The SLA Professional Award sponsored by Springer

This SLA award recognizes a special event, major achievement or specific significant contribution from an SLA member to the field of librarianship or information science which advances the Association's goals and objectives. Recipients of this award receive a cash award in the amount of US$ 1000.

Nominations for 2008 are now closed.

2007 Recipient of The SLA Professional Award sponsored by Springer

SLA Military Librarians Division

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The Military Librarians Division (MLD) of the Special Libraries Association brings together members from all the U.S. military services, the Canadian Combined Armed Forces, other national military services, Defense Department agencies, contractors and vendors, and anyone with an interest in military librarianship.

In the US, the members of MLD represent all of the military branches. These librarians work in a variety of library settings, including academic, medical, scientific, and field posts. Librarians have worked with our troops at home and abroad for decades. The Military Librarians Division of SLA has promoted the advancement of its members and the betterment of military library science since 1953.

Today, military librarians continue to fulfill their vital role by providing information to individuals, officials and organizations that are making life-or-death decisions every day. Librarians also support military personnel and their families with resources, special programs and other assistance. For many of the troops on deployment, military librarians are the people they count on to deliver a little slice of home. One of the more important things military librarians do is provide an escape from the daily rigors of combat with books, libraries and information services to serve those in the line of fire.

MLD's goals are to promote the profession and to assist its members in developing core competencies of knowledge management. The division sponsors programs at SLA annual meetings and holds its own annual meeting, the Military Libraries Workshop. It also creates channels for networking and committee participation and publishes a newsletter, The Military Librarian.

More information is available at http://units.sla.org/division/dmil/AboutMLD.htm.

Past Recipients of The SLA Professional Award sponsored by Springer

Edwin T. Coman, Jr. (1949) as author of Sources of Business Information.

Anne L. Nicholson (1950) as compiler of the SLA publication, Numerical Index to the Bibliography of Science and Industrial Reports, Vols. 1-10, 1946-1948.

Dr. Mortimer Taube (1952) for development of a system of scientific documentation accepted in modified form by several government agencies.

Rose L. Vormelker (1953) for the great impetus given to special librarianship and in recognition of her organization and operation of the Business Information Bureau of the Cleveland Public Library.

Eleanor S. Cavanaugh (1954) joint award (Savord) for outstanding achievements in the library profession.

Ruth Savord (1954) joint award (Cavanaugh) for outstanding achievements in the library profession.

Dr. Jolan M. Fertig (1955) for stimulating contributions to association affairs and to the scientific literature.

Irene M. Strieby Shreve (1956) for her realization of the relationship of special librarianship to librarianship as a whole and her contributions to education for special librarianship.

Elizabeth W. Owens (1957) for distinguished service to the profession by bringing special librarianship to the grass roots level.

Marion E. Wells (1958) for eminent and meritorious service and distinguished leadership in SLA.

Rose Boots (1960) in recognition of her efforts to establish the SLA Scholarship and Student Loan Fund.

Cyril W. Cleverdon (1962) for the systematic study of the comparative efficiency of four indexing systems: UDC, alphabetical subject, facted classification, and Uniterm.

Ruth Leonard (1965) for her documentation accepted in modified form by contributions, as a teacher, adviser, and author of the association's Objectives and Standards for Special Libraries.

Illinois Chapter, SLA (1967) for the SLA monograph, Special Libraries: A Guide for Management, a chapter project.

Beatrice V. Simon (1969) as author of the report, Support of Medical Education and Research in Canada.

James B. Adler (1972) as founder, editor and publisher of Congressional Information Service and CIS/Index.

Marjorie B. Hyslop (1973) for her accomplishments in the control of information services in the metal literature.

Loretta J. Kiersky (1974) for her monograph, Introduction to Micrographics, published by the National Micrographics
Association.

Jacqueline D. Sisson (1976) for her two-volume index to Adolfo Venturi's Storia del 'Arte Italiana.

Audrey M. Grosch (1977) for conception, design, and development of the Minnesota Union List of Serials, a database in Marc II format.

Lorna Daniells (1978) as author of Business Information Sources (1976).

Dr. Irving M. Klempner (1980) for his contributions as chairman of SLA's Special Committee on the White House Conference on Library and Information Services.

Ron Coplen (1983) as compiler of Special Libraries: A Cumulative Index 1971/1980.

James Matarazzo (1983) for his book, Closing the Corporate Library: Case Studies on the Decision-Making Process.

Hubert E. Sauter (1985) for his contribution to the information science eld through his work with the Defense Technical Information Center.

Herbert S. White (1985) for his contributions to the profession and to SLA as a member of the Board of Directors for five years, including chair of the Advisory Council and SLA President, 1968/69, and as author of Managing the Special Library.

Mary McNierney Grant (1986) for her contributions to special librarianship, notably her authorship of the Directory of Business and Financial Services.

Naomi C. Broering (1987) for her expertise in library automation and her contributions to special librarians in medical libraries.

Evelyn Butler (1988) for her significant contributions to the field of social work librarianship including her work on the publication Building a Social Work Library: A Guide to the Selection of Books, Periodicals and Reference Tools.

Elizabeth W. Stone (1988) for her innovative service to the library community including the founding of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE), creation of the metropolitan Washington Joint Spring Workshop, and her efforts to establish a Roundtable on Continuing Education by IFLA.

Guy St. Clair (1989) is credited in the information profession with recognizing the role of one-person libraries in the library community. He is also known as an author, lecturer, and consultant.

Henriette Davidson Avram (1990) for her tireless efforts in promoting international standards to link databases housed on disparate computer systems.

James M. Matarazzo(1991) joint award (Prusak) for his work on Valuing Corporate Libraries, which placed corporate librarians in the spotlight.

Laurence Prusak (1991) joint award (Matarazzo) for his work on Valuing Corporate Libraries, which placed corporate librarians in the spotlight.

Sgt. J. Stephen Huntsberry (1992) for his involvement in the Blumberg case ending in the arrest of Stephen Blumberg after 19 tons of stolen rare books and manuscripts were found in Blumberg's home.

William Andrew Moffett (1993) for his efforts to provide open access to photographed copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Christine Wells(1994) and the Freedom Forum Foundation for establishing news libraries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

Ann W. Talcott (1996) for the production and direction of SLA's first research forum.

Sue Rugge (2000) for her spirit, drive and dedication to the information industry.

Eric A. Brewer (2001) for his significant contributions to the library field through the development of FirstGov.gov, a United States Government Internet portal created to improve access to public information for U.S. citizens.

Mary Ellen Bates (2002) for her significant contributions to the Association and information profession as an innovator, contributor, and teacher throughout her career.

T.N. Prakash (2004)
Elton B. Stephens (2004)
Karen Melville (2005)
Judy Russell (2005)

Pam Osborne, MLS (2006) for developing a digital library to improve the accessibility of internal information for the organization's field personnel.