2002 Karen Sternheim Memorial Scholarship Recipient Announced
SLA's Southern California Chapter has announced Natalie Joy Kamper, a master's degree candidate from the UCLA Graduate School of Information Studies, as the winner of the 2002 Karen Sternheim Memorial Scholarship. Kamper, who was chosen from 17 applicants, received a $3,000 award at the chapter's 75th Anniversary Party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on April 18.
Kamper earned a B.S. in Kinesiology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and expects to graduate from UCLA's Information Studies program in June 2002. She has completed internships at the RAND Library in Santa Monica and the USC Norris Medical Library and is the 2001-2002 co-president of the UCLA SLA student chapter. Her special librarianship areas of interest are information technology, medical and health information and corporate libraries.
Though the chapter said there were many strong applicants for this year's award, the Scholarship Committee believes Kemper possesses what is needed in future leaders: scholastic attainment; strong recommendations from academics and practitioners; and focused, goal-oriented plans.
The Karen Sternheim Memorial Scholarship was established by the Southern California Chapter of SLA to provide assistance to a future librarian enrolled in a graduate master's degree program in library and information studies. Karen Sternheim, an employee of the UCLA Management Library from 1980-1993, was extremely involved in the Special Libraries Association and was an active member of the Scholarship Committee. She had a special affinity for students entering the profession and was active in the UCLA Special Libraries Association student group. Sternheim also participated in the UCLA Library mentoring project and supervised information science graduate interns employed by UCLA's Management Library.
DMAH Provides Travel Grant to Nicaraguan Librarian
SLA's Museums, Arts & Humanities Division (DMAH) has invitedConny Méndez Rojas of Managua, Nicaragua, to be the division's guest at the 2002 SLA Conference in Los Angeles. Méndez received a $500 travel grant, conference registration and tickets to all DMAH-sponsoredtours and events. Méndez serves as a documentation officer for 'Save the Children Norway' in Nicaragua, an independent, non-governmental organization advocating for the rights of children. From 1988-1996, she served as library director of the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua.
Dialog Names New CFO
The Dialog Corporation, a Thomson business, announced the appointment of Chris Naylor as chief financial officer.
Naylor is Dialog's senior financial officer, managing all of the company's financial activities worldwide.
Naylor was a vice president for West Group, a leading provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. Among her other accomplishments at West Group, she spearheaded the re-engineering of the company's financial management, customer ordering, and fulfillment systems, and also initiated a comprehensive product review process.
Before West Group, Naylor held various financial and management positions with global healthcare company Bausch & Lomb.
Naylor is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and holds a MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon School. She and her family have relocated to the Cary, N.C., area, where Dialog maintains its headquarters.
"We are delighted to have an executive of Chris Naylor's experience and expertise join us," said Roy M. Martin Jr., Dialog president and chief executive officer. "Her leadership skills will be an important asset as we continue to create innovative new products and services, and enhance our existing ones, for our customers worldwide."
Claggett Joins UOP as Manager of Library and Information Services
Laura Claggett, past-president of SLA Illinois, and former manager of the Knowledge Bank at Helene Curtis/ Unilever for 18 years, has joined UOP
(Universal Oil Products) as the manager of Library and Information Services in DesPlaines, Illinois. UOP's library dates back to 1926, and has a rich history of providing research assistance to the many scientists, engineers and legal counselors worldwide. Filling a position that has been vacant for over a year, Claggett brings welcome leadership to strategically updating and improving information services. UOP is jointly owned by Honeywell and Dow Chemical.
Lucy Lettis Joins the Marsh & McLennan Companies.
Lucy Lettis joined the Marsh & McLennan Companies (www.mmc.com) in New York as a senior vice president in February. Her responsibilities include knowledge management strategy, competitive intelligence, business research and intranet content integration. For the past six and a half years, Lettis was with Arthur Andersen in New York where she was a principal and most recently served as director of competitive intelligence.
ALA Announces New Executive Director
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected Keith Michael Fiels as its new executive director, succeeding William Gordon, who announced his retirement late last year. Fiels was chosen over Camila Alire, a member of the executive board and former dean of university libraries at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Fiels, who has been the director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners since 1992, will take office July 1.
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