I'm excited to announce that my dissertation, "Words to Live By: How Experience Shapes our Information World at Work, Play and in Everyday Life" has been awarded the 2016 Association for Library Science Education Best Dissertation Award. The prize includes registration at the upcoming conference to be held in Boston, MA in January 2016, membership in ALISE for 2016, and a stipend that will offset the costs of travelling to the conference to receive the award and present the findings of my study. This represents the first time since 2010 that a student from the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Information and Media Studies program has won this award. Results of this study have also previously won the 2012 Canadian Association for Information Science best student paper award, and the ALISE/Proquest Methodology Paper award.