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IT Awards 2002

Outstanding Member Award: Lillian Mesner and Charlene Baldwin

Lillian Mesner earned her MLS from the University of Maryland and has been active in the division for many years. She is well known for her success in recruiting new division members. She has served the division as Treasurer, Chair, Strategic Planning Chair, and Archivist, and has had many roles in her chapter (Kentucky) and in the Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Division. Her dedication, humor, and ready smile have been a mainstay in our division for many years. Currently she is working on a degree in Computer & Information Systems from Lexington Community College and has been active lately in the American Society of Indexers. She will be using her expertise to start her own business as an indexer.

Charlene Baldwin holds an MLS from the University of Chicago. She has worked at the University of Arizona, the University of California, Riverside, and is now the Dean at the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library at Chapman University in Orange, CA. She has been active in the division for many years, serving as program planner and chair of the Government Information Section. Her background in science librarianship, international librarianship, computers in libraries, and library management made her the perfect candidate to create an exhibit commemorating last year's 50th anniversary of SLA's Information Technology Division. The poster session, complete with accompanying timeline, and of course, bibliography, was titled "50 Years of Information Technology, 1951-2001" and was displayed at the SLA annual conference in San Antonio. It remains available on the web (http://www.chapman.edu/library/flashbackIT/Introduction.html).

Outstanding Technology Programming Award: Oregon Chapter

This year IT began a new tradition of recognizing outstanding technology-oriented programming designed and provided by the Association's chapters.

The first winner of the Annual Outstanding Technology Programming Award was the Oregon Chapter for recognition of their "Virtual Conference," in which they used online chat technology to bring together a geographically dispersed and diverse population to learn and talk about issues important to information professionals. 2002 saw the second annual virtual conference, with 49 registrants from the chapter, out of state, and from five other countries. Practice sessions were provided for participants to get up to speed with the technology. The topic this year was competitive intelligence. The participants' response was extremely positive. Session transcripts and a bibliography of resources were posted to the web for those who could not attend.