The Rose L. Vormelker Award
Presented to an SLA member in good standing who is mid-career for beyond exceptional services in area of mentoring students and/or working professionals.
Recipient of the 2010 The Rose L. Vormelker Award
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Jan Chindlund Library Director Columbia College Chicago |
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About Jan Chindlund
Jan Chindlund, an SLA member since 1987, is currently the Library Director of Columbia College Chicago. Prior to joining Columbia in 2007, she managed two special libraries in the Chicago metro area: the McDonald's Corporation Global Business & Consumer Insight Information Center and the Research Library of Duff & Phelps.
Deeply committed to her profession, Jan's passion is encouraging and connecting with both students and information professionals in transition. Jan believes that mentoring is a meaningful way to for her to give back to a profession that has afforded her so many opportunities for growth. Cross-pollinating and sharing what she learns--in work settings, from formal and continuing education, and from leadership experiences in SLA--energize Jan professionally. She has professionally mentored numerous library practicum students from Dominican University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and many librarians seeking new directions in their professional careers.
Jan has been actively involved in SLA at the chapter, division, and association levels since 1987. She served as SLA Illinois Chapter president (2003-2004); Business & Finance Division (B&F) secretary, (1994-1996), and director (1998-2000). During her term on the B&F Board of Directors she worked to develop the B&F Mentoring Initiative. She also served on the Nominating Committee as chair (2010), on the President's Task Force on Professional Value (2005-2006), and the Annual Conference Advisory Council (2005 and 2011). She received the Dow Jones Leadership Award in 2000, and was named an SLA Fellow in 2006.
Jan is a frequent guest lecturer in Dominican University GSLIS program, and chaired its GSLIS Alumni Council. She currently is a member of the university's Library Advisory Board. She also team-taught Special Libraries with her fellow Illinois Chapter co-authors of Special Libraries: A Guide for Management (4th Edition).
In 2005, Jan co-authored a white paper on the future of librarians in business for the study, "The Future of Librarians in the Workplace", funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. She served on the Editorial Board of Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship 1996-2007. Currently, she serves a Director on the Board of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, and is active in LIBRAS.
Past Recipients of the Rose L. Vormelker Award
Larry L. Wright (1998)
G. Lynn Berard (1999)
Barbara Semonche (2000)
Elizabeth Stone (2000)
Judith J. Field (2001)
Billie Connor-Dominguez (2002)
Nettie Seaberry (2002)
Robert V. Williams (2003)
Anne Caputo (2004)
Doris Helfer (2004)
Carol Berger (2005)
Tony Stankus (2005)
Barbara Beverley (2006)
Eileen Abels (2007)
Shirley Loo (2008)
David Shumaker (2009)
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