This award honors a P&HT Division member for notable and enduring contributions and service to the Division and the profession. The award represents a cumulative evaluation of an individual’s career and emphasizes sustained division leadership and activity of an exemplary nature. Nominees should excel in one or more areas:

• Outstanding leadership in the Division, at meetings, and in committee work

• Special or notable service to the Division, such as holding office(s)

• Participation in seminars, teaching courses, and public speaking activities

• Publication or editorial contributions to the professional literature

• Promotion of the role of special librarians in the management of information
    and knowledge

• Other achievements indicating noteworthy dedication to the profession

• Contributions made by the candidate should be made over an extended period
    of time

• Contributions made by the candidate should have an enduring effect on the Division
    and/or the profession.

Peggy Burnett, Novartis - 2008 Distinguished Member Award

Claudia Cuca, Campbell Alliance - 2008 Distinguished Member Award

Karen Mirabile, Ovid/Wolters Kluwer - 2007 Distinguished Member Award

Our Distinguished Award winner for 2007 has been a dedicated and active proponent for her clients for many years in the information industry. Demonstrating her thorough knowledge of the products and services she sells and supports, she holds her clients’ needs in the forefront of her work. She has worked for several vendor partners, including Adis International and Ovid Technologies. A member of SLA and P&HT since 1997, this year’s winner has brought to the Division comments and ideas from a vendor partner’s perspective, which has helped make our Division partnerships stronger. She was our Division Chair from 2004 to 2005, planned our Division Spring Mtg. in Philadelphia in 2004 and was the Program Planner for the Annual Mtg. in New York in 2003. She improved our Spring Meetings by introducing the Opening Gala Exhibitor event and by planning several fun and inventive Monday Night Social Events. She is always full of ideas and enthusiasm for our Division. Please join me in thanking and congratulating this year’s Distinguished Member Award winner, Karen Mirabile!

Bonnie Snow, Thomson Dialog - 2006 Distinguished Member Award

Bonnie has been a member of SLA since 1985. She is one of those overlooked “stars” who has not been formally recognized for her leadership. She has been a strong contributor to this Division over the years. Bonnie was the Division Chair from 1997 to 1998 and the Professional Development Chair from 1995 to 1996. But what everyone will recognize is her contribution to Continuing Education within the profession. In her various roles at Thomson Dialog, Bonnie has probably at some time trained almost every one of us and yet the demand for her training courses continues. Bonnie has shared her expertise willingly and effectively for more years than she probably cares to remember! She is a role model in her dedication to educating her customers and continually increasing and updating her own knowledge. She has published over 70 articles and has been singled out as one of 25 experts in the book “Secrets of the Super Searcher” and “Super Searchers in Health & Medicine”. Bonnie is truly distinguished in my book!

John Carey, FOI Services, Inc. - 2006 Distinguished Member Award

John is a dedicated vendor who has exhibited at SLA for many years. In 1999, he finally decided to join SLA. Once joining he decided to take on one of our less attractive committee positions, Division Archivist. John has been serving on this committee for 5 years now. John received all of the old division documents from member’s basements etc. and organized everything so we can get our hands on things when we need them. Each year at our Board meetings John gives out CD’s to all of the Executive Board so they can keep the archive close in case they need it. What organization! John is currently the President at FOI Services and has been with FOI for 30 years! Just to show you how great a guy John is, he offered to head up another committee position in addition to the Archivist. John will be working with the Bulletin Editors to get our great Caplits out the door! Well done John!

Stephanie Fitch, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 2006 Distinguished Member Award

Stephanie has been a member since 1998. She is an outstanding leader and champion for the profession. I have known Stephanie for many years and I have watched her grow. She is very devoted and has outstanding organization and strategic ideas. She has held several positions in the Division such as the Division Chair from 2002 to 2004 and the Strategic Planning Chair for several years. She is always helping the leaders and members of this Division by offering advice, making new members to feel welcome and to ask members to become more involved. Stephanie has raised the bar of this Division by thinking outside the box and expanding the speakers to include speakers outside of information professionals. I would never have made it this far in the Division if Stephanie hadn’t been there the million times I have called her to ask her for advice or guidance. Thank you, Stephanie for your ingenuity and your guidance. You deserve this award!

Larry Walton, Mallinckrodt, Inc. - 2006 Distinguished Member Award

Larry has been a member of SLA since 1972. He has been working in libraries since 1956. Larry has been active in SLA at the national level since he entered the profession. Larry has attended 35 + Annual SLA Conferences. Once becoming involved he held many positions for SLA: Chair of the 1980 Annual Conference Program Planning Committee, ran 2 times for the SLA Board of Directors, Division Chair FAN for 2 terms, Past Treasurer LMD, Past President St. Louis Metro Area to name a few. For the P&HT Division Larry held the position of Treasurer for 2 years. He worked diligently to ensure that the Division remained in good financial standing while at the same time maintaining the balance between generating enough money to fund our division activities and avoiding a bank balance that might be viewed as “profitable”. As you can see Larry has been involved with SLA from a National, Divisional and local level for years! Not sure how he had the time for all of this. Some things you might not know about Larry: he has an extensive stamp collection, loves all kinds of music especially classical, and is often found digging for rocks and fossils, exploring sink holes and crawling through primitive caves. Over the years Larry has contributed a huge amount not only to this Division and to SLA but to the profession as a whole!

Bernadette Ewen, Global Director, Library & Information Services, Sanofi Pasteur - 2005 Distinguished Member Award

The Distinguished Member Award honours a P&HT Division member for notable and enduring contributions and service to the Division and the profession. The award represents a
cumulative evaluation of an individual’s career and emphasizes sustained division leadership and activity of an exemplary nature.

A member of the P&HT Division since 1990, Bernadette has played a major role in shaping the Division and in setting the very high standards to which we now hold ourselves accountable.

Bernadette currently holds the role of Chair of the Nomination Committee, a position which she has held for the past three years and one in which she has shown dedication, creativity and tenacity – and she certainly deserves a great deal of the credit for recruiting the very high calibre Executive Committee members of recent years!

But it is Bernadette’s leadership skills that truly earned her this award. When she assumed the role of Chair Elect for the Division in 2000, she was tasked with organising the Spring meeting and in accepting this responsibility drove the standards of that meeting to a whole new level. For our newer members, our Spring meetings have taken on a life of their own in recent years. The quality of the sessions, the degree of vendor involvement, the social events, the food! Bernadette was the first person to set herself the goal of turning what might simply be a networking and vaguely educational event in to a substantial and professional association meeting. Bernadette’s quest for the best job she could do attracted both members and vendors to the event, and those of us who followed her in the Chair-Elect role merely had to build on the foundations that she laid

Outside of SLA, Bernadette is now the Global Director of the group she first joined before Sanofi purchased Aventis and is the mother of two small girls. Perhaps tangible proof that indeed, you can have it all? Congratulations Bernadette – and thank-you!

Diane Webb, BIZINT - 2004 Distinguished Member Award

Diane Webb of BizInt Solutions was presented with the Distinguished Member Award by the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology (P&HT) Division of Special Libraries Association on June 8th, 2004 in Nashville, TN. Diane is currently the President of BizInt Solutions, a small company providing niche software to information professionals working in business intelligence within the healthcare sector.

The Distinguished Member Award honours a P&HT Division member for notable and enduring contributions and service to the Division and the profession. The award represents a cumulative evaluation of an individual’s career and emphasizes sustained division leadership and activity of an exemplary nature.

A member of the P&HT Division since 1997, Diane may not be amongst the longest-serving but she is certainly amongst those who have given most tirelessly and generously.
Diane currently holds the role of Production Editor of Caplits, the P&HT Division Newsletter, and through her leadership, she has turned a simple newsletter in to a substantial and professional publication. Diane’s quest for the highest quality has attracted both authors and sponsors to the newsletter and her dedication to the Division is clearly demonstrated by the amount of personal hard slog that both she and her staff put in to producing and distributing our newsletter.

In addition, Diane holds amongst her clients, representatives from all large pharmaceutical companies, plus many biotech and other healthcare-related institutions. As a vendor, Diane is both highly regarded and deeply respected. Never presenting a ‘hard-sell, BizInt Solutions personify the meaning of ‘customer-driven’ and yet, through gentle insistence, rather, than defensiveness, Diane ensures that the voice of the vendor is always heard at Division business meetings. The P&HT Division acknowledges that without the support of our vendors, there would be no Division; Diane Webb has set the gold standard for the vendor-client relationship. Congratulations!

Barbara Boyajian, Johnson & Johnson - 2003 Distinguished Member Award

Barbara Boyajian of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. was presented the Distinguished Member Award by the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division of the Special Libraries Association on June 8, 2003 in New York City. Barbara is a manager in J&JPRD’s Global Scientific & Business Intelligence department.
The Distinguished Member Award honors a Pharmaceutical & Health Technologies (PH&T) Division member for notable and enduring contributions and service to the Division and the profession. This award represents a cumulative evaluation of an individual’s career and emphasizes sustained Division leadership and activity of a commendable nature.
A member of the PH&T Division for over 20 years, Barbara served as its Business Manager for a decade and as Treasurer for two years. She is currently serving as PH&T’s Fundraising Chair and solicited vendor sponsorship for this year’s PH&T Spring Meeting held in Chicago. Until recently, she had been the Advertising Manager for CapLits, the Division’s newsletter. In addition, she has served as Director for the Princeton-Trenton (NJ) Chapter of Special Libraries Association.

Barbara headed the J&J Worldwide Information Professionals Group for two years and continues to take a leadership role in this J&J's Council of Research Directors (CORD) subcommittee. With the steady addition of new companies to J&J’s pharmaceutical sector, she readily reaches out to the information professionals within these newly-acquired organizations to assist in their acclimation to Johnson & Johnson. Throughout her career, Barbara has been innovative in information content delivery to her customers, continually providing quality products and services.

A strong advocate for the library & information science profession, especially within the pharmaceutical industry, Barbara exemplifies the best of Johnson & Johnson and the profession. Barbara is well-respected by her coworkers and information customers at J&J and is highly regarded among PH&T information professionals for her knowledge, wisdom, and leadership.