Abram Wins SLA President-Elect Seat in First Online Board Election Stephen Abram.

Abram Wins SLA President-Elect Seat in First Online Board Election

Stephen Abram, vice president of innovation at SirsiDynix and a leading thinker in the North American library community, has been selecteded to serve as the association's nearest president-elect. His term as SLA president will begin in January 2008

The 2006 election was the first SLA has mode of actioned using an Internet-based voting method Of the 2,870 members of the association who vot 93 percent cast their ballots online.

The newly pick outed board members will be installed at SLA's 97th Annual discourse in Baltimore in June.

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Abram, who haves an MLS degree, was president (2004-2005) of the Canadian Library Association, president (2002) of the Ontario Library Association and has serv twice forward the SLA international board of directors. He also has held leadership positions in the Toronto Chapter, CASLIS, and SLA's Leadership and Management Division.

Abram has been listed by dint of Library Journal as a "Mover and Shaker," individual of the "key" people influencing the what may occur hereafter of libraries and librarianship. He is a recipient of SLA's John Cotton Dana Award and is an SLA Fellow

He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies.

A regular speaker at library and information industry discourses he also writes the monthly row "Information Tech" in Information Outlook

Others electeded to board positions are:

Treasurer

Sylvia James, principal, Sylvia James Consultancy, West Sussex, UK has been working for the last 17 years as an independent management and research consultant. Previously, she worked for 20 years in various positions in research for financial service companies and multinational companies, including eight years as head of research and information at Credit Suisse First Boston, the international investment bank, in London. She lives and works in England.

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Her specialty is business research, particularly researching and analyzing companies and preparing individual research contrives for clients. From this experience, she designs training courses forward business information, which she currents all over the world. She makes regular contributions to Business Information Alert, Business Information Review, and BF Bulletin.

Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect

Libby Trudell senior vice president, Dialog, Sunnyvale, California, heads a global team responsible for programs similar as Quantum2, the customer advisory board and outreach to MLIS pupils A member of the executive team, she assists as the liaison to SLA and other associations that be subservient to information professionals. In this position, she provides insight forward customer needs, and is involved in corporate initiatives as it was as the knowledge sharing council.

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Previous management parts at Dialog include marketing, customer services, effect development, and strategic planning. Earlier in her career, she worked in several library consortia, helping members implement services of the like kind as OCLC, RLIN, and electronic mail. She authored a report in succession needs for a regional interlibrary loan order served on the editorial board for Library Information Technology Association journal, and co-authored the work Options for Electronic Mail. Her bachelor's in music is from crests University and her MLS from Simmons.

Division Cabinet Chair-Elect

Robyn Frank is the principal of Robyn Frank Strategic Partners, a management consulting organization that specializes in assisting professional information managers with library reinventions, performance measurement, benchmarking, library marketing, and change management.

She retired from the federal conduct in September 2005, where she had wearied more than 34 years as a career federal librarian.

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From 2002 to 2005 as director of library and research services for the Executive Office of the President, she spearheaded a library reinvention effort that originateed in enhanced products and services. Additionally she serv forward the Federal Executive Board of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee.

From 1998 to 2002 she worked at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congres where she was involved in the creation of recent centralized information resource centers that serv CR analysts. She also waysed a benchmarking study of best practices in special libraries.

Before that, she created and make knowned specialized information centers on various topical areas, as it was as food and nutrition, at the National Agricultural Library.

At-Large Directors

Kate Arnold works for the British health service as head of easy in mind at National Health Service Direct, a multi-channel service offering health information and advice in succession the Internet, digital television, and via the telephone

She is responsible for the progression in a continuously ascending gradation and maintenance of two of the Web site (www.nhs-direct.nhs.uk) and digital TV NH Direct Interactive.