CONGRATULATIONS ALICE!
What a tremendous recognition and reward for your many, many years
of effort on behalf of the NYPL Map Collection. As a colleague and friend
of yours I am thrilled that you have been so recognized, your
professionalism, willingness to give of time and effort to not only your
library's patrons but to the many cartographic organizations over the
years, and your knowledge, not to mention your good humor, brings honor
and recognition to the wider cartographic community as well! I am honored
to have known you personally for many years and more importantly to have
worked with you as an officer and a committee member in the SLA Geography
and Map Division. We will toast this honor the next time I get to see you
Alice!
Sincerely,
Paige
p.s. Nancy K., THANK YOU for posting this on Maps-L, what a thrill!
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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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