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August A. Imholtz, Jr., Vice President for Government Documents, Readex (a division of NewsBank, inc), is the 2007 recipient of the James Bennett Childs Award.

It is with extreme pleasure that GODORT presents this award to August Imholtz in recognition of his distinguished and sustained contributions to documents librarianship as evidenced by his scholarship and research of United States government publications and by his enthusiasm, knowledge, and scholar’s detail applied to the field of documents research.

As his nomination letter states, “For more than 30 years, August’s contributions to research and scholarship for U. S. Congressional publishing is unequaled. He significantly influenced the creation of access tools in positions at CIS and later at Readex that opened to scholars the incredible treasures published in the Congressional Serial Set.”

Numerous letters were submitted to the Awards Committee outlining August’s career within the Congressional Information Service, LexisNexis and Readex. Beginning with his work, in 1973, as an abstractor and indexer, his editorships for a number of successful projects within CIS and LexisNexis and finally his current position as Readex Digital Vice President, Documents Division, August’s work within 91´«Ã½/GODORT was documented as well. A large part of his GODORT activities has centered on work as a devoted member and as an active participant in the work of the Rare and Endangered Government Publications Committee.

Writing letters of commendation for some individuals is difficult. It was easy to see that this was not a problem in August’s case. The letters of support contained many accolades of his work and all the letters received could supply material to quote. One of August’s writers stated, “His career traces the modern-day use of congressional documents from rare original publications, through the development of microfiche in the 1970’s, and into the age of digitization. In all professions there are significant events and rare milestone events. August’s many contributions to congressional and legislative research can only be measured against those rare milestone events.”

Therefore, in honor of his years of work with Congressional material, work that will be used by many future documents librarians, researchers and students, GODORT presents August Imholtz with the 2007 James Bennett Childs Award.

A natty booklover from Maryland was known for his wardrobe so neatly planned There was certainty that, when it came to cravat, his valise held not one single four-in-hand

-- George Barnum, U.S. Government Printing Office