Click on a title to read more about this year's recipients and their contributions. Thank you all for your continual service to our chapter.
Library Partner Award [0]: Buzzy Basch
Up and Coming Award [0]: Laura Fu
Author Award [0]: Carla Owens
Web 2.0 Award [0]: Dianna Wiggins
Library Champion Award [0]: Nancy Maloney
Outstanding Achievement Award [0]: Katrina Perez

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Nancy has been the Electronic Resources Librarian on assignment from Library Associates Companies at BP in Naperville, IL since 2005. She is a member of the WebJunction Illinois Advisors Team, the WebJunction Illinois Subject Curator for Special Librarians, and she participates on DuPage Library System's Technology and Marketing Committees. Nancy is also a state of Illinois Synergist; Synergy is the Illinois Library Leadership Initiative Program. Nancy has spoken at ILA, the Illinois Library Association annual conference, on marketing twice. A report on the effort of the BP Library to do "buzz marketing" resulted in a recent mention of Nancy in the new ALA editions book called, Building a Buzz: Libraries & Word-of-Mouth Marketing by Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace. Thank you, Nancy.

Outstanding Achievement Award is awarded to an Illinois Chapter member or Committee who has exhibited outstanding, unique or beyond-the-call-of-duty service to the Chapter. As it happens, this year’s outstanding achievement award winner is no stranger to the podium -- in 2006, the Outstanding Achievement Award went to the group contributing to the vision and hard work of the Informant Committee in developing, implementing, and maintaining a new generation communication tool for the Illinois Chapter. In fact, a search of the SLA Illinois web site illustrates how wide and deep our Outstanding Achievement Award winner’s participation is in chapter activities. It ranges from hosting dine-arounds to volunteering for committee assignments to coordinating a web site conversion to coordinating yet another web site conversion to attending the 2007 Leadership Summit and to accepting the presidency of our chapter. As one contributor stated: “Not to take away what others have done, but she really turned it up a notch!”

Katrina Perez, in recognition of your years of service with our web site, the achievements of the chapter under your watch as President, for your grace under pressure, your ability to include so many others in chapter activities, and for your contributions that are sure to follow, congratulations for Outstanding Achievement. submitted by Bobbie Goering, Joyce Fedezcko, Penny Sympson