This message was sent to Maps-L by Vanette Schwartz of the G7M Division, SLA, Honors and Awards Committee.----------------------Johnnie ------------------------------------------------------ PRESS RELEASE Bill M. Woods Award The Honors and Awards Committee, Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association is pleased to announce that Lisa Recupero is the recipient of the Bill M. Woods Award for the best feature article to appear in the Geography and Map Division Bulletin during 1995. Her article, "Map Users and Map Reference: Some Considerations for Map Librarians," appeared in the June issue of the Bulletin. The award was presented to Ms. Recupero at the Special Libraries Association 87th annual conference held in Boston, Massachusetts from June 8-13, 1996. Established in June 1975, the Bill M. Woods Award is named for an early leader in the field of Map Librarianship and Education. Through the work of Bill Woods the extensive map collection at the University of Illinois was developed in the 1950s. Mr. Woods was a strong supporter of the Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association, and in 1959 was the recipient of the Division's Honors Award. 1995 marks the 8th time the Bill M. Woods Award has been given. Lisa Recupero is Earth and Mineral Sciences Librarian at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Geography from the State University of New York at Albany. She received her Masters degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Her first professional position was at the University of Missouri-Rolla where she was reference librarian and government documents coordinator, along with being liaison to four departments in geology and engineering. Ms. Recupero has been in her current position at Penn State since September 1995. The award winning article examines the role of the map librarian in connecting users with the cartographic data they need at a level they can interpret. Ms. Recupero explains basic cartographic concepts such as map type, scale, projection and relief. She discusses user needs and abilities, particularly in relation to user surveys conducted by map libraries. Her article concludes with a discussion of the capabilities offered to users by mapping software packages and geographic information systems.