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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:38:00 -0500
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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CONGRATULATIONS ALICE!

What a tremendous recognition and reward for your many, many years of effort on
behalf of the NYPL Map Collection. As a colleague and friend of yours I am
thrilled that you have been so recognized, your professionalism, willingness to
give of time and effort to not only your library's patrons but to the many
cartographic organizations over the years, and your knowledge, not to mention
your good humor, brings honor and recognition to the wider cartographic
community as well! I am honored to have known you personally for many years and
more importantly to have worked with you as an officer and a committee member
in the SLA Geography and Map Division. We will toast this honor the next time I
get to see you Alice!

Sincerely,

Paige

p.s. Nancy K., THANK YOU for posting this on Maps-L, what a thrill!


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>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:47:58 -0500
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>It is with great pleasure that I report to all you map colleagues, on
>behalf of the staff of the New York Public Library's Map Division, that our
>chief, Alice Hudson, was recently honored with a prestigious award.  The
>Fund for the City of New York  named Alice a winner of the 2001 Sloan
>Public Service Awards.  The awards program recognizes "outstanding civil
>servants whose work performance and commitment to the public transcend not
>merely the ordinary but the extraordinary -- day after day and year after
>year."  On March 14, representatives of the Fund visited the New York
>Public Library to present Alice with her award, as they visited the
>workplaces of the seven other recipients.  Then in the evening, all
>honorees, officials, friends, relatives and co-workers gathered at the
>Great Hall of Cooper Union where each of the eight was introduced.  The
>Fund cited Alice for being "tirelessly dedicated to encouraging the public
>to use the collection" which she has "developed and promoted [as] the
>largest public library map collection in the United States."  We are very
>happy about Alice's recognition, and we are privileged to be working with
>her.  In her brief remarks of acceptance, she reinforced our pride in being
>librarians, as she talked about knowledge being power, and the kinds of
>knowledge that we share as map librarians in a collection like ours.
>
>Among the other award winners were Alan Leidner, Wendy Dorf, and Richard
>Steinberg, each from a different city department, who together "helped
>create something colossal for this city:  the NYCMAP -- an accurate and
>probably the most complicated and detailed urban map ever created."  That
>is the new GIS for New York City, with phenomenal layers of information and
>large-scale display capabilities.  So it's a good year for maps in New
>York!
>
>A few days prior to the awards presentation, Alice was featured in a Sunday
>New York Times article, "The Kingdom of the Map" by Andrew Friedman, in the
>City section (March 11, 2001,  p. 3).
>
>Nancy Kandoian
>Map Div., NYPL
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