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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 20:07:53 -0400
From: Barbara Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ACMLA Honours Award
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The Awards Committee of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and
Archives is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Association's
1998 Honours Award is Edward H. Dahl. The Award was conferred at the
recent annual meeting of the Association at the University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario. The text of the citation follows.
 
                        HONOURS AWARD 1998 - EDWARD H. DAHL
 
        Edward H. Dahl has been unanimously selected as the 1998
recipient of the ACMLA Honours Award by the ACMLA Awards Committee in
recognition of his many contributions to the field of map librarianship
as well as to ACMLA. The ACMLA Board unanimously approved the
recommendation that he be given this award.
        Ed graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A.
in
History and English in 1967 and an Honours equivalent in Canadian
History in 1968, and from Carleton University with an M.A. in Canadian
History in 1969.  In 1970, he joined the Public Archives of Canada as
Head of the Reference Unit in the National Map Collection.  After
serving in that
capacity for four years, he became Head of the Canadian Section, where
he served for two years prior to becoming Chief of the Early Canadian
Cartography Section upon reorganization of the NMC.  In 1987 there was
another reorganization during which he was named the Early Cartography
Specialist in the Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division.  He
retired at the end of March from this position, with the division now
being named the Visual and Sound Archives Division.
        For most of his 28 years with the National Archives, Ed has been
active in our Association.  He has chaired sessions, served on
committees
(especially the Historical Maps Committee), presented papers,
contributed regularly to our Bulletin, and edited several of the Annual
Conference Proceedings, which preceded the Bulletin.  From 1975 to 1985
he was a member of the Historical Maps Committee and from 1985 to 1991,
he was the compiler, editor, publisher and distributor for the ACMLA Map
Facsimile Series.
He  also served as the Association Archivist from 1985 to 1993.
Memorable
sessions that he organized included one on professional ethics which
considered questions such as "Is it a conflict of interest when a map
librarian is married to a member of the geography faculty at the same
institution?"???!!!!  This one struck home for me!
        His other professional activities were of significance, as
well.  He was
deeply involved, and still is, with the Canadian Cartographic
Association.
He served as the Secretary of the History of Cartography Interest Group
from 1976 to 1978 and as Chair from 1979 to 1981.  As Associate Editor
of Cartographica, the quarterly journal published by the University of
Toronto Press and endorsed by the Canadian Cartographic Association,
from 1981 to1994, he contributed greatly to the scholarly literature in
the
cartographic field, especially of a historical nature.  For
Cartographica
also, he was the Reviews Editor from 1980 to 1994 and has been a member
of their editorial board since 1994.  He was a co-founder and Co-chair
of
the Ottawa Map Society from 1980 to 1987.  He has several publications
to
his credit, such as Winnipeg in Maps, 1816-1972 with Alan F. J. Artibese
(Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada, 1975) and Treasures of the National
Map Collection ... Exhibition of 100 Original Maps, Atlases, Globes and
Architectural Plans, 1490-1982 (Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada,
1982), as well as numerous articles on early cartographic items or map
librarianship related topics.  He has also served on the editorial
boards
of The Map Collector, Meridian, and Archivaria.  Another contribution of
significance was founding, chairing and co-editing the newsletter for
the International Society of Curators of Early Maps from 1983 to 1995.
Other societies contributed to include the International Cartographic
Association, International Map Collectors' Society, Society for the
History of Discoveries, International Conference on the History of
Cartography, Congress of Cartographic Information Specialists
Associations, and Pan-American Institute of Geography and History.
        Throughout Ed's career in the National Archives he showed an
unswerving devotion to the study of early maps; he furthered the
knowledge of early Canadian maps both by his own research and by his
encouragement of the work of others and has always encouraged high
standards of research.  Even in retirement this activity will continue
with editing projects galore already lined up, as well as participating
in the History of Cartography Project and professional society
activities.
        The Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives is
fortunate to be able to count Ed as one of our most distinguished
members, as well as, in the words of Louis Cardinal "the brilliant,
dynamic, funny, dedicated
and friendly person we all know."   The presentation of the certificate
was
on May 29, 1998.
 
 
Prepared by Alberta Auringer Wood and Barbara Farrell for the Awards
Committtee (Barbara Farrell, Chair,  Shirley Harmer, Richard Pinnell,
Joan Winearls, Alberta Auringer Wood).
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