SLA Hall of Fame
Presented to SLA members in good standing at or near the end of their active professional careers to recognize service and contributions to the association. Hall of Fame recognition also is granted for prolonged distinguished service to an SLA chapter or division that has contributed to the success of the association.
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Judy Field Professional in Residence Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan |
Judy Field joined SLA in 1964 and during her membership in SLA; she has served as chair of the Business and Finance Division twice and once for the Library Management Division. She served on the SLA Board of Directors in1975-77, 1986-89 and 1996-99, that included serving as the 1997-98 President. She has served on numerous committees over the years for the Michigan chapter, several divisions and the Association.
She has done numerous talks over the years internationally on a variety of topics but regularly discusses the need for quality customer service and the importance of mentoring in developing our future leaders. After spending half of her career as a practicing librarian, she has spent the last half as a library educator teaching a special libraries course, placing students in practicums and serving as a liaison to the SLA student group. Judy has also served on the ALA Committee on Accreditation and been a member of several review teams. She has been honored by the Association by being made a Fellow, recipient of the Rose Vormelker Award, the John Cotton Dana Award and a Presidential Citation. Today after serving two terms as Chair of the Knowledge Management Section of IFLA, she now is Chair of Division III, Library Services and thus serves on the IFLA's Professional Committee and the Governing Board. Before joining the Wayne State Library and Information Science Program in 1991, Judy worked in special, academic, public and government libraries for over 20 years.
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John V. Ganly Assistant Director for Collections (ret.) Science Industry and Business Library of New York Public Library SLA New York Chapter New York City |
John joined SLA in 1984 and has been a leader for the SLA New York Chapter Board for over 25 years, managing fund raising, vendor relations and programming. He was the Chair of the Business & Finance division raising tens of thousands of dollars for annual conference programming. He has been a great networker for the chapter providing its leadership with introductions to local business luminaries, officers, and city leaders. John recently served on the chapter's Centennial Committee and with Bill Noorlander raised over $100,000 for the chapter's eight Centennial Celebration programs including a Centennial Dinner and a full day Information Forum which attracted over 90 members for a full day investigation of what the future practice of the profession will bring.
As the Assistant Director for Collections, the Science Industry and Business Library of New York Public Library for close to 40 years, John provided unique library, reference and research services for almost 40 years to life-long learners, graduate students, small business persons, amateur scientists, and patent filers among the over 2 million residents of Manhattan and Staten Island.
"One of John's greatest achievements is the way in which he has gathered all the leaders of the information profession in a city as large as New York and has managed to engage all of us in city wide or profession wide goals," said fellow NY Chapter member Pam Rollo.
John created and organized the Special Libraries service for both presidential conventions held in New York, organizing Chapter and other academic and public librarians in providing an onsite around the clock special library service for convention attendees and media. John has been the NY chapter's voice with city government, particularly the Downtown Development Association of New York City in championing the need for business resources and libraries as downtown New York City rebuilds after the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
John is an avid writer and has published several books in the field of business librarianship and has been an adjunct professor and has taught at Rutgers University for over 20 years receiving several acknowledgements and awards. John received the Business & Finance award for the Business & Finance Hall of Fame in 1999, subsequent to which, he served another ten years before he retired from The New York Public Library.
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Guy St. Clair President SMR International New York City |
Guy St. Clair is a native of Virginia who came to New York in 1969 to be the librarian at the Union League Club. His professional career had previously included work at the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia, the Library of Congress, the University of Illinois Library, the Richmond Public Library, and the Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond. From 1979-1987, he was the Library Director at The University Club of New York.
In 1984, Guy St. Clair and Andrew Berner established OPL Resources, Ltd (now SMR International). St. Clair is now president and consulting specialist for knowledge services for the company, which focuses on change and its impact on people, organizational effectiveness, and knowledge services delivery within the larger organization.
A member of SLA since 1972, Guy St. Clair speaks affectionately about how he "would not have had a career" if it had not been for his many years of volunteer work with the association. A member of the Australia and New Zealand Chapter, the New York Chapter (for which he served as President in 1989-1990), and the Washington, DC Chapter, he is also a member of the Museums, Arts and Humanities Division (for which he served as Chair in 1976-1977 and again in 1983-1984), the Knowledge Management Division, the Business and Finance Division, and the Leadership and Management Division.
Guy St. Clair was awarded SLA's Professional Award in 1989. The citation for the award reads: "Guy St. Clair is credited in the information profession with recognizing the role of one-person libraries in the library community." He was SLA's President in 1991-1992. He wrote SLA at 100: From "Putting Knowledge to Work" to Building the Knowledge Culture. St. Clair traces the story of SLA.
In addition to his work with SMR International, Guy St. Clair is a special consultant for knowledge services for EOS International, a San Diego-based company providing integrated library automation, knowledge services support, and global ASP hosting for specialized libraries and knowledge services staff in organizations throughout the world.
SLA Hall of Fame Inductees
| William K. Alcott (1959) Sarah B. Ball (1959) Herbert O. Brigham (1959) Marguerite D. Burnett (1959) Eleanor S. Cavanaugh (1959) Alta B. Claflin (1959) John Cotton Dana (1959) Daniel N. Handy (1959) Josephine B. Hollingsworth (1959) Dorsey W. Hyde (1959) Dr. John A. Lapp (1959) Guy E. Marion (1959) Alma Clarvoe Mitchill (1959) Linda H. Morley (1959) Rebecca B. Rankin (1959) Anna B. Sears (1959) Lura Shorb (1959) Irene M. Strieby Shreve (1959) Marian Manley Winser (1959) Laura A. Woodward (1959) Dorothy Bemis (1960) Florence Bradley (1960) Pauline M. Hutchison (1960) Ruth Savord (1960) Alberta L. Brown (1961) Thelma Hoffman (1961) Rose Boots (1962) Margaret Miller Rocq (1962) Fannie Simon (1962) Betty Joy Cole (1963) Josephine I. Greenwood (1963) Lucile L. Keck (1963) Kathleen Brown Stebbins (1963) Rose L. Vormelker (1963) Dr. Jolan M. Fertig (1964) Margaret Hatch (1964) Mary Jane Henderson (1964) Marian E. Wells (1964) Marie Simon Goff (1965) Ruth H. Hooker (1965) Mary Louise Alexander (1966) Elizabeth W. Owens (1966) Howard L. Stebbins (1966) Eleanor B. Gibson (1968) Anne L. Nicholson (1968) Margaret H. Fuller (1969) Elizabeth Ferguson (1970) W. Roy Holleman (1970) Herman H. Henckle (1971) Ruth S. Leonard (1971) Janet Bogardus (1972) Sara Aull (1973) Agnes O. Hanson (1974) Ethel S. Klahre (1974) Safford Harris (1975) Katharine L. Kinder (1975) Phoebe Hayes (1976) Ruth M. Nielander (1976) Grieg S. Aspnes (1977) Rocco Crachi (1977) Sam Sass (1977) Chester M. Lewis (1978) Gretchen Little (1979) Dr. Frank E. McKenna (1979) Rosemary R. Demarest (1980) |
Charles H. Stevens (1980) Elizabeth R. Usher (1980) Helen Waldron (1981) Alleen Thompson (1982) Lorraine A. Ciboch (1983) Mark H. Baer (1984) William S. Budington (1984) Vivian D. Hewitt (1984) Robert G. Krupp (1984) Jean Deuss (1985) Eugene Jackson (1985) Martha Jane Zachert (1985) Elizabeth Gibbs Moore (1986) Edward B. Strable (1986) Janet M. Rigney (1987) Robert W. Gibson, Jr. (1988) Edythe Moore (1988) Ruth S. Smith (1988) Miriam Tees (1988) Joseph M. Dagnese (1989) Lois Erwin Godfrey (1989) James L. Olsen, Jr. (1989) Murray Wortzel (1989) Ellis Mount (1990) William C. Petru (1990) Efren W. Gonzalez (1991) Dorothy Kasman (1991) Charles D. Missar (1991) Mary Vasilakis (1991) Joe Ann Clifton (1992) Darwin "Jack" Leister (1992) Julie A. Macksey (1992) Judith Genesen (1994) Herbert S. White (1994) Mary McNierney Grant (1995) Audrey N. Grosch (1995) Frank H. Spaulding (1995) Muriel Regan (1996) Catherine A. Jones (1997) Catherine D. Scott (1996) Winifred Sewell (1998) Ellen Mimnaugh (1999) Angela Pollis (1999) Anne Galler (2000) Dorothy McGarry (2000) Edwina "Didi" Pancake (2000) Judith R. Bernstein (2001) Roger K. Haley (2001) Fred W. Roper (2001) Mary Dickerson (2002) Richard Funkhouser (2002) Elizabeth "Betty" Eddison (2002) H. Robert Malinowsky (2003) Ellen Miller (2004) Wilda Newman (2004) Ruth Seidman (2004) Carol Ginsburg (2005) Phyllis Waggoner (2005) Jackie Desoer (2006) Paul Wasserman (2007) Gary D. Wiggins (2007) Toby Pearlstein (2008) Dana Lincoln Roth (2008) Sue Snyder O'Neill Johnson (Posthumously, 2008) Donne Scheeder (2009) Barbara Semonche (2009) |
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