Legislative Research Librarians
Legislative Staff Achievement Award
Susan Gilley
Oklahoma
LRL is pleased to honor Susan Gilley with the 2008 Legislative Research Librarians Staff Achievement Award. Susan has given over 30 years of service to the Oklahoma legislature under a series of structures for its library services. From 1977-1981 she was librarian in the Legislative Council. When the Legislative Council was dissolved in 1981, she was transferred to the Legislative Reference Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. In 1985 she was appointed head of that division, and since 2000 has been Administrator of the Law and Legislative Reference Divisions of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
Susan is one of the pioneers of our staff section and her work helped to develop major LRL achievements. Although her projects are too many to list completely, they include helping to plan and produce our first professional development seminar in 1989, the Bibliographies Project, and the first Core Reference List. She chaired our staff section in 1990-1991, has been a regional coordinator, a member of NCSL's Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee, on the NCSL Task Force on International Legislative Cooperation, and was a faculty member at annual meeting in 2000.
At home Susan is also an activist in the Oklahoma Library Association, has served on a variety of committees, including Program Planning and is currently co-chair of the Ethics Committee. She previously chaired the Reference Roundtable and the Technical Services Roundtable, planning workshops and conference programs. She is also a member of both the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries and the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries.
Equally importantly, Susan has shared with us her great gifts of humor, friendship and the ability to cut through government nonsense. Thank you, Susan!
Congratulations, Susan!
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