Awards and Honors Committee
Awards and Honors Committee

Five members, including the two most recent Past Presidents, each serving as Chair of the Committee in his/her second year, the President-Elect, and two members of the Board who are serving in the third year of their term. The Past Presidents serve two-year terms and the President-Elect and third year board members serve one-year year terms. 

The Committee shall:

  1. Recommend to the Board of Directors a program for Association-wide awards & honors;
  2. review and recommend to the Conference Committee changes to the recognition ceremony and the promotion of the awards and the recipients;
  3. elect according to the criteria stated for each award and report to the Board of Directors the recipients of the association awards;
  4. report to the Board of Directors the recipients of Association-wide awards or honors selected by other Association committees;
  5. coordinate those activities of any Association committee relating to SLA's association-wide awards & honors program, and;
  6. recommend to the Board of Directors the recipients of honorary membership in SLA. 

(The Communications and Marketing Manager is an ex-officio member of the Committee and the Association Office contact.) Committee definition revised June 2009.

Chair
Anne Caputo (2011-12)
Anne.S.Caputo@dowjones.com

Committee Members
Mary Ellen Bates
mbates@batesinfo.com

Liz Blankson-Hemans
liz.blanksonhemans@gmail.com

Deb Hunt
dhunt@information-edge.com

Cindy Romaine
cindy.romaine@romainiacs.com

Board Liaison
Cindy Romaine
cindy.romaine@romainiacs.com
Staff Committee Member
John Walsh
jwalsh@sla.org



Innovations In Technology Award
(On hiatus for 2010)

Three members appointed for overlapping terms of two years each, with the Chair having served as a member of the Committee the previous year.

The Committee shall:

  1. Select and report the recipient(s) of the Innovations In Technology Award to the Awards & Honors Committee, and 
  2. Coordinate its activities to promote the Award, solicit Award nominations, and select Award recipients with the Awards & Honors Committee.

     (Association Office contact is the Communications and Marketing Manager) Definition adopted June 1998 -- Board Document A98-68.

Chair
TBD

Committee Members

 

Board Liaison
TBD
Staff Committee Member
John Walsh
jwalsh@sla.org

SLA Awards and Honors Program
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