Rebecca and I both attended SLA this year. Rebecca won an award! She was part of the Team who recreated the Competencies Document for SLA and won the Factiva Leadership Award! She looked great in her tight red dress and flippy shoes as she accepted the award with John Latham, Eileen Abels and Dee Magnoni; Joanne Marshall was not in attendance. Lots of our friends won awards this year, including my good friend Donna Scheeder of the Law Library of Congress who received the prestigious John Cotton Dana award; Doris Helfer, candidate for President Elect of SLA, who shared the Rose Vormelker award with Anne Caputo, also running for board as Chapter Cabinet Chair; Richard Geiger of the San Francisco Chronicle who became a Fellow; Richard Hulser, Mary Lee Kennedy, Dottie Moon, Lynn Berard and others who won the presidents award as the committee who selected SLA’s new executive director, Janice LaChance. Click for a full list of award winners.

Rebecca spoke about New and Evolving Roles of Business Information Professionals for the Business and Finance Division while I talked about Coaching for Success for the Library Management Division. Look under presentations on our web site for our slides.

If you weren’t able to attend the conference this year, we hope to see you at SLA next year in Toronto! In the meantime, for more info about SLA04 check out the ITI blog live from Nashville — my colleagues from Information Today and I had fun commenting, ooops blogging, about the conference and its surrounding environment. Enjoy.