Landscape Institute librarian recognised in Birthday Honours List
June 18 2008
The Landscape Institute today congratulated chartered librarian Sheila Harvey MCLIP, who received an MBE at the weekend.
Sheila, who worked at the Landscape Institute – the chartered body for landscape architects - from 1961 until 2006, was recognised for her services to landscape architecture. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute and built up the LI’s library as well as founding an archive featuring work from leading landscape architects such as Geoffrey Jellicoe and helping to produce the monthly Landscape magazine.
President of the Landscape Institute Nigel Thorne said: “Sheila thoroughly deserves this accolade. She played an integral role in the development of the Institute as a whole over a period of more than forty years and transformed the library from just a few shelves in an office into the valued and well-used resource it is today.”
Sheila, who lives in Pinner, Middlesex, said: “I feel very honoured. Landscape architecture is an immensely interesting profession that works on many levels. I thoroughly enjoyed working at the Institute and the variety of the job meant every day was different.”
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Notes to editors:
The Landscape Institute is the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture. Under its Royal Charter the Landscape Institute is charged with protecting, conserving and enhancing the natural and built environment for the benefit of the public.
