Cara Schatz
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Five Deserving Info Pros Recognized by SLA for Service to the Profession
SLA Fellowship is Bestowed on Members Who Have
Contributed to the Association and Profession
Alexandria, Virginia, November 3, 2008 - During its Annual Conference in Seattle, Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced the 2008 Award Recipients including Anne Caputo, Christina de Castell, Holly Chong-Williams, Betty Edwards and David Stern as the 2008 Class of SLA Fellows.
"The SLA Fellows are an unrivaled group of intelligent and dedicated professionals. I am confident that these five SLA members will continue to be important assets to this organization and the profession," said SLA Chief Executive Officer Janice R. Lachance. "I congratulate and thank them for their service to SLA thus far, and I look forward to seeing what they do with their talent and drive as they move into the next leg of their SLA journey."
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The honor of Fellow of SLA is given to SLA members to recognize leadership in their career as information professionals or librarians. Fellowship in SLA is bestowed on mid-career professionals in recognition of past, present and future service to the association and the profession. The designation is presented annually to no more than five active professionals who are not presently serving on the SLA Board of Directors.
The 2008 Class of SLA Fellows:
Anne Caputo
Caputo is SLA's newly elected 2009 president-elect and the executive director of the Dow Jones Learning & Information Professional Programs, where she is responsible for the planning and development of learning initiatives for Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions group. Prior to joining Dow Jones in 1998, she served in various positions with The Dialog Corporation, most recently as director of Dialog's Quantum information professional program and the Classroom Instruction Program. Caputo is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Services, as well as a member of the distance education faculty for the University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences. She served SLA at the local level as a director and later president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter. She has also served at the international level on SLA's Board of Directors as the 2006-2007 Chapter Cabinet Chair and as Secretary to the Board. In 2004 Caputo was named a recipient of SLA's Rose L. Vormelker Award for mentoring students and practicing professionals, and she was named a Fellow of SLA at the 2008 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO.
Christina de Castell
Christina de Castell is the manager of InfoAction, the Vancouver Public Library's fee-based research center. De Castell is co-chair of the SLA First Five Years Task Force and was a member of the 2008 Annual Conference Advisory Council and the 2009 Nominations Committee. She was the blog editor for the Leadership & Management Division, and was Secretary in 2007. She is also a member of the Business & Finance and IT divisions. She is currently serving as director and public relations chair for the Business & Finance Division. In 2005-2006, de Castell was president of the SLA Western Canada Chapter. During her term, the chapter hosted the 2006 Pacific Northwest Conference on Content Management, with the Pacific Northwest and Oregon Chapters. She served on the governance committee of the B.C. Libraries Association in 2007. She has presented at events for the SLA Western Canada Chapter, B.C. Library Association, Vancouver Association of Law Libraries, and University of B.C. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Her presentations have included Web site project management, retaining new librarians, professional development, RSS, wikis, and working as a special librarian.
Holly Chong-Williams
As a division chief at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Holly Chong-Williams actively supports the research activities of more than 7,000 full-time staff to support the office's major functions--the examination and issuance of patents and the examination and registration of trademarks. Chong-Williams has been a member of SLA since 1990, and she has been active in both the Information Technology Division and the D.C. Chapter since she joined. For the division, she has held nearly every available leadership position including treasurer, government relations chair, chair-elect and chair. Her leadership and support of the Information Technology Division has facilitated that division's strong presence in the association and has ensured that their activities have been both financially and professionally successful.
Betty Edwards
As manager of business development research at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Betty Edwards has implemented key programs for client teams to identify legal and business opportunities. Her career has spanned industries and technologies, and ranges from experience on the library vendor side as a sales account representative, to engineering librarian at a major R&D laboratory. As a Boston Chapter SLA member, she has served in a number of key roles on the Executive Board, including president, treasurer and secretary. Edwards is currently serving a two-year term as treasurer of the Legal Division. In 1993, 1996 and 2000, she received the Boston Chapter Distinguished Service Award and SLA's association-level award in 1992 for Excellence in Public Relations. Edwards is committed to SLA and to the profession. Her devotion to life-long learning inspires her to take an active interest in the future of special librarianship by mentoring library science students as well as those already in the profession. She is a graduate of Simmons College GSLIS and has been a member of SLA since first joining as a student in 1978.
David Stern
David Stern is the associate university librarian for scholarly resources at Brown University and has been an active volunteer in SLA since 1982. He has served in a number of leadership positions, including as secretary of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division from 1991-1993 and as chair from 1994-1995. He was recognized by the division in 2001 with the PAM Achievement Award, which is reserved for those individuals whose professional work is marked by distinction and dedication to librarianship in astronomy, mathematics and/or physics. He was also recognized for his contributions to SLA at the association level, and his particular contributions to the literature of the physical sciences through his 2001 publication, Guide to the Literature of the Physical Sciences. Stern served as director on the SLA Board of Directors from 2000-2003. While a sitting board member, David served on the Committee of Committees and was the liaison to the Research Committee and to the Diversity Leadership Committee. Stern is a founding member and the 2008 chair of the SLA Knowledge Management Division, launched in 2006.
About SLA
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 11,000 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.sla.org.
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