Nominations Sought for 2008 Chapter Awards

The Boston SLA Awards Committee is once again seeking nominations of chapter members for any one or more of the three following Awards, to be presented during the Annual Business meeting at the end of this calendar year:

• The Chapter Achievement Award recognizes a chapter member for outstanding committee work, performance in office, or execution of event-related duties, during this particular program year.
• The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a chapter member for a sustained record of supporting chapter activities over the years. These may be for service on one or more committees, by holding various offices, or for managing different events, that when considered cumulatively have notably furthered the life of the chapter.
• The Special Recognition Award is conferred on longstanding chapter members as they cap their careers, and approach a well-deserved retirement, in recognition of what they have done or meant to the chapter.

Any member may nominate another member. The nominations need not be overly formal in tone, but should give enough detail to allow the members of the Awards committee to make a reasonably fair comparison among nominees. See last year’s award winners below. To have your nominee considered, please send Chapter award nominations by October 31, 2008. Award recipients will be announced at the Annual Business Meeting.

A further role for the committee is to present nominations of chapter members for association-wide awards. Nominations are due in the beginning of January, 2009. We’ll share the exact January deadline when the date is published by the association. Please take a look at the association awards web site and submit recommendations for these awards: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/awardsrecognition/index.cfm

Nominations may be sent (preferably by e-mail) to any one or all of the following:
Committee Chair: Dee Magnoni, dianna.magnoni@olin.edu, 781-292-2389
Committee member: Kathy Coolidge, kcoolidge@bulkley.com
Committee member: Betty Edwards, bedwards@seyfarth.com

Please help us recognize our worthy colleagues!

Dee
Dee Magnoni
Awards Chair, SLA Boston
Library Director
Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way
Needham, MA 02492

SLA Boston Student Essay Contest

Congratulations to our winners!!!

We had a tie this year, so we decided to award the stipend to both students. Please take the time to congratulate our winners, and if you see them in Seattle, be sure to ask them how things are going!

Karen Vagts and Toshika Suzuki are students at Simmons GSLIS and are both graduating this month. Congratulations on winning the stipend award *and* finishing your degrees!

Announcing the winners of the 2007 SLA Boston Awards

CONGRATULATIONS!

Chapter Achievement Awards:
KAMI BEDARD – for being the chapter's Maine outreach representative for more than three years. She has enthusiastically taken on the roles of hostess, program planner, food and venue provider and after-event-social arranger. To communicate with the Board, she has phoned in to participate in Board meetings. In addition, she's been the News and Notes editor for the Bulletin for the past two years. She's a leadership pioneer and role model for our outreach members.

KRIS LIBERMAN – for serving the chapter for the past several years as Student Relations Chair during which time the chapter has gained many new student members, and we are pleased to see them filter into active SLA Boston roles.

APRIL TAYLOR – for single-handedly managed all the Click U programming, which included hosting (or finding hosts), implementing the phone-in attendance option (this included providing the conference-call number at her firm's expense), providing food, and managing all technical facets of the Click U webcast.

Special Recognition:
TOBY PEARLSTEIN – Over the years, Toby has presented successful programs for our chapter, including " Increasing Your Value in Trying Times and this year's "Information Workflow Tracking Dilemma." She's also hosted events at Bain, and, most importantly she has encouraged Bain librarians to become active members of the Chapter so that the current Bain membership in SLA Boston numbers 11. There are also many Bain alumni still active in SLA Boston.

Awards Committee: Jean Scanlan, Sue Wolfman, Hope Tillman

Past Chapter Awards

For a listing of past Chapter Award winners, please visit: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cbos/about/pastawards.htm