Words cannot express how honored I feel in receiving this award, which is especially meaningful to me because I regard ASIS&T as my primary scholarly and professional society. I am also grateful that this award is being given during a year when the ASIS&T conference is being held in Pittsburgh, 90 miles south of Meadville, Pennsylvania, where I began my freshman year at Allegheny College in the fall of 1967. Today we are joined by Dr. Barbara Lotze, professor emerita of physics from Allegheny, who was my undergraduate advisor. In the fall of 1977, I joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I have pursued my career ever since.