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SLA Fellows: Class of 2009
Ellie Briscoe is a seasoned information professional with a sustained pattern of service to SLA at many levels for more than 30 years. She served the Washington, D.C., Chapter as president-elect, president, and past-president (1997-1998) and as secretary (1995-1996). Briscoe chaired the chapter's Strategic Planning Committee (1991) and Election Committee (2000-2006), introducing electronic balloting for chapter elections. She also chaired the chapter's News Group for ten years (1988-1998). For her commitment to leadership and to SLA, the chapter named her Member of the Year in 1996. Briscoe is a regular contributor to News Library News and has been instrumental in publishing the News Library Directory for several years running. She was recognized in 2007 by the SLA News Division with the Agnes Henebry Award for her service. Briscoe currently works at the National Geographic Society in Libraries and Information Services in Washington, D.C.
Stacey Greenwell
Active in the SLA since 2001, Greenwell is a member of the Kentucky Chapter and of the Academic, Information Technology, and Leadership and Management Divisions. She has served the Information Technology Division in a number of roles, including chair (2007) and program planner (2005). She led the petition drive to launch the Academic Division in 2008, and she is the division's first chair. She currently serves as the Kentucky Chapter's member blog manager and previously served as the chapter's secretary and bulletin editor. She was awarded the chapter's Professional Award in 2006 and its Outstanding Member Award in 2008. She is a member of the Centennial Commission/2009 Annual Conference Planning Committee, and she serves on the 2010 Annual Conference Planning Committee. Greenwell heads the Information Commons "Hub" of the University of Kentucky Libraries.
Nancy Minter has been active member of both the Social Science Division and the Washington, D.C., Chapter of SLA for more than 20 years. At the chapter level, Minter served as president-elect, president, and past president (1998-2001) and was instrumental in developing new sponsorship policies and mentoring programs. She has also held the positions of nominating chair and awards chair, and she received the chapter's Board of Directors Award in both 1995 and 1997. Minter served as chair-elect, chair, and past chair of the Social Science Division (2003-2005) and as annual conference program planner (2000-2002), and she received a Planners Recognition Award in 2001. Minter also served as membership chair (2003) and public relations chair (1997-2001). For her services to the division, the association, and the profession, she was named recipient of the 2007 Thomson-Gale Murray Wortzel Award presented by the Social Science Division. She is currently director of Library and Information Services at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Pam Rollo has been a member of SLA for 29 years and has served the association at every level. Rollo was the membership chair (1997 and 2009) and business manager (1995-1997) of the New York Chapter, as well chair-elect, chair, and past chair (1997-1999) of the Business & Finance (B&F) Division. As chair of B&F, Rollo was able to develop, carry forward and implement programs devoted to professional development and mentoring for the division that remain in place to this day. She also served on the Board of Directors as division cabinet chair-elect and chair (2002- 2004) and then as president-elect, president, and past-president (2005-2007). Rollo was also twice appointed to a position on the association's Strategic Planning Committee (1998-2000 and 2004-2005). As president of SLA, one of her major initiatives was the creation of six task forces to provide recommendations on how to move forward with key association initiatives. Rollo is currently a Managing Director of BST America LLC, where she is developing new business information services designed to provide valuable mission-critical knowledge for a cross-section of corporations.
Tony Stankus has been a member of SLA since 2001 and is currently the life sciences librarian and professor at the University of Arkansas (U of A) in Fayetteville. He received his master's degree in library science (MLS) from the University of Rhode Island (URI), where he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 1992. Stankus taught special librarianship at URI for 25 years before moving to Arkansas. In 2005 he was named the recipient of the SLA Rose Vormelker Award for teaching and mentorship. He served as president-elect and president (2006-2008) of the Rhode Island Chapter of SLA, and in 2007 the chapter named him Special Librarian of the Year. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the SLA BioMedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) and is the editor and author of the DBIO blog. Stankus has authored 12 papers, half of them appearing in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, and more than 80 evidence-based blog postings that average over 1,000 hits monthly. For SLA's Centennial Celebration, he organized the highly successful "DBIO Top 100 Journals of the Century" poll and awards ceremony, which garnered considerable media and publishing industry attention.
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