David A. Rhydwen, formerly chief of the INFO-GLOBE section of The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada, was chair of our News Division in 1960-61. He was highly honored by our Division and SLA. He received the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award in 1982 and was honored in 1984 with SLA's John Cotton Dana Award. Rhydwen was among the very first of our News Division, if not the first, to write about the installation of a computerized information storage and retrieval system in The Globe and Mail library. His article appeared in the February 1977 issue of Special Libraries back when it was a peer-reviewed journal.

Rhydwen has been acknowledged as a leader, an innovator and a pioneer of newspaper library methods, editorial user information services, and information science technology applications. His contributions to the specialized newspaper library field have spanned his active professional career of 45 years with The Globe and Mail. Starting as a suburban reporter, he moved to the editorial library staff and became Chief Librarian in 1938. He was named Sales Manager of the INFO-GLOBE Division from 1979-1980 and was Editorial Administrator from 1980 to 1983.

Rhydwen was born in Scarborough, Canada in 1918. David died in Markham, Canada in September 26, 1990.