--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:49:25 -0400 (AST) From: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Alice Hudson honored <fwd> Sender: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]> 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) [log in to unmask] magic.library.dal.ca President, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) www.acmla.org On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Johnnie Sutherland wrote: > --- 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 --- > --- End Forwarded Message ---