ITE announces award winners - Chapter & Division News

Information Outlook,  Dec, 2002  

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The Information Technology (ITE) Division presented its Outstanding Member award to Lillian Mesner and Charlene Baldwin at the SLA Annual Conference in June 2002.

Mesner earned her MLS from the University of Maryland and has been active in the division for many years, as chair, treasurer, strategic planning chair, and archivist. She has also held many roles in the Kentucky chapter and in the Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Division.

Baldwin holds an MLS from the University of Chicago. She has worked at the University of Arizona and the University of California, Riverside, and is now the dean at the Thurmond Clarke Memorial Library at Chapman University in Orange, California. She has been active in the division for many years, serving as program planner and chair of the Government Information Section. In June 2002 she was appointed a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association.

This year, ITE began a new tradition of recognizing outstanding technology-oriented programming designed and provided by the association's chapters. The first winner of the Annual Outstanding Technology Programming Award was the Oregon chapter. It received the award for its virtual conference, in which it used online chat technology to bring together a geographically dispersed and diverse population to learn and discuss issues important to information professionals. Session transcripts and were posted to the Web (www.sla.org/division/dite/index.html).

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