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Dialog Announces 2010 Quantum² InfoStars at London Online

Ivaldi, Knott, and Michaud honored for their contributions

November 30, 2010 (Morrisville, North Carolina, and London) — Dialog, a leader in online information services for professional searchers, announced the recipients of its 2010 Quantum² InfoStar Awards for the International region. The awards honor information professionals whose achievements demonstrate leadership and inspire others to act as catalysts for change.

The 2010 winners are

• Silvia Ivaldi, Head of R&D Information Unit, Chiesi Farmaceutici (Italy)
• Samantha Knott, Medical Information Manager, Napp Pharmaceuticals (UK)
• and Fabienne Michaud, Customer Services Manager, Royal Society of Medicine (UK).

Ms. Ivaldi coordinates the R&D library and Scientific Information Services that supports Chiesi Farmaceutici's discovery, clinical, regulatory and commercial teams. She is being honored for providing, with the support of her collaborators, a dynamic information service for her organization by implementing tools and systems to bring resources directly into her users' workflows, as well as for her professional networking and skill in mentoring and guiding fellow researchers.

As Medical Information Manager at Napp Pharmaceuticals, Ms. Knott leads a team that provides high quality and timely responses to medical inquiries from healthcare professionals and internal customers at Napp. She is being recognized for rejuvenating information service provision along with evaluating and restructuring subscription models to give her organization high value service. Her efforts have been so effective that she has raised the profile of the department within the entire organization.

The Royal Society of Medicine's Ms. Michaud is Customer Services Manager, responsible for providing a high-quality information service for members and fellows of the society. She is being awarded an InfoStar for her intimate knowledge of the information needs of her organization and for spearheading the provision of value-added sources that meet these needs, raising the profile of the information service.

"Silvia, Sam and Fabienne are creative thinkers who truly embrace 'service' as the foundation of our profession," said Libby Trudell, vice president, market development. "These are the professionals that position information services as essential to healthy organizations. It's an honor for Dialog to recognize their contributions."

The InfoStars Award is part of Dialog's lauded Quantum² program — a leadership development framework for information professionals worldwide. Awards are presented annually to information professionals in various regions around the world. For additional information about the Quantum² program, including profiles on past winners, please visit www.dialog.com.

Dialog supports the creation of content and technology that help organizations drive innovation. Users rely on Dialog to discover, validate and market.

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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