Nominations & Elections
2009 DBIO Election results
The following have been elected to the 2010 DBIO Board of Directors. Congratulations!
Chair-Elect: Nancy Dickenson
Nancy Dickenson is currently senior librarian at the Stanford University Hospital Health Library in Palo Alto, CA. An SLA member for seven years, she is active in DBIO. For the most recent Washington, D.C. conference, she served as the division’s program planning chair. She has been Medical Section chair, as well. Active in other professional organizations, including MLA and the Northern California and Nevada Medical Libraries Group, she was recently appointed to a statewide committee overseeing the development of a consumer health toolkit for public libraries, an LSTA funded project of the California State Library, in conjunction with the California Healthcare Foundation and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region. Nancy holds an MLIS from San Jose State University. Before becoming a librarian, Nancy had a twenty year career in marketing and public relations, primarily in the medical and technology industries.
Secretary: Tony Stankus
Tony Stankus is currently the Life Sciences Librarian & Science Coordinator (with the rank of full Professor) at the University of Arkansas. He was the Science Librarian at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA from 1974-2007, and concurrently the Adjunct Professor for the Survey of Special Libraries course at the URI Graduate School of Library & Information Studies from 1982-2007 . The author of 10 books, and over 160 papers, largely on biomedical librarianship, he has also served the Division as DBIO blogmaster since 2007 (22,000 hits by September, 2009), and as Director (2008-2009). He was the Project Leader for the DBIO 100 Poll and the Centennial Business Luncheon last June in Washington, DC. He was named a Fellow of the SLA this year.
Director: Nancy Curtis
Nancy R. Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian at the University of Maine, has been a member of DBIO since 1989. She previously served as Treasurer of the Division, and chaired both the Membership and Awards Committees. Nancy has also served on several other Division committees, including Annual Conference Program Planning and Fund Development.Other members of the 2010 Board of Directors are as follows:
Diane Carol Schmidt accedes to Chair
Jean Crampon accedes to Past Chair
Jonathan Nabe continues as Treasurer for the second year of his two-year term.
Thanks to these special people for agreeing to run for office and for serving our Division.
Extra special thanks to The Nominations and Elections Committee for taking the time to deliberate and consider potential candidates: John Tebo, Chair; David Duggar; Linda Maddux; Janet Weiss.
Rev. November 2009