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Dialog Announces Recipients of 2011 North American InfoStar Awards

Winners are honored at SLA Annual Conference

June 12, 2011 (Morrisville, North Carolina) — Dialog, a ProQuest business unit supporting professional research, announced the recipients of its 2011 North American Quantum² InfoStar Awards at a champagne reception at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia. The awards, a Dialog tradition dating from 2001, are presented annually to information professionals whose achievements demonstrate leadership and inspire others in their industry. This year's recipients are Don Boman of intellectual property law firm Kenyon and Kenyon, LLP., Jane Killian of the FBI library, and Nancy Muir of Medimmune, a Maryland-based biotechnology firm.

"InfoStars awards showcase innovators in the professional community served by Dialog... people who think about information service in new ways," said Libby Trudell, Dialog, Vice President, Marketing. "Don, Jane and Nancy show a remarkable level of creativity and deep understanding of their clients' needs. Each excels at showing their organizations just how essential information services are to success."

• Jane Killian's colleagues at the FBI's Laboratory's Quality Assurance and Training Unit in Quantico, Virginia describe her as dedicated, diligent, and "a crucial element in delivering the information needed for the laboratory's day-to-day activities." She has elevated the role of the library through her consistent outreach to other departments, ensuring they understand the services available to them.
• Similarly, Ms. Muir has built a welcoming presence for her firm's research library and its services. She is a tireless advocate for training and education not only for colleagues in her firm, but for her entire region through the founding of a Maryland-based library group that meets regularly to share ideas to help promote the role and services of library professionals.
• In his firm, Mr. Boman has become an advocate for technology and change. He embraces blog alerts, news alerts, Twitter hash pages, patent, trademark and copyright alerts, and checks Wikipedia change logs to generate a consistent flow of information. His colleagues report that he is pivotal in helping the entire firm navigate a clogged information highway in a way that keeps quality high and costs low.

InfoStar Awards are part of Dialog's Quantum² program that offers professional development services to information professionals worldwide. Providing resources lead change and transform organizations, Quantum² is built around a leadership circle of strategic and business competencies. Quantum² Workshops, case studies, white papers, and links to additional resources help information professionals build on their strengths and develop new skills. Quantum² is available at no charge to information professionals worldwide.

For additional information about the Quantum² program, please visit quantum.dialog.com.

About Dialog
ProQuest's business unit Dialog pioneered online searching in advance of the internet. As the global leader in providing mission-critical information that drives innovation by professionals of all kinds including scientists, engineers, legal practitioners and business analysts, Dialog is renowned for enabling precision search of content from the world's most authoritative publishers. Sources include massive deep web repositories of scientific, technical and biomedical literature, patents and trademarks, and thousands of industry, news and company information sources — now being made accessible through the powerful and intuitive ProQuest Dialog™ search service on the new ProQuest platform.

Professional searchers such as librarians, researchers and information users from corporate, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog for depth of content, advanced searching and the ability to provide complete solutions.

Dialog is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with offices in Sunnyvale, California, and London. Learn more about Dialog (www.dialog.com) and the entire ProQuest family of brands and companies at www.proquest.com.

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