Information Outlook, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 2002
Vote Now for Bylaws
Vote now! Your bylaws revision ballot is in the mail. In accordance with Article XVI of the current SLA bylaws, the proposed bylaws revisionas approved by the membership at the 2002 Annual Business Meeting in Los Angeleshas been submitted to the entire voting membership for final decision. Important dates regarding the bylaws:
· October 1Ballots Due
· October 25Board ratifies the results of mail ballot
· November 1Implement new bylaws if the membership approves the bylaws revision
Contact Stephanie Russell (Stephanie@sla.org or 1-202-939-3632) at headquarters if you have questions regarding your ballot.
Spotlight on Organizations
The Simmons College Library and Information Sciences Student Association (LISSA) hosted its annual Spotlight on Associations program on March 20, 2002. The program brought together representatives from many different library and information professional associations to pitch their groups to interested students. Margaret Howe-Soper and Alan Thibeault represented SLA. Thibeault explained the mission and organization of SLA, while Howe-Soper discussed the importance of belonging to a professional association and her personal reasons for choosing SLA. LISSA videotaped the program and a copy of the videotape is available at Simmons for those students who weren't able to attend.
Lowrie Awarded 2002 Kohli Memorial Scholarship
Ms. Noelle C. Lowrie was announced as the 2002 recipient of the Kohli Memorial Scholarship, presented by SLA's Food Agriculture and Nutrition Division (FAN) during the annual business meeting in Los Angeles this June. Lowrie is a senior research information scientist at General Mills, Inc., and a graduate student in library and information science at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN.
The Kathi Kohli is an annual scholarship for students enrolled, on a full- or part-time basis, in the graduate program in library and information science at the College of St. Catherine/Dominican University in St. Paul-Minneapolis. The award is in honor of Kathi Kohli, a talented reference librarian at the Cargill Information Center who died in 1996. The award is jointly funded by FAN and the Cargill Information Center.
Wilson Receives Distinguished Member Award
The Food Agriculture and Nutrition Division announced Pat Wilson as the 2002 recipient of the FAN Distinguished Member Award during the SLA's annual conference in Los Angeles this June. The award is presented annually to recognize leadership, initiatives and major contributions to the field of library science demonstrated by members of the FAN Division.
Ms. Wilson is currently the distance learning librarian at the William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. She has been a member of the Special Libraries Association since 1988, and has served in a variety of offices and committees at the chapter, division and national level. Currently the chair of an SLA Committee on Public Policy Issues, Wilson has also served as chair of the FAN Division and as president of the Kentucky Chapter. She is active in a number of professional associations, including the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), the American Library Association (ALA) and the Kentucky SOLINET User's Group.
Paquette-Murphy Voted Chair-Elect of Recently Formed Section of MLA
Mindy Paquette-Murphy, MLS, senior information scientist, Sanofi-Sythelabo Research Division (Malvern, PA), was voted chair-elect of the recently formed Corporate Information Services Section of the Medical Library Association. Paquette-Murphy's responsibilities will include program planning for the MLA Annual Meeting in 2003. Paquette-Murphy is the immediate past-chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Hospital Libraries Section at MLA, where she has been responsible for creating and moderating the "Information Technology Forum" at three consecutive MLA Annual Meetings, as well as having managed a regular column in "National Network," a publication of the Hosp. Lib. Section of MLA. Paquette-Murphy also serves on the board of the Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA.
Moulton Launches LWM Technology Services
Lynda W. Moulton, a member of the SLA Boston Chapter, has announced the launch of her consulting firm LWM Technology Services in Harvard, Massachusetts. A long-time player in the field of software development for corporate libraries and technical information management, Moulton will be seeking to partner with information technology executives in research and development companies where knowledge management is a key element to success. In 1980, Moulton founded one of Massachusetts' first software companies, Comstow Information Services, which created the BiblioTech product for corporate research and technical libraries. In 1999, Moulton and the BiblioTech PRO product joined Inmagic, Inc., of Woburn. After three years of work there, she is now returning to work with computer technologists on the tough issues of information technology. To learn more, visit www.lwmtechnology.com.
Whalen Winner of 2001/2002 INSPEC Travel Stipend Award
Kimberly Whalen has been judged winner of the 2001/2002 SLA Engineering Division's INSPEC Travel Stipend Award. Whalen, a student at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences, was honored at the Engineering Division's annual business meeting held on June 10, 2002, in Los Angeles at the SLA Annual Conference.
The topic of the 2001/2002 winning essay was "How Is Your Library Education Preparing You to Put Knowledge to Work?"
The $500 INSPEC Travel Award assists library school students with payment of expenses incurred while attending the annual conference.
Schnedeker Receives Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship
The Business and Finance Division of SLA has announced Donald Schnedeker, director of the Management Library of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, as the recipient of the 2002 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship. This award recognizes an individual for a specific outstanding contribution to the field of business and finance librarianship within a discrete time span. This year the B&F Division Awards Committee has applied a very liberal interpretation to the phrase "discrete time span," choosing to honor one of its members for a single activity, but one that has occurred repeatedly since May 1988.
During the SLA Annual Conference held in Toronto in 1974, the B&F Division's College and University Business Libraries (CUBL) special interest group decided to expand upon a sampling of statistics that had been gathered by Laurence J. Kipp of Harvard Business School's Baker Library. Charlotte Georgi, then UCLA Graduate School of Management librarian, first gathered and published the 1973/1974 CUBL statistics. In the preface of this first edition is written, "If at all possible, it is anticipated that this procedure will be continued on an annual basis."
In the nearly 30 years since inception, the prominence and prestige of this statistical reporting series among academic business librarians continues to grow. Each year, Don has revised the survey questions and disseminated them to project participants that include most of the top 30 B-Schools in the United States. Data are then tabulated by Don to produce a statistical report that covers a plethora of topics such as collection size, acquisitions budget, staffing, computer use, B-School enrollment by MBA program, faculty size, facilities, space use, circulation, reference and instruction statistics and database subscriptions. Schnedeker used some of this data as the basis for a 1999 article he authored for the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship.
epixtech
Customers Win Canadian Library Awards
epixtech customers won several prestigious awards at the recent British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) conference in Whistler, British Columbia, and the Canadian Library Association (CLA) national conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
At the BCLA conference, Prince Rupert Library received the BCLA Merit Award for Programs and Services in recognition of its new First Nations Library Card program. In addition, Allan Wilson, chief librarian at the library, was awarded the Alice Bacon Continuing Education Scholarship.
Also at BCLA, Simon Fraser University Library received the Academic Librarians in Public Service Award in recognition of success in transforming its library liaison services.
Vancouver Island Regional Library earned the BCLA Merit Award for Building Projects for its new Courtenay Branch building. Paul Whitney, chief librarian at Burnaby Public Library, won the BCL President's Award.
Whitney received more recognition at the CLA conference, picking up the Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award. Calgary Public Library garnered the W. Kaye Lamb Award for Service to Seniors. In June, Calgary Public Library was also honored at the American Library Association annual conference, where it received the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award.
"We take pride in the accomplishments of each of these award winners," said Marilyn Crawford, general manager (Canada) of epixtech. "Their dedication to libraries shows the extraordinary commitment shared by all of our customers to continually improve services for their patrons."
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