Two Recipients Selected to Receive Sternheim Scholarship Honors
Awarded annually by the Southern California Chapter of SLA, the Karen Sternheim Memorial Scholarship was established to provide assistance to a student enrolled in a graduate Master's degree program in library and information studies who intends to pursue a career in special librarianship. This year, the chapter awarded two $1500 scholarships to Laurie Blasingame and Natasha Bergson-Michelson, both Master's degree candidates from San Jose State University.
Both recipients admirably demonstrate what the Scholarship Committee believes is needed in future leaders; scholastic achievement, goal oriented plans and commitment to special librarianship.
Engineering Division Announces INSPEC Travel Stipend Award Winner
Donna Braquet a student at the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University is the winner of the 1999/2000 INSPEC Travel Stipend Award administered by the SLA Engineering Division. The topic of the 1999/2000 winning essay is how library education must change to meet the challenge of new or emerging technologies. Braquet was honored at the Engineering Division annual business meeting held during the 2000 SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia held in June
The $500.00 INSPEC Travel Award assists library school students toward payment of expenses incurred while attending the annual Special Libraries Association conference.
Call for Papers—San Antonio 2001 Contributed Papers Session
The SLA Science & Technology Division is planning a Contributed Papers Session for the San Antonio Conference June 9–14, 2001.
Eligibility: Any SLA member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration.
Theme: Managing the Delivery of Electronic Journals: Issues for a Science-technical Library.
How are you organizing electronic journals for your clientele? Do you provide links from the library catalog or facilitate access via another access point (web page, database, commercial service, multiple access points, etc.)? What policies do you have in place regarding access, proxy, or otherwise to electronic journals? How do you measure the use of these journals? Do you duplicate print editions or are you canceling the print in favor of the electronic? In all cases? How have electronic journals affected your use of interlibrary loan or document delivery? How do you promote the existence of these resources to your clientele? How do you train your patrons in the effective utilization of these resources? What challenges have you faced in delivering this format to your patrons and what issues do you see in the future?
Abstract: Submit your proposal in the form of a 300–500 word abstract. Be sure to include the paper's topic, scope, methodology, and conclusions or results.
Criteria: Criteria for review will include relevance to the session theme, and evidence of scholarship. Preference will be given to members of the Science & Technology Division.
Deadline for Submission: October 16, 2000. (If you have difficulty meeting this deadline, please contact James for a short extension)
PAPERS: If your paper is one of those selected for presentation, you will be expected to 1) submit the complete text of your paper to the program convener by March 16, 2001; 2) present your paper at the San Antonio SLA annual conference (20 minutes allowed); and 3) allow your paper to be printed in session preprints and/or mounted on the Science & Technology Division's Website.
Submit Abstract (e-mail preferred) to:
James E. Manasco
Head Librarian, Shaver Engineering Library
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0046
Phone: 1-859-257-8358, Fax: 1-859-323-1911
E-mail: manasco@pop.uky.edu
MEMBER NEWS
St. Clair Honored by University of Illinois
The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science has named Guy St. Clair as its "Distinguished Alumnus" for 2000.
Begun in 1987, the award recognizes an individual alumnus who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of library and information science. Past recipients have included Beverly Lynch, Edward Holley, Charles Bunge, Robert Wedgeworth, Barbara Ford, and Ellis Mount.
St. Clair is currently employed as Senior Systems Analyst, Knowledge Management and Learning, for Dynamic Research Corporation of Andover, MA, working under contract for the Network-Centric Integrated Digital Environment Project, United States Air Force. From 1984 until April, 2000, St. Clair was President of SMR International, a management consulting firm for the information services industry. Prior to establishing SMR International, he served as library director of the University Club of New York and as librarian, curator, and director of cultural programs for the Union League Club of New York.
St. Clair is a past president of the Special Libraries Association, of which he has been a member for thirty years. He is the author of many books on library and information services management, including Managing the One Person Library (1986 and 1991), Entrepreneurial Librarianship (1996), Change Management in Action (1999), and the forthcoming Beyond Degrees: Professional Learning and Qualification Management in the Information Services Industry. In addition to an M.S. in Library and Information Science, St. Clair holds an A.B. from the University of Virginia.
Gilman Retires
Nelson Gilman has retired from his position as director of the University of Southern California University Health Sciences Libraries and the Norris Medial Library after twenty-nine years of service
Janet Reed receives Distinguished Service Award
Janet S. Reed received the Business & Finance's Distinguished Service Award at this year's Annual Business Meeting. Reed has recently retired from her position as vice president at Bank of America where she managed the Market Information Group. Reed has been a member of the Special Libraries Association since 1970 and has held a number of chapter and division posts.
She was chairman of the Association Scholarship Committee in 1980 and received the 1993 Disclosure Technology Achievement Award. Reed was also honored for her years of service.
SLA NEWS
Nancy Dixon Appointed as Faculty Director for SLA's Knowledge Champions Institute
Nancy M. Dixon, Ph.D., teacher, author, consultant, and expert in organizational knowledge sharing has been appointed as faculty director for SLA' s newly created Knowledge Champions Institute (KCI) to be held in April 2001. (Specific dates for the Institute are still to be determined.)
Dixon is the author of the recently released book, Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, published by the Harvard Business School Press. In Common Knowledge, Dixon discusses five different forms of knowledge transfer and helps readers determine the best type of knowledge-sharing system for their organizations' specific needs.
Dixon is a professor of Administrative Sciences at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and was a member of the Human Resource Development graduate faculty at The University of Texas, Austin. She has consulted numerous companies in the U.S. and abroad including Conoco, Lockheed-Martin, Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Knowledge Champions Institute is a learning experience that will help interested information professionals create and support knowledge-sharing systems that are linked to their organizations' strategic directions. KCI will replace the Knowledge Executive Institute, which SLA has previously offered in conjunction with its Annual Conference.
Fifteen Selected as Fellows for Global Information Conference
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has announced that fifteen information professionals from developing nations around the world have been selected to participate as fellows at Global 2000, the Second Worldwide Conference Special Librarianship, to be held October 16-19, 2000, in Brighton, England. The participants who were selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, will join over 1,000 other global information professionals in exploring the future of information management in the digital age.
The Global 2000 Conference is designed to bring information professionals from all corners of the globe together to learn, foster the growth of the profession, and build a stronger worldwide community of practice that will lead to greater recognition of the value in putting knowledge to work. Special keynote addresses and breakout sessions have been organized to allow for greater interaction and communication among the conference delegates. More on the conference schedule can be found at www.slaglobal2000.org, the conference web portal.
The Global 2000 Fellowship Program was created to ensure that special librarians and information professionals in developing nations have an opportunity to establish relationships with their colleagues around the world and to learn more about the technologies and trends that are revolutionizing information management. Eleven SLA chapters, twelve SLA divisions, and fifty individual members of the Association made substantial financial commitments to the Global 2000 Fellowship Program that will allow the participants to attend free of charge.
The fifteen Global 2000 Fellows are:
Damodar Adhikari - Nepal
Dania Mohamed Amin - Egypt
Innocent Afuh Awasom - Cameroon
Muhammad Chaudhary - Pakistan
Lilia Echiverri - Philippines
Cao Minh Kiem - Vietnam
Doreen Lambert - Jamaica
Aguinaldo Marcelino - Brazil
Paiki Muswazi - Swaziland
Godfrey Ncongwane - South Africa
Ozioma Orji - Nigeria
Guisella Ruiz - Costa Rica
Jadranka Stojanovski - Croatia
Lyudmila Pharaphovna - Russia
Xiumei Wang - China
INDUSTRY NEWS
SPARC and IEEE Collaborate to Produce Sensors
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announced its partnership with IEEE, the 350,000-member non-profit, technical professional association, to produce the IEEE Sensors Journal, a low-cost, high-quality alternative to Sensors and Actuators, A and B.
The IEEE Sensors Journal, a print and electronic journal to be published bimonthly beginning in June 2001, will be a fully-refereed publication with an online peer review system and electronic
submission of papers. The IEEE Sensors Journal will cost $395 per year for non-member institutions and $19 per year for individual IEEE members. The competing journal costs $5,200.
Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology, and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace, and consumer electronics, among others.
Sensor researchers and users are invited to submit papers to the IEEE Sensors Journal. Papers on sensor applications are of special interest. Overall, the journal will focus on the theory, design,
fabrication, manufacturing, and application of devices for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and biological phenemona, with emphasis on the electronics and physics aspects of sensors and integrated sensor-actuators. For further information, please see:
http://www.ieee.org/sensors.
Creating Business Value from Information Overload: Information Taxonomy Review
TFPL, the international knowledge and information management consultancy and recruitment company, announced a major new international research project on taxonomies.
The state-of-the-art review will examine how businesses can create commercial value from the vast and complex array of internal and external information available to them through the use of taxonomies—information search tools which guides users to the right type of information— within corporate intranets, knowledge management systems and the internet.
TFPL's project leader, Alan Gilchrist, said, "as businesses move to compete in the new economy, greater reliance will be placed on effective organization, structure, retrieval, and exploitation of information and knowledge. This research will provide us with an important perspective on the value that taxonomic tools play in helping users find information that is highly relevant to them."
TFPL will publish the results of the research at a conference on Achieving value through e-content to be held in October 2000.
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