Award Recipients

Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship | Distinguished Member Award | Distinguished Leadership & Service Award

Impact Award | Professional Grants & Student Stipend Awards | International Travel Award

B&F/SLA Europe Early Career Award | B&F/SLA Asian Chapter Early Career Award | Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award


Business & Finance Division Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship

2017 Sarah Papania, Research Associate, ABS Capital Partners
2016 Shannon Daily, ABS Capital Partners
2015 Lora Bray, Credit Union National Association
2014 Stephen Fleming, Young & Rubicam
2013 Debal Kar, Ambedkar University
2012 PK Jain, University of Delhi Enclave
2011 Pam Rollo, Standard & Poor’s
2010 Sushma Arora, Tata Consultancy Services
2009 Barbara Ferry, National Geographic Society
2008 No award given
2007 Ann Cullen, Harvard University
2006 Rita Ormsby, Baruch College, City University of NY
2005 Charles Popovich, Ohio State University
2004 No award given
2002 Donald Schnedeker, Management Library, Johnson School, Cornell University
2001 Samantha Whitney-Ulane, The Whitney Group
2000 Jan Chindlund, McDonald Corp

Toby Pearlstein, Bain & Co

Liz Bibby, Harvard University

Pamela C. Rollo, Credit Suisse First Boston

1999 Susan Klopper, Arthur Anderson Atlanta
1998 Carla Owens, John Nuveen Chicago
1997 Eloisa Gomez Borah, UCLA
1996 Ruth Pagell, Emory University
1995 Rita Costello, UCLA
1994 Hope Tillman, Babson College
1993 Janet Reed, Continental Bank Chicago
1992 John Ganly, New York Public Library
1991 Pamela Handman, Cetus Corporation
1989 Dorothy Sedgwick, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Toronto
1988 Vicki Watkins, Vanderbilt University
1986 Joan Gervino, American Bankers Association
1984 Sylvia G. Mechanic, Brooklyn Public Library


Business & Finance Division Distinguished Member Award

2017 Terri Brooks, retired B&F member
2016 Cindy Lenox, John Carroll University
2015 Michael Enyart, University of Wisconsin
2014 Don Schnedeker, Cornell University (retired)
2013 Tariq Ashraf, University of Delhi, India
2012 Rita Costello
2011 Susan Klopper
2010 No award given
2009 Jean Scanlan, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
2008 Jane Cooney, BooksforBusiness.com
2007 Judy Field

Charlotte Kohrs

2006 Susan DiMatttia
2005 No award given
2004 Bob Bellanti, UCLA Library
2003 Carol Ginsburg, Deutsche Bank
2002 John Ganly, New York Public Library

Joan Gervino, American Bankers Association Library

* Helen Belilovsky, Fred Alger Management

* Maureen Olson, Marsh McLennen

* Division members who were killed on September 11, 2001 in the North Tower

of the World Trade Center and honored posthumously

2001 Elaine Clough, California Luthern University

Mel Westerman, Pennsylvania State University

2000 Janet S. Reed, Bank of America
1999 Carl Braun, Syracuse University
1998 Pearl Alberts, Boston College

Joan Canning, Brooklyn Public Library

1997 No award given
1996 Paul Wasserman, University of Maryland
1995 Jo Ann Aufdenkamp, Federal Reserve Bank

Mary McNierney Grant, Long Island University

Jennifer Jones, General American Investors

Divakara (Dik) Varma, York University

1994 No award given
1993 Sara Beth Allen, Dallas Public Library
1992 Sylvia G. Mechanic, Brooklyn Public Library

James B. Woy, Mercantile Library – Philadelphia

1991 No award given
1990 Dorothy Vogel, Brooklyn Business Library
1989 Theodora McGill, Export-Import Bank

Katherine Cveljo, North Texas State University

Ruth Cannon, Federal Reserve Bank Richmond

1988 Dorothy Kasman, Coopers & Lybrand NY

Alice Hunsucker, Wells Fargo San Francisco

Betsy Ann Olive, Cornell University

1987 Jean Duess, Federal Reserve Bank
1986 Charlotte Georgi, UCLA
1984 Lorna Daniells, Harvard Business School


Distinguished Leadership & Service Award

2013 Praveen Kumar Jain, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
2012 Kyle Naff and Katie Memorial Foundation
2011 No award given
2010 Carol Ginsburg and Brotherhood Synagogue
2009 Bobbi Weaver and Haiti Reads


Impact Award

2013 Ozzie Meza, Allstate Insurance Company
2012 Gayle Gossen, Dow Jones
2011 Sushma Arora, Tata Consultancy Services


Professional Grants and Student Stipends

2017 Professional Grant Recipients

Dr. Debal C. Kar, University Librarian, Ambedkar University Delhi

Student Stipend

Ian Richardson, MLIS Candidate, Wayne State University

2016 Professional Grant Recipients

Jim Murphy, Senior Research and Reference Specialist, WilmerHale

Student Stipend

Christine Moua, MLIS Candidate, Simmons College

2015 Professional Grant Recipients

Patricia Aspinwall, Prospect Researcher at Ontario Lung Association

Student Stipend

Mychele Criley, University of Pittsburgh

2014 Professional Grant Recipients

Emily Cox, BMO Capital Markets

Student Stipend

Katie Schmitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caroline Patton, University of South Carolina

2013 Professional Grant Recipients

KC Hudson, Jensen Beach, Florida

Margaret A. Smith, Staten Island, New York

Helen Sobolik, J.P. Morgan Business Research Center, New York

Student Stipend

I-Ju Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduation date: May 2013

2012 Stephanie Quail, University of Toronto

Lauren Reiter, University of Pittsburgh

Ilana Barnes, University of Michigan

Adrian Mitescu, Pacific Newspaper Group

Anna Shallenberger, Targeted Knowledge

Sushma Arora, Children Book Trust

2011 Hyun-Duck Chung, NCSU

Barbara N. Wheeler, Nautic Partners

PK Jain, University of Delhi Enclave

Gillian Ralph, University of Aukland

Danielle Salomon, UCLA

Aileen Marshall, University of South Carolina

2010 Anne Mintz, New York, NY

Maureen Festa, Boston University, MA

Betty Edwards, Braintree, MA

Michelle Dollinger, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Gayle Pellizzer, San Jose State University

Rachel Bates Wilfahrt, University of Denver

2009 Jeffrey Graveline, UAB

Kathleen Rainwater, Littleton, Colorado

Elissa M. Cochran, Provena Covenant Medical Center Library

Hilary M. Hahn, University of Wisconsin

Luz Evelyn Hernández Carrión, Simmons College

Andrea Gagliardi, University of Toronto

2008 Eva Lam, University of Toronto

Nathaniel King, UNC-Chapel Hill

Holly A. Fisher, UCLA

Margaret (Megan) E. Brisch, Simmons College

Lulu Chen, Simmons College

2007 Lisa Ryan, Christie’s, New York

David Brackus, Houston, Texas

Tara Bambrick, McGill University

Cindy Elliott, University of Arizona

Diane Owens, University of Kentucky

Leslie Wolf, San Jose State University

2006 Christina Zeller, British Columbia Securities Commission

Eileen Davenport, Harris Nesbitt-Business Research Group, Chicago

Judith Eckoff, Dominican University

Mary Beth Slade, Dalhousie University

Thomas D. Sullivan, Queens College, City University of New York

Rachel Watstein, Long Island University

2005 Claudia Cohen, San Jose State University

Terence Forsythe, Palmer School of Library and Information Science

David Gibbs, UCLA

Alexey Panchenko, Free Lancer Researcher, Lake Oswego, OR

Laura Tuers, UCLA

James Wiser, Pepperdine University

2004 Judith Akalaitis, Agilent Technologies, Wireless Division

Elizabeth Grimes, University of Maryland, College Park

Laura L. Leavitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Verna L. Riley, Center for Community Capitalism, UNC-Chapel Hill

Leslie A. Rodgers, Lucent Technologies

2003 MaryBeth Bobish, NY State Small Business Center

Hazel Cameron, Western Washington University

James Cohler, AT Kearney, Chicago

Christine Reid, University of Strathclyde – Glasgow

John Juricek, UCLA

2002 Elizabeth Larson, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chicago

Julie Fronmueller, Louisiana State University

Matthew Gibson, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Julie A. Ketterman, Long Island University

Renee Remlinger, University of Washington

Pauline Todd, University of Pittsburgh

2001 Joan Jerice Barrios, Dominican University

Genevieve Cooper, Dominican University

Jerry Bornstein, Baruch College, Newman Library

Judith Kolata, Heller Financial, Inc. Chicago, IL

Tracey Palmer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Canada

2000 Helen Kula, University of Toronto

Mary S. Kilpatrick, University of Maryland

Genevieve Lemire, University of South Carolina

Brian McGreevy, University of South Carolina

Hillary A. Stevenson, University of Pittsburgh

1999 Susan Augustine, University of Illinois

Danielle Greene, University of Tennessee

Christina Mehta Predniville, University of Maryland

Amy Schroyer, University of Western Ontario

Debra Selby, University of Maryland

1998 Leslie Wood, Hagler Bailly

Terrence Bennett, University of Illinois

Susan McAdam, University of Arizona

Mary Jane Whiteside, UT-Austin

1997 Kate Randall Haley, UMass

Kami Bedard, University of South Carolina

Jennie Berkson, Rutgers University

Genevieve Innes, University of Tennessee

Jennifer Austin Vasquez, University of Michigan

1996 Kate Krill, UW-Milwaukee

Xialoi Li, Southern Connecticut State University

Virginia Sykes, University of South Carolina

1995 Leah K. Starr, UT-Austin

Wonsik Shim, Rutgers University

1994 Marybeth Grinnan, UNC

Paula Knesel, University of Texas

Peggy Martin, Texas Woman’s University

Allison Zhang, Dalhousie University

1993 Jocelyn Ingraham, Saint Mary’s University

Awilda Reyes, University of Puerto Rico

Ernesto Evangelista, UNC

Marlys Ray, UNC

1992 Cynthia Courtney, Simmons College

Jane Scales, University of Kentucky

1989 Melissa J. Kaus, UW-Madison 1988 Linda D. Horn, Wayne State University


International Travel Award

2013 Cecilia Justino
2012 María Violeta Bertolini
2011 Salek Chand
2010 Sneh Lata
2009 K.V. Satyanarayana
2008 Sushma Arora
2007 Shivanthi Weerasinghe
2006 Muhammad Shafiq
2005 Vernon Tostanes, Licensed Librarian, Philippines


Business & Finance Division/SLA Europe Early Career Award

2013 Laura Williams, ITV
2012 Ruth Jenkins, University of Sheffield
2011 Natalia Madjarevic, Queen Mary University of London
2010 Philip Gatzke, University of Brighton
2009 Sara Batts, Senior Research Librarian, Reed Smith

Annie Richens, Communities and Local Government Department

2008 Sandy Peterson, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Emma Dhesi, Brighton University

2007 Verena Till, Stuttgart Media University


Business & Finance Division/SLA Asian Chapter Early Career Award

2013 Milind Patil, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
2012 Joseph Yap, De La Salle University Library, Makati Extension Campus
2011 Geeta K. Paliwal, University of Delhi
2010 Wan-Ching Wu, National Taiwan University


Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award

2016 Hiromi Kubo, California State University, Fresno
2015 Raymond Pun, New York University
2014 Aleha McCauley, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Library
2013 Kara Moore, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2012 Jeff Graveline, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2011 April Kessler, University of Texas
2010 No award given
2009 Carissa M. Holler, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
2008 Kathleen Dreyer, Columbia University