~ 1970 ~
Organizers: Marjorie Dickinson, Charles R. Long, Cornelia Tyler, John Reed, Ruth Schallert,
Henry Norweb
Annual meeting host: Dr. George Lawrence
Meeting site: Committee meeting in February 1970, New York Botanical Garden, followed by a
general meeting at Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh
Historical note: First "Earth Day" April 22; students shot by the National Guard troops at
Kent State University, Ohio May 4.
~ 1971 ~
President: Charles R. Long
Annual meeting hosts: John Reed, Edith Crockett
Meeting site: New York Botanical Garden, New York
Historical note: U.S. Supreme Court orders busing for school districts to achieve desegregation,
April 20; U.S. Constitutional amendment #26 lowers voting age to 18, July 1.
~ 1972 ~
President: John Reed, New York Botanical Garden Library
Annual meeting host: Ruth Schallert
Meeting site: Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Historical note: Governor Wallace shot in Alabama May 15; Israeli athletes in Munich Olympics
shot down by terrorists September 5.
~ 1973 ~
President: Ruth Schallert, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Secretary: Marjorie Dickinson
Newsletter editor: Bernadette Callery
Annual meeting hosts: Mrs. Douglas, Bryce, Wendy Hillier
Meeting site: Civic Garden Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Historical note: U.S. Supreme Court rules that the states may not prevent a woman's right to
abortion January 22; Vietnam war ends January 27.
~ 1974 ~
President: Edith Crockett, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Annual meeting hosts: Richard Isaacson, Henry Norweb
Meeting site: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland / Holden Arboretum, Cleveland, Ohio
Historical note: Patricia Hearst kidnapped February 5; President Nixon charged with 3 articles
of Impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee August 20, pardoned by G. Ford September 8.
~ 1975 ~
President: R. Henry Norweb, Holden Arboretum, Cleveland, Ohio
Highlight: Cornelia Tyler agreed to chair the nursery/seed catalog committee
Annual meeting host: James Reed
Meeting site: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
Historical note: Watergate cover-up group including John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman,
H.R. Haldeman, found guilty and convicted on January 1.
~ 1976 ~
President: Katherine Daniels, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Annual meeting hosts: Enola Jane Teeter, Julie Morris
Meeting site: Longwood Gardens / Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia
Historical note: Legionnaires disease takes 29 lives in Philadelphia August 4; Carter
elected president of U.S in November.
~ 1976 Study Tour in England ~
President: R. Henry Norweb, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Participants: Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert (Katherine) Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, Jr.,
Bernadette Callery, Elisabeth Woodburn, Marjorie Dickinson, Ruth Schallert, Elizabeth Jackson,
Lenore Dickinson, Richard Isaacson
Host: Phyllis Edwards
Meeting site: British Museum (Natural History), Botany Library, London
~ 1977 ~
President: Ian MacPhail, The Morton Arboretum
Annual meeting hosts: Ian MacPhail, Wilma Wierwell
Meeting site: Morton Arboretum, Lisle and Chicago Botanic Garden, Skokie, Illinois
Historical note: Carter pardons 10,000 Vietnam service draft evaders January 21; fifteen
countries sign nuclear weapon curb agreement September 21.
~ 1978 ~
President: Richard Isaacson, Garden Center of Greater Cleveland
Annual meeting host: Solange Gignac
Meeting site: Denver Botanic Garden, Denver, Colorado
Historical note: Panama Canal treaty approved by the U.S. Senate March 16; Anwar Sadat and
Menachim Begin meet with President Carter at Camp David and sign Peace Agreement on September 17.
~ 1979 ~
President: Barbara Emerson, Cleveland
Annual meeting host: June Rogier
Meeting site: Andersen Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Historical note: Shah of Iran deposed and Khomeini takes over February 1; Three-Mile-Island
nuclear accident in Pennsylvania March 28; Somoza flees Nicaragua and Sandanistas take control of the
government July 19; Iranians seize U.S. Embassy and hold hostages November 4; U.S.S.R. invades
Afghanistan December 27.
~ 1980 ~
President: Ina, Vrugtman, Royal Botanic Garden, Hamilton October
Annual meeting hosts: Charles R. (Bob) Long and John Reed
Meeting site: New York Botanical Garden, New York
Historical note: Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated in El Salvador in March; Iraq invades
Iran September 19; Ronald Reagan elected president of the U.S. November; Three U.S. Roman Catholic
nuns shot in El Salvador December 4; John Lennon shot in New York City December 8.
~ 1981 ~
President: James Reed, Missouri Botanical Garden
Annual meeting host: Jane Gates
Meeting site: Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, California
Historical note: Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court July 7; 110 people die
in Kansas City, Missouri hotel accident July 18; Air Traffic Controllers strike and are dismissed
August 11.
~ 1982 ~
President: Bernadette Callery, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Annual meeting hosts: Ruth Schallert, Elaine Inouye, Laura Byers, Jayne MacLean
Meeting site: Smithsonian Institution / Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Historical note: British forces in the Falkland Islands re-establish control from Argentina
June 15; Israel invades Lebanon June 4; Palestinian refugees massacred by Christian group in Beirut
September 15.
~ 1983 ~
President: Solange Gignac, Denver Botanic Gardens
Annual meeting hosts: Sally McClatchey, Anne Carr
Meeting site: Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta, Georgia
Historical note: Terrorists kill 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut October 23; United States invades
Grenada October 25; Nobel prize in Science awarded to botanist Barbara McClintock.
~ 1984 ~
President: Joan DeFato, Los Angeles State and Country Arboretum
Annual meeting hosts: Ian MacPhail, Douglas Ritchie, Ginger Henrichs
Meeting site: Morton Arboretum, Lisle and Chicago Botanic Garden, Skokie, Illinois
Historical note: U.S.S.R. athletes withdraw from Los Angeles Olympics May 7; Brian Mulroney
elected prime minister of Canada September 4; Indira Ghandi assassinated in India October 31;
Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India explodes and kills over 2000 people December 3.
~ 1985 ~
President: Jane Gates, Strybing Arboretum
Annual meeting hosts: Eva Gavora, Ina Vrugtman, Celine Arseneault
Meeting site: Agriculture Canada, Plant Research Library, Montreal Botanic Garden,
Ottawa, Ontario
Historical note: Mexico City earthquake kills thousands September 19; Colombia
volcano kills 25,000 November 14.
~ 1986 ~
President: [Douglas Ritchie, president, The Morton Arboretum]; Geraldine Kaye,
(when Doug resigned), Harvard University, Botany Library
Annual meeting hosts: Beatrice Beck, Joan DeFato, Nancy Hawver
Meeting site: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Los Angeles State and County Arboretum,
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Historical note: Space shuttle challenger explodes in Cape Canaveral January 28;
Corazon Aquino elected president of the Philippines February 26; Chernobyl nuclear accident
in U.S.S.R. April 28; U.S. puts stiff sanctions against trade with South Africa in protest of
apartheid September 29; U.S. Iran-Contra deal discovered November 6.
~ 1987 ~
President: Geraldine Kaye, Harvard University, Botany Library
Annual meeting hosts: William Burk, Jeffery Beam
Meeting site: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, John N. Couch Library, Department
of Botany, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Meeting dates and theme: April 22-24, "Special Collections in Botany/Horticulture"
Historical note: Amnesty for illegal aliens granted May 5; Peace accord in Central
America urged by Oscar Arias and the Organization of American States August 7; earthquake
in Los Angeles October 1.
~ 1988 ~
President: Meryl Miasek, University of Oregon
Annual meeting hosts: Charlotte Tancin, Anita Karg, James White
Meeting site: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh
Meeting dates and theme: May 18-20, "Data Based Botanical Information Resources"
Historical note: Pan American 747 jet explodes in Lockerbe, Scotland killing 270 people
December 21.
~ 1989 ~
President: Virginia Henrichs, Chicago Botanic Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Connie Wolf, Dale Johnson, Professor Joseph Ewan
Meeting site: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
Meeting dates and theme: May 4-6, "Improving Library Services"
Historical note: EXXON Valdez spills 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince Edward Sound,
Alaska March 24; Chinese students killed in Tianamen Square, Beijing, China June 4; Berlin wall
opened between East and West Germany November 11.
~ 1989 Study Tour in England ~
Organizers: Ina Vrugtman, Royal Botanic Garden, Hamilton, and Geraldine Kaye, Harvard
University, Botany Libraries, Cambridge
Tour dates and theme: October (two weeks), "Botanical Books and Libraries, Great Britain "
Hosts: John Flanagan, Silvia Fitzgerald, Chris Elwood, Colin Will
Meeting site: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond; British Museum of Natural History,
Botany Library, London; MacMillan Press; Royal Horticultural Society Library and Wisley Gardens;
Linnean Society Library; Oxford University Garden; Cambridge University Garden; Bodlein Library;
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
~ 1990 ~
President: Connie Wolf, Missouri Botanical Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Jane Cole, Dr. Robert Breuning, Dr. Gary Nabhan
Meeting site: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Meeting dates and theme: March 21-23, "Collecting/Saving Information in Unusual Places"
Historical note: Iraq invades Kuwait August 2.
~ 1991 ~
President: Jayne MacLean, National Agricultural Library
Annual meeting hosts: John Reed, Katherine Powis, Brenda Weisman, Judy Reed
Meeting site: New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Horticultural Society of
New York, New York
Meeting dates and theme: May 1-3, "Preparing Preservation/Conservation Plans in Libraries"
Historical note: Huge fire in Yellowstone Park.
~ 1992 ~
President: Anita Karg, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Annual meeting hosts: Bruce A. Leach, Professor Emanuel D. Rudolf
Meeting site: Ohio State University, Botany Library, Columbus, Ohio
Meeting dates and theme: May 20-22, "Ohio Botany Information Sources"
~ 1993 ~
President: Pamela MacKenzie, Civic Garden Centre, Toronto
Annual meeting hosts: Valerie Easton, Laura Lipton
Meeting site: University of Washington, Elisabeth C. Miller Library, Center for
Urban Horticulture, Seattle, Washington
Meeting dates and theme: May 13-15, "Urban Horticulture"
~ 1994 ~
President: Gerry McKiernan, University of Iowa
Annual meeting hosts: Rebecca Eldridge and Virginia Gardner
Meeting site: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and VLT Gardner Horticultural & Botanical Books,
Santa Barbara, California
Meeting dates and theme: April, "Preserving and Accessing Garden History and Landscape
Architecture, Particularly California, from the Mission Gardens to the Mid-Twentieth Century"
~ 1995 ~
President: Jane Cole, Desert Botanical Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Virginia Henrichs and Rita Hassert
Meeting site: Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois and Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, Illinois
Meeting dates and theme: May, "Getting Back to our Roots: Botanical and Horticultural History
and Collections"
~ 1996 ~
President: Janet Evans, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Annual meeting host: Barney Lipscomb
Meeting site: Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas
Meeting dates and theme: April, "Library Emergency Preparedness and Recovery"
~ 1997 ~
President: Charlotte Tancin, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Annual meeting host: Celine Arseneault
Meeting site: Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Meeting dates and theme: June 4-6, "Marketing New Resources: Managing and Developing
Multimedia Information"
~ 1998 ~
President: Nadia Aufderheide, Holden Arboretum
Annual meeting hosts: Judy Warnement and Sheila Connor
Meeting sites: The Botany Libraries of Harvard University and The Arnold Arboretum Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting dates and theme: June 9-12, "Recall the Past, Capture the Present, Anticipate
the Future"
Note: Click here for a handful of photos from this meeting.
~ 1999 ~
President: Rita Hassert, Morton Arboretum
Annual meeting hosts: Carolyn Dodson
Meeting sites: University of New Mexico and the Rio Grande Botanic Garden,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Meeting dates and theme: May, "Information Resources for Living with a Drier World"
~ 2000 ~
President: David Lane, University of New Hampshire
Annual meeting hosts:
Meeting sites: National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, in cooperation with
the U. S. National Arboretum and Smithsonian Institution Libraries,
Washington, DC
Meeting dates and theme: May, "Preservation for the Past, Research for the Future"
~ 2001 ~
President: Céline Arseneault, Montréal Botanical Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Susan Eubank
Meeting sites: Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado
Meeting dates and theme: July, "Plants for People"
Note: Our 2001 meeting was held concurrently with those of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA) and the
Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA).
~ 2002 ~
President: Susan Fugate, National Agricultural Library [Céline Arseneault, acting president for Annual Meeting]
Annual meeting hosts: Barbara Pitschel; Anne Marie Malley
Meeting sites: Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
Meeting dates and theme: April 8-13, "Plants & People: A Regional
Perspective"
~ 2003 ~
President: Barbara Pitschel,
Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
Annual meeting hosts: John Reed, Patricia Jonas, Katherine Powis
Meeting sites: The New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Horticultural Society of New York,
and Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, New York, New York,
Meeting dates and theme: June 10-14, "Redefining Botanical & Horticultural
Libraries:
Shaping a Collaborative Environment"
Note: Read about it in the Strybing Leaflet [PDF]
~ 2004 ~
President: Judy Warnement,
Harvard Botany Libraries
Annual meeting hosts: Charlotte Tancin
Meeting sites: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Meeting dates and theme: June 15-18, 2004, "Opening Doors - Access to Collections Onsite and Online"
~ 2005 ~
President: Laurie Hannah,
Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens
Annual meeting hosts: Janet Evans, Jane Ailing
Meeting sites: The McLean Library, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania
Meeting dates and theme: June 7-11, 2005, "The Philadelphia Story"
~ 2006 ~
President: Doug Holland, Missouri Botanical Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Susan Eubank
Meeting sites: Los Angeles County Arboretum and Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, California
Meeting dates and theme: May 16–20, 2006, "Why you do the things you do!"
~ 2007 ~
President: Susan Fraser,
LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden
Annual meeting hosts: Maggie Heran and Betsy Kruthoffer
Meeting site: Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Meeting dates and theme: June 5-9, 2007, "Eclectic Cincinnati: Legacies, Legends, and the Lloyds"
~ 2008 ~
President: Katherine Allen,
Magrath Library, University of Minnesota
Annual meeting host: Shelly Kilroy
Meeting site: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Meeting dates and theme: June 4-6, 2008, Growing Awareness: The Whys and Hows of Marketing your Library
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