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New and Evolving Roles of Information Professionals
Moderator: Rita Costello, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Speakers: Cindy Hill, Sun Micro Systems; Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates

Rebecca Jones has an extensive background as a facilitator and consultant as well as a reference specialist, corporate manager, and trainer. Graduating with her MLS from University of Toronto’s Faculty of Library Science, she worked for the Royal Bank of Canada and then Imperial Oil Ltd in libraries, records management, human resources and information technology. During the past 12 years as a partner in Dysart and Jones, her focus has been on helping libraries and information intensive organizations develop strategic and business plans, products and services, and organizational infrastructures that are as visionary as they are tactical. She has significant experience facilitating organizational processes, such as planning, decision-making, problem solving, conflict resolution, and teamwork that improve an organization’s ability to adapt to new technologies, markets, and challenges. She is an instructor for University of Toronto’s Managing Information Enterprises program and a member of SLA’s Competency Committee which has just been awarded the 2004 Factiva Leadership Award for 21 st Century Competencies in Action.

Personas: The Person Behind the Glass
Moderator: Liz Bibby, Harvard Business School Baker Library
Speaker: Stephen Abram, Sirsi Corporation

Stephen Abram, MLS, is President 2004-2005 of the Canadian Library Association and Vice President Innovation of Sirsi Corporation.  He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He ran libraries for Coopers & Lybrand and Hay Group.  Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA.  He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto.  He gives over 45 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences.

Sustainability Reporting and the Global Reporting Initiative
Moderator: Rita Ormsby, Information Services Librarian, The William & Anita Newman Library, Baruch College, The City University of New York
Speaker: Dr. Mark A. Cohen, Senior Associate Dean & Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Business, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

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Dr. Mark A. Cohen is the senior associate dean at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining the Owen School faculty, Prof. Cohen worked for the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. His research has been in the areas of government regulations, law and economics, white-collar and corporate crime, including analysis of the impact and cost of crime on corporations and society. For ten years he served as the co-director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. At Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, he is the Justin Potter Professor in American Competitive Business.

You, Inc! Perspectives on Owning an Information Research Firm
Speakers: Suzanne Sabroski, Sabroski & Associate; Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services

Suzanne Sabroski is principal of Sabroski & Associates, providing custom business research and communications services to business professionals. She is the author of Super Searchers Make It On Their Own, news editor for ONLINE magazine, and was recently named editor of Information Services Market Place, forthcoming from Information Today, Inc. She is a consultant with Chris Olson & Associates, and an active member of AIIP. Prior to starting her business in 1995, she was a very solo corporate librarian and felt that her SLA membership was a lifeline to the outside world.

Mary Ellen Bates is the owner of Bates Information Services, providing business research to business professionals and special librarians, and consulting services to the information industry. Prior to starting her business in 1991, she worked in special libraries for over a decade. She is a frequent international speaker and she has written six books and innumerable articles on the information industry, including her latest book, Building and Running a Successful Research Business: A Guide for the Independent Information Professional. She is the current president of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and a long-time SLA member.

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