Vormelker-Thomas Student Award Acceptance Speech
Theresa Lepine, Dominican University

SLA News Division Awards Banquet, Washington D.C., June 15, 2009
(see Theresa's award-winning essay A Critical Time for News Librarians in the Spring 2009 News Library News)

There is no better way to launch my career. I've already learnt so much - take-aways from today's sessions alone will hopefully lead to development of a "resume that get results" and a career strategy that will allow me to deliver information and help library users understand the information chaos created by cloud computing.

I envision learning from and working with each of you to help lead our profession into the future. I really appreciate this chance.

I'd also like to thank my library school professor Ed Valauskas, my SLA conference mentor Beth Shankle, Justin, Julie Domel and the News Library News Staff for the terrific support and guidance. I look forward to a long and meaningful relationship.

-- Theresa Lepine, MLIS,
Dominican University, Graduate School of Library & Information Science