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WAS my pleasure to present this year's CARL Member of the Year Award to
Michael Oppenheim, on September 12, 1998, at the Sixth Annual CARL Conference
held at the Sutton Place Hotel in Newport Beach. I would like to share
with you a few of Michael's accomplishments.
Michael's
involvement with CARL includes the following contributions: member of the
ABLE-South planning committee since 1993; Chair of ABLE-South, 1995; member
of the Fourth and Sixth Annual Conference Program Planning Committees; and
many other roles for individual programs as secretary/treasurer, registrar,
program designer, reporter, and local arrangements staff. He has also
moderated several programs, and presented at another.
Michael's
professional contributions also extend to the national, state, and local
levels. In the American Library Association (ALA), he has long been an active
member of GODORT (Government Documents Round Table), including service on
its Education Committee, Federal Documents Task Force, and International
Documents Task Force. For the 1996 GODORT preconference on "Demystifying
Documents," he coordinated the business information component of the workshop.
More recently, he has also become active in BRASS (Business Reference &
Services Section of the Reference & Users Services Association). He is currently
a member of its Publications Committee, and last June he was the opening
speaker at the main BRASS program in Washington, D.C.
At
the state level, Michael has long been active in the California Library
Association (CLA), including service on its Librarians, Vendors, and Publishers
Committee; the 1994 and 1997 Annual Conference Planning Committee; and as
vice-chair and chair of the Government Publications Roundtable. Currently,
he is a member of the Organization and Bylaws Committee, and the Reference
Service Section representative on the CLA Assembly, the policy making body
of the organization. This past November, he was elected by this body
to the Executive Committee, which handles the day-to-day business of the
organization between the quarterly Assembly meetings. Locally, Michael
has been very active for much of the 1990s in the Depository Libraries of
Southern California, including many years of service as a program coordinator.
A
Los Angeles County native, Michael holds degrees from Cal Poly Pomona, the
University of Southern California, and the University of California, Los
Angeles. Prior to his joining the Rosenfeld Library of the Anderson
School at UCLA, he was for many years a government documents and reference
librarian in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at California State University,
Los Angeles--where he first became active in CARL. His eclectic career
has also included terms of service at California State University, Dominguez
Hills, California State University, Long Beach, Whittier College, Chapman
University, and the University of California, Irvine.
As
you can see, Michael is very deserving of the award. Please join me in congratulating
him as the 1998 CARL Member of the Year.
Les Kong
CARL President
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