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The 1994 recipient of the James Bennett Childs Award is Sandy Peterson, Documents Librarian, Government Documents Center, Yale University. This award is a tribute to an individual who has made a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship. Sandy began working with documents in 1965 at the Library of Congress. In 1967 Sandy received her Master of Library Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. This marked the beginning of a career dedicated to documents librarianship.

Over the past twenty-six years Sandy has held various documents positions throughout the country. Her involvement has included Federal, state, United Nations and international materials as well as maps. Her commitment to documents librarianship is most evident in her professional activities. While Sandy was in Virginia she was extremely active in the Public Documents Forum of the Virginia Library Association serving as secretary, program coordinator, chair and co-editor of the Forum's newsletter, Shipping List.

Within the Government Documents Round Table there is little she has not done. Sandy has served GODORT in the capacity of Secretary, Chair and has been a member of the Committee of Eight, the Nominating Committee, the GODORT Ad Hoc Committee on Reorganization, and the Awards Committee. She is currently the editor of the GODORT Policies and Procedures Manual.

Outside of GODORT, Sandy was elected to the 91´«Ã½ Council and was appointed to the 91´«Ã½ Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship. In August 1983, and again in September 1984, Sandy testified for 91´«Ã½ at a U.S. Department of Energy Public Hearing on "Identification and Protection of Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information." In 1987 she represented GODORT at a hearing held by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and in 1989 Sandy was appointed Visiting Program Officer for authorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act by the Association of Research Libraries.

And finally, Sandy served as the chief editor of the report coming out of the Chicago Conference on the Future of Government Information. This involved three full days of editorial work in Chicago and many nights and weekends of her own time in New Haven. Others might not have given so willing of their time. Sandy has and does give to the documents profession, time and time again.

DttP v. 22, no. 2, p. 92