State Librarian Jo Budler is Library Journal’s choice for 2013 Librarian of the Year.

Shortly after Budler moved in as Kansas’ State Librarian in 2010, the state’s ebook collection was in jeopardy. Kansas’ ebook platform, OverDrive, presented Budler with a renewal proposal increasing administration costs by some 700 percent and losing access to ebooks for the users of Kansas.

Budler quickly rejected more than one proposal from OverDrive and won the right to transfer titles to a new platform. The dispute set off a long and public national examination of library service agreements.

Library Journal’s 2013 Librarian of the Year Award will be presented to Budler at a special awards dinner during the American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting in Seattle in January.

Library Journal is one of the oldest and most respected publications covering the library field.