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InfoPro Alliance Resource Center

The increased pace of change within the information world means that you are constantly challenged with learning new skills in order to thrive. The need for these new skills was recognized by SLA in the production of the document, "Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century". The document, available at www.sla.org, outlines 11 Professional and 13 Personal Competencies necessary for successful information professionals.

The InfoPro Resource Center has been designed to provide you with the practical tools, examples, and templates needed to develop the skills outlined in the Competencies document. Throughout the year you will see new sections dealing with particular skills. You will be able to easily customize the templates to fit your own organization. You will also find additional reading and links to other web sites with related information. Sections include:

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Identifying Corporate Information Needs Creating a Strategic Plan Marketing the Information Center Creating Corporate Information Policies Measuring Corporate Investments in Information Measuring Customer Satisfaction Training Tools for the Information Professional Knowledge Management from the Information Professional Perspective Copyright and Licensing Issues in the Digital World Effective Communications

These tools have been developed by information consultant, Jan Sykes. Jan is an independent consultant specializing in information management projects. She has over fifteen years' management experience in the information industry, most recently as Senior Director of Client Services Consulting at Knight-Ridder Information.

Partnership with SLA

Programs for Your Organization or Assocation Meetings

Are you looking for timely, relevant topics for your local Chapter meetings?  Dow Jones provides the following one-hour professional presentations suitable for a Chapter program:

• Perception is Reality: Creating Your Elevator Talk and Nine other Practical Marketing Ideas to Promote your Information Function
• eLearning: Creation, Promotion and Evaluation of Electronic Learning Tools
• Beyond Marketing:  Use of Consultative Selling Techniques to Promote Your Information Center
• Measuring Corporate Investment in Information;  The ROI Proposition

To find out more about these programs, please contact SLA's Professional Development Center or infopro2@dowjones.com.

Leadership Award

The Dow Jones Leadership Award is presented annually to a member of the Special Libraries Association who exemplifies leadership as a special librarian through examples of professional and personal competencies.

The Leadership Award is based on the 11 professional competencies and 13 personal competencies essential for special librarians, as highlighted in the "Competencies for Special Librarians for the 21st Century"

Read the executive summary.

SLA Europe Information Professional Award

Dow Jones sponsors the SLA Europe Information Professional award, which seeks to recognize outstanding acheivement in special librarianship.  The award, formerly called the European Special Librarian of the Year Award, is given to an established member of the profession living and working in Europe.  The recipient receives an all-expense paid trip to the annual SLA conference.

2009 Award Winner: Gimena Campos Cervera, U.S. Embassy to Italy

2008 Award Winner: Dennie Heye, Shell International Exploration and Production (SIEP)

2007 Award Winner: Janet Hopkins, Drueker & Co. GmbH & Co., KG

2006 Award Winner: Marie-Madeleine Salmon, Publicist

2005 Award Winner: Steve Borley, Royal Bank of Scotland

2004 Award Winner: Janet Tomlinson, Institution of Electrical Engineers

2003 Award Winner:  Peter Clarke, Global Head of Information Services, Mercer Oliver Wyman

2002 Award Winner:  Margareta Nelke, Global Process for Technology Intelligence, Tetra Pak

2001 Award Winner:  Annabel Colley, Web Producer, BBC Current Affairs

2000 Award Winner:  William Hann, Editor of Free Pint (www.freepint.com)

For additional information on nominating someone or nominating yourself, please visit the SLA Web site at www.sla-europe.org

 

The Dow Jones - Customer Advisory Board

The Customer Advisory Board includes senior level information professionals and other key Dow Jones users from around the world.

Members come from some of Dow Jones's top customers in consulting, financial services, publishing and other industry sectors.

Members meet annually to provide feedback and to meet with members of our Leadership Team.  There is ongoing communication with Board members during the year as we preview new developments and solicit direction for Dow Jones products and services.

For more information about the Customer Advisory Board, contact Anne Caputo at anne.caputo@dowjones.com

Name

Company

Location

Term Ends

Michel Barthe	Bombardier, Inc	Montreal, Canada	2009
Giles Bonabeau	Credit Agricole S.A.	Paris, France	2009
Jenny Burrowes	Accenture Research	Chicago, USA	2011
Dora Clark	House of Commons	London, UK	2010
Julia Duggan	Ernst & Young	London, UK	2010
Alison Harman	UBS	London, UK	2010
Jillian Hamer	BCG	San Francisco, USA	2009
Craig Kershaw	Marsh Europe	London, UK	2009
Martine Meheux	Rothschild	Paris, France	2010
Sandra Papenfus	Sasol Technology	Secunda, South Africa	2009
Sheldon Ross Carmen Ruh-Pohlenz	Swiss Reinsurance Co. Bayer Health Care	New York, USA Berlin, Germany	2009 2011
Pam Russell Edward Wickersham Craig Wingrove	Westpac IBM KPMG	Sydney, Australia South Salem, NY USA Montvale, NJ USA	2009 2011 2011

 

ADVISORY BOARD ALUMNI

Name	Company	Location	Term Ended
Kyoko Toyoda	Formerly JP Morgan	Tokyo, Japan	2001
Lee Dirks	Microsoft	Redmond, WA USA	2002
Mark Jewell	Formerly Lehman Brothers	London, UK	2002
Cris Kinghorn	Formerly Deutsche Bank	London, UK	2002
Anne Mintz	Formerly Forbes	New York, NY USA	2002
Elizabeth Swan	Information Edge	Sydney, Australia	2002
Carol Tenopir	University of Tennessee	Knoxville, TN USA	2002
Jan Chindlund	Formerly MacDonald’s Corporation	Oak Brook , IL USA	2003
Beatrice Kerr	Deloitte & Touche	Toronto, Canada	2003
Toby Pearlstein	Formerly Bain & Company	Boston, MA USA	2003
Marie-Madeleine Salmon	PUBLICIS Group	Paris, France	2003
Felicitas Schneider	Roland Berger & Partners	Munich, Germany	2003
Ellen Kuner	Formerly Burson-Marsteller	Chicago, IL USA	2004
Helen Day	Formerly The Boots Group, PLC	Nottingham, UK	2005
Debbie Hartzman	Formerly Amgen, Inc.	Thousand Oaks, CA USA	2005
Laurie Leichman	McKinsey & Co.	New York, NY USA	2005
Nathalie Corre	Ernst & Young	Paris, France	2006
Mark Davies	Microsoft Corporation	Redmond, WA USA	2006
Marcel Hausheer	Swiss Reinsurance Co.	Zurich, Switzerland	2006
Cynthea Penman	Formerly Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	Toronto, Canada	2006
Judy Reeves	Formerly HP Billiton Petroleum PtyLtd	Melbourne, Australia	2006
Julie Sabaratnam	Formerly CREDIT SUISSE	Singapore	2006
Elizabeth Bourg	International Monetary Fund/World Bank	Washington, DC USA	2007
Michelle Burylo	Air Products & Chemicals	Allentown, PA USA	2007
Virginie Favre	LAZARD FRERES	Paris, France	2007
Stephen Phillips Catherine Porta Ingo Titschak	Morgan Stanley PricewaterhouseCoopers WestLB	London, UK New York, NY USA Dusseldorf, Germany	2007 2008 2008
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LIS Academic Program

Teach Dow Jones Factiva products in your library and information science classes to ensure that students are getting a broad education in online resources.

Our LIS program includes:

• Complimentary passwords for student access to Factiva.com
• Learning Materials and Sample Exercises
• Web-based training class conducted by Dow Jones Learning Programs

For more information about incorporating Dow Jones Factiva products into your curriculum, contact:

Lorraine Bell at lorraine.bell@dowjones.com

Chat with other students!
Link to a global discussion group with support and resources for students in information courses: www.freepint.com/student