Volume
2006, Issue 2
September 11, 2006
Inside this Issue:
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Headquarters Happenings
IIa values innovation: "The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Carroll to Keynote International Grey Literature Conference
IIa’s president tapped to discuss hard-to-find, non-commercial information (or grey literature) at New Orleans international gathering.
"Harnessing the Power of Grey" is the theme for the Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature. According to media materials from the conference site, “if there is one informational professional who can bring [the theme] to task, it is Bonnie Carroll. As President of IIa, she supports government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource.” (more)
Biodiversity Informatics & Web Development and Technology Services Groups Formalized
Hetrick, Azpurua-Linares lead business groups
Intranet: We’re Getting There
We’ve got a framework in place and we’re preparing the content
IIa Gets a “Brand” New Look
Company developing a new visual identity to reflect growth and expansion,
Carroll to Keynote International Grey Literature Conference
IIa’s president tapped to discuss hard-to-find, non-commercial information (or grey literature) at New Orleans international gathering
"Harnessing the Power of Grey" is the theme for the Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature. According to media materials from the conference site, “if there is one informational professional who can bring [the theme] to task, it is Bonnie Carroll. As President of IIa, she supports government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource.” In addition to being IIa’s president, Carroll is heavily involved in scientific and technical information management, including her roles as the Executive Director of CENDI (the federal scientific and technical information [STI] managers’ group) and her work as a senior consultant to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The conference is scheduled for December 4-5 at the International Conference Center in New Orleans. Program presenters include representatives from Canada, Fiji, France, India, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, and the United Kingdom. In addition, IIa’s own Gail Hodge and Nikkia Anderson, along with former IIa employee Andrea Japzon are on the program. Their topic is “Harnessing NASA Goddard’s Grey Literature: The Power of a Repository Framework.”
Biodiversity Informatics & Web Development and Technology Services Groups Formalized
Hetrick, Azpurua-Linares lead business groups
In a move designed to facilitate the company’s expansion, Shelaine Hetrick and Franciel Azpurua-Linares have been appointed to lead two newly-formalized IIa business groups in the technical operations organization. Both groups will be headquartered in Oak Ridge at the IIa corporate office.
Hetrick will lead the Biodiversity Informatics Group, which will include IIa’s major biodiversity informatics contracts with the U.S. Geological Survey and the company’s work with the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In addition, the group also includes the company’s current work coordinating the Southern Appalachian Information Node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) and providing support to the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network. Hetrick has a master’s degree in applied ecology and conservation biology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and statistics with a second major in biology.
Azpurua-Linares will lead our Web Development and Technology Services Group, which includes our current work for the Government Printing Office and The Heinz Center. The group will also provide IT infrastructure support—network operations, user support and help desk services, system administration, software development, and enterprise information architecture—to projects for organizations of all sizes. Azpurua-Linares has master’s degrees in economics and information sciences and a bachelor’s degree in information engineering.
Intranet: We’re Getting There
We’ve got a framework in place and we’re preparing the content
IIa has purchased and implemented Microsoft SharePoint as the backbone software for our intranet, MyIIa.Net. In June, system administrator Brandon Wise attended a week of SharePoint training to understand all of the functionality the company will need to provide a corporate intranet.
Now that the framework is ready, corporate units like finance, human resources, and communications are being trained to build some initial content. Our target for formally launching the intranet company-wide is January 2007. However, we plan to be in beta testing in November. Employees at various sites will likely be called upon to help in the testing stage to ensure that the site is both easily accessible and organized in a way that is most useful for everyone.
IIa Gets a “Brand” New Look
Company developing a new visual identity to reflect growth and expansion
In the next few months, you will be seeing a new look on all of IIa’s communication vehicles, all centered on a modernized IIa logo presented here that we will begin using soon. The new logo is designed to reflect, among other things, our forward motion as we continue to work to achieve our vision of being the benchmark of excellence in information management by 2010.
We are still in the design stage on a number of our tools, including the corporate website, so we are not quite ready to begin using this new logo. However, you will be hearing more about this in the coming months when we make the official switch to the new logo and design.
Regional Librarians Visit IIa
Pictured here are a number of regional librarians from middle and east Tennessee outside the IIa corporate offices following a fact-finding visit. The librarians were interested in learning more about library outsourcing and turned to a local company for information. Bonnie Carroll (back row, second from left) and Deborah York (Director of Information Management Services, front row, third from left) provided an overview of the library contracting world.