SLA Europe Chapter

Liz applauded for Alignment activities

Liz Blankson-Hemans, SLA Europe board member and SLA Chapter Cabinet chair-elect, recently received commendation from Anne Caputo, SLA President. The Presidential Citation was given to members of the Public Relations Advisory Council.

Full details are on the SLA HQ blog. Congratulations, Liz!

Early Career Conference Award: winners announced

We are pleased to announce that Philip Gatzke and Christopher Rhodes are the recipients of this year's Early Career Conference Award.

The full text of the official press release is available here. Philip and Christopher are in for an amazing trip and we look forward to publishing their accounts after SLA 2010.

SLA Europe President Kate Arnold said: “We are in the fourth year of this award and it has been encouraging to have a large, high quality pool of applicants to choose from. Our two winners impressed the panel with their energy and enthusiasm to deal with the challenges and opportunities that currently face our sector. We are delighted to be able to recognise and encourage such talent."

If you'd like to know more about the ECCA award or to find out about other SLA award schemes then contact the SLA Europe Awards Chair.

Edit: There's photographic evidence of Philip in another announcement about the award, this one from his university.

Closing date approaching for IP Award nominations

Do you know someone who you think is outstanding in the information profession?  Is that someone you? 

Luckily, there is still time to nominate someone for this Award before the closing date of 28^th February 2010.

The winner of the SLA Europe Information Professional Award 2010 receives an expenses-paid trip to the SLA Conference in New Orleans, June 2010.  They are also invited to speak at SLA Europe’s Soiree in July in London.

The current Award holder is Gimena Campos Cervera, Senior Information Researcher in the U.S. Embassy to Italy, Office of Public Affairs, in Rome.  Gimena commented:  “The IP Award was a great opportunity to grow professionally and spread the word about SLA in Italy. It gave me the chance to meet many incredibly interesting people from all over the world, during the Centennial Conference in Washington D.C. and the European venues in London."

Further information and the nomination form is on our main SLA Europe website. Please email  the SLA Europe Awards Chair if you have any questions.

With many thanks to our generous sponsor, Dow Jones.