NLM Honor Awards
November's Annual Ceremony Recognizes NLM's Best
As sure as November brings Veterans Day and turkey with all the
trimmings, it brings the annual NLM Honor Awards.
This year's standing-room-only ceremony, held November 23rd in
the Lister Hill Auditorium, saluted excellence, innovation, special
achievement and length of service.
One person who exemplified the latter was Dr. James H. Cassedy,
who received his 50-year pin for federal service at the awards
ceremony. (Please see related story, below.)
Individual and group awards for sustained superior performance or
special acts or service went to 110 employees. Forty NLM staffers
received length-of- service awards.
Other staff members who had received prizes from prestigious
organizations outside the Library were also acknowledged for their
achievements.
NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg welcomed the audience and
awardees, and sized up 1999 as a year of notable accomplishments.
Among these, the opening of the "Breath of Life" exhibition, the
launch of the LOCATORplus online catalog, the renovation of public
areas of Building 38, and the presentation of the Hammer Award to
NLM.
The following employees received awards in 1999:
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH MERIT AWARDS
Carol Clausen and Linda G. Eisenstadt, as members
of a group in support of the mission of the Office of Research
Services and the NIH: in recognition of the development of a new
cafeteria services program that will provide good quality, value,
and customer services, while generating savings for NIH.
 The late Gerald F.
Garner, for maintaining a consistent high level of service to
patrons in the NLM Reading Room.
Joseph W. Hutchins, for his commitment and accomplishments
in replacing NLM's legacy systems with state-of-the-art commercial
and custom- designed client/server systems.
Frances E. Johnson, for consistent leadership and
exceptional skill in administering NLM's grant programs for support
of the nation's health science libraries.
Barbara D. Shaw, for sustained high production level with
an exceptional accuracy rate for the acquisition and processing of
monographic orders and receipts for the NLM modern collection.
Elizabeth J. Van Lenten, PhD, for long-term contributions
to the development and maintenance of the MEDLINE indexer workforce
through training, contracting, and quality review.
PHILLIP C. COLEMAN AWARD
Melvin L. Spann, PhD, for his overall involvement in
various NLM program areas which have resulted in greater minority
participation.
EEO SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Theodore E. Youwer, for developing initiatives to enhance
the overall performance of staff members in reaching their fullest
potential.
NIH DIRECTOR'S AWARDS
Susan P. Buyer, in recognition of her leadership and
extremely effective contributions to the National Library of
Medicine's planning process.
Donald C. Poppke, in recognition of outstanding
administrative management skill and leadership at the National
Library of Medicine.
Theodore E. Youwer, in recognition of his expert direction
of the office of Administrative Management Services and the
consistently high quality service provided to all National Library
of Medicine programs.
NIH CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY AWARD
Donald C. Poppke, for having many visible roles relative
to diversity, including Vice Chair and Chair of the NIH Diversity
Council and for taking an active leadership role on the NLM
Diversity Council.
NIH QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AWARD
Perlita M. Liwanag, Kristine M. Scannell, Frances A. Truong,
and Monique C. Young, in recognition of their outstanding
efforts in planning, developing and guiding the implementation of
the NLM Director's Employee Education Fund.
BOARD OF REGENTS AWARD
Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, in recognition of creative
approaches to large-scale analysis of bacterial genomes and to
classification of protein families.
FRANK B. ROGERS AWARD
Eve-Marie Lacroix, for her rapid and highly successful
design and implementation of MEDLINEplus, which has
significantly improved the public's access to high quality health
information.
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