Peggy Sullivan - Recognitions and Special Assignments

Recognitions and Special Assignments

• UNESCO Consultant on School Libraries, Australia, 1970

• President, American Library Association, 1980–1981

• Numerous committee appointments and elective offices in the American Library Association, 1959 and continuing, including the presidency of the Children’s Services Division, 1976–1977, and membership on the ALA Council

• Distinguished Service Award, Association for Library Service to Children, 2000

• Lippincott Award, American Library Association, 1991

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Clarke College,

• Honors Award, High School Section, Catholic Library Association

• Inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in America and its various regional and special publications

• Consultancies relating to seminary libraries, fundraising, personnel management, faculty development, library education curriculum, library facilities planning, and general educational and library issues provided to a range of institutions and agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library, the Ford Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and the US Department of Education

• Vice President and Program Chair, Caxton Club of Chicago, 2001–2002

• Treasurer, Chicago Literary Club, 2006–2007

• Consulting assignments and the presentation of speeches, workshops, storytelling programs, as well as participation in ALA accreditation of library education programs have taken Peggy Sullivan to every one of the fifty US states and every continent except Antarctica (which she visited on her own).

• Committee appointments in the Illinois Library Association, the Catholic Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Library Administration Division of the American Library Association, and the American Association of School Librarians

• Donor, the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators, American Library Association, 2004 and continuing annually