The Dialog Member Achievement Award
Granted to an SLA member for raising visibility, awareness, and appreciation of profession, SLA Unit or the Association at large. Recipients of this award receive a cash award in the amount of US$ 1000.
2010 Recipients of the Dialog Member Achievement Award
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Richard P. Hulser Chief Librarian Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Los Angeles, California |
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Dianna Wiggins Social Media Consultant President, SLA Illinois Chapter Chicago, Illinois |
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About Richard P. Hulser
Richard Hulser is the chief librarian of the Natural History Museum Los Angeles County as well as president of his own consulting company based in West Hollywood, Calif. Richard has over 30 years of international experience working with cross-industry libraries and cultural institutions.
He has been a manager for information services at Amgen Libraries; content development director with Infotrieve; and held a variety of positions at IBM Corporation including senior research librarian, library and museum marketing specialist, technology strategy consultant, and digital library product marketing manager. Before joining IBM, he was library director at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah where he began his professional library career.
Richard has been very active in SLA since joining as a student member in 1982. He has held a variety of elected and appointed positions, including division cabinet chair on the SLA Board of Directors (1997-98), Connecticut Valley Chapter president (1995-96), Science-Technology Division chair (1991-93), as well as SLA Nominating Committee chair (1994-95) and other positions. He is founder of the Information Futurists Caucus that stemmed from his innovative talks using Star Trek: The Next Generation and other science fiction to help visualize possible future information management scenarios. He is co-founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Caucus. He was named a Fellow of SLA in 2000 and one of the team who received the SLA President?s Award in 2004.
Richard speaks and has authored articles and book chapters about content management and portal technologies, copyright in the digital world, and vendor partnerships. He expands on these and other topics in his blog Cybrarianviews.com.
Richard holds a master of arts degree in librarianship & information management from University of Denver; a master of education in instructional media/instructional product development from Utah State University; a bachelor of science in earth & space sciences from Stony Brook University in New York.
About Dianna Wiggins
An Ohio native, Dianna came to the information profession with an eclectic background as a real estate office manager, a PR director, a freelance writer and even a parks naturalist and wildlife educator. Her enthusiasm for the information profession took hold in the early 1990s when a physician friend showed her how medical researchers were sharing things over ?this new thing called the Internet,? and cutting their speed to knowledge down considerably.
Volunteering and working in her local public library in a range of positions after a move to the Chicago area, Dianna completed her master of library & information science at Dominican University in 2003. After juggling multiple part-time positions as a public library reference librarian, a substitute medical librarian, and a consultant to McDonald?s Consumer & Business Insights Information Center, Dianna settled at the BP Research Library in her hometown suburb of Naperville, Illinois. A year later, she returned to McDonald?s in a dual role as Knowledge Sharing Manager for ten restaurant operations departments and as a member of the Insights Information Center supporting global marketing research initiatives. In 2006, Dianna received the McDonald?s President?s Award for her work with global teams.
Most recently, Dianna served as Social Knowledge Manager at YMCA of the USA, where she consulted on best practices in the application of social media to the organization?s objectives and authored a Social Media Idea and Resource Guide as well as a phased implementation guide. She was also responsible for the assessment and development of communities of practice, developing a scorecard process for community assessment and authoring an Online Community Implementation and Engagement Guide for community managers.
Dianna also fosters and rehabilitates homeless dogs for a local rescue organization in her area. She is the 2010 President for the SLA Illinois Chapter.
Past Recipients of The SLA Member Achievement Award
John J. DiGilio (2003)
Kenlee Ray (2004)
John Latham (2005)
Ann Sweeney (2006)
Karen Takle Quinn (2006)
Sharon A. Lenius (2007)
Rachel Kolsky (2008)
Janice Lachance (2009)
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