People on the Move

Barbara Dance retired on June 30th after a 30+ year career as a business information specialist. After positions at the University of Toronto, Touche Ross (now Deloitte), the Royal Bank of Canada, and Imperial Oil, she returned to the Rotman School of Management's Business Information Centre where for 17 years she did research and information monitoring for a corporate client. Barbara was recently awarded the President's Award by the Toronto Chapter. She can be contacted at barbara.dance @ sympatico.ca

Gillian Horwood (MISt, 2009) is now the Research Librarian at Devon Group, a government relations, public relations and research firm. Her new email address is ghorwood @ devongroup.ca

Happily employed with the Knowledge Management Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada for over two years, Claire Lysnes (MISt, 2004) has recently earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and is working toward obtaining her Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) designation. At PwC, Claire is responsible for managing the PwC Canada B2B intranet, which services over 5,000 partners and staff, as well as overseeing several knowledge management related projects. In addition, in June 2009, she concluded a two year term as President of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information Alumni Association; however, her work with association executive boards is not over - currently serving as President-Elect of the Toronto Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), Claire will take over the role of President in January 2010. Claire can be reached at clysnes @ gmail.com

People on the Move will be a regular column highlighting the achievements of our members and help keep us all in touch. Please share your career changes, retirements, life changes, volunteer work.

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