IIa Honors Staff with Donation to
SLA’s Professional Development Campaign
Oak Ridge, TN. Information International
Associates (IIa) today announces a corporate donation of $3,276
to the Special Libraries Association’s (SLA) Annual Campaign
for Professional Development. IIa’s donation equals $84 for
each of its 39 employees who hold masters degrees in library and
information science (LIS). IIa challenges other companies who employ
LIS professionals to make similar contributions.
When SLA announced the Annual Campaign at the June
2004 SLA annual conference, they promoted the idea that if each
SLA member contributed $84, the organization could easily reach
its $1M goal to create a professional development center. Because
IIa recognizes and supports the importance of professional development
for librarians and information scientists, the company makes this
donation in honor of each of its dedicated and hard-working LIS
employees.
IIa is an information management company headquartered
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with three of its seven-member executive
team (President Bonnie Carroll, Senior Vice President Pat Powell,
and Chief Information Officer Deborah York) and one-fifth of all
company employees holding LIS masters degrees. IIa works closely
with the University of Tennessee’s School of Information
Science and is the management firm for the Association of Library
and Information Science Education (ALISE), the professional association
for LIS faculty.
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