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Dialog Sponsors Sixth Annual SLA Award for Australian and New Zealand Information Professionals

Nominations to be accepted through April 30 for the AUD2000 prize

February 17, 2010 (Morrisville, North Carolina) – Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, will sponsor the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Special Library Association’s (SLA) Informational Professional of the Year Award for the sixth consecutive year.

“As we review the nominations for this award, we get a glimpse of the innovative work that’s happening in Australia and New Zealand,” said Suzanne BeDell, Dialog general manager. “This award is particularly gratifying for Dialog because it gives us a vehicle for highlighting their creativity for all the world’s information professionals to learn from.”

The award carries a cash prize of AUD2,000 and is open to all information professionals in Australia and New Zealand. Nominees must describe the contribution they have made to the profession. The contribution may be associated with a new product or service, an innovative approach to management or service delivery, or a major paper that has led to a better appreciation of the role of information among users of their services or a wider audience. A special panel of SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter board members and regional Dialog management will select the winner, who will be announced at the SLA Annual Conference, June 2010, in New Orleans.

“This is an important recognition of the high level of professionalism Down Under,” said Jeanette Regan, Awards Chair for the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter and contact point for the award. “Each year, the nominations are instructive of where this dynamic industry is going. I hope we’ll hear from both established and emerging leaders from our region.”

Nominations are due by April 30, 2010 and should be emailed to Ms. Regan at jregan@grapevine.net.au. Any questions regarding the nomination process and selection criteria should also be directed to her. Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Nomination forms are available at http://units.sla.org/chapter/canz/

The award is part of Dialog’s larger initiative to accelerate professional development in the information industry. Among its other programs is the acclaimed Dialog Quantum² program, which offers professional education and career development services to information professionals worldwide. For more information about the program, please visit quantum.dialog.com.

About Dialog
Dialog (www.dialog.com), a pioneer of online searching in advance of the internet, is the global leader in providing mission-critical information that drives research in science, engineering, business and intellectual property. The online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog^® and DataStar^® brands — give users the ability to search through more than 1.5 billion unique records from the world's most authoritative publishers. Sources include in-depth, deep web repositories of scientific, technical and biomedical data, patents and trademarks, and thousands of industry, news and company information sources. Librarians, researchers and information users from corporate, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog for depth of content, precision searching and the ability to provide complete solutions.

Dialog, LLC, part of the ProQuest (www.proquest.com) family of brands, is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with offices in Sunnyvale, California, and London.

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