Incoming 2010 SLA Treasurer
Dan Trefethen
Biography
Dan Trefethen is the web content manager of Boeing's largest defense program. After fourteen years as a solo librarian for one of Seattle's largest architectural firms, he moved to Boeing to found a library on air traffic management to support aviation safety. Five years ago he accepted his current position managing a restricted Intranet web site. He is embedded into a program to modernize the US Army.
Dan has served SLA for over 30 years in various volunteer roles. He was on the SLA Board of Directors for 2004-2007, serving as one of two Board members on the Finance Committee during that time. He was instrumental in developing the dues restructuring that was approved overwhelmingly by SLA members in 2005. As a Board member he voted to approve the SLA Alignment project, and as a Finance Committee member he worked to assure that the necessary funding was allocated for it. Dan worked together with two SLA treasurers on the Finance Committee, Gloria Zamora and Sylvia James, to take the Board's strategic direction and apply it in dollars and cents for each annual budget.
Dan has been a chapter president (Pacific Northwest) and division chair (Solo Librarians). He also served as treasurer for both kinds of units: the Pacific Northwest Chapter and the Museums, Arts & Humanities Division.
In 1990 Dan wrote an article to assist SLA members in getting the most out of their experience at the annual conference. "The Savvy Conference-Goer Does SLA" was reprinted and updated constantly during the 1990s and 2000s, and served as the foundation for many of today's publications offering advice to new conference attendees.
In 2000 Dan was named a Fellow of SLA.
Dan has a master's degree from the University of Washington Information School and a bachelor's degree in English, also from the UW. Dan is part of a two-librarian family with his wife Joanna, a children's librarian with Seattle Public Library. In his free time Dan perfects his communication and negotiation skills as a trained umpire in Little League Baseball.
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