April 8, 1998
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John Byrum to Receive Margaret Mann Citation
John D. Byrum, chief of the Regional and Cooperative
Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress, will receive
the 1998 Margaret Mann Citation from the Association for
Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of
the American Library Association.
The award will be presented at 9:30 a.m. on June 29 at
the ALCTS President's Program and Membership Meeting during
the ALA Annual Conference, June 25 to July 2 in Washington.
"The Margaret Mann Committee is pleased to award the
citation to Mr. Byrum for his sustained leadership in the
continuing development of cataloging standards, nationally
and internationally," said Carlen Ruschoff, chair of the
Margaret Mann Citation Committee.
"Internationally, his notable contributions have been
through his work on the Joint Steering Committee for
Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules;
International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions [IFLA] committees on various international
standard bibliographic descriptions; and other IFLA/UBC
[Universal Bibliographic Control] committees. Nationally,
he has been deeply involved in efforts toward bibliographic
standardization through initiatives such as the Name
Authority Cooperative Program and the Program for
Cooperative Cataloging."
Established in 1951, the award recognizes outstanding
professional achievement in cataloging or classification,
either through publication of significant professional
literature, participation in professional cataloging
associations or valuable contributions to practice in
individual libraries. The award also includes a $2,000
donation from the Online Computer Library Center to the
library school of the winner's choice.
"The Mann Citation is the Nobel Prize for catalogers,"
said Winston Tabb, Associate Librarian for Library Services
for the Library of Congress, who will receive the Melvil
Dewey medal from ALA this summer.
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PR 98-056
4/08/98
ISSN 0731-3527