It is a special privilege for me to present Carol Lindsay, librarian for The Star in Toronto, with the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award . This award, the highest recognition of the Division, is given for major achievement in the field of news librarianship and outstanding service to the News Division. She joins two other Canadian newspaper librarians, David Rhydwen and Shirley Mooney Aabjerg, as Kwapil Award winners. Tonight is the time when the Division can enthusiastically acknowledge Carol's professional accomplishments. With a grateful nod to this evening's other eminent honorees, Kathy Trimble, Jo Kirks and Yvonne Egertson, John Cronin, our gracious Cincinnati hosts and our inestimable Awards Committee, I begin.
Tonight is, indeed, a very special occasion.
It is our Division's 16 th Awards Banquet. And this is perhaps the largest single gathering of the best brains in news fact-finding and information analysis since Joseph Kwapil and five other newspaper librarians lunched at the Chelsea Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1923. I hasten to add that Carol Lindsay was NOT there. Her professional contributions came much later. Carol Lindsay is a native of Toronto, Canada earning her B.L.S. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Library Science.