[Asis-l] Amy Wallace is winner of the 2003 ASIST James M. Cretsos Leadership Award

[Penny O'Connor]

ASIST Members and Friends,

It is with great pleasure that we announce the James M. Cretsos Leadership

Award winner:  Amy Wallace. The award will be presented to Amy during the
Annual

Conference in Long Beach California, during the ASIST Leadership

Development Program "Show me the Money," on Sunday, October 19, 2003, 3:30
p.m. Amy is

not only our Cretsos Award Winner; she is also a speaker in that program.


This award is given annually to a member of the American Society for
Information

Science and Technology who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities
in

professional ASIS&T activities and who has been a member less than seven
years.

With this award her potential for leadership at higher levels within the
American

Society for Information Science and Technology is recognized.

Ms. Wallace's activities on behalf of her chapter, LACASIS - the Los Angeles

Chapter, include being the Chapter Chair, significant program planning and

mentoring a new chapter newsletter editor.  Very early in her ASIS&T career

Amy was awarded the chapter's Outstanding Member Award.  One of Amy's most

noted accomplishments for the chapter has been in the recruitment and

retention of members, and obviously a model for others.  It should be noted

that the incoming chair of the chapter was recruited by Ms. Wallace.  As

part of this she has planned and moderated panels for recent graduates of

the area library and information science programs, the place where the

society can find and groom strong members.  As part of one of these program

it was described that she "imparted practical and thoughtful information on

what employers are looking for in new hires based on her own recent

experiences, both as a manager and as a job candidate."  Vision, skillful

leadership, dedication, proactive, inspiring are terms all used to describe

Ms. Wallace's activities on behalf of LACASIS.

Her national contributions include membership on the Information Science

Education Committee, part of which included work on the ASIS&T Educational

Guidelines.  A website rich with Long Beach area activities to supplement

the official ASIS&T activities at the 2003 Annual Meeting includes

substantial contribution from Ms. Wallace.


We also extend our special thanks to the ASIS&T members who made nominations
for this award, and to the members of the award jury.



Janet M. Arth
James M. Cretsos Leadership Award Jury Chair 2003

Penny O'Connor
Chair, ASIST Leadership Development Committee 2003