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Award Recipients

Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship | Distinguished Member Award | Distinguished Leadership & Service Award
Impact Award | Professional Grants & Student Stipend Awards | International Travel Award
B&F/SLA Europe Early Career Award | B&F/SLA Asian Chapter Early Career Award | Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award

Business & Finance Division Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship

2011 Pam Rollo, Standard & Poor’s
2010 Sushma Arora, Tata Consultancy Services
2009 Barbara Ferry, National Geographic Society
2008 No award given
2007 Ann Cullen, Harvard University
2006 Rita Ormsby, Baruch College, City University of NY
2005 Charles Popovich, Ohio State University
2004 No award given
2002 Donald Schnedeker, Management Library, Johnson School, Cornell University
2001 Samantha Whitney-Ulane, The Whitney Group
2000 Jan Chindlund, McDonald Corp
Toby Pearlstein, Bain & Co
Liz Bibby, Harvard University
Pamela C. Rollo, Credit Suisse First Boston
1999 Susan Klopper, Arthur Anderson Atlanta
1998 Carla Owens, John Nuveen Chicago
1997 Eloisa Gomez Borah, UCLA
1996 Ruth Pagell, Emory University
1995 Rita Costello, UCLA
1994 Hope Tillman, Babson College
1993 Janet Reed, Continental Bank Chicago
1992 John Ganly, New York Public Library
1991 Pamela Handman, Cetus Corporation
1989 Dorothy Sedgwick, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Toronto
1988 Vicki Watkins, Vanderbilt University
1986 Joan Gervino, American Bankers Association
1984 Sylvia G. Mechanic, Brooklyn Public Library

Business & Finance Division Distinguished Member Award

2011 Susan Klopper
2010 No award given
2009 Jean Scanlan, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
2008 Jane Cooney, BooksforBusiness.com
2007 Judy Field
Charlotte Kohrs
2006 Susan DiMatttia
2005 No award given
2004 Bob Bellanti, UCLA Library
2003 Carol Ginsburg, Deutsche Bank
2002 John Ganly, New York Public Library
Joan Gervino, American Bankers Association Library
* Helen Belilovsky, Fred Alger Management
* Maureen Olson, Marsh McLennen
* Division members who were killed on September 11, 2001 in the North Tower
of the World Trade Center and honored posthumously
2001 Elaine Clough, California Luthern University
Mel Westerman, Pennsylvania State University
2000 Janet S. Reed, Bank of America
1999 Carl Braun, Syracuse University
1998 Pearl Alberts, Boston College
Joan Canning, Brooklyn Public Library
1997 No award given
1996 Paul Wasserman, University of Maryland
1995 Jo Ann Aufdenkamp, Federal Reserve Bank
Mary McNierney Grant, Long Island University
Jennifer Jones, General American Investors
Divakara (Dik) Varma, York University
1994 No award given
1993 Sara Beth Allen, Dallas Public Library
1992 Sylvia G. Mechanic, Brooklyn Public Library
James B. Woy, Mercantile Library – Philadelphia
1991 No award given
1990 Dorothy Vogel, Brooklyn Business Library
1989 Theodora McGill, Export-Import Bank
Katherine Cveljo, North Texas State University
Ruth Cannon, Federal Reserve Bank Richmond
1988 Dorothy Kasman, Coopers & Lybrand NY
Alice Hunsucker, Wells Fargo San Francisco
Betsy Ann Olive, Cornell University
1987 Jean Duess, Federal Reserve Bank
1986 Charlotte Georgi, UCLA
1984 Lorna Daniells, Harvard Business School

Distinguished Leadership & Service Award

2011 No award given
2010 Carol Ginsburg and Brotherhood Synagogue
2009 Bobbi Weaver and Haiti Reads

Impact Award

2011 Sushma Arora, Tata Consultancy Services

Professional Grants and Student Stipends

2011 Hyun-Duck Chung, NCSU
Barbara N. Wheeler, Nautic Partners
PK Jain, University of Delhi Enclave
Gillian Ralph, University of Aukland
Danielle Salomon, UCLA
Aileen Marshall, University of South Carolina
2010 Anne Mintz, New York, NY
Maureen Festa, Boston University, MA
Betty Edwards, Braintree, MA
Michelle Dollinger, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Gayle Pellizzer, San Jose State University
Rachel Bates Wilfahrt, University of Denver
2009 Jeffrey Graveline, UAB
Kathleen Rainwater, Littleton, Colorado
Elissa M. Cochran, Provena Covenant Medical Center Library
Hilary M. Hahn, University of Wisconsin
Luz Evelyn Hernández Carrión, Simmons College
Andrea Gagliardi, University of Toronto
2008 Eva Lam, University of Toronto
Nathaniel King, UNC-Chapel Hill
Holly A. Fisher, UCLA
Margaret (Megan) E. Brisch, Simmons College
Lulu Chen, Simmons College
2007 Lisa Ryan, Christie’s, New York
David Brackus, Houston, Texas
Tara Bambrick, McGill University
Cindy Elliott, University of Arizona
Diane Owens, University of Kentucky
Leslie Wolf, San Jose State University
2006 Christina Zeller, British Columbia Securities Commission
Eileen Davenport, Harris Nesbitt-Business Research Group, Chicago
Judith Eckoff, Dominican University
Mary Beth Slade, Dalhousie University
Thomas D. Sullivan, Queens College, City University of New York
Rachel Watstein, Long Island University
2005 Claudia Cohen, San Jose State University
Terence Forsythe, Palmer School of Library and Information Science
David Gibbs, UCLA
Alexey Panchenko, Free Lancer Researcher, Lake Oswego, OR
Laura Tuers, UCLA
James Wiser, Pepperdine University
2004 Judith Akalaitis, Agilent Technologies, Wireless Division
Elizabeth Grimes, University of Maryland, College Park
Laura L. Leavitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Verna L. Riley, Center for Community Capitalism, UNC-Chapel Hill
Leslie A. Rodgers, Lucent Technologies
2003 MaryBeth Bobish, NY State Small Business Center
Hazel Cameron, Western Washington University
James Cohler, AT Kearney, Chicago
Christine Reid, University of Strathclyde – Glasgow
John Juricek, UCLA
2002 Elizabeth Larson, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chicago
Julie Fronmueller, Louisiana State University
Matthew Gibson, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Julie A. Ketterman, Long Island University
Renee Remlinger, University of Washington
Pauline Todd, University of Pittsburgh
2001 Joan Jerice Barrios, Dominican University
Genevieve Cooper, Dominican University
Jerry Bornstein, Baruch College, Newman Library
Judith Kolata, Heller Financial, Inc. Chicago, IL
Tracey Palmer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Canada
2000 Helen Kula, University of Toronto
Mary S. Kilpatrick, University of Maryland
Genevieve Lemire, University of South Carolina
Brian McGreevy, University of South Carolina
Hillary A. Stevenson, University of Pittsburgh
1999 Susan Augustine, University of Illinois
Danielle Greene, University of Tennessee
Christina Mehta Predniville, University of Maryland
Amy Schroyer, University of Western Ontario
Debra Selby, University of Maryland
1998 Leslie Wood, Hagler Bailly
Terrence Bennett, University of Illinois
Susan McAdam, University of Arizona
Mary Jane Whiteside, UT-Austin
1997 Kate Randall Haley, UMass
Kami Bedard, University of South Carolina
Jennie Berkson, Rutgers University
Genevieve Innes, University of Tennessee
Jennifer Austin Vasquez, University of Michigan
1996 Kate Krill, UW-Milwaukee
Xialoi Li, Southern Connecticut State University
Virginia Sykes, University of South Carolina
1995 Leah K. Starr, UT-Austin
Wonsik Shim, Rutgers University
1994 Marybeth Grinnan, UNC
Paula Knesel, University of Texas
Peggy Martin, Texas Woman’s University
Allison Zhang, Dalhousie University
1993 Jocelyn Ingraham, Saint Mary’s University
Awilda Reyes, University of Puerto Rico
Ernesto Evangelista, UNC
Marlys Ray, UNC
1992 Cynthia Courtney, Simmons College
Jane Scales, University of Kentucky
1989 Melissa J. Kaus, UW-Madison 1988 Linda D. Horn, Wayne State University

International Travel Award

2011 Salek Chand
2010 Sneh Lata
2009 K.V. Satyanarayana
2008 Sushma Arora
2007 Shivanthi Weerasinghe
2006 Muhammad Shafiq
2005 Vernon Tostanes, Licensed Librarian, Philippines

Business & Finance Division/SLA Europe Early Career Award

2011 Natalia Madjarevic, Queen Mary University of London
2010 Philip Gatzke, University of Brighton
2010 Philip Gatzke, University of Brighton
2009 Sara Batts, Senior Research Librarian, Reed Smith
Annie Richens, Communities and Local Government Department
2008 Sandy Peterson, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Emma Dhesi, Brighton University
2007 Verena Till, Stuttgart Media University

Business & Finance Division/SLA Asian Chapter Early Career Award

2011 Geeta K. Paliwal, University of Delhi
2010 Wan-Ching Wu, National Taiwan University

Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award

2011 April Kessler, University of Texas
2010 No award given
2009 Carissa M. Holler, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
2008 Kathleen Dreyer, Columbia University