Sara R. Tompson

Library and Information Science

Special Libraries Association:

Illinois Chapter (SLA-IL):

  • Past President (2000-2001), President (1999-2000), President-Elect (1998-99)
  • Secretary, 1996-98
  • Co-chair, PR Committee, INFO'96 (nonpartisan information providers for the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, August, 1996)
  • Liaison to NTIS, 1995-96.

    • Other SLA

  • Past-Chair and Nominations Committee Chair, SLA Engineering Division, 2003-2004
  • Chair, SLA Engineering Division, 2002-2003
  • Appointed Chapter Representative, SLA Research Committee, 2000-2003
  • Chapter Representative, SLA Strategic Planning Committee, 1999-2001
  • Physics, Astronomy and Math Division:
  • Library Management Division, member, 1996+
  • Women's Issues Caucus, member, 1992+
  • Environment and Resources Management Division:

    • Academic

  • Director, 2003-2005 and Student Relations Committee Chair, University of Illinois Library School Alumni Association Board
  • Co-instructor (with Rebecca Corliss and Lorri Zipperer), Special Library Administration, LIS 774, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Spring semester, 2002.
  • Co-instructor (with Rebecca Corliss and Lorri Zipperer), Special Library Administration, LIS 774, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Spring semester, 2001.
  • Guest Speaker on user instruction special libraries, LIS 764, Library User Instruction, Karen Brown, Instructor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University.
  • Co-instructor (with Lorri Zipperer), Special Library Administration, LIS 774, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Spring semester, 2000.
  • Session Instructor, Special Library Administration, LIS 774, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Spring semester, 1998. (Class was team-taught by authors of Special Libraries: A Guide for Management, 4th ed.)
  • Mentor, 1997-98, University of Illinois, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science LEEP3 Distance Learning Program
  • Guest Speaker on special libraries, College of DuPage Library Technical Assistant Course 203, Public Services. September, 1998.
  • Faculty Advisor to Student Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, University of Illinois, Fall, 1994.
  • Member, University of Illinois Library: Life Sciences Libraries Council (1990-95).

    • Grants

  • Project Manager, 1998: Digitizing legacy documents: A Knowledge-base preservation project, supported by an Illinois State Library Educate and Automate grant
  • Project Manager, 1994: Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Information Resources: A Planning Study (conducted by the Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center , and supported by a Great Lakes Protection Fund grant).
  • Advisory Committee Member 1993-94: University of Minnesota Project Integrating Pollution Prevention with Manufacturing Assistance (P.I. Professor Alfie Marcus, supported by a Great Lakes Protection Fund grant).

    • Library Systems

    Other

    Additional Interests

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