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
again congrats to Reece - here's the release from SLA announcing the 2010 Rising Stars - http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_blog/2010/04/sla-announces-2010-rising-star-award-recipients.html
Posted by: Deb Rash | April 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM