The SLA Hall of Fame
Presented to an SLA member in good standing at or near the end of active professional career to recognize service and contribution to the Association. Spots in The SLA Hall of Fame are also granted for prolonged distinguished service within an SLA Unit (chapter or division) which has contributed to the success of the Unit or Association as a whole.
Nominations for 2008 are now closed.
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SLA Hall of Fame 2007 Inductees
Paul Wasserman
Paul Wasserman is professor emeritus at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, which he started and oversaw as first dean from 1965 to 1970.
He has contributed classic reference works in the area of business administration and librarianship as a whole, including such titles as Statistics Sources [1st-28th eds., 1962-2005, now in two volumes], Consultants and Consulting Organizations, Commodity Price Sources, and the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources.
Wasserman joined SLA in 1950. He has served as chair of the Business Division, 1952 to 1953; editor and chair of the sources of commodity prices project, 1956 to 1960; member of the committee on standards, 1960 to 1962; and member of finance committee, 1960 to 1963.
He holds a bachelor of business administration from City College (now City College of the City University of New York), master's of science and economics degrees from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in library administration from the University of Michigan. He did postdoctoral study in data processing and information retrieval at Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University).
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Gary D. Wiggins
Gary Wiggins is director of the chemical informatics program and adjunct professor of informatics at Indiana University.
He is the author of the 1991 book "Chemical Information Sources" and its online successor "Chemical Information Sources Wiki" and numerous articles on science librarianship and information handling,
Wiggins was the Head of the Indiana University Chemistry Library for 27 years and the list owner of CHMINF-L (the Chemical Information Sources Discussion List) for 14 years. He also maintains the Joint Special Libraries Association/American Chemical Society Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials and a Web guide to Internet and other chemistry resources, CHEMINFO, Chemical Information Sources from Indiana University.
He holds a bachelor of arts in chemistry and Russian, a master of arts in Slavic languages and literature, a master of library science and a Ph.D. in library and information science.
Wiggins joined SLA in 1976.
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 B. 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) |
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