Vijaya C. Menon is the first recipient of International Travel Grant

March 15, 2005

The Advertising and Marketing Division (DAM) of SLA is pleased to announce
the winner of our International Travel Grant for the SLA Toronto conference this
year.

Vijaya C. Menon is the first recipient of our International Travel Grant. 
She is Head of Knowledge Management at Grey Worldwide India.  Vijaya manages
information services and dissemination to all ten offices in India,
including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.  She provides liaison work on information
queries with Grey Europe and the Americas.  Vijaya has over 15 years of
library management work at Grey, J. Walter Thompson India, Accenture and the
Reserve Bank of India.

Initiated at the Nashville June 2004 conference, the Travel Grant is open to
international SLA and DAM members.  Application requirements were announced
in our 2004 Fall Bulletin and posted in various SLA discussion lists.  The
Grant consists of $1,500 (US) plus conference registration fee and ticketed
DAM-sponsored events.

Jo-Ann McQuillan, DAM chair and Director of Information & Communications at the Institute of
Communications and Advertising/Canada, will present the Grant to Vijaya at
the division’s business meeting on June 6, 2005.

“I appreciate the overwhelming support and look forward to developing
global networking initiatives at SLA,” said Vijaya to the International
Relations Chair.

We are happy and privileged to have her onboard. 

[posted on behalf of Grace A. Villamora, International Relations Chair]
 

Jo-Ann McQuillan, MISt, CPM

DAM Chair, Courier Co-Editor
Director of Information and Communications
Institute of Communications and Advertising
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