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Subject: FW: Charlotte Derksen is honored--
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:21:21 -0400
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*From:* Miriam Palm [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:45 AM
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*Subject:* Charlotte Derksen is honored
Wow! Charlotte Derksen has won a very prestigious award!
*Charlotte Derksen Wins First Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award *
The press release from the Geoscience Information Society details the
recent awarding of the Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award to
Charlotte Derksen, emerita, of Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map
Collections.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 29, 2005
Geoscience Information Society
Written by Shaun J. Hardy
Librarian Charlotte R. M. Derksen (emerita) of Stanford University
received a professional award at the 2005 annual meeting of the
Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) in Salt Lake City.
Derksen was presented with the Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service
Award. The award, given for the first time this year, recognizes
significant contributions to the geoscience information profession. In
presenting the award on October 18, selection committee chair Claren
Kidd (University of Oklahoma) cited Derksen’s professional leadership,
research, and service to users of geoscience information. “Charlotte's
distinguished career has also included being a mentor of future
geoscience librarians,” Kidd added. “She’s been an innovator and a
staunch advocate for geoscience libraries.”
Derksen was head librarian of the Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map
Collections at Stanford from 1980 until her retirement in 2004. At
Branner, she instituted instruction, database searching, and extensive
collection development programs, and added map catalogers and GIS
experts to the staff. Her expertise in digital geoscience data was
widely known and shared through many presentations and papers on the
subject. She also conducted cost and use studies to assess the value of
geoscience literature. Derksen was active in the Geoscience Information
Society, the Cartographic Users Advisory Council, and the American
Geological Institute. She served on advisory committees for GeoRef and
GeoScienceWorld, and on the Geological Society of America’s Publications
Committee. The publication of the 5th edition of the Union List of
Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America in 1989 owed much to her
involvement. Since her retirement from Stanford, she has been working on
indexing projects for GeoRef.
Click here to see a picture of Claren Kidd (selection committee chair)
and Charlotte Derksen with award
<http://library.stanford.edu/images/sulair_news/Kidd_Derksen2.jpg>.
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Miriam Palm
Librarian Emerita
Stanford University Libraries
phone and fax: (650) 327-8989
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