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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:49:25 -0400 (AST)
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On behalf of Alice's colleagues and friends in the Canadian map library
and archive community, allow me to say "well done"! The award could not
have gone to a more deserving person who has contributed, and continues
to, so much to the map library community.





James Boxall
Curator/Head
Map and Geospatial Information Collection
Killam Library
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada   B3H 4H8
902-494-3757 (tel)
902-494-2062 (fax)
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magic.library.dal.ca

President, Association of Canadian
Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)     www.acmla.org

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

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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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