IT Awards 2003 Outstanding Member Award: Margie HlavaMarjorie Hlava has over 26 years of study and experience in the field of information science, technology, and administration. She is a founder and current President and Chairman of Access Innovations, Inc., an international database construction company. One of Margie's specialties is the design, production, and utilization of online databases: commercial, private, for the Internet, or for an intranet. Over the past 23 years, she has designed over 200 commercially available databases. Other major interests are thesaurus/taxonomy development, vocabulary control, machine-aided indexing, and information standards. Marjorie is an active participant in the study and review of information standards. She served as Chair of the SLA Technical Standards Committee for 9 years. During that time - 1992-2001 - her stewardship for SLA reflected her knowledge of the standards world and her care and consideration of the information professionals who have to live with and apply the improved standards within the industry. She serves (or has served) on the Boards of SLA, ASIS, NFAIS, NISO, ASIDIC, Documentation Abstracts, SIIA, IIA, and others. Joe Ann Clifton Student Award: Christine WysockiChristine Wysocki is the recipient of the 2003 Joe Ann Clifton Student Award. Her award-winning paper, published in the March/April 2003 issue of b/ITe, is titled, "Creating Opportunities for Growth in Technology." Ms. Wysocki is a first-year library and information science student at the University of Kentucky. She completed her B.A. in English at Western Kentucky University in 1999 and her M.A. in English at DePaul University in 2001. Ms. Wysocki hopes to combine her interests in digital technology and archives at a research library in the near future. Joe Ann Clifton Student Award Honorable Mention:Serena Brooks, C.W. Post's Palmer School. "Annotated Webliography on the Topic of Authenticating Web Sites." Ms. Brooks was awarded a B.S. in Mathematics Emphasis Computer Science from S.U.N.Y. New Paltz in 1986. She subsequently worked in the computer field for thirteen years before deciding to become a librarian. She is currently working as a Librarian Trainee at the Smithtown Public Library on Long Island, while working towards an M.L.I.S. at C.W. Post's Palmer School. Angelica Cortez, Texas Woman's University. "The Deep Web." Ms. Cortez is currently working toward an MLS from Texas Woman's University and will graduate in May 2004. She received a B.S. in Mass Communications in August 2002 from Texas Woman's University. Ms. Cortez hopes to become a news librarian and will be interning at the Dallas Morning News Library this summer. Eli Edwards, San Jose State University. "Partial Reflections: The Issue of Incomplete Digital Archives on Fee-Based Subscription Databanks." Ms. Edwards is currently an MLS student at San Jose State University, with a B.A. in Political Science and an eye towards news librarianship. Gabriel Peterson, University of Missouri. "An Examination of Term Evolution upon Natural Language as a Query Formation Tool for Retrieving E-Health Information on Medline." Mr. Peterson is a NLM pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Missouri. Originally trained as a molecular biologist, his primary research interests now lie at the intersection of medical informatics and information science. Rick Storer, Dominican University. "Late Night Librarians: Online Chat Reference between 2003 and 2008." Mr. Storer is currently pursuing a MLS degree at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. He is currently employed by a small archives and museum on the north side of Chicago. Last updated 18 June 2003 | ||||||||
