Ulla de Stricker
de Stricker Associates
Toronto, Canada
Ulla de Stricker is President of de Stricker Associates, a consultancy based in Toronto, Canada (www.destricker.com). She assists her clients in projects focusing on strategic planning for special libraries and in projects dealing with information and knowledge management. Prior to establishing her practice in 1992, she held senior positions in the information industry, among others at the Canadian office of DIALOG and at Carswell, a Canadian legal publishing unit of Thomson.
SLA has been a focus for Ulla since the early 1980s; in addition to serving as President of the Toronto Chapter and Chair of the Leadership and Management Division, she worked on several SLA committees and prepared a white paper, on request from then SLA President Susan DiMattia, on international membership. Twice she received the Toronto Chapter Member of the Year award. For more than the last decade, she has been the Career Committee Chair in Toronto, supporting the SLA student groups at the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto and responding to requests for input and advice from Toronto Chapter colleagues. She regularly gives talks on resumes and career planning and reviews individual resumes for anyone requesting it (no matter what his or her location). In 2009, she delivered a series of extremely popular career related programs to the Toronto Chapter; with its support and that of the Eastern and Western Canada and Pacific Northwest Chapters, the programs will be re-enacted and recorded in 2010 to enable broader distribution.
An independent business owner, Ulla served on the board of the Association of Independent Information Professionals 2008-2010. In 2009, she received AIIP's Sue Rugge Memorial Award for her support to colleagues.
Ulla is a familiar speaker and workshop or Webinar presenter, often addressing information professionals' challenges. She has authored numerous articles and two books: Business Cases for Info Pros: Here's Why, Here's How (Information Today, 2008) and Is Consulting for You? (American Library Association, 2007). Sharing her expertise in the process of gaining insight into client needs, Ulla developed and teaches the Information Audit course in the University of Toronto Faculty of Information's Professional Learning Centre.
"It is an honor to run for election to the SLA Board of Directors."
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