Marjorie M.K. Hlava (Margie) is President and Chairman of Access Innovations, Inc., an international database construction and information management services company she founded in 1978.
Past Employment: Information Director, National Energy Information Center Affiliate, Department of Energy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1978); Manager of Information Technology, NASA Technical Application Center (TAC) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1976-78).
SLA Member Since: 1976
Education: Graduate study in Botany and in Information Science, University of New Mexico (1974-76) ; BS in Botany and certified in Secondary Education, University of Wisconsin (1970) with Field Courses taken at the University of Minnesota, Itaska (1967);
SLA Chapter Activities: Rio Grande Chapter: chair, Nominations (1983); Chapter President (1979-80); chair, Employment (1978-79); chair, Membership (1978-79); chair, Career Counselor (1978-79); Chapter Vice President (1978-79); chair, Special Projects (1976); numerous o ther committee positions.
SLA Division Activities: Information Technology Division: member, Networking Committee (1988-90 ); DACOLT Committee (1989-90); Nominations Committee (1985, 1991); Division Cabinet Electronic Mail (1984); Executive Committee ITE (1983-85; 1988-89); Chair (1984); Chair Elect (1983).
SLA Association Level Activities: SLA Voting Representative for the National Information
Standards Organization (1992-present); chair, Technical Standards Committee (1992-present); Special Committee for Review of Non-serials Publications (1992); Board of Directors Division Cabinet Chair (1990-92); Nominations (1986); Directory Committee Joint Cabinet (1984); Long Range Plan (1981-82).
Other Professional Activities: Local, regional, and national level support and participation in information industry related associations and organizations. Margie is serving or has served on the Boards of the following organizations: American Society for Information Science - ASIS (Past President); Association for Information Dissemination – ASIDIC (Twice President)
Documentation Abstracts (Twice President) (Board of Directors 1990-1997); National Information Standards Organization – NISO (SLA representative to NISO) Software and Information Industry Association – SIIA Information Industry Association – III (Treasurer); National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services – NFAIS – (Current Treasurer).
Awards and Honors: The ASIS Watson-Davis Award (1996); The Special Libraries Association President's Award (June 2000); Guilford's Who's Who, 1994-95 Edition; Who's Who Worldwide Registry, 1994-95 Edition; Who's Who registry of Global Business Leaders, 1993 Edition; Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, 4th Edition, 1992; Who's Who Registry of Business Leaders, Platinum Edition, 1992; Official Registry of the Who's Who of American Business Leaders, 1991 Edition; Marquis Who's Who, The Compilation of the twenty-Third Edition of Who's Who in the West, 1991; Who's Who of American Business Leaders, 1991 Edition; Who's Who of Women, 10th and 11th Editions, 1989-1990, 1991-1992; Who's Who Registry Sterling Edition, 1990; Marquis Who's Who of American Women, 1988 & 1989.
Publications: Over 200 articles and papers for professional and scholarly journals, information industry publications, and presentations at conferences, other meetings, and workshops, spanning the years 1978 to present. The published papers and articles deal with a myriad of information management topics such as database design and construction and its related costs, natural language processing, machine aided indexing, internet and intranet protocols and taxonomies, thesaurus development and management, good indexing and creation of indexes, online searching, online systems and technologies, and other subjects relevant and pertinent to information professionals.
On the Questions:
What are the keys to the growth of the information profession, its stature and its image?
We must pay close attention to three things in the information profession, standards, regulations and the enableling legislation and the activities in the non US parts of the business. Standards are the underlying infrastructure that make the exchange of information and the accompanying commerce possible. Without them we will not have continued growth. Choose the wrong ones for the US and we will be outdistanced by other nations in this profession. Our standards bodies are being overtaken by the quasi standards groups such as W3C for excellent reasons. We should take a seat with those who are making a difference in our profession and help drive those actions which effect us. Legislation must take the long view and not be distracted by special interest groups with short term horizons. The delay of the tax on the Internet, clear copyright, compilation and usage guidelines which protect and encourage production and use of materials, easy exchange without encryption of information and a balance of private and public sector roles in provision of information. These will all take careful study and attention by the SLA Board
The information profession is not longer restricted to the US and a few European Nations. India, Singapore and others are moving quickly to become the Information Nation. The US lacks an Information Policy, while the European Union has come us with exhaustive policies for information and other intellectual property. The European Directive has been adopted by all of there nations. We are starting to fall behind. We will catch up again by paying attention and taking actions to positively effect our futures.
What is your vision for the association during your time in office, and what legacy would you like to leave behind? What is your strategy to implement this vision?
If elected I will help SLA push forward on all three of these fronts for the Association and for the profession. I will ask to work with the Technical Standards, Government Policy and International Relations Committees on these issues and bring items of note to the Staff and the Board of Directors. Our futures are at stake and we must pay attention
Explain career related accomplishment and how its outcome will relate to your success on the board of directors.
I have worked with the SLA standards committee for the last eight years and with the National Information Standards organization as a member of its Board of Directors. I understand the standards issues and processes and how to be effective in that environment. I have only recently realized the impact of government policy and the subsequent activities involved in implementing those actions. The ripple effects on lour working environments are not yet known. I am worried enough to read, listen and act to make the workplace for special librarians and all their colleagues in the information profession as effective and efficient as possible. I have divisions of my own company or operating agreements for creating databases in Europe, India, China, Philippines, and formerly in Russia. I understand doing business in a global environment and have been working internationally for over 25 years.
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