Tillman Elected To Lead Special Libraries Association - Hope N. Tillman - Brief Article

Information Outlook, April, 2000

Hope N. Tillman is the newly elected president-elect of the Special Libraries Association. Tillman is director of libraries at Babson College, Babson Park, MA. She and the newly elected members of SLA's Board of Directors will be installed June 14, 2000 at the ninety-first Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, when Donna Scheeder, deputy assistant director of the Library of Congress, will be sworn-in as president of SLA. Tillman will serve as president-elect of SLA until June of 2001, when her term begins.

Also elected to the SLA Board of Directors are:

Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect Daille Pettit, director of information services, American Hotel & Motel Association, Washington, DC.

Division Cabinet Chair-Elect - Susan M. Klopper, director of the Andersen Business Research Center, Arthur Andersen LLP, Atlanta, GA.

Treasurer - Richard Geiger, library director of The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA.

Directors - Lucy Lettis, principal with Arthur Andersen LLP, New York, NY, and director of business information services; David Stern, director of science libraries and information services at Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Tillman is a twenty-six year member of SLA. Throughout her career, she has served the association in several capacities, holding a position as an at-large director on the SLA board (1994-1997) and serving on the Strategic Planning Committee (1995-1996) as chair. In addition, Tillman has been very active in her chapter and her subject-specific division, serving as Boston Chapter President (1993-1994) and as Information Technology Division Chair (1998-1999). Tillman earned her M.L.S. from Rutgers Graduate School of Library Service and an M.B.A. from Rider University School of Business Administration.

Several current SLA officers will assume new positions for 2000-2001. They are Susan DiMattia (Cahners Publishing Co., New York, NY), as past-president; Juanita Richardson (Richardson, Jalakas & Associates, Toronto, Ontario), as chapter cabinet chair; and Doris Helfer (California State University, Northridge, CA), as division cabinet chair. Continuing to serve on the SLA Board of Directors are Sandy Moltz (General Electric, Technical Information Center, Lynn, MA); Wilda Newman (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD); Mary "Dottie" Moon (United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT); and G. Lynn Berard (Engineering and Science Library, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA).