The Park Library
School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara Semonche accepting the Dana Award 2004.
[Note: A link to more
images.]
SLA
AWARDS Ceremony: June 6, 2004
The Parthenon
Nashville, Tennessee
Barbara
Semonche’s Acceptance Remarks
for the 2004 John Cotton Dana Award
[Note: The
John Cotton Dana Award is given to an individual SLA member(s) in recognition of
exceptional services to special librarianship.]
Good
evening, everyone.
With
a deep bow to John Cotton Dana,
With
an admiring salute to all the previous Dana honorees,
With
a grateful smile to the Awards Committee,
With
a heartfelt hug to all my mentors and advocates in:
-
the Association,
And
with a loving embrace for that gentleman
scholar who has escorted me to all these SLA conferences for decades,
I offer my genuine gratitude for this honor. It is a treasure!
[Note: Links to previous SLA John Cotton Dana Award Honorees.]
Dana, John Cotton, 1856–1929, American librarian and museum director, b. Woodstock, Vt. He was a lawyer and a civil engineer before joining the staff of the Denver (Colo.) Public Library in 1889, where he instituted the first branch for children. In 1902 Dana became head of the Newark (N.J.) Public Library, which under his direction offered new services to the public including a branch for businessmen. In 1909 the Newark Museum was founded, with Dana as its director until 1929. Dana was a pioneer in library advertising and in library printing and was one of the founders of the Special Libraries Association and its first president. He was president (1895–96) of the American Library Association. Among his many publications are A Library Primer (1899) and The New Museum (1917).