Cindy Alfieri is Global Manager of Library@Agilent, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Until recently, the libraries had been decentralized, but in response to changing business needs and the cost efficiencies achievable by eliminating redundancies, they centralized under Cindy's leadership.

She received her MLIS from UC, Berkeley and her JD from UC, Hastings College of Law. She has been a member of SLA since 1993.

Outside of work Cindy is a ballroom dancer and works in sales for her family's almond business. "A 'from-farmer-direct-to-the-consumer' approach is a wonderful forum for seeing first-hand the impact that strong customer service and product excellence have on your business."

Melanie Barajas is a Resource Librarian for The Richards Group in Dallas, Texas. She was a library intern at The Richards Group prior to accepting a full-time position with the agency in 2005. Melanie graduated in 2005 from The University of North Texas with a Master of Science in Library Science.

She also has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Baylor University. Melanie has been a member of SLA since 2004. Outside of work, Melanie likes to read, dance, and travel.

Patty Barnard (formerly Patty Livingston -- she was just married this past June) works in the Market InfoCenter at Apple Computer. In this capacity, she supports Worldwide Product Marketing and Developer Relations by conducting market research, managing market research vendor renewals and relations, and evaluating new potential research sources. She also conducts urgent research requests for the Executive Team. Previously, she was a Search Product Manager and Directory Manager for Infoseek Corp. (GO.com) and has Web site, interface and taxonomy design experience.

Patty received her MLS from San Jose State University and her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington; she has been an SLA member since 1997.

In her free time, she mountain bikes, reads fiction and makes mosaic creations. She's also learning to play her new bass guitar. Patty is excited to be moving to Vancouver, WA in November 2002.

Renee Brumett

Renee Brumett received her master's in Information Science & Learning Technology officially on Dec. 17, 2004, from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She is a new member of SLA. Renee has a BA in Church Music (Piano & Organ) from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. While in school there and after graduation she worked at the BBC library, working in Reference, Cataloging, and Archives, and eventually decided to pursue her library science degree. The latest position she held there was Technical Services Supervisor.

In September of 2004 she began a new job as the Knowledge Resources Manager at Noble World Communications in Springfield. She manages the library resources as well as researches and provides information to the Noble associates and clients.

Renee and her husband just bought their first home, so in her free time, she works on organizing and decorating it as well as playing with her new puppies, Catfish and Cricket. She and her husband stay very involved in their church. She also loves to read, play the piano, and watch movies.

Toni Burton is the Information Coordinator at the Institute of Communications and Advertising in Toronto, Ontario; ICA is a non-profit association of Canadian advertising agencies. She holds a Library & Information Technician Diploma from Seneca College. 

Toni began working at the ICA as part of a work placement in 2001 while attending Seneca College, and then just wouldn't go away until they hired her. She joined the ICA full time in 2002 to assist in the operation of the Library and Information Services.  She has also held positions in libraries at Seneca College, the University of Toronto Schools and in the Canadian Broadcast Corporation archives.  Toni also holds a B.A in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo; she has been a member of SLA since 2002. 

When she isn't at work Toni likes to read (shocking), play with her cat Dudley and listen to any kind of music but mostly folk and heavy metal while vacuuming up a storm.

Sarah Cisse is currently pursuing her MLS at Pratt Institute. She also works as an Information Assistant in the Textile Collection of the Museum at Fashion Institute of America (FIT); her job responsibilities involve museum membership. She is new to SLA and the A&M division, having joined both for the first time in September.

In her spare time, Sarah likes to read, go to the movies, make jewelry, and has recently started designing furniture. Sarah has a B.A. in English Literature and a AAS in Marketing Communications.

Ron Clowney is the Director of Corporate and Government Sales at ProQuest.  He has been a member of SLA since 1996 and has a master’s in political science from the University of Michigan. 

Ron has worked at ProQuest since 1983 and has appreciated the company’s commitment to the information industry. They fully support SLA activities, from event sponsorships to scholarships to individual memberships.

Ron wants to use his membership in the A&M division as a way to support its efforts – don’t worry about him using that privilege to market ProQuest resources.  But, with the full backing of ProQuest he will be able to provide proactive support to the division where needed.

Marianne Coalson

Marianne Coalson is currently in her first year of Emporia State University's distance MLS program in Portland, Oregon. She is a new member of SLA and the A&M division, having joined in February 2005.

Prior to starting her MLS program, Marianne spent the last 14 years working in advertising media planning. Eight of those years were spent working at advertising agencies such as Wieden & Kennedy and Borders Perrin & Norrander, with the last 6 years at Outdoor Services and Outdoor Media Group, two outdoor media management companies. Marianne currently freelances part-time in advertising and volunteers at the Beaverton City Library in the Reference Division. Marianne has B.S. degrees in Telecommunications & Film, Marketing and Management from the University of Oregon.

She lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and three year old son and is expecting a baby girl this August.

Denise Corey

Denise Corey is currently in the middle of her first year of the MLIS programme at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has also completed the Library and Information Technology diploma and a Certificate of Marketing. Most of her work experience has been in academic libraries, but she's looking forward to trying new things after library school. When she's not working she enjoys reading, watching films, and traveling to tropical locations.

M.J. D'Elia received his MLIS in 2004 from Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS). He also has a BA in English and Visual Arts from the University of Western Ontario.  M.J. is a fairly new member of SLA and in addition to the A&M division is also part of the Toronto Chapter, the Business & Finance Group and the College & Univ Business Librarians Group.

Right now he is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Guelph, serving the Economics and the Marketing Science departments, with responsibilities including collecting resources, delivering instructional sessions, and providing research help at the reference desk.  He also sits on the library's Emerging Services Steering Team, which is tasked with identifying and implementing new technologies to improve library services. Before his position at Guelph,

M.J. worked as a library intern at the Sexton Design & Technology Library at Dalhousie University. His professional interests include using multimedia in education, technology trends (e.g. RSS, news aggregators, blogs), information policy and ethics (copyright, file sharing, etc.), and innovating teaching methods.

When not being an "information professional" M.J. runs a fun e-commerce t-shirt business (http://www.librariangear.com). He also love sports, so if he's not watching the Raptors or Blue Jays you can probably find him playing volleyball or ultimate frisbee.

Michelle Dollinger

Michelle Dollinger is a Research Analyst in the New York city-based FIND/SVP Business Information Center where she researches questions and projects for clients including many advertising agencies and marketers.

Prior to joining FIND/SVP, she was the Director of Information Technology for a B2B newsletter publisher that focused on consumer marketing. At that publisher, she previously served in editorial functions that built on her journalism background, but the move to IT brought opportunities to manage and learn new skills.

Michelle earned her B.A. in Journalism from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State College and currently is working on her MLS at Pratt Institute. At Pratt she serves as the Treasurer and Webmaster of their very active student association (http://rand.pratt.edu/~sils_sa/).

Michelle and her husband, a professional stand-up comedian, live in Brooklyn's Windsor Terrace neighborhood.

Carol Doms is corporate librarian at Nicholson Kovac Inc. in Kansas City, MO.  She organized the agency first library back in 1994.  Prior to that Carol started her library career at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) as assistant dental librarian at the dental school and then as science reference librarian at the main library. 

Her first venture into the world of "special libraries" was in 1994 as reference librarian for the American Public Works Association and then as medical librarian at Bethany Medical Center. 

Carol received her MLS at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984.  She joined SLA in 1992 and has served on several positions/committees on both the chapter and division level.

Kathrin Dodds currently serves as an Architecture Librarian for Mississippi State University. The position is unique in that it is a solo library position, located in a different city than the MSU campus. The library not only serves the students and faculty of the College of Architecture, but also the practicing architects throughout the state. This combination academic/special library is the only one of its kind.

Prior to working with architects, Kathrin spent her time working in Competitive Intelligence for The Focus Agency (an Omnicom Agency) in Dallas, and then for a community college in northwest Minnesota. She has rejoined SLA after several years of absence and armed with an MLS from Texas Woman's University and a BA in Advertising, Kathrin hopes to get back into special libraries with a design/advertising focus.

In her spare time she enjoys reading, camping, travel, TV, painting and pop culture.

Lynn Donches is Chief Librarian at Rodale in Emmaus, Pa. In this capacity, she supports the advertising, marketing, and editorial divisions for all magazine brands and the book division. She conducts research requests and evaluates new research products. She also manages the technical services division of the library.

Previously, she worked in technical services at Air Products. Lynn received her AA. from Penn Technical College (Williamsport, PA) and attended Villanova University. She has been a member of SLA since 1998.

In her free time, Lynn rides bike, scuba dives, runs, backpacks, and plays piano.

Sue Eipert owns Eipert Information Services, which has been providing engineering, e-commerce, manufacturing, and other types of companies with business and scientific research, intranet development, information needs assessments, database design and library management services since 1998.

Prior to that, Sue served for 15 years as corporate librarian for an international geotechnical engineering and environmental sciences firm. There, as national Director of Library and Information Services, she managed library and research services for offices worldwide and supervised a staff of four. In addition she developed the company intranet and project web sites.

She has been involved with web development and use since the advent of the World Wide Web. Before obtaining a Masters of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Washington, Sue Eipert earned a Ph.D. in microbiology and spent two years doing postdoctoral laboratory research.

Anna Fleming is new to the division & is returning to SLA. She is the Director of Library Services at the Art Institute of California's Orange County campus. Her library is special, academic & untraditional all at once: its main holdings are in the Design fields, but the curriculum includes Culinary Arts as well. Her favorite responsibility is Collection Development.

Other professional experiences include stints as the Collection Development Librarian at USC's undergraduate library & as a Project Coordinator for Starbucks Marketing Department. Anna's MLIS is from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she also acquired an MA in English & met her husband.

Anna & her husband bought their first home last year, which has turned her into a gardener. Her spare time always involves reading & cooking.

Krista Garcia

Krista Garcia currently works at Hill & Knowlton.  Prior to that she worked with Young & Rubicam's Global Intelligence Group as a Research Specialist.  She has been a member of SLA since January 2003.  In August of 2004 she received her MLIS from Pratt Institute.  She also holds a BFA in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Previous positions include work in public and academic libraries, as well as a few editorial stints at websites long forgotten. 

On the side, Krista also writes about food for NYC publications, and enjoys fine dining as much as junk food.  She actually enjoys reading trade magazines like "Nation's Restaurant News" and "Pizza Today."

Hinda Feige Greenberg

Hinda Feige Greenberg has over twenty years' experience in information science, information technology, and scholarly communication. Before being appointed Director of the Information Center at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Greenberg was the Director of the Information Center for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and was

Associate Librarian for Educational Testing Service. Her current work focuses on problems associated with knowledge management, interdisciplinary, taxonomy, and marketing of information services. She serves on numerous professional societies, and is currently President of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries, a Council on Foundations Affinity Group.

Dr. Greenberg earned a Bachelor's degree in English and American Literature from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Georgeann M. Higgins is the Research, Marketing, and Educational Services Librarian for the National Academies. Her job includes major research requests, library outreach and executive briefings, and promotion of new products and trials. She also designs classes for the research staff on such issues as the verity of information on the Internet. Before entering the library world, she worked as a market analyst and worldwide strategist in corporate America.

Georgeann received her MSLS from the University of Kentucky in 1998 and joined SLA in the same year. In her spare time, she rock climbs, rows on the Potomac, and does home improvement projects on her new condo. She is also currently working towards an MBA (most likely in finance) at Johns Hopkins University. Her first love, however, is philosophy, and she sees herself pursing a Ph.D. somewhere down the line.

Joan Jackson is the Owner and Principal of JMJ Information Services, in San Jose, California.  She is a returning member to SLA, and a new member of the Advertising and Marketing Division.  JMJ Information Services specializes in value-added, online business research, which targets our "Emerging Majority", i.e. African, Asian and Hispanic Americans,  She strives to provide insightful information for advertising, public relations, and management consulting firms.  Joan feels that the information gathered helps in guiding a client's marketing programs, and therefore generates more business with this fastest growing sector of our society.  Her company's business goals and values promote a people-centered, ethical, and quality-driven service for her clients, in order for them to achieve their goals. 

While starting her business, she is currently working as an Adult Services/Business Librarian for a Silicon valley-based public library. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Marquette University, and her M.L.I.S. from Simmons College. Previously, she had been a librarian in several public libraries, and a law library in the New England area. She has also worked in information-related positions for an IT-peripherals corporation, and a Fortune 500 corporation in the Silicon Valley area. 

Joan and her husband love to hike, spend time together and with family and friends.

Dell Johnson works at the Technical Library of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM.  Previously she worked in Market Intelligence and Analysis for IBM Software Group, Tivoli software, in Austin, Texas. Prior to that she did industry and technical research and analysis for ten years in the semiconductor industry at SEMATECH and MCC consortia, both in Austin. Dell received her MSLIS from the University of Texas, Austin in 1991.

In her spare time she likes to paint in watercolor and is the webspinner for her local watercolor group. She also enjoys hiking, photography and reading.

Lizbeth Kinney is new to SLA, having been a member of the Texas Library Association for the past four years. She now serves as the Outreach Librarian at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) Health Sciences Library in North Carolina. Her job involves helping doctors and nurses in the region's hospitals gain access to medical information through the AHEC Digital Library. She also provides training to public libraries, hospitals, and colleges all over the Western North Carolina region on databases such as MedlinePlus, PubMed and NC Live. Other duties include reference and collection development.

Lizbeth previously worked as both a university librarian and a public school librarian in Texas. She received her MLIS from the University of North Texas - Denton. Beyond the library, Lizbeth enjoys hiking, calligraphy, landscaping, dart throwing, and interior decorating.

Steven is Manager, Global Web Resources for Young & Rubicam Brands.  Prior to joining Young & Rubicam Brands he was interim Knowledge Center Manager for Turner Broadcasting Sales and Communications Manager for International Business Network a Zurich-based company that hosts executive networking and venture capitol forums. 

Steven developed his love of advertising research during his ten years at Young & Rubicam Advertising working in various information centers, most recently in their Corporate Library. 

He received his MLS from Pratt Institute in 1996 and became a member of SLA that same year.

Susan Krauss is an Information Specialist at Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco. Her previous work experience includes positions at Dillon Read, Grey Advertising, J Walter Thompson and Krauss Research. While no longer working at an ad agency, her work at Deloitte includes branding and marketing questions for a variety of industries.

Susan received her MLS from Pratt Institute and has been a member of SLA since 1986. When she first moved from NYC to the Bay Area in 1994, Susan was an independent.  Her favorite research question from that time was about “beauty queens gone bad.” Outside of work Susan enjoys listening to folk music, completing crossword puzzles and reading mysteries.

Cynthia is a part-time librarian in the largest advertising library in the Midwest, the Reference Center at Campbell-Ewald in Warren, Michigan. Cindy has worked in corporate, academic, and public libraries, including General Motors and Wayne State University. She has also worked as an editor and proofreader, and as a freelance writer.

Cindy received her MLIS from Wayne State University in Detroit, and her BA in American Studies and Journalism from Michigan State University. She lives in Warren, Michigan, with her husband, their son, and two crazy beagles.

Eve Lagacé

Eve Lagacé is currently doing an internship at Info enterprises, a documentation centre for people who want to start their own business. She answers reference questions and works on research reports. She received her degree from École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec) Canada. Eve is a new member of SLA and to the profession. She has joined the A&M Division because of her interest, education and work experience in the field of Communications.

Janice Lester works at Lowe Healthcare, a pharmaceutical advertising agency, where she manages one main library at Integrated Communications and three other smaller agency libraries in other locations. Her functions include literature searches, providing daily and weekly updates on a variety of topics (e.g. Newsedge), searching for statistics and other marketing topics, operating the budget, and maintaining the library's collection.

She has worked in hospital libraries in two different positions for approximately 11 years in total, and at a Genomics Institute for two years. Janice also worked at Harvard Medical School and while living in Israel worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science for five years. She received her degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

While not working Janice enjoys hiking, gardening, traveling and biking.

Rosie Levy is pursuing her MLIS degree at San Jose State University, and will be graduating in Spring 2005. She has been a member of SLA for 6 months, and is currently interning in the Knowledge Sharing department at Landor Associates in San Francisco, working primarily with visual assets.

Prior to entering library school, Rosie worked in publicity and marketing at several Bay Area book publishers. She also serves on the executive committee of Litquake, a San Francisco literary festival, and spends a good amount of time treasure-hunting at garage sales and thrift stores.

Gwen Loeffler

Gwen Loeffler is Business Analyst for Knowledge Management & Collaborative Systems within Global Information Services at Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). Gwen works closely with end users to understand the current state of information availability throughout the enterprise. She identifies future needs based on her analysis of business requirements and acts as the liaison &advocate for users of the products developed & purchased for implementation. Gwen is involved throughout the software development life cycle and ensures that product implementations meet user expectations.

Prior to joining IPG, Gwen was Senior Research Specialist at the global advertising and marketing network Young & Rubicam Brands, for nine years. Gwen started work as Educational Program Coordinator at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution in New York, in 1989. Later, she served as the museum's Public Affairs Officer.

Gwen received a BA in History with a minor in Museum Studies from Adelphi University, and was awarded both an MLS and a Certificate in Archival Studies from the Palmer School of Library & Information Science at Long Island University's C.W. Post.

Gwen has been a member of SLA since 1997. She served as Co-Chair of the Advertising & Marketing Division, 2002-2003, and is currently Past President of the New York Chapter,

Amy (Haberman) Mahoney

Amy Mahoney is a research consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm in McLean, Virginia.  Amy is pursuing her MLIS at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and she expects to graduate in December, 2004. 

Prior to joining Booz Allen Hamilton in September of 2003, Amy was a research analyst with The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington, DC.  Amy holds a BA in History and a minor in Russian Area Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

Jeffrey Mallon is making an ardent and challenging career change after many years in the hi-tech/software industry where he held positions in marketing, product/management, and business development/sales. He recently completed a temporary position researching and cataloguing patron slides with the Art & Architecture/Film Library of UCSD. He has an interest in corporate marketing, on-line research and helping people, which makes him a good candidate for SLA membership as well as for a master’s degree in library science.

Jeffrey’s goal is to obtain an entry-level information specialist position while he works toward his degree. He has a BS Business/Marketing degree from the University of Southern California and enjoys cooking, yoga, beach volleyball and the visual arts.

Jessica McBride

Jessica McBride is a Senior Intelligence Researcher at osetti where she has responsibility for the research and analysis of Business Intelligence and due diligence matters.

Jessica started her career as a Library Assistant at Arthur Young & Co. (now known as Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) in the Information Technology Group. She then worked at Kidder Peabody where she provided research support services to the Investment Banking Department. While there, she earned her Master’s Degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute.

Prior to joining SafirRosetti, Ms. McBride spent 11 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) first as a Senior Information Specialist and then as a Consultant in the Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management Group.

As well as being a member of SLA, she belongs to the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and in addition to research, Jessica has also created and conducted workshops on knowledge management and conducting value-added research for 10,000+ global financial services partners and staff.

Lisa McIntyre graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 with her MLIS. As her career has taken different paths, her membership has been rather random, but in total, Lisa has been an SLA member for about three years.

Lisa is currently the Digital Asset Management (DAM) Librarian at GSD&M Adverting in Austin, TX. This is a new position and a new need for the agency. She is working with a core team to analyze their digital asset needs, create an RFP, and select a vendor to supply them with the basis for a digital asset management system. DAM is relatively new to the ad world and it is focused around being able to archive and repurpose work. DAM systems allow for metadata to be attached to the files, similar to traditional cataloging. Lisa has also held positions as an information specialist, a reference librarian and as an account manager (all within the agency).

When she is not being an information professional, Lisa tries to keep up with her two young children (3 and 6). Austin is a great place to do things and she’s usually busy. Lisa thinks it is great that we have opportunities to help other people through great organizations like SLA and the DAM division. The discussion lists are a great tool for finding more; more about other people, more about doing our jobs better, more about information.

Vijaya C. Menon

Vijaya C. Menon is the Knowledge Management Head - Grey South Asia at Grey Global Group, Mumbai, India.  An experience spanning 15 years, Vijaya started her career with University & College libraries and changed streams to manage corporate libraries.  Her previous work experience includes positions at J. Walter Thompson, & Arthur Andersen (now Ernst & Young) where she worked as a solo librarian.

Vijaya holds a B.A. in Economics, Bachelor in Library Science and a Diploma in Marketing & Advertising Communications from the University of Mumbai.  She is currently pursuing her MLIS degree from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales via Distance Learning. Vijaya has been a member of SLA for the last 6 months.

Leading a team of two, her work at Grey includes overseeing collection development at all branches in South Asia, handling industry information queries & disseminating advertising & marketing data.  Currently she is involved in setting up the library intranet at Grey. 

Outside of work Vijaya enjoys gardening, exercising, traveling and watching movies.

Jo-Ann McQuillan

Jo-Ann McQuillan works at the Institute of Communications and Advertising (ICA), Canada’s professional association for advertising agencies. As Director of Information and Communications, Jo-Ann maintains a large print collection, manages a family of websites and provides specialized information services to ICA member agencies. She also acts as ICA’s Privacy Officer.

Jo-Ann received a Master of Information Studies from the University of Toronto and is a Certified People Manager (CPM). She represents the ICA on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Advertising Research Foundation (CARF).

In her spare time, Jo-Ann obsessively collects books, unusual art and enjoys urban exploration.

Maureen Pine

Maureen is Director of Library Services for Young & Rubicam Brands, a member of WPP.  Over the past 25 years, she has held various positions within the Y&R Library.  Since becoming Director, Maureen has developed the Y&R Library into a first-class 21^st Century operation.  Maintaining a top-rate traditional function plus rolling out a state-of-the-art virtual library for the Y&R network.  

Maureen has held positions within the Advertising & Marketing New York Chapter.  She received her MLIS from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science/Long Island University and holds a BS in Accounting and Finance from Mercy College.

Lisa Olsen is a Solo Corporate Librarian at International Truck and Engine Corporation, Fort Wayne, IN. She began work at International in February of 2004 and launched the Information Center just a month later on March 22nd.

She received her Masters in Library Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in December of 2003. Lisa has been a member of SLA since July of 2004. Previous library experiences have included several different academic environments with positions stretching from technical services to graduate assistant.

In addition to her love for information and libraries, Lisa enjoys music, reading, the outdoors, exercise and movies. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Religion.

Jen Olson Thompson is currently working on her MLIS from the College of St. Catherine and has been a member of SLA since 2004. In the 2004-2005 school year, she served as co-president to the CSC SLA Student Group.

Jen works in the Property Development Library of Target as a Library Assistant, providing support to Architecture, Store Planning and Design, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Building Services. Before Target, Jen worked at the College of St. Catherine Minneapolis Campus Library, assisting with circulation, interlibrary loans, and ready reference.

When not at work or in class, Jen likes to paint, write, daydream, and catch up on sleep!

Vandana Ranjan is Knowledge Management Specialist at Bates WorldWide. Prior to that she worked at the Brooklyn Public Library's fast paced Telephone Reference Center.

Vandy has several years of experience in reference and library management. She worked as a solo librarian in India and built, from the ground, up, two successful libraries -- one academic library and one special library.

She came to the United States in pursuit of online information retrieval skills and received her second Master's in Library Science from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

In her spare time she enjoys nature-gazing, biking, photography and classical music.

Andrea RePass

Andrea RePass currently works at davidandgoliath (dng), an independent ad agency in Los Angeles. She is a Senior Account Planner, but has also taken on the role of "Knowledge Manager" for the agency.  She is just beginning the process of organizing an intranet library of research, case studies, creative materials and online resources.  She has become a member of SLA in the hopes that some of our collective expertise will rub off!

Andrea has an MBA in Marketing from Pepperdine University.  Before dng, she worked at Y&R and Bates USA, both in Irvine.

A professed "workaholic," in her spare time, Andrea works on remodeling/restoring her mid-century modern ranch house in Long Beach. She and her husband have three cats that they rescued and they volunteer together at a local animal shelter. She also enjoys reading and watching independent films.

Brenda Robertson is a Resource Consultant in the Information Resource Center at TXU Electric & Gas. She is also a graduate student at Texas Woman's University has almost completed her MLS and is enjoying the strength of the online research curriculum. Brenda has been at TXU for 28 years and before joining the Information Resource Center two years ago, she was an Accounting Associate in the Payroll, Accounts Payable, Fuel & Revenue and Budgets departments.

In her current position, Brenda conducts research for company employees on a variety of issues including energy, marketing, demographics, and more. A member of SLA since the spring of 2000, she thought both the conferences in San Antonio and Los Angeles were great!

She focuses most of her time while not at work on both her 11 year old daughter and studying. Brenda also has a 31 year old son in the U.S. Marine Corps and a 22 year old daughter who attends the University of Houston.

Ann Romeo is a Senior Consultant at FIND/SVP, with expertise in industrial marketing, energy, utilities, HVAC, security, packaging, printing, and all things mechanical. She has presently been learning basic medical marketing sources and is working with the healthcare unit to answer clients' inquiries. FIND/SVP proves both primary and secondary research to a wide range of business clients on just about any topic. At times it is like playing Trivia Pursuit for a living (much fun), and Ann feels lucky to have a job that teaches her something new every day.

She has been a member of SLA for almost 10 years. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington and has worked in the information industry for over 25 years, at the UW library, at Business International (now part of the Economist) and at FIND/SVP.

When not working, Ann is an avid (but not very good) player of contract bridge, and a collector/reader/reviewer of detective fiction. She has served on the UW Slavic Alumni Club, and is currently on the board of the Seattle unit of the American Contract Bridge League.

Linda Schneider

Linda Schneider is the Coordinator of the Graduate Resource Centre, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. The programs she serves are library and information science, journalism, and media studies. Besides administration of the library,  Linda's responsibilities include instructional training in electronic resources.  For the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, she teaches "Marketing and Public Relations for Information Professionals," an occasional elective.

Linda earned her MLIS in 1997 from the University of Western Ontario.  She has been a member of SLA for over 20 years through the Toronto Chapter.  Most of her career has been with corporate libraries.  She was also Corporate Communications Manager in a public company for five year, and has been a branch manager for a public library system.

Linda enjoys hot, dry weather - a rarity in Canada. Some of her interests include gardening and reading mystery books, as well as volunteering in non-profit organizations.

Danica Shelton

Danica Shelton is currently working on getting her Master's in Library Science from the University of North Texas. She is about half way through with the degree program. She previously worked in an academic library for several years in Circulation and Document Delivery. Danica just moved to Austin and would like to find a position in a Special Library, possibly a Law Library.  In her spare time she likes to travel as much as possible and watch movies.

Alexandra Simons

Alexandra Simons is currently enrolled in her first semester at the UNT Graduate SLIS program. She has just started in the field and has joined SLA as a student member. She is currently a full-time student, but also has a part-time job at the U of Houston MD Anderson Library as the receptionist in the research and instruction department.

Her husband, Spencer, is a law librarian, her mother is a retired reference librarian (and big fan and former member of SLA) and her sister has been a corporate, law and private school librarian, so Alex is surrounded by members of the profession. She is interested in the Advertising and Marketing Division due to her past work experience in printing and print-related fields, such as advertising and direct mail. Alex would like to put her knowledge to use in the library and information field.

Mara Slesers is employed as Media Research Supervisor at Starcom Worldwide, a media planning and buying company in Chicago, IL. 

"I currently work in the Media Research Department at Starcom, but started my career in the LeoBurnett Library in 1996. I started out as a Library Assistant and worked my way up to an Information Specialist. This is where I fell in love with corporate librarianship and decided to pursue a MLIS, which I received this past December from Dominican University. 

"I was recently married, in September 2000, to Andris, an hydrogeologist, from Boston, Massachusetts.  Besides work, I am actively involved in activities surrounding my heritage, which is Latvian. Both my husband and I are Latvian and speak the language fluently.  Last summer we vacationed in Riga, the capital of Latvia, while attending Riga's 800 Birthday celebration.  "Prieka" (this means "Cheers" in Latvian) to all!"

Alexander Smoljanski was born in 1957 in St Petersburg, Russia and graduated from the computer department of Leningrad Aircraft Institute and Leningrad School of Translators. In the beginning of the 1980s he worked as a computer engineer and starting from the mid 1980s worked as a freelance translator of British and American fiction. Among translations published in the USSR are short stories and novels by Isaak Bashevis Singer, Anthony Burgess, Woody Allen and Agatha Christie.

In the beginning of the 1990s Alexander worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Later he joined the Publishing company "World of Knowledge.” From 1998 on he has been with Integrum World Wide where major responsibilities are overseas activities and academic applications of Integrum service.

Alexander has delivered papers at various international conferences - MAPRIAL, World Russian Forum, ASN, COSEELIS, World Congress of Slavists,  LIBER etc. His current academic interests are sociolinguistics and the impact of Russian politics on Russian media.

When he’s not working Alexander works at raising his children, reading books and traveling the world.

Kristine Spanier

Kristine Spanier is the Knowledge Manager at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis. Kristine started her career in advertising with a copywriting internship at Carmichael Lynch in 1990 and worked as a copywriter in agencies and on a freelance basis until 1999.

She joined SLA in 1999 and received her MLIS from Dominican University/College of St. Catherine in 2000. She was the founding president of the College of St. Catherine SLA Student Group. She was chair of the A & M Division in 01 - 02 and served as Bulletin Editor from 01 - 04. She also served as Career Guidance Chair for the Minnesota Chapter in 2000 and helped to spearhead the chapter's first mentoring program for which she won the Quality in Action Award in 2001.

Kristine was featured in "Super Searchers on Madison Avenue" which was published by Information Today in 2003. This fall she'll be co-teaching Issues in Special Libraries at The College of St. Catherine.

Ethan Starr is the President and OEO (Only Executive Officer) of Bizmaven, LLC, a recently established business that will be publishing reference books. He is particularly interested in marketing to ethnic groups, business owners, and the affluent.

A political science major at Union College, Ethan earned his MS in LS degree from The Catholic University of America in 1997. Prior to starting Bizmaven, LLC, he spent three years doing prospect research in the development department of the National Wildlife Federation.

Outside of work, his avocations include researching his family tree, following the stock market, and the Boston Red Sox. Ethan maintains a website with links to local and regional business periodicals at http://www.bibliomaven.com/businessjournals.html.

Karen Stump

Karen Stump is the Global Knowledge Portal Manager for American Standard. She oversees the organization and use of the company's global knowledge portal, including product knowledge, intellectual capital, project management assets and employee information. She has recently rejoined SLA.

Karen earned her MIS from the University of Alabama and her previous experience includes work as the Information Center Manager and KM Leader for Computer Sciences Corp. and as the Document Management Manager for Sankyo Pharmaceuticals.

When she is not working with information, she enjoys photography, running and travel.

Vitalija Svencionyte

Vitalija Svencionyte is currently a SLIS student at Louisiana State University and she holds a GA position at LSU Middleton Library where she works in the Interlibrary Borrowing Department.  She hopes to graduate from the MLIS program in the summer of 2006 or 2007 because she is planning to go for a joint masters in Library and Information Science and Systems Science.

Vitalija graduated in June 2003 from Vilnius University, Lithuania with a BA in Library and Information Science after defending her thesis on Internet advertising on libraries web sites. She also has a college degree in Advertising Management from Klaipeda Business School, Lithuania (May 2002). She became a SLA student member in Fall 2004 and is also a member of GLISSA.

Outside of university. Vitalija's passion is drawing. She had two exhibitions in Lithuania in 1999, one of them in the Music library that was wonderful. She is also interested in new interesting things, people and information and likes different kinds of team sports and traveling.

Kris Theis works at Carlson Companies in Minneapolis, MN. Her job functions include providing competitive information and analysis for all Carlson Companies knowledge workers and for Carlson Companies’ clients via secondary research.

She received her MLIS degree from Dominican University in River Forest, IL through the joint program with The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN. She first became a member of SLA in 2000 and is a new member to the Advertising and Marketing Division. From 2000 to 2003, Kris was a Research Analyst with eFunds Corporation in Woodbury, MN and a substitute librarian for the Anoka County Public Libraries.

In her spare time, Kris likes to work in her garden, read and chase after her 2-year-old triplets!

Greg Tourino

Greg Tourino is new to SLA as of April 2005. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Master of Information Studies program, and also has a BA in Communication Studies from the University of Windsor and a Certificate in Business Writing, Public Relations and Marketing Communication from Simon Fraser University.

Greg is currently employed as the Science, Engineering and Communication Studies Librarian at the University of Miami. He has also worked at the University of Toronto's Engineering and Computer Science Library and the Science and Engineering Division of the University of British Columbia Library where he worked as a science public services librarian.

In his spare time Greg enjoys watching live jazz and R&B and frequently travels to Montreal in search of live music.

Rose Tummarello is currently working toward her library science degree at CW Post with an expected graduation date in Spring 2005. She has her own consulting firm, Tummarello & Associates, Inc. One of her clients is the Malverne Public Library where she is the Treasurer and handles all the financial matters for the library.

She is a CPA with previous work experience for the accounting firm Ernst & Young and also has an MBA in Information Systems and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

When not working as an Information Specialist, Rose enjoys golf, gardening, reading, yoga, traveling and her family. She is a new member of SLA and looks forward to learning from other members.

Janis Tyhurst

Janis Tyhurst currently works at George Fox University in Newberg, OR. She is a reference librarian, but her job also includes doing collection development for sixteen discipline/degree areas, information literacy development, instruction and marketing to faculty members, art show coordination for student shows in the library, bibliographic instruction, library database contract management and negotiation, and many other things. In the past she has worked part time at local public libraries.

Janis graduated from UCLA in 1990 with her MLS degree. She had been a member of SLA from 1988-1994 and just rejoined this year. She has just started the MBA program at George Fox in the hopes of being better able to serve the business students' needs in the future.

When not doing something school related Janis is learning dressage with her QH mare.

Amy Wegener

Amy Wegener is a Knowledge Management Coordinator for the Business Development/Marketing group at Paul Hastings LLP, a law firm based in Los Angeles. Her responsibilities include CRM implementation, competitive intelligence research, and development of knowledge databases. She is currently pursuing an MLIS from San Jose State University, and received a B.A. in Political Science from Bucknell University in 1991. Amy has served as the newsletter editor for the SLA's Southern California Chapter since 2003. In her free time, Amy enjoys traveling, running, swimming, and cooking. She has been a member of SLA since 2002.

Jeff Wertz

Jeff Wertz is the Design Library/ Research manager at Nike, Inc. at the world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. He does not have a degree in Library Science, but comes to the position with a background in Design. He has worked for Nike for 12 years, mostly in Apparel Design management.

Jeff has just recently become a member of the SLA. The primary goals for the Design Library are to inform and inspire the Nike Design Community. It is a beautiful facility, but somewhat small by typical library standards. They have about 11,000 books and 250 periodicals and they also do research for their designers. When not at work Jeff likes to spend time with his family, usually in the garden or cooking.

Trip Wyckoff is Editor & Publisher of Specialissues.com, the online descendant of special issue guides like SLA’s Guide to Special Issues and Indexes of Periodicals.

Prior to founding Specialissues.com he was an information specialist at The American Productivity & Quality Center for six years. His experience is wide, with nine years working in corporate, legal and public libraries.

Trip received his MLS from Florida State University (FSU) in 1988, where he decided he was not going into cataloging. He also received his double major from FSU in History/Anthropology (now there’s a useful combination!) in 1987. Trip has only recently become active in SLA, becoming Business & Finance Division’s advertising manager and eagerly awaiting his next assignment.

For fun and relaxation, Trip cleans house, does laundry and cooks for his family while running his business. Trip has developed an exercise plan around his three and five-year olds that provides hours of amusement while keeping him in shape (such as it is).

Julie-Ann Zilavy

Julie-Ann Zilavy is Manager of Online Services, at the American Association of Advertising Agencies in New York City for the past twenty-four years.  Prior to working at the AAAA, she was a teacher for three years.

Julie-Ann received her MLS from the Palmer Graduate Library School, C.W. Post in 1979.  She obtained her B.S. in Education from SUNY Oneonta in 1976.

Her SLA activities include Chairperson of t he SLA Advertising & Marketing Group in New York City from 1985-86.  She also edited the Advertising & Marketing Division’s popular “What’s New in Advertising and Marketing” from 1986-1990.

In 1992 and again in 2003-2004, Julie-Ann served as Director for the Ad/Marketing division.  She also served as Division Archivist and Awards Chair.  Julie-Ann was given the Division’s “Award of Merit” in a Indianapolis in 1998.

For fun and relaxation, Julie-Ann loves to golfing, sailing, painting, photography and travel the world!