 In his 50-year career as a consultant and more recently as an academic, Don King has developed methods to determine return on investment and value of libraries, written hundreds of articles, reports, and books that explain these findings and methods, and taught librarians how to conduct value assessments. His refinement of the critical incident and contingent valuation techniques and library assessment have influenced a generation of librarians and researchers. Don has been recognized by many organizations, including being named a pioneer of science information by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an honorary fellow by the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services and the American Statistical Association. He has received special recognition by the Special Libraries Association and the Research Award and Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Although he's been retired for many years, Don is still active in assessment projects and currently holds the positions of honorary university professor at Bryant University and adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee. Don is my mentor, my colleague, and my friend. Congratulations, Don. Congratulations to Don King on a wonderful award well deserved after all of his time. I still remember Don King when he promoted the first Muhammad Ali fight, and then I remember when he promoted Sugar Ray Leonard and all of his fights. Don, you've had an amazing career, and of course the Tyson and Hollywood field fights were classics. Oh, Don King from Library and Information Science. Don, congratulations for an amazing career, a well deserved award. You have been certainly one of the most amazing scholars in the field, and very well deserved. Congratulations for all your great work and for this award. I want to congratulate you, Don, on this award. I first met Don about 15 years ago when he came to University of Tennessee for a project, and what I enjoy most about Don is not his research, but his storytelling. It was his fabulous storytelling. I enjoyed it immensely. I remember those stories after all these years. Now, about his work, much of Don's work on the scientific and technical communication system was called attention to the many stakeholders in the system and the many interdependencies among them. You know, this transfers easily to all the scholarly communications in his work and continues to provide a comprehensive and a most useful model. Don's emphasis early and often on the library users and on scholars' information habits in general, quite commonplace to consider today, but rarely thought of when he began his work in this area several years ago. The regular of his research, especially in the economic arena. One of the first things that I remember after meeting Don King was his telling me how he always got great seats in a restaurant whenever he called in reservations. So good show, Don, on that. For over half a century, Don has been actively providing leadership in evaluation of information systems, economic analysis, public opinion, research operations, and library services through an incredibly productive output. His name is associated with major studies that have helped us understand the value of information and the services that agencies and automated systems provide to make it a useful component of human behavior and decision making. His resume of over 47 pages identifies publications of 17 monographs and over 400 articles with notable evidence of impact through high levels of citational references by others. Don's been exposed, has been most exposed to his work in developing models for return on investment and statistical analysis of measures to the area of economic value of libraries and their collections. He continues in his retirement to undertake research in specific venues and to be generous in consulting and assisting others to undertake their own assessments. Congratulations, Don, from the library value project team. To me, a Tennessee ball, I bet it's great, to me, a Tennessee ball, it's great, to me, a Tennessee ball.