Stephen
Abram, MLS, is immediate past-President of the Canadian Library Association
and Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix. He is the president-elect
of SLA internationally. He has been VP of Corporate Development
for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson.
He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance
Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library
Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers", the key
people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has
been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of
the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of
the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of
Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty
of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library
Association as well as having sat on the SLA Board of Directors as Director
and Secretary. He gives over 100 international keynote talks annually
to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and
columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, Access, Multimedia & Internet
@ Schools, and Library Journal.
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Stephen
Abram, MLS, is immediate past-President of the Canadian Library Association
and Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix. He is the president-elect
of SLA internationally. He has been VP of Corporate Development
for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson.
He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance
Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library
Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers", the key
people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has
been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of
the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of
the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of
Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty
of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library
Association as well as having sat on the SLA Board of Directors as Director
and Secretary. He gives over 100 international keynote talks annually
to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and
columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, Access, Multimedia & Internet
@ Schools, and Library Journal.