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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

William Stone Budington

Fellowship Conferred: 1985

To top of page MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA
  • National Issues Advisory Council, MLA Representative on National Information Policy, 1980–1981
  • Ad Hoc Committee to Recommend Additional Sources of Income for MLA, Member, 1979–1980
  • Ad Hoc Committee to Study MLA Group Structure, Member, 1975–1978
  • Ad Hoc Search Committee for Executive Secretary, Member, 1972–1973
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, MLA Representative, 1971–1975
  • Convention Committee, Printing Committee, Chair, 1961–1962

To top of page Honors and Awards

MLA
  • Fellow, 1985
  • American Academy of Health Information Professionals
Other
  • Johnson-Budington Library of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado, Denver, named in honor of William and Irma Johnson Budington
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
  • Special Libraries Association (SLA), Hall of Fame, 1984
  • Association College and Research Libraries, Academy Research Librarian of Year, 1982
  • SLA Special Award: Illinois Chapter, SLA, for the SLA monograph, Special Libraries: A Guide for Management, a chapter project, 1967
  • SLA, John Cotton Dana Lecture, Drexel Institute of Technology, 1966

To top of page Other Accomplishments & Activities

  • Founded Colorado Springs branch of C. C. Jung Society (with Irma Budington), 1984
  • Association of Research Libraries, President, 1974–1975; Board of Directors, Member, 1970–1974
  • Center for Research Libraries, Chair, 1972; Board of Directors, Member, 1970–1972
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Committee on Libraries, Member, 1972–1977
  • Special Library Association, Mutual Exchange Delegation to the Soviet Union, Member, 1966–1967; President, 1964–1965; Board of Directors, Member, 1958–1965

To top of page Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PMC.

  • Budington WS. To enlarge sphere of human knowledge - role of independent research library. Coll Res Lib. 1976;37(4):299–315 . 
  • Budington WS, issue ed. Library services in metropolitan areas. Lib Trends. 1974 Oct;23(2).
  • Budington WS. Service to industry by independent research libraries. Lib Trends. 1966; 14(3):288–94 .
  • Budington WS. Objectives and standards for special libraries. Spec Lib. 1964 Dec; 10:672–9.
  • Budington WS. Cost of information service. In: The Library as a Community Information Center. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois: 1959. p. 51–66.

To top of page Positions

  • Executive Director, John Crerar Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1969–1984
  • Director, Region VIII, Midwest Regional Medical Library, 1968–1979
  • Librarian, John Crerar Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1964–1969
  • Associate Librarian, John Crerar Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1952–1965
  • Librarian, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY,1947–1952
  • Reference Librarian, Norwich University, Northfield, VT,1941–1942
  • United States Army, 1942–1946

To top of page MLA published statements about the fellow

To top of page Education

  • LHD (Doctor of Humane Letters), Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1975
  • MS, Library Science, Columbia University, 1951. [Thesis: The obsolescence of engineering books].
  • BS, Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute–Blacksburg, 1946 (Tau Beta Phi; Eta Kappa Nu)
  • BS, Library Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1941
  • BA, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1940 (Phi Beta Kappa)

Contributed by Diane McKenzie, 2012

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