Incoming 2010 SLA President-elect
Cindy Romaine
Biography
Cindy Romaine was first struck by the way people connect with library resources in her initial job out of college at Pacific University library. She turned that lightning bolt into a career, first working as a library clerk, then embracing the information and research field for the last 28 years in a variety of public, academic, and special environments. She is currently the principal of Romainiacs Intelligence Research, an information consultancy that provides in-depth research solutions to corporate clients. Prior to that, she worked for 16 years at Nike, Inc. as the director of the Design Library and as Corporate Archivist. The Design Library was the recipient of the Special Library Association's Business and Finance Division Center of Excellence award for management in 2003.
Cindy just finished a 3½ year term on the SLA Board of Directors in December 2008. In 2008 she chaired the SLA Innovation Laboratory, which attracted participation from 5000+ members and was awarded SLA's Presidential Citation.
She has authored articles for Information Outlook magazine regarding SLA's strategic alignment, the branding of our profession, and competencies. Her presentations at the Annual Conference discussed information management and resources for creative personnel. At the international level, Cindy was a member of the SLA Branding Taskforce, served as chair of the Public Relations Committee, and was a member of the Professional Values task force.
Ms. Romaine is a long-time contributor to the Oregon chapter of SLA. This year, she is serving a second term as President, having previously served from 1995-1996. Cindy has also served on the professional development, consultation, and PR committees. She was co-chair of the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of SLA in 1995. She was awarded the Greey award, the chapter's distinguished member award in 2006.
She is a member of the Library Management Division, Museum, Arts and Humanities Division. She is a past member of Business and Finance, Solos, Advertising and Marketing, and Engineering Divisions.
Cindy served on the steering committee for the North American Sport Library Information Network (NASLIN) from 2000 to 2006 and hosted their conference in 2001. She served as a member for the Library Services and Technology Act Advisory Board for Oregon in 2001-2002 as well as on their Evaluation Committee. She served on the University of Washington's iSchool advisory board from 2002-2005. Cindy has given guest lectures at the University of Washington iSchool and Emporia State's School of Library and Information Management.
She earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oregon and graduated from the University of Washington's MLIS program in 1982.
Cindy lives outside Portland, Oregon, and enjoys yoga, hiking, cooking, and movies with subtitles. She participates in a monthly book group and periodically organizes community potlucks.
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