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Technical Services Interest Group
December 10, 2009
TSIG 2009 Award Winners
The Technical Services Interest Group of CLA is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 TSIG Award of Achievement as well as the 2009 TSIG New Leader Award. Winners were announced during the Awards Ceremony at the 111th Annual CLA Conference & Exhibition in Pasadena, CA.
Technical Services Interest Group Award of Achievement
Ida Z. daRoza, San Mateo County Library
The Technical Services Interest Group of the California Library Association is pleased to announce that Ida Z. daRoza has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the CLA TSIG Award of Achievement.
Ida was a 2003-2004 Spectrum Scholar, and has been active in professional organizations since her graduation in 2005 from the San Jose School of Library and Information Science. In addition to being the cataloger for the San Mateo County Library, where she won a county award for excellence for her implementation of authority control, Ida served as Vice-President/ President-Elect and President (later Chair) of ACTSS (later TSIG) during the tumultuous year that saw CLA's first Spring Fling and the reorganization of our section into an interest group, guiding the group through the transition with patience and aplomb. Ida has been a strong advocate of continuing education and staff development in Technical Services. Under her leadership, ACTSS/TSIG produced three educational programs for technical services librarians during the Spring Fling, as well as programs for the 2009 CLA annual conference. Ida is the author of a chapter on professional development through associations, conferences, and meetings, which appears in the 2009 Neal/Schuman publication Staff Development Strategies that Work: Developing New Library Managers and Leaders. Ida has also contributed articles to the TSIG publication Technotes. She brought TSIG into the world of Web 2.0 by creating a TSIG presence in Facebook and Second Life.
Ida is a member of REFORMA, serving as the West Coast Chapter's representative to the executive board and creating and moderating the chapter's Facebook page. She is currently representing REFORMA in ALA's Diversity Council and has chaired the Services to Latinos Round Table within CLA.
TSIG is pleased to honor Ida daRoza for her tireless devotion to the library profession and to technical services.
Technical Services Interest Group New Leader Award
Sarah A. Buchanan, University of California, Los Angeles
The California Library Association Technical Services Interest Group New Leader Award for 2009 has been presented to Sarah A. Buchanan.
The award committee was impressed by Sarah's thoughts on future directions in technical services, her articulation of the significance of her educational and work experience, her evidence of professional activities, and her willingness to contribute her talents to the CLA Technical Services Interest Group.
Sarah A. Buchanan received her M.L.I.S. degree in June, 2009, from the University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. For the past two years she has been a Library Assistant in the UCLA School of Law, Library Cataloging & Metadata Section, and she has additional work experience in cataloging and archives.
Although she is a new librarian, Sarah already has a record of professional association service and leadership, as well as publications. She is now an active member of the 2009-2010 Technical Services Interest Group Board of Directors by virtue of her appointment as Newsletter Committee Co-Chair.
The Technical Services Interest Group is pleased to honor this enthusiastic new librarian and to welcome her into our interest group and our profession.
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