&#8221; Olliff said. &#8220;Everyone who has received this award before me has more than earned it and is more than worth it. I&#8217;m happy the committee has chosen me to be a part of that group.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olliff says his next chapter will most likely be retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014Troy University recently honored a director who has dedicated his career to helping literature thrive. <\/p>\n<p>Director of Wiregrass Archives and History Professor Dr. Martin Olliff has spent countless hours among literature and teaching history to Troy University students. Tuesday, he received the University Libraries&#8217; Book Token Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thrilled,&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/02\/08\/troy-awards-director-for-support-for-university-libraries\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[301,303,1402],"topics":[1087,17],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-book-token-award","tag-chris-shaffer","tag-martin-olliff","topics-faculty-spotlight","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}