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DC/SLA Candidates Election 2010 |
2010 Board Members
President Elect | Second Vice President | Communications Secretary | Director
First Vice President/President-Elect
Three-year commitment, chair of program committee, works with hospitality committee, becomes President in following year.
Mary Talley
Mary Talley has followed her passion for librarianship and relish for creative problem solving to blaze her own career path. In 1983, she turned an innovative idea into a successful library and information management business in Los Angeles that focused on developing and managing new, special libraries; designing complex automation projects; and providing staffing for private and public libraries. After moving to Washington, D.C. and selling her company in 1999, she joined forces with Axelroth & Associates to assist special libraries and information centers with strategic planning initiatives, rethinking services and products, and revitalizing processes to meet user needs and align with management expectations. Mary still teams with Axelroth & Associates while pursuing her path as independent information professional. Currently, she is collaborating with a non-profit, membership library in New York to develop and implement a strategic plan to transform a 20th century library into a competitive, 21st century information center.
Mary has been a long-time champion of embedded library service programs. In 2008, she and colleague David Shumaker received an SLA Research Grant to study embedded programs in SLA organizations. In June, they completed their year and half research project, submitted a research report and presented their findings at SLA’s 2009 conference. With Dave Shumaker, Mary is also co-author of the Embedded Librarian blog.
Both SLA and DC/SLA help keep Mary connected and moving forward in her profession. She listened when her friend Doris Helfer urged her to become more involved in the early 1990’s and hasn’t stopped raising her hand since. Her leadership activities in the Association and Chapter include: SLA, Chair, LMD Consultant’s Section, 1996-7; DC/SLA, Chapter Notes Business Manager, 1998-2001; DC/SLA, Chair, Continuing Education, 1998-99; DC/SLA, Chair, Employment Committee and Co-Chair Professional Enhancement Day, 2006-2009. In April, 2009, she was a program coordinator for the DC/SLA Professional Enhancement Day, held at Catholic University and planned and moderated the Speed Mentoring program.
Mary received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside and her MLS from the University of Michigan. She volunteers with the Lubuto Library Project and helped write a manual for the deployment of the One Laptop per Child. She travels far and wide with her husband Terry. When at home, she participates in two book groups (one of which she founded) and tills her garden with her most prized Mother’s Day gift – a rototiller.
Second Vice President
One year commitment works with President-elect and maintains Chapter Manual.Lorraine Bell
Lorraine Bell is the Marketing Operations Manager for Learning & Information Professional Programs at Dow Jones & Company. In this capacity, she assists with the strategic planning, marketing and professional development activities targeted specifically to the information professional audience. She is also responsible for conducting introductory and advanced Dow Jones Factiva product training. Additional responsibilities include managing the Dow Jones LIS Program to introduce Dow Jones products & solutions to students in information science programs. She is also the Dow Jones liaison for the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP).
Lorraine is currently a member of the DC/SLA Chapter’s Strategic Alignment Committee. In 2008, she served on the DC SLA Chapter Board as the Communications Secretary. During that year she was also a member of the nominating committee for the 2009 SLA Annual Conference Stipend Award. She has served two years on the SLA Exhibitors Council Advisory Board and was also a member of the 2008 SLA Annual Conference Planning Committee. Lorraine became active in the DC/SLA Chapter by volunteering as the Chapter’s Hospitality Chair and remained in this position for two years.
Lorraine attended the University of Maryland, College Park, MD and received a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1977. She is a member of both the DC and Maryland Chapters of SLA and the Business and Finance Division. In her spare time, she volunteers as a research consultant for a firm that provides development services to nonprofit organizations.
Communications Secretary
One year commitment. Promotes chapter events and arranges for coverage of events/photos. Copyedits Chapter Notes and monthly chapter calendar.
Alison Labonte
Currently, Alison Raab Labonte is a research librarian at the RAND Corporation's Washington Office, where she has worked for two years. Prior to RAND, she was a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) at the Congressional Research Service, working as a librarian the Government and Finance Division. She has her MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill, from which she graduated in December 2005. Alison has been active in SLA and DC/SLA for the past couple of years. With DC/SLA, she is on the Centennial Committee planning programs throughout 2009 to celebrate SLA's first 100 years; programs include Beyond Google; Swing Dance; and upcoming talks by a Peter Drucker scholar and a NASA spokesperson. As a member of SLA's Government Information Division, Alison is a member of its Web 2.0 committee, and created and maintains the group's Twitter feed.
Director
Two-year term. Special projects and assignments, including membership.
David Hemingway
Dave Hemingway is currently with InfoCurrent as an Account Executive in Washington, DC. He received his Masters of Library Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his undergraduate degree in Art History is from the College of Charleston, South Carolina. Dave has held positions in nonprofit, academic, corporate and government settings, giving him diverse experience in library and information management. He has held numerous offices on the SLA chapter level of Upstate New York, including being a past president, list owner and web master, and has participated in a number of leadership summits. Dave has participated in successful volunteer fundraising for many organizations such as the American Red Cross, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Museum of Science, and the Olmsted Parks Conservancy.Lois Ireland
Lois has a BA in history from Washington College in Chestertown, MD, and an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For the past 11 years, she has been the manager of corporate information resources at Freddie Mac in McLean, VA. Originally hired to manage the corporate library, her duties have expanded over the years to include a disparate group of services, including website development and communications for the business units in her department, the corporate switchboard, and the videography/media streaming unit. For several years, she organized the Dine-Arounds in the Tysons Corner area, and she enjoyed her stint assisting at the local arrangements booth at the SLA conference in June. Other community volunteer work includes 4 years as a pavilion manager at the National Book Festival and 2 years as secretary of her homeowner’s association board of directors. Lois is also an active volunteer at a local food pantry, providing groceries to the working poor in Fairfax County.