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Alexander Scourby, distinguished actor and radio and television personality, has received the Francis Joseph Campbell Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of library service to blind people. Scourby began working in radio in 1939 and by the early 1940's he was playing running parts in five of the serial melodramas popularly known as soap operas. Scourby began doing summer stock and returned to Broadway in late 1946. Since 1952 Scourby has appeared in several motion pictures and has been working in television as both a narrator and actor. In assessing all of the work he has done in the theatre, radio, movies, television, and talking books he says, "Recording talking books has been as important in my life's work as anything I've ever done. It's the work that really means something to me."