Samantha Godbey (Libraries) is this year's recipient of the McPhee Librarian of the Year Award. She was nominated for her contributions as a liaison to the College of Education and her significant contributions to scholarship. The education librarian and assistant professor has collaborated with a College of Education faculty member to co-found and co-edit a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, the Journal of Research in Technical Careers, hosted in the UNLV Institutional Repository. Her scholarship record is strong: she recently served as lead editor of a scholarly book discussing the use of threshold concepts to improve library instruction, and she has authored or co-authored four peer-reviewed journal articles. Additionally, she has presented at two international conferences and was invited to present a two-day workshop at the University of Paris by the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries.