The SLA-NY Nominating Committee presented the 2009 slate of candidates via e-mail on August 18th . Now, we provide you with additional information on each nominee.
Members of the New York Chapter of SLA will have the opportunity to vote on this slate of candidates during the Chapter's Annual Business Meeting on Thursday, October 16th, 2008.
President-Elect
Leigh Hallingby, Head Librarian at Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute
Director of Finance & Fund Raising
Carol L. Ginsburg, Senior Consultant with BST America
Director of Professional Development
Janet Peros, Reference Librarian at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Secretary
Heidi Weinkam, U.S. Director of Research with the Brunswick Group
President-Elect
Leigh Hallingby
Leigh Hallingby is Head Librarian at Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute (SF/OSI), where she has been employed since 1995. She has been working as a special librarian since 1979, setting up and managing new libraries for the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS); National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University's School of Public Health; National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA); Drug Policy Alliance; and SF/OSI. She also served as the Psychology Librarian at Columbia for two years. Leigh holds a B.A. in political science from Wellesley College, a Master's in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in Library Service from Columbia.
Leigh has been active in the past in APLIC-International (Association of Family Planning Librarians and Information Centers) and SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists). More recently, she has served on the Board of SLA-NY in the position of Secretary. Leigh was also SLA-NY's Chair of Arrangements for two years. She served as Awards Chair for three years, during which she worked with the Board to increase the number of SLA-NY awards from one to three and to create an awards page on the chapter website. Currently Leigh is Membership Chair of the NY Chapter.
Leigh grew up in Westchester County, in Rye, NY. She has been living since 1979 in Teaneck in Bergen County, NJ. Leigh enjoys attending cultural activities in NYC, collecting porcelain, antiquing, traveling and (of course) reading.
Director of Finance & Fund Raising
Carol L. Ginsburg
Carol L. Ginsburg is a senior consultant with BST America, a global Market Data and Information Consulting and Outsourcing firm. She spent most of her career with Bankers Trust Company and its successor Deutsche Bank, located in New York, where she was a Managing Director responsible for the global strategy, management and operations of Business Information Services. During her tenure, Carol forged the bank's 40 disparate information professionals into a global network which allowed the organization to utilize information services 24 by 7 and maximized the bank's investment in data and information tools and resources.
Carol is a past president of the New York Chapter, past Chair of the Business and Finance Division and is currently Awards Chair of the New York Chapter and CoChair of the Content Buying section of LMD. She has chaired the Professional Development Committee of SLA, the Branding Task Force, the Public Relations Committee, the Nominating Committee and has served as a member of other SLA committees.
She is the recipient of many industry awards. She is a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and a recipient of the SLA Hall of Fame Award and President's Award and the Factiva Leadership award bestowed upon an individual who has shown competencies in all facets of information provision and leadership in the industry. She has written numerous articles and has lectured widely on topics such as, product usage, marketing, technology and the future of the information professional.
Director of Professional Development
Janet Peros
Janet Peros is currently Reference Librarian at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She was previously Special Projects Librarian at Bryan Cave LLP. She received her MLS and her BA from Queens College, The City University of New York.
Janet has been a member of SLA since 2001. She currently serves as a Director for the Legal Division. She is also a member of the Business & Finance Division and the New York chapter as well as a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and Beta Phi Mu.
Janet served as Co-chair of the Education Committee for the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) for the past two years. She is also a member of LLAGNY's Technology Committee. Previously, she served as co-chair of the Newsletter Committee (2005-2006) and Board Member (2004-2005) for LLAGNY.
Janet's selected publications include: “The Blog-Another Tool in Your Arsenal”, (PM Forum, Winter 2006) & (LLRX, January 15, 2007), “Blurring the Lines: Law Firm Libraries and Business Development Departments Share More Duties, Sometimes Share Credit”, (AALL Spectrum, April 2006) and “Face Time: The Power of Person-to-Person Marketing”, (Information Outlook, December 2005).
Heidi Weinkam is currently U.S. Director of Research at Brunswick Group, LLC, one of the world's leading strategic communications firms, where she manages the research team, internship program and vendor relationships for the three U.S. offices. Upon receiving her master's degree in information and library science, Heidi accepted a position as associate librarian at Entertainment Weekly magazine and later became an Information Professional Consultant with Lexis Nexis, focusing on media accounts in New York and Los Angeles.
A children's literature-loving New Jersey native living in Manhattan, Heidi was the president of the student chapter of the ALA (SILSSA) for Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science, where she planned and executed several library tours and programs. Heidi attended Loyola College in Maryland where she received her bachelor's degree in Political Science.
Being a librarian has opened many doors for Heidi, both professionally and personally. She has been looking for a way to be officially involved with SLA-NY and believes that the secretary position would be the perfect natural continuation of her skills and experiences--a position she would take on with great enthusiasm and enjoyment.
Gwen Loeffler, Chair
gwenloeffler@hotmail.com
Andrew Berner
aberner@universityclubny.org
Rick Mattis
ramattis@comcast.net
Tesse Santoro
tesse.santoro@infocurrent.com
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