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Vol. 26:1 ISSN 0160-8460 March 1998
Commissioner Winston Tabb Awarded Dewey Medal
Winston Tabb, who represents the Librarian of Congress on the NHPRC, has received the Melvil Dewey medal from the American Library Association. Mr. Tabb, the Library's Associate Librarian for Library Services, was recognized for his "distinguished service to the [library] profession; [his] high order of creative leadership to the Library of Congress and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; and ... [his] vision, leadership and determination in establishing the Program for Cooperative Cataloging which resulted in significant improvement to global bibliographic control worthy of ... Melvil Dewey." Established in 1952, the Dewey medal is given annually to an individual librarian or group for a recent creative professional achievement of high order.
