Welcome to the SLA DBIO Ballot:

The Nominations Committee of DBIO is pleased present the ballot of candidates for office to be voted upon by the SLA DBIO membership.

This ballot provides voting for new DBIO officers for Chair-Elect, Secretary and Director.

Duties of these officers can be found on the DBIO webpage at: http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/inside/governance/documents/practices.html

Standing For Chair-Elect

Nancy Dickenson

Nancy Dickenson is currently senior librarian at the Stanford University Hospital Health Library in Palo Alto, CA. An SLA member for seven years, she is active in DBIO. For the most recent Washington, D.C. conference, she served as the division’s program planning chair. She has been Medical Section chair, as well. Active in other professional organizations, including MLA and the Northern California and Nevada Medical Libraries Group, she was recently appointed to a statewide committee overseeing the development of a consumer health toolkit for public libraries, an LSTA funded project of the California State Library, in conjunction with the California Healthcare Foundation and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region. Nancy holds an MLIS from San Jose State University. Before becoming a librarian, Nancy had a twenty year career in marketing and public relations, primarily in the medical and technology industries.

Standing for Secretary (two year term)

Tony Stankus

Tony Stankus is currently the Life Sciences Librarian & Science Coordinator (with the rank of full Professor) at the University of Arkansas. He was the Science Librarian at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA from 1974-2007, and concurrently the Adjunct Professor for the Survey of Special Libraries course at the URI Graduate School of Library & Information Studies from 1982-2007 . The author of 10 books, and over 160 papers, largely on biomedical librarianship, he has also served the Division as DBIO blogmaster since 2007 (22,000 hits by September, 2009), and as Director (2008-2009). He was the Project Leader for the DBIO 100 Poll and the Centennial Business Luncheon last June in Washington, DC. He was named a Fellow of the SLA this year.


Standing for Director (two year term)

Nancy Curtis

Nancy R. Curtis, Science & Engineering Librarian at the University of Maine, has been a member of DBIO since 1989. She previously served as Treasurer of the Division, and chaired both the Membership and Awards Committees. Nancy has also served on several other Division committees, including Annual Conference Program Planning and Fund Development.

We would like to thank the candidates for running.

2009 DBIO Nominations and Elections Committee
John Tebo, Chair
David Duggar
Linda Maddux
Janet Weiss

VOTING WILL CLOSE NOVEMBER 13, 2009