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The Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division, Special
Libraries Association, is pleased to announce the recipients of the
1993 Honors Award and the Bill M. Woods Award. Dr. Christopher M.
Baruth, Map and Satellite Imagery Librarian, American Geographical
Society Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library
received the Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography
and Map Librarianship. Harry O. Davis, Map and Assistant Science
Librarian, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale received the Bill M. Woods Award for the best feature
article to appear in the Geography and Map Division BULLETIN for the
year prior to the 1993 Annual Meeting. The citations follow.
HONORS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
IN GEOGRAPHY AND MAP LIBRARIANSHIP
The Honors Award is the highest award given by the Geography and Map
Division of the Special Libraries Association. The Division,
celebrating its 50th anniversary last year in San Francisco, began
this recognition of achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship in
1955. This year's recipient marks the 26th time this award has been
given.
The Librarian we honor is an example of the "classically" trained map
librarian, motivated practitioner of skills learned, and our hope for
the future of the profession. Like our recipient of this award last
year, this librarian has worked to bring our whole profession
together and move us into the twenty-first century.
This year's Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography and
Map Librarianship is presented to Dr. Christopher M. Baruth, Map and
Satellite Imagery Librarian, American Geographical Society
Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library.
Dr. Baruth received his B.S. in Geography from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970, followed by an M.A. in Library Science
from this same institution in 1972. His M.S. in Geography came in
1980 from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and his Ph.D from
that institution in 1990. He began his professional career as a high
school librarian in 1972 and began a variety of teaching and
internships in 1976. He assumed his current position with the
American Geographical Society Collection in 1980.
He has been very actively involved in the Geography and Map Division,
Special Libraries Association, having served as Program Planner for
the 1987 Anaheim, California Annual Meeting; Chair of the 1988 Annual
Meeting in Denver, Colorado; Chair of the Committee on Standards
(1983-1987), writing the standards for university map collections;
and serving on the Committee on Computers and Automation. He is
currently the Executive Director of the North American Cartographic
Information Society or NACIS, and has served that organization as
Secretary, member of the Board of Directors, a program planner, and
member of the Publications Committee.
Dr. Baruth developed a microcomputer software package as a coordinate
indexing system for maps. Called GEODEX, he demonstrated it at the
NACIS Annual Meeting in Denver in 1988 and at the SLA G&M Annual
Meeting in New York in 1989.
If all this activity were not enough to keep him busy, he accepted
the task of organizing the first meeting of the Congress of
Cartographic Information Specialist Associations at the Newberry
Library in Chicago in November 1988. He brought representatives of
11 "map" oriented groups together to talk and plan for the future.
Since that time, he has kept the spirit of that landmark meeting
alive through conference calls with these "map" groups and efforts to
provide a super joint meeting. These efforts will bear fruit October
18-20, 1993 in Washington, D.C. with the first CCISA super meeting.
His latest project is as a team member for the Interactive
Cartographic Videodisc Project, funded for $304,000 by the U.S.
Department of Education, 1991-1993.
There are many important tasks to be done in the future and we know
that the example and standards set by Dr. Baruth will motivate future
generations of map librarians, and we expect that he has a few more
ideas.
It is for these accomplishments and the hope of the future that he
has inspired that the Special Libraries Association, Geography and
Map Division, bestows on Dr. Christopher M. Baruth the 1993 Honors
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship.
BILL M. WOODS AWARD
The Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division, Special
Libraries Association, is pleased to announce that the Bill M. Woods
Award for the best feature article to appear in the Geography and Map
Division BULLETIN for the year prior to the 1993 Annual Meeting goes
to Harry O. Davis for his article in the September, 1992 BULLETIN,
"Map Librarians, The International Student, and ESL: Opportunity and
Challenge." Mr. Davis is Map and Assistant Science Librarian, Morris
Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He holds B.A.
and M.S. degrees in Geology from The College of Wooster and the
University of Western Ontario; an M.A. in Librarianship from the
University of Denver; and has done additional Ph.D-level graduate
studies in Geography at the Univesity of Georgia. Prior to his first
full-time appointment as a Map Librarian, Mr. Davis served as a
Reference Assistant and Map Cataloging Intern at the Geography and
Map Divison, Library of Congress, and with state and private planning
offices. He was appointed Document and Map Librarian, later changed
to Map and Special Collections Librarian at Frostburg State College,
Frostburg, Maryland from 1970 to 1987. He was appointed to his
present position at Southern Illinois at Carbondale in 1987.
His article seeks to motivate map librarians to become more involved
with their community of international students. He has proposed
using the visual impact of a map with these student's often
overlooked, familiarity with Geography, both of their home areas and
the world in general. Mr. Davis writes of the "Conjoint Retention"
factor as a way to involve maps with the teaching of English as a
second language. He supports his views with a 30 item set of
references at the conclusion of the article. We thank him for his
thoughtful and detailed account of ways to make map collections more
widely recognized.
The Bill M. Woods Award, which includes a $50.00 cash award, is named
for an early worker in the field of Map Librarianship and Education.
He was responsible for the building of the important map collection
at the University of Illinois in the 1950s; was a supporter of the
Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association; and a
recipient of the Division's 1959 Honors Award.
Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division, Honors and
Awards Committee:
Mr. David C. McQuillan, University of South Carolina, Chair
Ms. June Crowe, IT Corporation, Knoxville, Tennessee
Mr. Bruce D. Obenhaus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg
David C. McQuillan
Map Librarian
Map Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, S.C. 29208
Phone: (803) 777-4723
Fax: (803) 777-4661
Bitnet: L100003@UNIVSCVM
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