NC/SLA CHRONOLOGY

NC/SLA 30TH ANNIVERSARY: CHAPTER CHRONOLGY

GREAT MOMENTS IN THE LIFE OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER OF
SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION
Compiled by Dr. Fred Roper, April 1996

[Note: This site includes a brief NC/SLA chronology, membership growth, and Association-level leadership]

Chapter Chronology (1966-1996)

September 21, 1965: Organizational meeting in Durham

January 20, 1966: North Carolina chartered as 34th chapter of SLA

April 6, 1966: First officers installed --

    Richard C. David, President
   Charles Kip, First Vice-President
    Robert Betts, Second Vice-President
    Darlene Ball, Recording Secretary
    James G. Baker, Corresponding Secretary
    Edwina D. Johnson, Treasurer

July 26, 1966: First regular meeting held in Greensboro

October, 1966: First Bulletin issued -- North Carolina Chapter News

July 29, 1967: First Continuing Education program held in Chapel Hill --
Introduction to Data Processing for Special librarians

1973: Sara Aull joined the Chapter
1975-83: Sara Aull was ditor of the Bulletin

1975: SOLINET available in North Carolina

April 5, 1976: 10th Anniversary of NC/SLA observed in Durham

1978: Social issues came to the front -- Equal Rights Amendment

November 1978: Liquor by the drink approved in North Carolina

1981: Sara Aull Student Paper Award Competition was launched

April 11, 1986: 20th Anniversary of NC/SLA observed in Raleigh

1989: Three new Chapter awards created --

Meritorious Achievement Award
Horizon Award
Information Management Award

1991: Academic Relations Committee debuted

April 6, 1991: 25th Anniversary observed in Research Triangle Park
SLA Executive Director David Bender and SLA President Guy St. Clair attended

June, 1992: Edward G. Holley, former UNC-CH SILS dean, was proposed as Honorary Member of SLA

March, 1994: Chapter listserv, (NCSLA@listserv.oit.unc.edu) launched on the Internet

January 26-31, 1995: Chapter hosts SLA Winter Meeting in Raleigh

December, 1995: NC/SLA Bulletin established on the World Wide Web --
"The Webbed NC/SLA Bulletin

Membership Growth:
    1966 -- 29
    1972 -- 50
    1977 -- 120
    1979 -- 150+
    1987 -- 200+
    1990 -- 250+
    1992 -- 300+
     2002 -- 288

Association Level Leadership:
    SLA Board members [Barbara Best-Nichols and Rebecca Vargha and Dav Robertson]
    SLA Hall of Fame Members (2) [M. Elizabeth Gibbs Moore, 1986, and Sara Aull, 1973]
    SLA Fellows (3) [Laura Gasaway, 1988, Fred Roper, 1989, and Barbara Semonche, 1995]
    SLA Honorary Member [Edward G. Holley, 1992]

This page was created by in 1998 Barbara P. Semonche. It was last updated September 2003.

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