--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:47:58 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Alice Hudson honored Sender: [log in to unmask] 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 --- End Forwarded Message ---