----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 1993 Honors Award and the Bill M. Woods Award. Dr. Christopher M. Baruth, Map and Satellite Imagery Librarian, American Geographical Society Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library received the Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship. Harry O. Davis, Map and Assistant Science Librarian, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale received the Bill M. Woods Award for the best feature article to appear in the Geography and Map Division BULLETIN for the year prior to the 1993 Annual Meeting. The citations follow. HONORS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GEOGRAPHY AND MAP LIBRARIANSHIP The Honors Award is the highest award given by the Geography and Map Division of the Special Libraries Association. The Division, celebrating its 50th anniversary last year in San Francisco, began this recognition of achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship in 1955. This year's recipient marks the 26th time this award has been given. The Librarian we honor is an example of the "classically" trained map librarian, motivated practitioner of skills learned, and our hope for the future of the profession. Like our recipient of this award last year, this librarian has worked to bring our whole profession together and move us into the twenty-first century. This year's Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship is presented to Dr. Christopher M. Baruth, Map and Satellite Imagery Librarian, American Geographical Society Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library. Dr. Baruth received his B.S. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970, followed by an M.A. in Library Science from this same institution in 1972. His M.S. in Geography came in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and his Ph.D from that institution in 1990. He began his professional career as a high school librarian in 1972 and began a variety of teaching and internships in 1976. He assumed his current position with the American Geographical Society Collection in 1980. He has been very actively involved in the Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association, having served as Program Planner for the 1987 Anaheim, California Annual Meeting; Chair of the 1988 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado; Chair of the Committee on Standards (1983-1987), writing the standards for university map collections; and serving on the Committee on Computers and Automation. He is currently the Executive Director of the North American Cartographic Information Society or NACIS, and has served that organization as Secretary, member of the Board of Directors, a program planner, and member of the Publications Committee. Dr. Baruth developed a microcomputer software package as a coordinate indexing system for maps. Called GEODEX, he demonstrated it at the NACIS Annual Meeting in Denver in 1988 and at the SLA G&M Annual Meeting in New York in 1989. If all this activity were not enough to keep him busy, he accepted the task of organizing the first meeting of the Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations at the Newberry Library in Chicago in November 1988. He brought representatives of 11 "map" oriented groups together to talk and plan for the future. Since that time, he has kept the spirit of that landmark meeting alive through conference calls with these "map" groups and efforts to provide a super joint meeting. These efforts will bear fruit October 18-20, 1993 in Washington, D.C. with the first CCISA super meeting. His latest project is as a team member for the Interactive Cartographic Videodisc Project, funded for $304,000 by the U.S. Department of Education, 1991-1993. There are many important tasks to be done in the future and we know that the example and standards set by Dr. Baruth will motivate future generations of map librarians, and we expect that he has a few more ideas. It is for these accomplishments and the hope of the future that he has inspired that the Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division, bestows on Dr. Christopher M. Baruth the 1993 Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Geography and Map Librarianship. BILL M. WOODS AWARD The Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association, is pleased to announce that the Bill M. Woods Award for the best feature article to appear in the Geography and Map Division BULLETIN for the year prior to the 1993 Annual Meeting goes to Harry O. Davis for his article in the September, 1992 BULLETIN, "Map Librarians, The International Student, and ESL: Opportunity and Challenge." Mr. Davis is Map and Assistant Science Librarian, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Geology from The College of Wooster and the University of Western Ontario; an M.A. in Librarianship from the University of Denver; and has done additional Ph.D-level graduate studies in Geography at the Univesity of Georgia. Prior to his first full-time appointment as a Map Librarian, Mr. Davis served as a Reference Assistant and Map Cataloging Intern at the Geography and Map Divison, Library of Congress, and with state and private planning offices. He was appointed Document and Map Librarian, later changed to Map and Special Collections Librarian at Frostburg State College, Frostburg, Maryland from 1970 to 1987. He was appointed to his present position at Southern Illinois at Carbondale in 1987. His article seeks to motivate map librarians to become more involved with their community of international students. He has proposed using the visual impact of a map with these student's often overlooked, familiarity with Geography, both of their home areas and the world in general. Mr. Davis writes of the "Conjoint Retention" factor as a way to involve maps with the teaching of English as a second language. He supports his views with a 30 item set of references at the conclusion of the article. We thank him for his thoughtful and detailed account of ways to make map collections more widely recognized. The Bill M. Woods Award, which includes a $50.00 cash award, is named for an early worker in the field of Map Librarianship and Education. He was responsible for the building of the important map collection at the University of Illinois in the 1950s; was a supporter of the Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association; and a recipient of the Division's 1959 Honors Award. Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division, Honors and Awards Committee: Mr. David C. McQuillan, University of South Carolina, Chair Ms. June Crowe, IT Corporation, Knoxville, Tennessee Mr. Bruce D. Obenhaus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg David C. McQuillan Map Librarian Map Library University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. 29208 Phone: (803) 777-4723 Fax: (803) 777-4661 Bitnet: L100003@UNIVSCVM Internet: [log in to unmask]