Slate of Officers for 2009
The Division Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the election of the following individuals to the Division Executive Board. Please join us in congratulating them and thanking them for their willingness to serve. They will assume their seats in January 2009 at the SLA Leadership Meeting in Savannah, GA.
As always, the Division welcomes volunteers to work with the Executive and Advisory Board on various projects including Annual Conference planning. If you would like to get involved please contact a member of the current Board of Directors or any of the folks above. Members of the current board can be found in the About Us section.
— Toby Pearlstein, Agnes Mattis & Gillian Voisey — Nominating Committee
Gayle Gossen — Chair Elect
Gayle Gossen is currently a Business Intelligence Specialist at Dow Jones and Company in Canada. She has worked as a librarian and trainer, marketing manager, Account Executive and National Sales Manager in Canada for LexisNexis, Thomson and several technology start-up companies. She is an active SLA volunteer and served as Business & Finance Director helping plan the Toronto conference, was a member of the Awards Committee and is currently the Division Secretary. She worked on the recent Division's re-branding and website update. As Chair Elect for 2009, one of Gayle's major responsibilities will be planning the Division's program for the Annual Conference to be held in New Orleans in 2010.
Christina de Castell — Director (Public Relations)
Christina is the manager of InfoAction, the fee-for-service research division of the Vancouver Public Library. Prior to joining InfoAction, she worked at the BC Securities Commission for five years, first in the Knowledge Centre, where she conducted research for investigations, litigation and policy development, then managing website content and leading web projects. She has taught a module on using commercial databases for Internet for Investigations, a course in BCIT's Forensic Investigations degree program, since 2005.
Christina is an SLA Fellow, and is currently co-chair of the SLA First Five Years Task Force. She was a member of the SLA Nominating Committee for 2008 and the Conference Planning Advisory Council for Seattle. Christina was president of the SLA Western Canada Chapter in 2005-2006, and has also held positions as communications director, webmaster, and discussion list chair for the chapter. She has been a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division since graduating in 2001, and received the professional grant award to attend Baltimore conference from B&F in 2006. Christina received her MLIS from UBC in 2001, and her BA (English) from UBC in 1996. She completed the Canadian Securities Course in 2002, and attended the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute in 2005.
Brian McGreevy — Secretary
After a 12-year career in journalism that included stints at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the trade-newsletter Public Accounting Report as a staff writer and assistant editor, respectively, Brian read a story about Andersen Consulting hiring librarians as knowledge managers. This news nugget inspired him to return to school to get his MLIS from the University of South Carolina with the goal of working as an information professional for a global consulting firm. Mentoring contacts made as a student member of SLA and from meeting SLA members at the annual convention in Philadelphia, courtesy of a $1,200 student-stipend award from SLA's Business & Finance Division, led to a job with Spencer Stuart Associates in 2000. Brian continues to work for the executive recruiting firm as a senior research analyst. Grateful to SLA for timely career assistance and professional development, he has previously served the B&F Division as Secretary (2002-2004) and was President of the Georgia Chapter (2006-2007). Many know Brian for his passion for music and his extensive music library that includes 2,200 LPs, 300 45s, 1,000 cassettes, 11,000 CDs, and 150,000 MP3 files. The digital library comes in handy when he works as DJ McGroovy, a mobile deejay with 13 years experience of making people dance at special events.
Amy Affelt — Membership Chair
Amy is the Director of Database Research at Compass Lexecon in Chicago, where she provides research to PhD economists testifying as expert witnesses in litigation. She has been active in SLA as an Awards and Strategic Planning Committee member for the Illinois Chapter and is currently a 2009 Annual Conference Program Planner for the Leadership & Management Division as well as the current Membership Chair of the Business & Finance Division. She is also a Reference Advisory Board member for the Metropolitan Library System of Chicago and speaks at conferences on topics of interest to the information industry. She has published articles in Online Magazine, was profiled by OCLC's NextSpace publication, and was named a Thomson Reuters 2007 Infostar. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago with a BA in History, and an MLS graduate of Dominican University. When not looking for information, Amy can be found running, cycling, Alpine and Nordic skiing, doing yoga, and watching soccer.