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This award is being given to Sandee for her significant and long-term contributions to government documents librarianship. While Sandee has been a sustaining member of GODORT, this award is also in recognition of her contributions to the U.S. Public Printer's Depository Library Council, Chair of GODORT (1988), Chair of the Kentucky Library Association/GODORT (1998-1999), as well as being the Regional library at the University of Georgia and now at the University of Kentucky. As well Sandee has spent a great deal of time and energy working on outside projects such as Chair of the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Federal Depository Program which is sponsored by the SE Research Libraries. Also noteworthy are her appearances before Congress testifying on behalf of GODORT and 91´«Ã½ on important government information issues. She has also published a bibliography of government publications on solar power. Equally important are the number of graduate students who have attended the University of Kentucky's School of Library and Information Science that have been influenced by Sandee. Through her course on government information Sandee has guided many graduate students towards becoming government information librarians. Her knowledge, breath, depth, and range of government information and related issues have led her to mentor many new government document librarians. Sandee is held in high esteem as noted by her nominators. Acknowledged as "knowing all things about government information" as well as being an influence to GODORT, 91´«Ã½, and ARL policy makers in responding to the myriad of issues that Sandee has witnessed over her career. Her nominators also noted Sandee's vision regarding the importance of incorporating t electronic government information into the federal depository library program when it was first introduced.