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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:20:58 -0700
From: "Kollen, Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Alice Hudson honored <fwd>
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I'd like to offer my congratulations to Alice Hudson on receiving the Sloan
Public Service Award on behalf of your map library colleagues.  It is indeed
a pleasure to work with you on the ALA Map and Geography Round Table.  We've
all known that you are a great map librarian and are thrilled that New York
City has recognized your contributions.

Sincerely,

Chris Kollen
Chair
American Libraries Association
Map and Geography Round Table

Social Sciences Team
University of Arizona Library
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ   85721-0055
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  On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

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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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