Abram Wins SLA Election

-- Library Journal, 3/14/2006

Stephen Abram, vice president of innovation for SirsiDynix and immediate past president of the Canadian Library Association, has been elected to serve as SLA’s president-elect. His term as SLA president will begin in January 2008. Abram, well known for his talks at library and information technology conferences, is an SLA Fellow, received SLA’s John Cotton Dana Award, and was named a Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” in 2002. He previously sat on the SLA Board of Directors as director and secretary. Abram was 2002 president of the Ontario Library Association, a Canadian Special Librarian of the Year, and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is an adjunct professor. Abram has been vice president of corporate development for Micromedia ProQuest and publisher, electronic information for Thomson.