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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 19:32:35 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: HelenJane Armstrong honored by Special Libs Assn
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It is a pleasure to announce that at its June 2000 conference, the
Geography and Map Division of the Special Libraries Association,
bestowed its honors award on HelenJane Armstrong, Ph.D., Head of the
Map & Imagery Library of the University of Florida. Following is the
text of the proclamation accompanying the award:
Special Libraries Association
Geography & Map Division
HONORS AWARD
The Division Honors Award is presented to a person who has made
outstanding contributions to the fields of geography, cartography and
map librarianship. Our honoree has accomplished much in all three
areas. The award may be made for specific activities or continued
outstanding service. Our honoree has many specific activities to
choose from, adding up to continued service to the field of map
librarianship, from the era of lone map collections distanced in miles
from colleagues, to networked, electronic collections on-line and
accessible across numerous boundaries. Our honoree has moved from the
era of paper maps and aerial photography to the era of vapor maps and
satellite photography and digital imagery -- not to mention GIS,
metadata and consortias of catalogers.
Our honoree is an innovator, an administrator, an author, a mentor, a
colleague and friend. She is the first to design and install compact
shelving for map cases. She is one of very few map librarians with a
Ph. D., in physical geography and biotic resources. She has designed
or established map libraries, including the National Geographic
Society map library in Washington, D.C. in 1963-5; Northern Illinois
University Map Library, DeKalb, 1965-71; and the University of Florida
Map Library, now the Map & Imagery Library!, 1973 to the present. [She
is still working on getting that one just right!] She administers
one of the strongest map collections in the South, seeing that
collection grow tremendously over the decades, and move from paper to
electronic media with skill and good design sense. While the newest
technology may attract her, she has not ignored the beauty and
research value of antiquarian maps as intellectual tools. She has
published numerous articles in professional journals, including recent
award winners, on cataloging, particularly of remote sensing. She has
graciously taught generations of students the arcanery of maps, aerial
photography and GIS. She has shared generously of her time and talent
with her colleagues, participating in the leadership of professional
map library membership associations. In addition, on a regional basis
she has led the Committee on Southern Map Libraries, and in the State
of Florida, promotes the use of the University of Florida collections
from the student, to the citizen next door, to the Statehouse. Not the
least, she has been a friend and colleague and mentor to all of us in
this room, and for that, we proudly honor today, for a lifetime of
service to map librarianship, Dr. HelenJane Armstrong,
Head, Map & Imagery Library at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Alice C. Hudson, Chair / Mary Galneder / Paige Andrew
Honors Award Committee
Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.,
June 12, 2000
The award was also accompanied by an 8' scroll, single spaced, listing
all her map library activities over the years! We did not offer to pay
for framing it...
Congratulations, Helen, for many jobs well done!
On behalf of the Honors Award committee,
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division, NYPL
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