Nominations

See DBIO Recommended Practices - Nomination of Officers

The voting period begins Wednesday, October 23, 2018. The Nominations Committee expects to proceed with the election of these nominees under the Election by Acclamation process. The period for open nominations to the Board will end on November 1st, but any nominating petition from a group of ten or more chapter members with the name of new nominee(s), including a letter of acceptance from the nominee(s) will be considered by November 1st.

2018 Nominations & Elections Committee

Cynthia Sheffield ('18-'19) Chair

Claudia Lascar ('18-'19)

Vacant

Vacant Positions and Nominees:

CHAIR-ELECT: TO BE ELECTED 2018-2019

Proposed Candidate: Neyda Gilman

Neyda is the Nursing and Pharmacy Librarian at Binghamton University. Before coming to Binghamton she worked the the College of Agriculture at Colorado State University, and in the Learning Commons at Syracuse University. She earned her MLS at University at Buffalo in 2013 after deciding to change careers. She previously worked in a variety of laboratories as a Medical Technologist with a bachelors earned at University of Utah in 2016.


SECRETARY: TO BE ELECTED 2019-2020

Proposed Candidate: Kristin Chapman

Kristin has been working in libraries since 2003; first as a circulation assistant at Cedar Crest College, where I tri-majored in History, Political Science and Religious Studies, and then after graduation, as a serial technician at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. I received my Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University College of Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland. Following a deployment to Afghanistan with the United States Army Military Intelligence Corps, I became director of the MedStar Franklin Square's Medical Library in Baltimore, Maryland, then with the Ochsner Medical Center's Medical Library in New Orleans, Louisiana. I came back to the DC metro area to work as a Medical Librarian at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Now I am currently the clinical librarian with Howard University's Howard University Hospital, working with providing access to residents, faculty and staff.


DIRECTOR: TO BE ELECTED 2019-2020

Proposed Candidate: Gail Hendler

Gail is currently director of the Health Sciences Library, Loyola University of Chicago. Gail's career spans over twenty years teaching, research and outreach service in a variety of health sciences libraries on the east coast and the Midwest. Gail earned her master of library and information science from Queens College, City University of New York and has been a passionate contributor to the literature of consumer health, outreach and information skills training.


TREASURER: TO BE ELECTED 2019-2020

Proposed Candidate: Layla Heimlich

Layla Heimlich has been a medical librarian at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and a member of SLA since 2007. She has been the Chair of the DBIO Medical Section (2010), and has held various positions on the board of the DC SLA Chapter, currently serving as Treasurer. She received her MILS from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2007, where she specialized in medical librarianship.

Additional nonprofit financial experience includes current service as Treasurer for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the MLA, as well as prior service as treasurer for other local chapters of non-library-related national nonprofit organizations (multiple terms as treasurer for the Old Stone House Society, Children of the American Revolution and for the New York Chapter of the Friends of Lulu, promoting women in comics), and current service as chair of the finance committee for the Manor House Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and as a member of the bookkeeping committee of the Bethesda Elementary PTA. She has experience with Quicken, QuickBooks, and the use of Excel spreadsheets for finance and budget work.


MEDICAL SECTION CHAIR: TO BE ELECTED 2019

Proposed Candidate: Amy Jankowski

Amy Jankowski is currently the Life Sciences Librarian at the University of New Mexico (2016-present), where she serves as the liaison to the Biology and Sustainability Studies programs and performs outreach, instruction, research support, and collection management. Prior to becoming an academic librarian, Amy worked for San Diego Zoo Global (2011-2015), first as Assistant Librarian and later as Associate Director of Library Services, where she supported the work of researchers and practitioners engaged in animal and plant care, veterinary practice, and conservation science. Amy joined SLA in 2011; since that time, she has served in a number of leadership roles, including a present term as a Director on the SLA Board of Directors (2018-2020).



Rev. November 2018