SLA Business & Finance Announces 2014 Award Recipients

For Immediate Release: 16 May 2013

The Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) proudly announces the following recipients of its 2014 awards.

Business & Finance Division Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Business Librarianship
Sponsored by Bloomberg BNA

Recipient: Stephen Fleming
Director, Global Intelligence
Young & Rubicam Group

Stephen has demonstrated outstanding business librarianship skills in his leadership of external research for the Global Intelligence Group at the advertising firm Young and Rubicam where he has been since 1997. He has overseen this area’s continued strength in dynamically supporting the needs of the firm as it contends with a shifting advertising landscape. He provided an important leadership role in the former SLA Advertising & Marketing Division, chairing the division several times. He has also served as web master of both the GBLT and Advertising and Marketing Divisions. He has also presented a number of programs at SLA and has always provided useful insight to his SLA colleagues of developments in the area of marketing and advertising. He now is playing a leadership role in the new Advertising and Marketing Section within B&F. All in all he has been an unflagging supporter of marketing librarianship and SLA and is well deserving of this award. With his positive and collaborative spirit as well strong leadership abilities, we’re lucky to have him in SLA.

Business & Finance Division Distinguished Member Award
Sponsored by Perfect Information

Recipient: Donald Schnedeker
Director of the Management Library
Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management

Started with Cornell University Library in 1974 / Retired June 2013
Earned an MLIS and an MBA
Named Director of the Management Library in 1988.

In 2002, he received the Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship from the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association for his work with academic business library statistics. Recent activity includes working on Alumni Access to Electronic Resources, an issue that he has been a lead advocate on for years.

Distinguished Leadership & Service Award
Sponsored by EvaluatePharma

Recipient: Ann Shea, California State Library, Sacramento, CA
On behalf of Conference of California Historical Societies

CCHS helps historians, and others who are interested in history, to connect and share information — joining efforts to preserve records, artifacts, sites, and buildings. CCHS also helps local societies and small museums with skills in management, acquisition, preservation, and restoration techniques.

During Ann’s two years as President, CCHS has introduced a workshop program, which begins to teach the nuts and bolts of running a historical society. They are about to implement a webinar series which will bring these topics to the entire State. She has introduced a monthly newsletter which informs the membership of what is happening with other members and how CCHS is working with the historical community. Under Ann’s leadership, CCHS has restructured investments (or reserve accounts) so that the conference can put more resources back into our members. Initially, this reinvestment was used to give our premiere publication, The California Historian a makeover, and is now being used to refocus our Annual Meeting.

Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award
Sponsored by Business Expert Press

Recipient: Aleha McCauley
Community Engagement Librarian (Business Services) & Manager
BC Small Business Accelerator Program, Irving K Barber Learning Centre
University of British Columbia

International Travel Award
Sponsored by EMIS

Recipient: Aditi Budhiraja
Sr. Analyst – K&I
Haryana, India

Professional Grant
Sponsored by the Business & Finance Division

Recipient: Emily Cox
BMO Capital Markets (Bank of Montreal)
Toronto, Ontario

Student Stipends
Sponsored by the Business & Finance Division

Recipients: Kathie Marie Schmitt
Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Data Curation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2014

Caroline Patton
Masters of Library and Information Science with a concentration in special libraries from the University of South Carolina

The presentation of these awards will occur on 8 June 2014 (Sunday) at 7:30 p.m. at the SLA 2014 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Many thanks to Bloomberg BNA, Perfect Information, Business Expert Press, EvaluatePharma, and EMIS for their sponsorship.

Contact:
Karen MacDonald, Chair, Awards Committee
SLA Business & Finance Division
Tel: 330.672.1683
kmacdon4@kent.edu

Laura Leavitt, Chair
SLA Business & Finance Division
Tel: 517.355.4647
leavitt9@msu.edu