Leonora Gidlund, Director of the New York City Municipal Archives, has finally won her place in the sun, after twenty-one years in the stacks.
It was said of the honoree “Historians who use the archives for their research credit her with striking a balance between their scholarly demands and the needs of amateur researchers who are trying their hand at genealogy.” “She is a magnet,” said Richard K. Lieberman, the director of the La Guardia and Wagner Archives at La Guardia Community College. “One of the problems everybody had historically in archives is the aspect of ‘Don’t touch the documents, everything’s very fragile.’ Leonora has been able to mix the skills of preservation and access in a way that very few people have figured out.” In the program for tonight’s ceremony, he was also quoted as saying that Mrs. Gidlund “lures you on rather than pushes you away.”
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