Clara McLeod, Earth and Planetary Sciences librarian at Washington University-St. Louis, is the recipient of the 2019 Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award of the Geosci-ence Information Society (GSIS). The award recognizes significant contributions to the field of geoscience information. For more than a decade McLeod has led and coordinated "Geoscience Librarianship 101," the GSIS's annual professional development workshop. She served as GSIS secretary (1992-94) and has chaired the Membership and Distinguished Service Award committees. She also served on the GSIS's Exhibits and Field Guidebooks committees. From 2000 to 2014 McLeod represented GSIS on the Cartographic Users Advisory Council. She began her professional librarian career as an assistant cataloger and assistant reference librarian at West Virginia State College Library and served as coordinator of technical services and head cataloger at Texas Southern University Library. Subsequently she worked at Abbott Labs in North Chicago and at Indiana University Libraries, where she was an associate librarian responsible for a science branch library and taught a graduate course on the literaaire of science and technology. In 1985, McLeod became science engineering librarian at Washington University-St. Louis and was promoted to her present position in 1987.
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