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The CARL Member of the Year Award is given each year to a CARL member who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in service to CARL and to the profession at large, especially in California. The Awards Committee this year was chaired by Northern Vice-President Sandy Vella. Other members were Southern Vice-President Don Bosseau and last year's award recipients, Judy Harvey-Sahak and Carl Bengston.
Before announcimg this year's award I would like to remind everyone of the past award recipients-some of whom are with us at this Conference. Would those who are present please stand as I read the list.
It is a pleasure to announce that this year's Member of the Year is Stephanie Bangert. Stephanie has been Director of the St. Mary's College Library since 1987, and in 1994 was made Dean for Academic Services, adding to her span of responsibilities, in addition to the College Library, the Hearst Art Museum.
Stephanie is well known as a leader in California libraries and librarianship through her activities not only in CARL and ACRL, but in the California Library Association, California Private Academic Library Directors, the California Multi-type Networking Task Force and with WASC.
Her service to CARL began in the early 1980's. She served as Newsletter Editor, then chaired the Northern Program Committee, served as the first interest Group Coordinator, was Northern Vice-President in 1991 and 1992, and served as President in 1993. With her recent election as the first CARL/ACRL Chapters Council delegate, CARL will continue to benefit from her experience and perspective both in our growing relationship with ACRL and on the statewide Executive Board.
As President of CARL in the first year of our separation from CLA, she skillfully managed the transition, maintaining a friendly and cooperative relationship to CLA, while moving CARL ahead as an independent organization with the appointment of a Long Range Planning Committee, and organization of the 1st Annual CARL Conference.
The 1st Conference, at Preservation Park in Oakland, established an excellent standard, addressing a theme with broad interest--Undergraduate Education in California--bringing a number of high level figures from the four higher education sectors to speak about directions in academic planning and how they might affect libraries. Among the speakers was Ralph Woolf, the Associate Executive Director of WASC, whom Patricia Breivik praised in her keynote talk yesterday [at the 3d Annual Conference].
In CLA, Stephamie has served recently as a member of the Statewide Council, and has been President of the Information Technology Section and chair of the Organizing Committee. She has been a regular participant in the California State Networking Task Force since 1988, as member of either the Steering or Planning Committees. She has served as a WASC Appointed Team Evaluator since 1991, visiting one or more colleges each year for a week-long accreditation evaluation.
At the national level she has been an active member of ACRL, serving on its Membership Communications Task Force, on Chapters Council and on the Appointment and Nominations Committee.
Finally, she has written and spoken extensively. Her most recent publication, co-authored with St. Mary's librarian Bonnie Gratch, is entitled "Accreditation: Opportunities for Library Leadership," and is to be published in the November 1995 issue of College and Research Libraries News.
As a sign of CARL's appreciation for her many and continuing contributions to both CARL and the profession, I am most pleased to present her with this plaque and honor her as CARL's 1995 Member of the Year.