Winnie Bell Retirement Reception Scrapbook

THE DAILY CITIZE,N. Searcy, Ark.• Sund~~; J~o~ember .. ~~··J98~ ~ Harding_h~ad lib;iriclll":·· .hon~r~d b/~!ate\~i~u·p:·;·: • • • • • • ·'·,:.... • .;, t The Arkansas Library Association has chosen Harding head librarian Winnie Bell to receive its Distinguished Service Award for 1987. Selected from the state's public and private libraries, she . was · honored at the ALA annual awards ·luncheon November 2 in . Fayet– teville. Bell began her library career when she was asked to leave her job at a bank to assume the ~ition t>f book– keeper and interlibr:ary loan clerk at Harding's library. · .. . , . · Her determination and willingness helped her easily ~djust to the new job responsibilities. At age 50, Bell was appointed Harding University Library director. Now at age 62, she has become very . skilled on the , library's new computer equipment. Her contributions to the field were noted by ALA Preside"t· Leo· Clougherty when he introduced her. as woman ·who "has quietly, but firmly asserted the value of libraries, promoted their excellen~e. and plan- ned for their.future.,, · "The image of the Jit~rarian cannot help be enhanced in - the eyes of · _anyone who o_bserves Mill Winnie Bell's career of accomplishments · and service," President David Burks said in congratulating ~ll. · The plaque reading ·"an honored recipient of ·the Distinguished Ser– vice Award for continuing and meritorious service to the Arkansas Library Association and to the field of librarianship," will hang in Ule Harding library. \ ': ·.· _:. •. · .":..;..~ · She, her mother, lneta; and iister, Mildred, reside at .32 Indian TraJl Drive in Searcy. · ·.: • · ; , j ·. 1 f., •.,: · . ' . ' . ' f \: ' ' Brackett Library Dedication October 15, 1990 Harding University Searcy, Arkansas