Professional Achievement Award for 1996-1997 goes to Terry Dean
Terry Dean, Access Services Librarian at U.C. Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, is this year's recipient of the Chapter Award for Professional Achievement. The award will be presented October 15 at the Chapter dinner meeting.
Terry has been a member of SLA since 1973, shortly after she began working at the IGS library. She became active early on, and in 1978-1980 joined the Executive Board as Chapter Secretary. She served as Co-Chair of the Joint SF/San Andreas Education Committee (now Professional Development Committee) in 1981-82, and returned to the Board for two years as Director, from 1985-1987. After taking only a year off, she became President-Elect and assumed responsibility for the Chapter Directory. From 1989-1991 she served as Chapter President and Past-President. At the Association level, she was Chair of the Social Science Division in 1991-1992, and in 1997 she headed the Nominating Committee.
Not willing to rest on her laurels, Terry continues to work for our Chapter. Two years ago she suggested we form a Special Publications Committee to index the Chapter Bulletin. Then she followed up on the suggestion by offering to head the committee. When told she was this year's award winner, Terry expressed delight_likening herself to Tony Gwynn who says that he can't believe he gets paid to play baseball_it's just something he loves to do.
All of us owe Terry heartfelt thanks for all that she has contributed, both to our Chapter and to special librarians throughout the Bay Area.
Past-past-president Diane Rosenberger is a librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
