The committee consisted of Lori Sugden (Chair), Trudy Bodak and Cheryl Woods. Discussions were held via email. The Committee received nominations for the Honours Award, and selected Patrick McIntyre and Grace Welch to receive the 2003 ACMLA Honours Award.

Patrick is recognized particularly for his many years of stewardship of ACMLA's funds, as its Treasurer since 1991.  He has served to keep the Association financially on track, both in administering its SSHRC travel grants, and by his participation as a Board member.  Patrick has been an archivist at the National Map Collection since 1973, where he served in a highly-praised reference capacity until 1999.  Since then he has been manager of the Renfrew Preservation Centre of the National Archives.

Grace has made significant contributions to the profession of map librarian, to ACMLA, and to the policy and planning level of the Canadian mapping sector.  After working as Assistant to the Map Librarian at Carleton University, then in several positions for the National Library of Canada, she became Head of the University of Ottawa's Map Library in 1990.  In 2002 she was appointed Assistant Chief Librarian for Systems and E-Resources for the University of Ottawa Libraries.  Grace has participated in, organized and lead many workshops on, and written reports and articles on map librarianship, from cataloguing to GIS and geospatial data.  She has participated in and chaired many library, map and data-related committees and organizations, including membership on the Management Board of the Policy Node of GeoConnections.  She has assisted and chaired local arrangements committees for many conferences, served on and chaired several ACMLA committees, and was First Vice-President from 1995 to 1999 and President from 2001 to 2003.

The full text of the presentations to Patrick and Grace will be forthcoming in the ACMLA Bulletin.  On behalf of a grateful association, we sincerely congratulate them.

The committee reviewed all papers published in Bulletins 113-115, but no nominations for papers were received, and no paper award was given.