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Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award
Western Canada's indispensable Basil Stuart-Stubbs has received this year's Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to the B.C. literary community. Stuart-Stubbs' quiet accomplishments as a librarian have been far-reaching.
• He was instrumental in establishing UBC Press and served as the founding chair of its board from 1970 to 1982.
• He organized the first conference of western publishers that gave rise to the Association of Book Publishers of B.C.
• He and bookseller Bill Duthie collaborated in the production of the first edition of Canadian Books in Print.
• He helped create the British Columbia Library Quarterly and the two U.B.C.-based magazines Canadian Literature and Prism INTERNATIONAL.
• He was one of the first proponents of the Public Lending Right legislation that compensates authors for having their works in libraries.
• He was one of the founders of the Alcuin Society that provides awards for excellence in Canadian book design.
• He co-authored The Northpart of America with Coolie Verner and helped publish the rare memoir by Ebenezer Johnson entitled A Short Account of a Northwest Voyage Performed in the Years 1796, 1797 & 1798.
• He co-founded the Canadian Institute for Historical Reproductions in Ottawa and conducted major studies of Inter-Library Loans in Canada (1975) and British Columbia (1992).
• He served on the founding board of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.
• With Earle Birney and Anne Yandle, he generated the archival collection on Malcolm Lowry at UBC Special Collections, the world's foremost reference source for research about Lowry.
• For a dozen years he taught the only course available on publishing in British Columbia at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (UBC).
"It's typical Basil,"; said publisher Howard White, when presenting the Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award in Vancouver on April 15th, "that when he was notified of this award he was sure we must be looking for some other Basil and couldn't imagine what he had done to deserve such a thing. The short answer is everything.";
• He was instrumental in establishing UBC Press and served as the founding chair of its board from 1970 to 1982.
• He organized the first conference of western publishers that gave rise to the Association of Book Publishers of B.C.
• He and bookseller Bill Duthie collaborated in the production of the first edition of Canadian Books in Print.
• He helped create the British Columbia Library Quarterly and the two U.B.C.-based magazines Canadian Literature and Prism INTERNATIONAL.
• He was one of the first proponents of the Public Lending Right legislation that compensates authors for having their works in libraries.
• He was one of the founders of the Alcuin Society that provides awards for excellence in Canadian book design.
• He co-authored The Northpart of America with Coolie Verner and helped publish the rare memoir by Ebenezer Johnson entitled A Short Account of a Northwest Voyage Performed in the Years 1796, 1797 & 1798.
• He co-founded the Canadian Institute for Historical Reproductions in Ottawa and conducted major studies of Inter-Library Loans in Canada (1975) and British Columbia (1992).
• He served on the founding board of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.
• With Earle Birney and Anne Yandle, he generated the archival collection on Malcolm Lowry at UBC Special Collections, the world's foremost reference source for research about Lowry.
• For a dozen years he taught the only course available on publishing in British Columbia at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (UBC).
"It's typical Basil,"; said publisher Howard White, when presenting the Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award in Vancouver on April 15th, "that when he was notified of this award he was sure we must be looking for some other Basil and couldn't imagine what he had done to deserve such a thing. The short answer is everything.";
Submitted on May 21, 2004 in By David.
