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LMD Candidate Slate for 2008 Election!
The LMD Nominating Committee is
pleased to announce the following slate of nominees:
1) For Chair-Elect (3 year term progressing to Chair, then Past Chair)
Bill Fisher is a professor with
the School of Library & Information Science at San Jose State
University. His
primary teaching areas include management, leadership and business
information
resources. He is a long-time member of the Association and LMD. Bill has served
the Association in a variety of positions, including two terms on SLA’s Board of
Directors, one
of which was as President of the Association. He is the current
John Cotton Dana award
recipient.
2) For Treasurer (2 year
term)
Joel Patrick Berger is the president and owner of C. Berger Group, Inc., a
library personnel
and informationmanagement services firm headquartered in
Carol Stream, IL. Prior to
joining his present company, he spent 6 years at the
National Association of REALTORS
(NAR) in Chicago. Joel has been Treasurer and
Director for the Illinois Chapter; and is
currently Past President of the
Wisconsin Chapter. He and his company have sponsored
the Karen J. Switt
Leadership Award for the past eighteen years, and he was a member
of the LMD
conference program planning committee for 2005-6. Joel received his Masters
of
Library Science from Dominican University in 1999.
3) For Director (2 year term)
Patricia Cia is the Coordinator, Technical Services & Library Systems at Langara
College in
Vancouver. An SLA member since 1993, she is currently acting Director
on the LMD Board.
At the Association level is a member of the Centennial
Commission & 2009 Conference
Planning Committee. She served on the SLA Board of
Directors from 2004 to 2006 as
Chapter Cabinet Chair. Previously Patricia was a
member of several Association committees
and task forces including the Code of
Accountability Task Force. At the Chapter level,
Patricia played an instrumental
role in the virtualization of the SLA's Western Canada
Chapter, when, in 1997, recognizing that its members were widely dispersed, the chapter
volunteered to
be SLA's "virtual chapter." She is currently applying that experience in her
work on the LMD Board. Patricia also served as Treasurer and President of the
Western
Canada Chapter. She has a Master's Degree in Library Science from the
University of British Columbia.
An electronic ballot will be held in October and candidates will take office in
January, 2009.
Anyone wishing to submit a write-in candidate must petition in writing to a
member of the Nominating Committee within 15 days of this announcement. The
petition must include a written letter of acceptance by the nominee to have
their name placed into nomination, and the signatures of at least 10 current
members of the Leadership and Management Division.
Respectfully submitted,
Liz
Charlie
Elizabeth A. Bibby (Chair)
Charles Shellabarger,
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
GDS Associates Inc.
1000 Peachtree Road, NE
Suite 800, 1850 Parkway Place
Atlanta, GA 30309
Marietta, GA 30067
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