SLA Leadership Summit Recap and Award Announcements

To supplement our Thursday, January 16th tweet round-up, at the bottom of this post you will find a slideshow of tweets summing up the activities from Friday, January 17th at last week’s Leadership Summit (#SLAleads) in Memphis. Tweets are courtesy of @SLA2014Tips, managed by @LibrarySherpa.

A few important awards announcements that were made:

SLA Fellows of 2014: 

• Daniel Lee, PwC Canada (@YankeeinCanada)
• Leslie Reynolds, University of Colorado Boulder (@LeslieR)
• Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services (@mebs)
• Tony Landolt, Reprints Desk (@SLAbaseball)
• Catherine Lavallee-Welch, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse -Library (@englib)

SLA Rising Stars of 2014:

• Angela Kent
• Sam Wiggins, Norton Rose LLP (@LibWig)
• Tanya Whippie (@TLwhippie)

Unit Membership Awards for 2013 Efforts

• Biggest membership increase in an SLA Chapter (in both quantity and percentage)
  • Arabian Gulf Chapter:
  • Runners-up: San Diego (quantity) and Hawaiian Pacific Chapters (percentage increase)
• Biggest membership increase in an SLA Division (in both quantity and percentage)
  • Taxonomy Division
  • Runners-up: Transportation Division

Stay tuned for announcements about the rest of the SLA Awards & Honors leading up to the SLA 2014 Annual Conference in Vancouver this June.

Tweets from Friday at Leadership Summit:

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