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Honorary Membership Award

The SELA Honorary Membership Committee is accepting nominations for honorary membership in the Southeastern Library Association. This designation is conferred upon living individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Association or to library development in the Southeast.

Criteria

  1. Honorary membership should be conferred for significant contributions to librarianship in the Southeast. The honor:
  1. May recognize persons elected to leadership positions in the Association
  2. May recognize persons who have made other contributions to librarianship in the region.
  3. Should be based upon regional rather than state or local contributions to the profession.
  1. The designation should recognize the contribution of an individual per se, rather than an individual representing the accomplishments of many.
  2. The person should be of such caliber as to reflect honor upon SELA by this designation.
  3. Honorary membership should be conferred as a result of a contribution of more than passing importance and local or limited achievement. It should not be conferred because of momentary enthusiasm.
  4. The person may be a librarian or a person in a related field.
  5. Only a living person should be considered for honorary membership.
  6. No more than five honorary memberships should be awarded in any biennium.
  7. Membership entitles the recipient to a life membership in the Association, with no further payment of dues.
  8. Should no qualified individual be nominated or approved by the committee no award will be made.
  9. The person making the nomination must be a member of SELA, but the nominee need not be.

Submit nominations along with any supporting biographical material, to either of the following co-chairs of the Honorary Membership Committee.  Dates TBA.

Susan LaFever, Co-Chair
980 Taft Church Road
Sparta, TN 38583-7277
slafever@tntech.edu

William N. Nelson, Co-chair
3317 Sugar Mill Road
Augusta, GA 30907
wnelson@aug.edu

For additional information contact one of the members of the Honorary Membership Committee.