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Dialog's Libby Trudell Named 2010 SLA Fellow

Designation recognizes service to the association and profession

March 3, 2009 (Morrisville, North Carolina) — Longtime Special Libraries Association (SLA) champion Libby Trudell, vice president of marketing for Dialog, has been named a 2010 SLA Fellow. Fellowship in SLA is presented to members in recognition of past, present and future service to the Association and the profession. No more than five fellows are selected in any given year.

"I have long admired the combination of activism and mentoring demonstrated by the SLA Fellows," Trudell said. "I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute to this important component of the SLA community."

The designation of Fellow is presented to active professionals who are not presently serving on the Board of Directors. Fellows are called upon, and expected to advise the Association's Board of Directors, to prepare necessary documentation, and to alert the membership to issues and trends warranting action. Individuals receiving this honor will be able to use the title Fellow of the Special Libraries Association.

Ms. Trudell has been an active member of SLA since joining in 1995. In the last 15 years, she has held a number of leadership roles, including serving on the Board of Directors from 2006-2008, and is currently chair of the 2011 SLA Conference Planning Council.

Ms. Trudell currently directs marketing for Dialog and other ProQuest products for the global corporate and professional market. She has had responsibility for numerous functions at Dialog including information professional market development, product management, strategic planning, product marketing, and customer services. Prior to Dialog, Ms. Trudell worked for several library consortia, providing training and marketing for OCLC, RLIN and other library automation products. She started her career at the Massachusetts Bureau of Library Extension, supporting administration of funding for the LSCA program.

"We're delighted to see SLA bestow this well-deserved honor on our colleague," said Suzanne BeDell, Dialog General Manager. "Libby and SLA are an ideal match. I know she'll have a continued positive impact on an organization with whom Dialog has had a long history of commitment and sponsorship."

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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