NORTH CAROLINA SLA AWARDS AND HONORS
1997

NC/SLA's 1999 Awards and Honors
NC/SLA's 1998 Awards and Honors
NC/SLA's 30th anniversary, 1996

Pictured left to right during the April 1997 NC/SLA Awards Banquet are
Chapter officers: Peggy Hull (President), Barbara Akinwole (Past President),
and Robert Hebert (President-elect).

    The North Carolina Biotechnology Center served as the host site for the 31st annual business meeting and the 8th annual awards ceremony of the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. (NC/SLA). Attendees enjoyed presentations by major vendors of information services and products: Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Knight-Ridder Information, Lexis/Nexis, Profound, and UMI.

    Barbara Akinwole, NC/SLA President offered greetiings to the membership and congratulations to the newly elected officers. the evening concluded with the presentation of this year's Chapter awards.

1997 photos compliments of Ellen Leadem, National Institute of Environmental Health Library, Research Triangle Park, NC

	NC/SLA Awards Banquet, RTP, NC 1997     Pictured at the Banquet are (left to right): Teresa Leonard (1995-'96 NCSLA President) presenting the Chapter's "Horizon Award" to Sperry Krueger from The News & Observer's news research department. This award recognizes "a new member of the Chapter who by work and professional activities, shows great promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession." Previous Horizon Award Honorees are: 1999: Kristen Roland (US EPA Library) 1998: Kelly Gregory (Bank of America Library) 1997: Sperry Krueger (The News & Observer Research Department). 1996: Ginny Hauswald (Winston-Salem Journal) 1995: Marlys Ray    (Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina) 1994: Sandra Hughey     (DynCorp) 1993: Teresa Faust (Wake Forest University) 1992: [not awarded] 1991: Ellen Leadem (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) 1990: Nancy Bruce {Kozlowski} (North Carolina Biotechnology Center)
	NC/SLA Awards Banquet, RTP, NC, 1997     Teresa Leonard, right, with "Meritorious Achievement Award" honoree, Larry Wright, National Institute of Environmental Health Science Library. This award is earned by an individual who has made "notable and enduring contributions to the Chapter and the profession, with an emphasis on local and national leadership of an exemplary nature." Previous Meritorious Award honorees are: 1999: Jean Porter (North Carolina State University Library) 1998: Barbara Best-Nichols (Reichhold Chemicals Inc. Library) 1997: Larry Wright (National Institutes of Health Library) 1996: Barbara Semonche (UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication) 1995: Barbara K. Post   (Becton Dickinson & Co.) 1994: Rebecca Vargha    (SAS Institute) 1993: Alice Cotten (UNC-CH North Carolina Collection) 1992: Dav Robertson (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Library) 1991: Ildiko Trombitas (Burroughs Wellcome, now Glaxo Wellcome) 1990: Sangster Parrott (NC/SLA Chapter founder, now retired)
	NC/SLA Awards Banquet, RTP, NC 1997     Teresa Leonard (left) with Rhoda Channing (right), director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. Ms. Channing accepted the Chapter's Information Management Award in behalf of Wake Forest University. This award is earned by an organization in recognition of its "support of libraries and information science and the information needs of its community." Previous Information Management Award honorees are: 1999: Center for Creative Leadership 1998: [not awarded] 1997: (Wake Forest University Libraries) 1996: [not awarded] 1995: The News & Observer    (Presentation Speech) 1994: [not awarded] 1993: Burroughs-Wellcome Company 1992: North Carolina State University Library System 1991: Glaxo Company 1990: State Library of North Carolina

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