Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives

Association des Cartotheques et Archives
Cartographiques du Canada

The Committee members for the past year were Grace Welch (Chair), Trudy Bodak, Lori Sugden and Marc Cockburn.

ACMLA Honours Award
The Awards Committee is pleased to announce that there will be two Honours Award recipients this year:  Cathy Moulder and Ron Whistance-Smith.  Both members have made outstanding contributions to the life of the Association and the profession of map librarianship. Although retired, Ron remains active in the profession, contributing time and energy to the William C. Wonders Map Collection which he helped to develop into one of the largest collections in Canada.  Ron has always been a key resource for anyone wishing to learn more about the mapping of Western Canada (and other parts of the world), and he has enthusiastically shared his knowledge with his colleagues and researchers.  Cathy is not only active at the national level, serving in several capacities on the ACMLA Executive and most recently as Bulletin Editor, but also at the regional level, through her many contributions to the OCUL Map Group.  Her many papers at conferences and to the Bulletin on such topics as data licensing, developing GIS services, training students assistants, have always been insightful and improved our understanding of key issues for map librarians.

ACMLA Papers Award
There were no nominations for the Papers Award.  Reminders were posted in the Bulletin and on CARTA.   The Committee reviewed articles in issues 101-103 of the Bulletin in light of the terms of reference for the Award. Though there were several papers of merit none were considered to fully meet the criteria so no Papers Award will be given this year.
 

Respectfully submitted,

Grace Welch, Chair
Awards Committee

May 2000

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