A very special Rocky Mountain SLA webinar is planned for August 2, from 5:00-5:30 MDT. SLA’s two candidates for President-Elect will join us as RMSLA hosts a Meet the Candidates gathering.

Candidates Kate Arnold and Juanita Richardson will introduce themselves and share their SLA vision, then answer questions from the audience.

This will be a small-group, interactive session. Join us with your questions ready, and take this opportunity to get to know your candidates to better inform your voting this fall.

Register for this program at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/615159752
(Please give our volunteers 24 hours to approve your registration.)

About the Candidates

Kate Arnold’s over 20 years’ experience focuses on providing and managing the delivery of specialized information and research services. Her expertise includes both virtual and library environments, with service to a diverse community of users. Her career includes key positions in the media (BBC and a national newspaper), health care (National Health Service Direct, NHS), and non-profits (Cancer Research UK).

Until recently, Kate served as director of patient information at Cancer Research, UK, with responsibility for the charity’s information services to those with cancer.  Highlights of these services included a telephone helpline and award-winning Website  (www.cancerhelp.org.uk) , both staffed by professional cancer nurses, as well as an online forum, Cancer Chat (www.cancerchat.org.uk).   Prior to this position, Kate directed health information for NHS Direct, managing a variety of teams to provide information via telephone, websites and digital television. Her depth of experience also includes information management within the media industry. She held various information roles with the BBC from 1989-2003, leading development of a virtual research intranet site and providing research support to journalists and program makers.

Kate’s active involvement with the SLA includes serving on the Board of Directors as a director and secretary to the board; the Committee of Cataloging; chair of the PR Committee; and Chair of International Relations for News.  In 2011, Kate was conferred as a Fellow of SLA and was recipient of the Dialog Quantum2 InfoStar Award.   Also active with her SLA  Europe chapter, Kate served 2 terms as president.   Initially interested in the News Division, Kate is also a past member of the Advertising and Marketing, Leadership and Management, and Pharmaceutical and Health Technology divisions. Outside of SLA, Kate has extended her work with professional organizations with such organizations as the British Standards Institute (BSI) Knowledge Management Committee, chairing it from 2004-2006. Kate has been a speaker at both U.S. and European conferences.

Juanita Richardson founded information strategy company Richardson Jalakas & Associates in 1998 and is principal of the company. She is also a partner and associate consultant with Dysart Jones & Associates. Additionally, she teaches at Seneca College in the Library and Information Technician Program and at the University of Toronto’s iSchool Institute.

Juanita has experience “on both sides” of the information industry, having served for many years as a business consultant for Canada’s only bilingual and business information service, CEDROM-SNI.  Her career also includes serving as manager of licensing, product strategy and client services with InfomartDialog , manager of Deloite & Touche’s Business Information Centre in Toronto, and holding positions in the Research Departments of CIBC Wood Gundy and ScotiaMcLeod.  Juanita is fluent in both French and English.

An SLA Fellow, Juanita has served on the SLA Board of Directors, has been chair of the Leadership & Management Division, and has held office in the Competitive Intelligence Division. She also chaired the SLA Annual Conference in Toronto in 2005. She has a long-standing involvement with the SLA Toronto chapter, including a term as president.  Juanita has spoken at conferences and published articles in industry magazines.

Learn more about the candidates’ visions for SLA at:

• http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/12election/arnold.cfm and
• http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/12election/richardson.cfm

Lisa Wood
Library Director
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The RMSLA Board and the RMSLA Nominating Committee are pleased to announce
the 2010 election results for the newest Rocky Mountain Chapter 2011 officers:

President-Elect: Recca Larson
Director at Large: Manuel Santos
Treasurer: Stacy Naus

Recca Larson (President-Elect) has worked for the City of Littleton’s Business/Industry Affairs department since 2008. Her fascination with business research and research databases was awakened as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School of Library Science. Out in the real world she spent a satisfying decade setting up and running research services for several Fortune 500 companies. Recca also worked many years for Dialog, heading the team of business librarians advising Dialog customers on search strategies. She’s been an RMSLA member since 2008 and was previously a member of the San Andreas and San Francisco chapters of the SLA.

Manuel Frank Santos (Director at Large) received his MLS from Emporia State University in 2004. Since graduation, he has been employed as the Director of Learning Resources with Jones International University. Mr. Santos is currently the 2010 Past-President for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

Stacy Naus (Treasurer) received her MLIS degree in June 2009 from the University of Denver. She currently works as a solo librarian at Ecotech Institute, which focuses on preparing students for jobs in renewable energy, sustainable design, environmental technology, electrical engineering technology, and solar and wind energy technology. Stacy’s previous library experience was as the library clerk at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine (RVU). Prior to being hired as a library clerk at RVU, she completed her practicum there as well.

Your 2011 RMSLA Officers are: 

*     President, Julie Cavender
*    President-Elect, Recca Larson
*    Past-President, Shannon O’Grady
*    Secretary, Tina Jayroe
*    Treasurer, Stacy Naus
*    Director at Large, Connie Clem
*    Director at Large, Manuel Santos

Thanks for voting!
Julie Cavender

The University of Denver SLA Student Chapter has new officers!!  Please congratulate and welcome

Program Chair Kristin White:

 Kristin White is a second year student in the Master's of Library and Information Science Program at the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver. She is currently enrolled in classes full-time and is hoping to graduate in June of 2011. Kristin has an interest in research libraries as well as public libraries and hopes to get a job as an embedded librarian after graduation. Kristin is looking forward to the activities that the SLA Student Group at DU is planning for the year and is excited to help the students expand their knowledge of everything that special libraries have to offer.

Secretary/Treasurer Chrissy Klenke and Deirdre Adams-Buckley:

Chrissy says, "my name is Chrissy Klenke and I am a second year student in the Master of Library Science and Information Studies Program at the University of Denver.  I am the new Treasurer of the Special Libraries Association, DU Student Chapter.  Post graduation I am interested in working in a Special or Academic library.  My interests and concentration in the library field are all across the board from library & web technology, reference, and even cataloging.  I look forward to my position as the new treasurer and getting to know the professionals in the field and my own professional career and involvement in future."

Deirdre is in her second year at DU with a concentration is archives and special libraries.  She would like to work in a university library or archive in the future."

We are looking forward to a great year with our great new officers!

-Sheena Barbour, Student Chapter President