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Joe Morehead, State University of New York at Albany, was selected to receive GODORT's 11^th James Bennett Childs Award. The James Bennett Childs Award honors an individual who has made a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship. Dr. Morehead, the first recipient of the CIS/GODORT/91´«Ã½ Documents to the People award in 1977, documents librarian, gifted library science educator, and author of numerous articles in the field of documents librarianship, has influenced students with his enthusiasm for librarianship, particularly documents librarianship. He has influenced his colleagues with his lucid, witty writing in Government Publications Review, RQ, Documents to the People, Serials Review and Microform Review. His Introduction to United States Public Documents, now in its third edition is "the documents communities textbook/bible."

Throughout his career, Dr. Morehead has been an eloquent and passionate advocate for public access to government information. His writings reveal his commitment to the basic tenets of democracy, and he has said, "Without access to the public records of government, democratic policies give way to cynicism and mistrust. My teaching and research are devoted to an explication of government decision-making through the symbolic forms of government documents." His career exemplifies the high ideals and standards manifested in the work of Dr. Childs.

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