Ann Sweeney
European Union - European Commission Delegation
Washington, D.C.
At the European Union's European Commission Delegation, Ann Sweeney has served as Librarian, Webmaster, and now Senior Information & Communication Officer: Electronic Publications. Ann's 30+ years' career as a librarian spans positions at the Columbia University Graduate Business Library, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, Information for Business, the National Academy of Sciences - Transportation Research Board (TRB), and public libraries. Her experience includes electronic applications, reference, collection development, database creation, cataloging, abstracting, indexing, serials management, thesaurus construction, and solo librarianship.
Ann is active in SLA: with the Social Science Division as past Chair, past PR Chair, and current International Relations Section Chair; as former Global Strategies Task Force Chair; as previous Public Relations Committee member; and as Legal Division, International Information Exchange Caucus, and Washington, DC, Chapter member. She received the 2006 SLA Member Achievement Award, and has organized the Annual Conference's International Reception for a decade. As DSOC Chair, Ann oversaw both the creation of division sections and a merger with the Geography & Map Division. She is beginning her 4th term as a member of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Library and Information Science in Transportation. For the American Society of International Law's Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) Editorial Review Group, she has provided guidance on EU materials. Ann is a frequent speaker at SLA, TRB, the World Bank/IMF Joint Library, Georgetown University Law Library, and similar venues. As a proud volunteer with the Lubuto Library Project (www.lubuto.org), Ann was fortunate to be able to attend the Lusaka, Zambia, September 2007 opening of the first Lubuto Library for street children.
Ann's undergraduate degree is in Romance Languages and Political Science; her Master of Science in Library Service is from Columbia University. Her older daughter, a NYC Teaching Fellow alumna, has taught in South Bronx and Washington, DC, public elementary schools. Her younger daughter - a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Benin, W. Africa) - is completing her Master's in Public Health, while working as a reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News. Both daughters will be married in 2008! Her husband was a US Department of the Treasury Savings Bonds Division administrator.
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