While in Saint Louis at the SLA Leadership Summit at the end of January, I was thrilled to learn that our very own DAM Alignment Ambassador, Reece Dano, was named to the 2010 class of SLA Rising Stars.
The SLA Rising Star Award is presented annually to recognize up to
five new members who show exceptional promise of leadership and
contribution to the association and profession. See http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/awardsrecognition/risingstar/ for more info.
The following bio is excerpted and edited for DAM emphasis with permission from Reece from a similar post on the blog for the SLA GLBT Issues Caucus.
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Reece joined SLA in 2007, while he was an MLIS student at the University of
Washington’s iSchool. He initially served as the UW-SLA distance
liaison for those enrolled in the online program. As well as being our division's Alignment Ambassador, he is also Alignment Ambassador and Membership Director of the Oregon Chapter.
As an Information Specialist at Ziba Design, an interdisciplinary
design and branding firm, Dano works to “help make every Zibite
smarter, every day.” Since 2007 he has worked to build an embedded
librarianship model at the company. He provides strategic support on
multiple design and branding projects, working with team members
throughout the design process. He regularly prepares hypotheses for
primary consumer research, conducts competitive brand analyses,
provides proof-of-concept support, and normalizes external clients'
research models. He also supports Ziba's business development and
marketing initiatives. More recently he has made web-based ethnographic
studies of consumer-generated data a core competency for the company’s
Consumer Insights and Trends group.
As Membership Director of the Oregon Chapter, Dano works to promote
ties with students who may be unaware of the wide variety of career
paths available to them after graduation. He hopes to inspire students
to seek careers outside the traditional canon and think of ways to
develop careers relevant to 21st-century demands. He is forging
stronger connections to information professionals outside the Portland
Metro area via online outreach.
Previous to Ziba, he worked in technical positions at the libraries
of Boston University, Johns Hopkins University and Reed College.
In addition to his MLIS, Dano holds a Master of Music in Composition
from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and a
Bachelor of Arts from Linfield College.
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We are thrilled that Reece has been given this association wide honor and look forward to his further recognition for the award at the SLA Annual Conference in New Orleans in June. So come to the Opening Ceremony and join in the applause and then also check out Reece's DAM session "Embedded Librarianship in the Field." Congraulations, Reece! - Deb Rash
