The Horizon Award (also known as the New Member Award) honors a P&HT Division member of five(5) years or fewer who has shown promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession. This award represents an evaluation of an individual’s work and participation in professional and division activities. Particular attention should be given to involvement and contributions to the P&HT Division. Nominees should excel in one or more areas:

• Leadership in the Division, at meetings, and in committee work

• Special or notable service to the Division, such as participation in special projects

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

• Publication or editorial contributions to the professional literature

• Innovations at the work site

• Mentoring activities or student sponsorship

• Extracurricular activities which provide the professional and/or the Division with commendable publicity and acclaim

Alex Feng, Ethicon 2008 Horizon Award winner

Jillian Amaral, Millennium Pharmaceutical 2007 Horizon Award winner

Our Horizon Award winner for 2007 has been a member of SLA and P&HT since 2004. She finished her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science while working at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. She then contracted at Novartis until she was hired as a full employee, Novartis’ first full-time information professional at their Cambridge, MA location. It was a challenge to find a new Fundraising Chair to fill Christine Leyva’s shoes after Christine became our Chair-Elect in 2006, but this year’s winner rose to the occasion. She jumped right in to the fray more than halfway through Spring Mtg. planning and did a fantastic job. She has also worked with our sponsors for this Annual Mtg. in Denver with great success. She has also volunteered her help in non-board positions at various past meetings. Her smiles and enthusiasm is greatly appreciated by all. Please join me in thanking and congratulating this year’s winner of the Horizon Award, Jillian Amaral!

Paul C. Ziegler, Merck and Co., Inc. 2006 Horizon Award winner

On Tuesday, June 13, 2006, during the Annual Business Meeting of the Pharmaceutical and Health Technology (P&HT) Division, Awards Chair, Karen Mirabile announced that the 2006 Horizon Award had been won by Paul Ziegler. Paul is currently Supervisor, Literature Systems at Merck & Co., Inc. The Horizon Award (also known as the New Member Award) honors a member of five years or fewer who has shown promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession. This award represents an evaluation of an individual’s work and participation in professional and division activities with particular attention being given to involvement and contributions to the P&HT Division. Paul has been a member since 2001 and since agreeing to take on the role of Division Webmaster last year, Paul has taken on his responsibilities with great enthusiasm. Paul is always available and extremely efficient when the Division members send requests to him. Paul’s first duties were to clean up the Division website and figure out how to post the registration forms for the Division Spring Meeting. As if that wasn’t enough work, he decided to ask the Executive Board if we would be okay if he decided to redesign the Division website. We tried to not act very excited but we were secretly dancing the jig! Paul has done a fantastic job of redesigning the website and bringing us into the 21st Century. This was a well deserved award for Paul and we hope he will be with our Division for a long time!

Margaret Basket, Associate Fellow, NLM - 2005 Horizon Award winner

On Tuesday June 7th, 2005, during the Annual Business Meeting of the Pharmaceutical and Health Technology (P&HT) Division, it was announced that the New Horizon Award had been won by Margaret Basket, MLS.

Margaret is currently an Associate Fellow with the National Library of Medicine based out of Bethesda, Maryland but currently working at the University of Rochester in Health Sciences Libraries and Technologies conducting projects related to usability, information architecture, content and knowledge management, and taxonomies and ontologies.
The Horizon Award (also known as the New Member Award) honors a member of five years or fewer who has shown promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession. This award represents an evaluation of an individual’s work and participation in professional and division activities. Particular attention being given to involvement and contributions to the P&HT Division.

In 2003-2004, Margaret assumed the role of Student Relations Chair and in that role made huge impact by not only actively soliciting applications for the annual Student Travel Awards but also by encouraging individuals to apply and by advertising the availability of the awards at almost all library schools across the country. As a direct result, several very high quality applications were received and, with Margaret facilitating the whole process, two travel awards were granted – our first in several years!

The following year, after graduating with her MLS, Margaret then took on a new challenge and is currently Employment Relations Chair for the Division. In this new role, Margaret spear-headed an initiative to apply for an SLA development grant with a view to using that money to ‘some-how’ create generic position profiles for our members – a need long expressed by many. In November 2004, we learned that we has been awarded the grant applied for and since that time Margaret has been working very closely with our consultant, Carol Bekar to create these job descriptions. This huge project is now nearing its close and these job descriptions, tools that we can all use, will shortly be available to all Division members via the P&HT website.

Margaret has been a member of SLA and of the P&HT Division for only a short-time but in that time has had huge positive impact. If there was ever a year when there was debate about who should get the Horizon Award, 2005 was not it. Margaret’s energy, enthusiasm, hard-work and commitment made her a ‘slam-dunk’ with all her follow Committee members. Well done!

Maude Lethiecq-Normand - 2004 Horizon Award Winner

On June 8th, 2004, during the Annual Business Meeting of the Pharmaceutical &Health Technology (P&HT) Division, it was announced that this years’ New Horizon Award had been won by Maude Lethiecq-Normand. Maude is currently the Account Director of Innecto, a small consulting firm serving the information needs of the pharmaceutical industry, based in Montreal, Canada.

The Horizon Award (also known as the New Member Award) honours a member of five years or fewer who has shown promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession. This award represents an evaluation of an individual’s work and participation in professional and division activities. Particular attention being given to involvement and contributions to the P&HT Division.

When Maude decided to attend the P&HT Division Incoming Board Meeting in June 2003, she had no idea that she might walk away with a formal committee role on her plate but when offered the position of Professional Development Chair, she seized the opportunity with both hands. Immediately up against a tight deadline, Maude worked diligently with members of the Executive Board and pulled together, not one, but two proposals for Division-sponsored CE courses to be held in conjunction with the 2004 Annual Meeting in Nashville. The Division has had mixed success in getting CE courses approved over the years but this time, due to Maude’s dedication to detail and strongly persuasive style, both courses were approved by HQ.

However, no sooner was that deadline met, but another was thrust upon her. Although the Division has not traditionally offered a CE course as part of the Spring Meeting, many members had requested that this be the case. Maude, once again, stepped up to the plate. She not only organised a half-day work shop strongly aligned to the theme of the overall meeting but also persuaded a recognised expert in the field to teach that course and oversold our ticket prediction by more than 100%.

The feedback from all three of these CE courses has been phenomenal and in addition, all three have proved to be profitable for the Division, yet just as Maude had agreed to continue in this role for another term of office, she learned that her position at work had been eliminated. Undeterred, Maude took a few weeks to think through her options and has emerged stronger than ever as a founder of a new consultancy firm, Innecto, specialising in providing information support to companies working in the healthcare sector (plus she decided to stay on as Professional Development Chair). The P&HT Division wishes Maude every success in this new endeavour and sincerely hopes that she continues her allegiance to the success of our membership. To achieve this level of success whilst going through such personal challenges, speaks only to Maude’s level of excellence.

Sandra Caddell 2003 Horizon Award Winner

On June 10, 2003, during the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division’s Annual Meeting in New York City, it was announced that Sandra Caddell won the Horizon Award. Sandra is a Knowledge Manager in the Strategy, Performance & Knowledge Services department at AstraZenca.

The Horizon Award (also known as the New Member Award) honors a P&HT Division member of five(5) years or fewer who has shown promise of becoming an outstanding member of the profession. This award represents an evaluation of an individual’s work and participation in professional and division activities. Particular attention is given to involvement and contributions to the P&HT Division.

With encouragement from her Astra colleagues Sandra joined SLA and the P&HT Division. In 2001 she started working on P&HT fundraising with Regina Maxwell. Since then she has worked tirelessly. For the last two years Sandra has been Co-Fundraising Chair. For the 2003 Spring Meeting (Chicago) and the 2003 Annual Meeting (New York City) she help raise $44K. Without this funding many of the SLA P&HT educational sessions and events at the spring and annual meetings would not have happened.

In addition to her notable fundraising skills, Sandra has shown strong conflict resolution, negotiating, and meeting/convention organizational skills. The positive wave of energy and ideas she brings to SLA P&HT board meetings is well received by all.
Sandra has done a wonderful job of balancing work, school, volunteer work and her home life. With three children at home she earned her Masters of Library Science from Drexel University, started working for Astra USA (now AstraZeneca), and found time to actively participate in SLA. Sandra has been married for 19 years and has three teenagers.