Librarian
of the Year: Chuck Manley,
Washoe County Library System
Chuck
Manley has provided significant and lasting contributions to the library
profession in Nevada. For NLA he
has held the following offices:
Library
Planning committee 1996-99
Awards
Chairperson 1991
President-
1989
Certificate
of Special Appreciation 1987
Government
Relations committee 1986-87
Annual
meeting Committee Chairperson 1983
NW District
Representative to NLA Board1977-80
Publications
Committee 1975
Northwest
District- Secretary-Treasurer 1974
Mostly,
Chuck has always had a never say no philosophy to service and contribution to
NLA. Chuck’s work on the
library planning committee and the continuing education advisory committee has
had a lasting effect on the libraries in the state of Nevada.
From a letter to Sara
Jones, NLA President:
Dear
Sara,
I
want to express my deepest appreciation to you and the NLA Awards Committee
for your honoring me as the “Librarian of the Year”.
With
only a few weeks of my professional career left, naturally I have been
thinking back over the past 28 years and remembering the joys and triumphs and
strivings and battles. I believe
the best part has been working together with all of the good library folks
around the state, sharing a vision, fighting the good fight and pursuing those
goals which we all so strongly believe in.
Your
recognition of my modest contributions has cast a comforting glow over my
recollections. I have been
basking in the warmth of that validation over these past days since you so
honored me and it hasn’t faded a bit. I
can’t think of any award that would be more satisfying.
I
have heard it said that honors from peers are the best kind and I believe that
is true. I hope you could see as
I could, the happiness in the eyes of the previous recipients of this honor as
they were individually recognized again that evening.
Please
accept my sincere thanks and convey it to the rest of the Awards Committee.
In
gratitude,
Chuck
Manley
October
26, 2000