New SLA Officers for 2015

October 8, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on New SLA Officers for 2015

Tom Rink, an instructor for library services at Northeastern State University (NSU) in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, will lead the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as president in 2016. This news came from the Special Libraries Association in their release, “Tom Rink to Head SLA in 2016.”

Tom is one of five information professionals who will begin serving three-year terms on the 15-member SLA Board of Directors in January 2015. He will serve one year as president-elect, followed by a year as president and a year as past president.

Joining him on the board in 2015 are the following SLA members: Kim Silk, chapter cabinet chair-elect; Ruth Kneale, division cabinet chair-elect; Kevin Adams, director; and Catherine Lavallee-Welch, director.

In addition to serving as an instructor for library services at NSU, Tom is the resource coordinator for the university’s College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science and Health Professions. Prior to joining academia, Tom was a police officer in Tulsa, earning his library degree at night while working full-time during the day.

The SLA is a nonprofit international organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.