News & Notes
Submitted by Margaret Howe-Soper, mhowesoper@hbs.edu 

Please share your information with Margaret in preparation for the next issue. Send news of new jobs, promotions, awards, presentations, publications or other professional activities. Your colleagues will be interested to hear about you, so please don’t be shy!   

Jenny Anastasoff has joined the SLA-Boston Chapter. Jenny just finished her M.L.I.S. at McGill University in Montreal, and is returning to Portland, Maine, in search of job opportunities. Jenny graduated with a 3.98 G.P.A.

Dorothy Barr, a recent Simmons graduate, now works at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Library as an Information Literacy Librarian.

Jane Cain, employed at the Northborough Free Library as a reference assistant and a student at Simmons College, was the winner of this year’s travel scholarship to the Special Libraries Association annual conference in Nashville.  She wrote a winning essay about how information will be shared by librarians in this century.

Jane Cain sends a big thank you to Boston SLA Members: Thank you for the travel stipend that allowed me to attend my first national conference of professional librarians - SLA in Nashville, June 2004. I loved it! In addition to attending workshops and seminars on issues important to corporate and special library professionals, I met and talked with many people there willing and happy to share their knowledge and experience. I enjoyed the sights and sounds of Nashville, and hope to continue attending the annual conferences in the future, as my experience in the field grows. Again, thanks. I truly appreciate the opportunity you gave me.

Sharon Christenson has been invited to participate in a community of practice for librarians and information professionals working on projects sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Abt Associates is a public policy research firm and USAID is their largest client. Abt is one of the contractors working for USAID in Iraq with the Ministry of Health. The goal of the group is to improve knowledge and information sharing processes among information professionals who are specifically tasked with collecting, managing, packaging, and sharing information in support of USAID's activities and goals.  USAID’s activities will include the following: networking with other partners so that complementary USAID projects share needed information; identifying experts and repositories of knowledge, which can be of use to USAID and its partners; and discussing issues concerning provision of information to customers or clients in support of USAID goals. One of the issues that came up at the first meeting was the need to demonstrate the value of services. To that end, Sharon agreed to give a presentation about the topic to the group in the fall.

In August, Jill Coghlan, formerly a Software Project Manager at Sun Microsystems, began working as Temporary Science Librarian at Yale University's Kline Science Library. Jill recently moved to Mansfield/Storrs, CT and can be reached at  j7coghlan@yahoo.com.

Cynthia Cheng Correia is Principal at Knowledge inForm, a consulting, training, and research firm specializing in developing and enhancing information and knowledge processes for competitive and business intelligence. She helps both information and business professionals achieve effective intelligence outcomes through the better understanding and implementation of research, analysis, and information management tools and processes. Her services include helping corporate information centers expand into competitive intelligence functions, maximizing an organization's information and knowledge base for competitive intelligence, and training in conducting expert-level intelligence research. Cynthia has worked with clients across a number of industries, including technology, financial and business services, healthcare, information and content, and consumer goods.  Before becoming involved with Knowledge inForm, Cynthia was library director at Fuld Co.

Kelly A. Devlin, Director of Library Services for Hinkley, Allen & Snyder LLP in Providence, RI, graduated from Simmons GSLIS in May, 2004. Congratulations, Kelly!

We have happy news from Margaret Duggan, (Manager, IRC Remote Operations in Lowell for the Gartner, Inc.) regarding the birth of her son, William Gregory Van Camp, on May 15, 2004. Margaret will be returning to work in late August.

Alicia Fasi will join Fidelity Investment's Investment Information Services (IIS) on August 16 as a Content Management Information Associate reporting to Claudette Newhall. Alicia is currently working as librarian at the Simmons Career Resource Library. She is also working on a Masters degree at Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science. Previously, she was a Research Coordinator for NYLIM in Norwood. Alicia will be assisting with management and support of the IIS online catalog and collections.

On Sunday, May 23, 2004, Alicia Fasi was mentioned in a Boston Globe article about area colleges allowing non-students to use their career centers. Alicia was working at the Miller/Knopf Career Resource Library at Simmons College. She encouraged students to broaden their job searches beyond what their own colleges offer. The Career Resource Library is free and open to the public. (The article ended with a helpful list of college and university career centers in the Boston area.)

Susan Fingerman was named Editor of the SLA Sci-Tech Division Sci Tech News bulletin, effective with the February 2005 issue. She is also Chair of the Governing Documents Committee of the Maryland Chapter and has continued her membership in the Boston Chapter since moving to Maryland. Susan is the owner of SMF Information Services, LLC, Ellicott City, MD, and still does business in New England.

Sharon Lane has joined Fidelity Investment's Investment Information Services (IIS) as an Information Consultant for the High Income Team. Sharon has an MS in Library & Information Science from Simmons College, a Masters in Applied Linguistics from Beijing University of Technology, and a B.A. from Beijing Normal College.  For the past several years, Sharon has worked as a Senior Research Librarian at Putnam Investments. Prior to Putnam, she worked at Bain & Co. in Boston and Singapore as an Information Specialist.

Jill Maserian is now working at Fidelity.

Lynda Moulton wrote an article that was published in The Gilbane Report entitled: "Understanding Taxonomies & Search for Corporate Applications." It was in the May 2004 issue.

Jill Power of OneSource Information Services was promoted from Content Licensing Manager to Senior Product Manager.

After 18 years experience with private law firms, Kathie Sullivan’s position at Downs, Rachlin & Martin was eliminated in May. She has started her own consulting business, known as Sullivan Information Management Services, located in South Burlington, VT.  She is providing research and information management support on a contract basis for long and short-term projects, library support for disability or maternity leaves, assistance with client development and marketing, and off-hour reference. Her contact information is (802) 238-0934 or sims713@hotmail.com.

Christina Thomas has had a busy year so far. She married in March, graduated from Simmons with an MLS in June, and bought her first house in July. While at Simmons, she worked as a library assistant. Recently, she joined the firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott as an Architectural Resource Librarian. Chris holds a BS from Wentworth Intstitute of Technology in interior design, and is a member of the Boston Society of Architecture’s Library Wizards Group.  It was networking through that group that brought her to this position. Chris is interested in joining the Boston Chapter, so if you see her at any of the meetings, be sure to say ‘hello’!

At the annual conference in Nashville Hope Tillman received the Information Technology Division Grieg Aspnes Outstanding Member Award. It was especially touching for Hope because she had given Grieg the first Outstanding Member Award from the Division when she was chair of the IT Division. Grieg was an early chair of the division (when it was the Documentation Division) and later he was president of SLA  from 1951 to 1952. Grieg passed away this year.

Asta Vaichys has been hired as an Assistant Librarian by Pioneer Investments, beginning in August, 2004. Asta was formerly with Adventis in Boston and during the past year served on the Chapter’s Awards Committee.

 

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